Don't feel you need to go overboard demonstrating this reverence. Besides, isn't there some bad warning about worshiping a false god?

Seriously, though, welcome here. Did you bring any rain seeds?

Welcome to God's Country Phil Fulmer Land, Elrod!

Elrod, if you think those mega-churches are big, wait'll you get a load of T's main temple. It holds over 100,000 people, a lot of whom show up for services drunk.

Welcome to Tennessee!

--Socialist With A Gold Card

Nice to have you

I have a nice long list of committee meetings when you are ready ......

100,000 people, a lot of whom show up for services drunk

Ya know...When you only have 6 services a year, your temple cost a gazillion bucks, and the preacher gets a ton of money, you have to ask...

Why are the communion services only held in those little rooms up at the top?

And is that the best they can do for a Hymn? I mean that guy sings like a girl.

The classic outfit is a pair of orange sneakers, orange shorts with a big T embroidered on the side of one leg, orange underwear of course, and a grey and orange T-shirt that has VOLS written across the front in huge letters. Then there are the orange sunglasses with the little footballs on the edge of the frames. Top it off with a big orange floppy hat a Vols Logo and a purse with the letter T across the sides. Orange ankle socks always add a nice touch. If your really daring you can get a tattoo on the cheeks of your butt that says Vols Rock! Then go streaking through the halls of UT next semester. The kids will love it. The flashbulbs will pop, UTube will grab onto you, and you will be finally accepted into the wild and crazy world of Volmadness. Welcome neighbor--hee haw!

Aah just wait until you have occasion to visit the Temple.

Is it possible to post a photo in a reply?

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Less is the new More - Karrie Jacobs

Notice the emanating rays....just like a Jesus painting.

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Less is the new More - Karrie Jacobs

Ah, I remember when I first moved here from California, totally clueless about the almighty T and its associated color, creamsicle orange. I was just astonished. I was so shocked at the grocery store window displays in the fall that I took pictures of them and brought them back to my family in California, so we could all look at them and exclaim about the utter ridiculousness of decorating with pictures of football players and cheerleaders. I remember all of that, but I have now been converted and it's all perfectly normal to me. I have even been to services at the temple (last season's fantastic win over Cal).
Don't forget to get acquainted with associated minor deities, such as Pat Summitt and Peyton Manning, so that you can have meaningful conversations with most of the rest of us!

Great to see you finally made it.

The Hill Online

First, welcome to Tennessee. As for the T-God, one should search out NOT the High Priest Phil, but the quiet T-Mystic known to one and all as Jim Bob Cooter, he knows more than most.

Of course, I live at the opposite end of the state, where the T-sect faces off against the M-sect, they of the Blue AND Gray, who is sworn to smite the T-God, something (sadly) that they have achieved but once.

Enjoy!

My suggestion is to get a good local road map and keep it in your car, because you're probably not going the direction you think you're going.

And then there's Chapman Hwy between Newell Station and Sevierville. Drive it in the morning with the sun shining directly in your eyes and note that you're on 411N and 441S.

One of my absolute favorite sites in the internets is this'un here:

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It's got info on all sorts of oddities, like why US321 has two southern termini but no northern end.