Week 3: Oneida vs. Eagleton

[BarneySox2007]

I watched the replay last night and the last quarter and a half this morning. I got so tired of watching the Tennessee game halfway through the third quarter watching that ref hogging TV time until I couldn't take it anymore only to watch the same thing on this replay but having to watch every play twice. Thought I had died and went to Football ALE. Many of the Eagleton players didn't pick up the game until later in life which I've heard a few times and it shows sometimes. They lived on Oneida's side of the field so much they could go down to the court house and clain squatters rights but came up empty. No excuse at all for losing this game. Should have won 14-13 but truefully 21-13.  Great catch by #12 but for most of the evening there were so many dropped passes it became to hard to watch the whole thing last night. 

[PoundTheRock37]

3 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

I watched the replay last night and the last quarter and a half this morning. I got so tired of watching the Tennessee game halfway through the third quarter watching that ref hogging TV time until I couldn't take it anymore only to watch the same thing on this replay but having to watch every play twice. Thought I had died and went to Football ALE. Many of the Eagleton players didn't pick up the game until later in life which I've heard a few times and it shows sometimes. They lived on Oneida's side of the field so much they could go down to the court house and clain squatters rights but came up empty. No excuse at all for losing this game. Should have won 14-13 but truefully 21-13.  Great catch by #12 but for most of the evening there were so many dropped passes it became to hard to watch the whole thing last night. 

I hate to break this news to you but Oneida didn’t play their best game either. 

[BarneySox2007]

2 hours ago, PoundTheRock37 said:

I hate to break this news to you but Oneida didn’t play their best game either. 

Well I didn't want to say anything because everyone there has been very nice to me. They left without two scores also but that's a sign of a good coach not to run it up there at the end when most will try and punch one more in to satisfy their ego.

Edited September 8 by BarneySox2007

[crow]

2 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Well I didn't want to say anything because everyone there has been very nice to me. They left without two scores also but that's a sign of a good coach not to run it up there at the end when most will try and punch one more in to satisfy their ego.

Both sides need to hit the practice field hard Monday. Lots of points left out there that game. 

[PoundTheRock37]

5 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Well I didn't want to say anything because everyone there has been very nice to me. They left without two scores also but that's a sign of a good coach not to run it up there at the end when most will try and punch one more in to satisfy their ego.

That’s a fair assessment I would say.

[BarneySox2007]

10 hours ago, PoundTheRock37 said:

That’s a fair assessment I would say.

I do a lot or research on all East Tennessee High School Football teams history and the one thing I enjoy about Oneida's history is that they have had some great teams in the past and that research goes back to 1945. Even though I was at another game Friday it was nice to see a game from their home field. The Tennessee Orange they wear is also like a throwback to UT back in the 60's when I started watching the Big Orange as a kid.

[crow]

3 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

I do a lot or research on all East Tennessee High School Football teams history and the one thing I enjoy about Oneida's history is that they have had some great teams in the past and that research goes back to 1945. Even though I was at another game Friday it was nice to see a game from their home field. The Tennessee Orange they wear is also like a throwback to UT back in the 60's when I started watching the Big Orange as a kid.

Story time with uncle Crow! The story of how Oneida came to be a “mini UT” is interesting and not widely know. I will give some highlights and also give the disclaimer that I will probably miss a few details or possibly just flat out get something wrong but the broad strokes as I’ve been told are this. Back in the day the Oneida colors were blue, yellow and white but the equipment was quite worn and needed replacing. Like a lot of schools in the 50’s (I believe that’s the correct time period) money wasn’t readily available. As luck would have it the Oneida coach was a recent former UT player/graduate and still was connected to the university some way. Lots of details being left out but long story short there was a load of old equipment that found its way up here to supply the Oneida program. Of course the catch was obviously the colors didn’t match so the colors were changed to orange and white and many of the Oneida traditions that are still in place today were started as a tip of the hat for their assistance and are either a version of or in some cases a direct copy of the university’s traditions. 

To quote Mike Rowe,

Anyway, that’s the way I heard it. 

Edited September 9 by crow

[BarneySox2007]

1 hour ago, crow said:

Story time with uncle Crow! The story of how Oneida came to be a “mini UT” is interesting and not widely know. I will give some highlights and also give the disclaimer that I will probably miss a few details or possibly just flat out get something wrong but the broad strokes as I’ve been told are this. Back in the day the Oneida colors were blue, yellow and white but the equipment was quite worn and needed replacing. Like a lot of schools in the 50’s (I believe that’s the correct time period) money wasn’t readily available. As luck would have it the Oneida coach was a recent former UT player/graduate and still was connected to the university some way. Lots of details being left out but long story short there was a load of old equipment that found its way up here to supply the Oneida program. Of course the catch was obviously the colors didn’t match so the colors were changed to orange and white and many of the Oneida traditions that are still in place today were started as a tip of the hat for their assistance and are either a version of or in some cases a direct copy of the university’s traditions. 

To quote Mike Rowe,

Anyway, that’s the way I heard it. 

Thanks for the interesting info. The field they play on now, is that the same field they have always used from the begining.

[orngnblk]

37 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Thanks for the interesting info. The field they play on now, is that the same field they have always used from the begining.

It is since I started playing back in 85

[crow]

1 hour ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Thanks for the interesting info. The field they play on now, is that the same field they have always used from the begining.

Yes that is the original field. I actually have a copy of a picture of the Goodyear blimp sitting on the field. I’d like to say it was for game coverage but it was in the ‘30’s or ‘40’s and was an emergency fuel stop as they were flying over the area going somewhere else. Also that field is built in what was an old ravine. Story goes that they used anything and everything they could find as fill including multiple old cars from the area. 

[crow]

I tried posting the pic but says file to big or something. I haven’t been able to post pics in a long time now. Just getting to old and dumb I reckon. 

[orngnblk]

Just now, crow said:

I tried posting the pic but says file to big or something. I haven’t been able to post pics in a long time now. Just getting to old and dumb I reckon.