Tennessee Vols fans force a statement from ESPN personality on Monday
If you need proof that Tennessee Vols fans are one of the most influential groups of folks on social media, then look no further than what transpired on Monday night. For some reason, ESPN's College GameDay Twitter account, along with Tennessee Football's official Twitter account, deleted tweets announcing that the popular show was coming to […]
If you need proof that Tennessee Vols fans are one of the most influential groups of folks on social media, then look no further than what transpired on Monday night.
For some reason, ESPN's College GameDay Twitter account, along with Tennessee Football's official Twitter account, deleted tweets announcing that the popular show was coming to Knoxville for Saturday's showdown between UT and Alabama.
This of course led to fans speculating that GameDay was no longer coming to Knoxville this weekend (some even wondered if the deleted tweets had something to do with Lee Corso's health).
Some fans thought it meant that ESPN was instead going to the Penn State/Michigan game or the NC State/Syracuse game.
While we don't know for sure the reason for the deleted tweets, ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit sent out a tweet late Monday night reaffirming that GameDay was coming to Tennessee for the Alabama game.
(Herbstreit suggested there may have been copyright issues with a song and that's why the tweets were taken down.)
The Vols fan base is just different. Tennessee fans are passionate and smart. They don't miss little details and they demand an answer when something doesn't seem right.
There's a reason it's the best fan base in the nation. UT fans don't play around when it comes to their Volunteers.
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