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Retrospect knoxville12/15/2023 And while you're thinking, "Great story, Jay," well Robbie Still was the foul-mouthed kid character in the Kenny Rogers NASCAR movie "Six Pack." Heck, here's one more: Robbie Still was a friend of mine growing up. That's just a slew of my NASCAR memories. Something about those memories with two school-aged kids in the back seat to redirect your priorities, you know? There are countless tales of younger days and wilder times in the infield at Talladega, which we ironically passed every time we drove to my in-laws house when they lived on Lake Martin. I remember riding with a good friend of mine at Auburn who was a huge Davey Allison fan to Allison's tribute after he died, too. There were a lot of tears from a lot of big ol' country boys that afternoon. I was in the grandstand 22 years ago next month, on a Monday, when Kevin Harvick won at Atlanta in the race after Dale Sr. ![]() It was one of those swanky set-ups, and Furman grabbed the wrong plate, at least that's what I choose to believe.įurman answered, "Thought it was mine. I was at an Atlanta Motor Speedway media event sitting next to Tony Stewart when legendary AJC columnist Furman Bisher started eating Stewart's salad. I worked at the paper in Henry County - where Atlanta Motor Speedway is located - for 18 months, and during the summer they turned the track into a Thursday night Thunder operation using the pit area for mini cars for kids and teens.Ī lot of the famous sons of racers who are all over the NASCAR standings these days were regulars, so I knew them all back when they were more worried about pimples than primary sponsors. It's also hard to believe that I know very little about the movers and shakers of the "Go fast, turn left" crew that used to be as much of Sunday viewing habits as the NFL or anything else this side of the final round from Augusta. Wow, the one-time spring break mecca welcomes NASCAR's season-opening Super Bowl this weekend. Which way will the Vols break? Like most everything else with this team, it's hard to know. Moments like those make everyone realize that UT is at times so offensively constipated that any tournament - the SEC or the NCAA - could be a one-and-done proposition.īut moments like last night make it easy to see why UT could reach its first Final Four in program history, too. Hard, that is, as in hard to figure because after back-to-back buzzer-beating losses and an extremely ugly three-point win over Auburn, UT was fading closer to the 5 line than the 2 line. Those numbers paint a hard picture, but so do these Vols. Alabama had 11 assists (four fewer than its team average) and turned it over 19 times (five more than its average). Every rebound viewed as much of a Tennessee treasure as the Opry and Dolly Parton.Īlabama missed 31 shots but got only eight offensive rebounds. ![]() Wednesday night, the Vols - without two starters mind you - did what next to no one has been able to this season, and that's slow down the Alabama shooters. They also will be hard to figure a month from now, for fans, foes and the folks who seed the hard-charging March Madness participants. 1 Alabama in a physical 68-59 win over the visiting Tide. They were hard on my betting line last night and hard on newly minted No. They have taken on the demeanor of head coach Rick Barnes, who is hard in that old-school, Southern preacher who was always super strict with his own youngins kind of way. They are, at times, hard to watch offensively. Just not the one I'm looking for.Īnd no, it's not the slew of nasty words the anti-orange among us had pop into their UT-hatin' heads. No, it's not orange, although orange fits. There is one word that perfectly describes Tennessee.
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