What You Missed: Martin v. UT

If you weren't blessed enough to be in Neyland for Saturday's game, you might have seen:

• The team’s sideline are on the opposite side of the stadium this year, so as the team ran through the T, the live Smokey instinctively started running the wrong way.
• Also, it was Smokey’s birthday, so we sang Happy Birthday to him once during the second and once during the third quarter.
• During one of his many costume changes, mascot Smokey came out dressed like Flava Flav.
• Non-spirit band songs: Livin’ on a Prayer during the second quarter (they started this one during ’06, and it has an appropriate chorus for our program now. I can’t wait until that changes). Sweet Caroline during the second quarter (which was hilarious, because the only part we know is “Sweet Caroline, oh-oh-oh” so there’s this pretty music punctuated by occasional spurts of drunk voices). Will You Be My Girl in the fourth quarter (they’ve been doing this one for several seasons). I’m not counting Ironman because it’s not a sing-along and we have the choreographed shaker movements that make it a cheer. I think they only played it once, anyway. There was also that classical instrumental that’s played in the Heidi animated movie during the storm during the fourth quarter. Halftime was their lame West Side Story show.