... have one long week until it is officially, "Football Time in Tennessee". I have decided to reflect on the past, as Derek Dooley prepares for the future and this season. Of note, this is not another one of those preseason analytical assessments of how good or bad we might be.

Tennessee has been a program that, like every major program, has had its ups and downs.  Amidst the current decline, I tend to look at the years which were golden to me.

From birth to present day I have been surrounded by Tennessee Football.

John Ward single handidly taught me how to count backwards in incriments of five. 

My first, and only, Starter Jacket was opened up on Christma...

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