Vols Football Quotes

And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?" "Because it's fun." (Translated)

Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

But it is not the remembrance of his athletic ability that—fifty years later—makes San Marcos students smile when they remember the stalwart Boody Johnson. “He was the fatherly type,” a football player says. “If things were going bad in a game, he’d call a time-out, and gather the team around, and say, ‘Now, look, fellows, we’re here to play football,’ and settle everybody down.” He didn’t settle down only football players. “You always felt you could go to him with your problems,” says one woman. “He was a very kind person. Gruff and tough, but very kind. He was just like a father to everybody.” His unselfishness was legendary, and not just on the football field (where, because the other halfback, Lyons McCall, a good runner, was a poor blocker, Boody volunteered to do most of the blocking while McCall carried the ball—if the team was behind in the last minutes of a game, however, the players would growl: “Give it to Boody”). “Boody was the kind of guy who, if you woke him up in the middle of the night and told him your car had broken down, would get out of bed and walk five miles to help you—nothing was too much trouble for him,” Vernon Whiteside says.

In late August of 2012, I called down my first CAP-UFO in front of my house and a small football stadium-sized light object appeared 15 minutes later that appeared less than 30 feet from me on top of my next-door neighbor’s house. This event lasted almost one hour and was witnessed by my then 10-year-old daughter and 3 adult witnesses.