Da VOLS!


First name the above former members of the local broadcast community and win a dinner from Brother Jacks, nine cold beers from the Yard Arm, a two hour visit to the Alhambra Motel on Kingston Pike, and a weekend on Jake Butcher's house boat (SCUBA equipment available at a minimal charge), post your answers below in the comment section.

Our second topic is all about the BIG ORANGE. Also post your thoughts about the rest of the season in the comment column. Bless their hearts, Arkansas just beat them like a red headed step child!




In olden times the University of Tennessee use to practically give away the broadcasts of their games to any station who wanted them. When WKGN went on the air in 1947 one of the driving forces behind the new station was UT football and bringing a kid named Lindsey Nelson over from WROL to do the broadcasts. Nelson had worked for General Neyland selling advertising in the printed baseball programs and also doing a little play by play. When the founders of WKGN approached him about moving to the new station the carrot of doing the games was all that was needed.

In the late 1960s WATE (AM 620 radio) carried both football and basketball games, while just about any station outside the Knoxville market was welcome to broadcast the games. WATE started calling themselves the flagship station of the Vols and it flew all over the kids running WIVK. When the games became big business and WATE moved from WETE to WRJZ, WIVK grabbed the games and the hallowed title of Flagship Station. Later when the broadcast privilege was auctioned off to the highest bidder JACOR (owner of WMYU) crunched the numbers and bid up to the point where the cost would still allow them to make money with the broadcast. WIVK bid higher and today they still own the games locally and the right to call themselves the FLAGSHIP Station.

After the fine performance of the Big Orange out in Bill Clinton Country most fans are gearing up for basketball! As the sports pundits told us Sunday morning on WBIR, the Vols sucked in every aspect of the game against the Hogs. What really shivers our timbers is the fact that Kentucky AND Vandy are not the door mats of old.
To slither into a Peach Bowl or, heaven help us all the Music City Joke Bowl, the Big Orange has to crawl by both of these kids.

At this point most are saying, lets remember our Georgia win (although Georgia stinks worse than a whistle pig three days dead on Kingston Pike) and move on over to the house of Pearl.


No matter how dejected we are we will still fire up WIVK come Saturday morning and listen as we negotiated the weekend chores right up until kick off. Da Vols are now an official brand of Da Frog and right now sales boys and girls are on the street spewing the old line of "NEXT YEAR" to the advertisers. Truth is next year things could turn around and if there is one thing we agree on it is UT is one of the biggest "NEXT YEAR" teams in the SEC!