Ohio State reporter takes a shot a Tennessee Vol fans with a weird dig at the state's proudest tradition
There are few things more interwoven into the Volunteer state that the spirit of the volunteer. After all, that's one of the greatest and most storied traditions of the state of Tennessee going back centuries. Apparently, that was fair game for a beat writer of the Ohio State Buckeyes to use to take a shot […]
There are few things more interwoven into the Volunteer state that the spirit of the volunteer. After all, that's one of the greatest and most storied traditions of the state of Tennessee going back centuries.
Apparently, that was fair game for a beat writer of the Ohio State Buckeyes to use to take a shot at the Tennessee fan base on Thursday.
Tim May of Letterman Row joined the Paul Finebaum Show, and he pushed back on the question of Tennessee Vols fans taking over Columbus, Ohio this weekend with…a very strange example.
After May notes the demand for tickets has supposedly "waned" over the last couple of days and arguing the hotel prices don't command a strong presence of out of towners, he took a shot a Tennessee fans coming up to a game with a quip about volunteer militia from the state of Tennessee going to fight at the Alamo and not returning home.
"Now, I will say this about the Tennessee Volunteers coming North. I remember back in 1836, some Tennessee Volunteers went West with Davy Crockett, and I don't think any of them came back."
Ah, yes. Nothing like making light of the death of some of the bravest Americans in the history of our country to push back against an apparent concern that – checks notes – some fans of a university football program are coming up to support their team in large numbers to the city of the school you cover.
Even Paul Finebaum seemed a tad surprised by the tasteless quip.
"You had to bring up the Alamo, didn't you," he responded with a courtesy chuckle.
There was already a ton of motivation for Tennessee fans to come up on Saturday. Ticket prices are already below $100 per ticket for large swaths of the stadium, which again speaks to a surprising lack of interest from Ohio State fans in attending the game. There's no other way around that. Tickets for that game should not be that affordable for visitors if the home crowd is attending. And, per May, apparently hotel prices are also affordable.
There were 31 Tennesseans with Crockett who served bravely at the Alamo. You can add perhaps three zeroes to that number for Volunteer fans who will travel north to Columbus this weekend.
And there might even be a few more who pack up and head up at the last minute after reading such drivel from May. After all, somebody has to fill that stadium, it seems.
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