From Hero to Punch Line

[horn17]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14401438/

wow...........

[KnoxVegas]

Fact:
Brent Griffith was the last UM-D footballer to play in the NFL (Buffalo, 1990)

Fact:
Currently, there are 50+ former University of Tennessee-Knoxville footballers on active NFL rosters.

Fact:
Tee Martin lead the 1998 Volunteers to the first BCS National Championship, defeating FSU, 23-16.

Fact:
Peyton Manning lost four stright games to Florida while at Tennessee.

[Danny Hogan]

E-

Fact ?;

In #1 Tennessee's September 99 trip to Gainesville, Tee Martin lost a tooth after he landed on a video camera that was on the ground perhaps a little too close to the sidelines.

Of course we remember the Gators upended #1 UT by a score of 23-21 i believe.

UF DT Alex Brown had 3 sacks and began never living up to the hype the day after that game.

[KnoxVegas]

Danny,
I worked that game and remember it well. I also remember watching all those smug UF fans leaving Ben Hill Griffin early in the 4th when FSU came to town and worked that a$$.

Now that's a fact, Jack or Danny...whatever!

Back to Maurice Clarett: I heard now that he has ties to an Israeli gangster. Now that is gangster. What was he hangin' out with Ali G-types?

[Danny Hogan]

wag wa, i thought you would have brought up the 'cancelled game of 01' (next trip to the swamp), throwing out an FSU reference, dissapointing.

Mo Clarrett looks heavy in his prison gear.

[KnoxVegas]

The cancelled game? We played that one, remember? The first win by America's Team in the Swamp since '71? Look, us beating Florida comes way to infrequently for me to brag about beating Florida, so I won't.

I miss Ron Zook with a pain in my heart. Too bad he is at Illinois now. They think he is a savior, what with his 4 win seasons. Wait, I think they gave himthe Fulmer-esque extention after he won his first game.

Don't worry, Danny. America's Team will rollover to Cal and the Florida game will once again mean nothing.

[mholtz]

Lawyer: Clarett has ties to alleged Israeli mobster
ESPN

Maurice Clarett was bankrolled by an alleged member of an Israeli crime organization after leaving Ohio State, ESPN has learned, and Clarett's attorney said Thursday that his client may have been in possession of firearms last week to protect himself against mob activity.

Clarett's attorney, Nick Mango, said Thursday that Clarett has repeatedly received death threats over the past year but that a cryptic postcard sent from Los Angeles last week has him wondering about Clarett's ties to an alleged mob enforcer.


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2553084


wow.