@@karstonlott3387 he was always a lineman and it's not like he was fast before college and he was probably better at lineman and by your logic he should've been the running back
Man we gotta get these two programs back to this. As an Arkansas fan this one hurt, but you know what sucks worse? Not feeling anything...like we do right now. Just apathetic. Whatever. We gotta get these two fine programs back to playing games like this in November again. Both have had it sporadically since then but nothing as big as this game.
This was a classic game, with national ramifications. The things that aren't seen that go on with these teams can be uplifting or truly tragic. RIP Brandon Burlsworth, from a Tennessee fan!
I was at this game with my Dad in section XX (I was 12 yrs old). We got up and left right before the fumble, and as we're walking the concourse we heard the crowd go WILD! Everyone flooded the tunnel back into the seats, but because it wss so packed we all just stood at rhe tunnel listening. When Henry scored, place went Bananas. Unbelievable.
Wow!!! I'm 63 I do remember watching this game live. This one the national title win at the end of that season and the 1985 teams win in the Sugar Bowl over Miami are the most satisfying I ever watched.
Must be tough for you to be a Tennessee Volunteer enthusiast the past decade...I hope that they are on the right track, the SEC need Tennessee to be great again.
Chris Oxford , I was in basic training for the Miami game. My Cuban DI made a $5 bet with me on the game. I paid dearly to collect that $5, and I loved every minute of it.
I'm 19 so I don't remember this game but man I'm just waiting for the Vols to be on top of college football again. I just wanna witness that and have that feeling of ya my teams number 1 in the country.
I was in middle school during that season. It was a great time to be a Vol fan, I can say that. It's hard to describe...but I feel things just felt different back then. Like the air was different or there was a different energy going around this place. Maybe the success brought it, maybe it was because I was younger...I dunno. lol I miss those days. I feel like things would still be different today if we were champions...not sure if we'd still experience what we did back then. And yeah, nobody could say anything to us that season. Was one of the best teams assembled. I remember our RB's in particular were hard driving bullies. Just running over guys. And our LB's were deadly. And the guys were truly a team...full of inspiring young men who were committed to each other, I felt. I have seen that kind of togetherness and leadership since then really. Maybe we see flashes of it every once in awhile from some individuals, but with them...most of the team was that way. You can see it for yourself, just watching how they played and how they carried themselves.
chris bastin the 90's were a great time to be a Vols fan. Only losing 6 games during a 5 year stretch. It was incredible to watch. So sad to see the program struggle now. Most kids today only know them from losing.
I remember so well sitting in the stands and saying, “unless Arkansas just gives us the ball, it’s over”, and Arkansas just gave us the ball. It was the greatest game ever. And I’ve never forgotten the name Stoerner.
77 for Razorbacks tripped up Qb because my homeboy 40 Billy Ratliff bull rushed him so fast and hard. Little unknown fact is Billy told the offense to not get comfortable. That the d was getting that ball back! Man!!! What an amazing season 97_98. I was only a kid but remember every single game.
Yeah I knew Billy a little. He used to party at Tee’s condo, right below my best friends condo at the end of the strip behind Pilot. They were all pretty good dudes. Except for Steve Johnson. He was a prick
Jessiah Bailey I went to the movie but I'm a Tennessee fan even tho I wasn't old enough to watch the game I know the history behind it and I saw the movie greater and it made me want to watch this
Yeah I was a sophomore at UT with seats in sec D about 20 rows from the field. Me and my best bud stayed even after the girls and some other friends left. We were soaked but good god. What a season. If UT can go to ONE final four before college sports end I can die a happy man. I was also at the 2001 SEC Championship debacle, just to even things out I guess😅
Wow what a game. I sat there in the rain behind Vols bench. The Agony of defeat was setting in. Then Billy made the play of a lifetime. Great Video Brown Edwards. Brings back some awesome memories of that magical season. Hogs were just un-lucky that day. Both teams were loaded and no one deserved to lose. Lucas was a beast that we no answer for. HOGS and VOLS played a game for the ages that day.
I was too. Bought tickets on Kingston Pike on the way to the stadium. Pouring rain. Soaking wet. Sat in the North End end zone about 20 rows from where the team comes in. When we couldn't convert on that 4th down play after the blocked field goal, I gave up. I was as despondent as I have ever been at a football game. Then, the Billy Ratliffe fumble recovery! I couldn't believe it. Frankly, it's still hard for me to believe today! Then Fulmer had them give the ball to Travis Henry every play. With Will Bartholomew in there blocking at Fullback (a position never used in football anymore) and daring Arkansas to stop us, the boys would not be denied. We won! Incredible! I wasn't in Knoxville for the Florida game that year, so I can't compare the post-game to that night, but I have to say the post-game celebration on the Cumberland Avenue was amazing. Everyone was everyone else's best friend all night long. It was a great night to be a Vol!
I grew up a Vols fan and ended up attending the University of Tennessee. I ran a bar on campus that year and got to attend every home game. One of the greatest years of my life and memories I'll never forget. But this day was hands-down the greatest sporting moment of my life. I just stood there in disbelief and utter Joy at what had just taken place in front of me. What a memory! All I can say is that it was a damn good thing I took that semester off, because I don't remember much of it besides partying and football 🤣🤣 Go Vols!
Only game I ever cried in. I am good friends with billy ratlif and worked with him. I tell him that best play in UT history. He always just laughs and says na payton had the best plays
I remember being at the game!!! Lots of people were headed for the exits. I will never forget when he fumbled it was a different feeling in the stadium. Everyone started coming back in from the exits!! Very good game. To win a national championship you have to catch breaks as we did in that game. 💯
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I was at that game with another guy that jumped up and wanted to leave early when Tennessee didn't convert on 4th down. I think it's rude to the team to leave early, so I usually don't. But, to my shame, we were halfway down the ramp when Stoerner fumbled the ball and then we had to watch the come back on a concession stand tv...embarrassing! Got what I deserved I guess..:P What a game, and thanks for posting this!
I was always jealous I never got to experience this, but now I am just grateful I got to rush the field at Alabama. My freshman year we had 3 wins and now in my junior have a chance to take the number 1 spot from Georgia. I am beyond happy.
I remember this game well. I was 14. After the vols turned over on downs my dad stopped watching it and left the room. I continued to watch it and saw that and yelled. I ran to him saying Arkansas fumbled and he came back into the room lol. One of the best games
@@dustingreen2254 if you haven't watched the movie Greater you should. It's about the Arkansas tackle that the qb tripped up on, Brandon Burlsworth. It shows this game in there. It's actually a good movie.
I was there, in the North endzone, and recall telling someone next to me that it was over, and he said, "No it's not, just have a little faith." And then the Stumble and Fumble happened. I just looked at him like, really., you were right. Man, that was some game. I was there in 1982 when Tennessee beat Alabama for the first time in a while, and the goalposts came down. We couldn't get down to the field because we were in the Student Section in the upper deck. I was there when we beat Florida when they missed thier kick, and the goalposts came down. We rushed the field. People were tearing up turf for souvenirs, and one drunk guy even had a green post from the fence, said he had a piece of the goalpost. My wife asked him if she could "touch his pole." Yeeesh! I saw the goalpost cameras and goalposts heading for the strip.
I saw the movie about him called, "Greater". It was a really good movie. It even showed part of this game. It was really sad that Brandon died too young. He had so much potential.
On paper, we had better teams in the 1990s than the one in 1998. That team just refused to ever give up. Billy Ratliff has said before that Brandon Burlsworth was kicking his butt all game long. The guy was an All-American and probably would have been an NFL star if he hadn't died in a car accident early in '99. Billy only got the better of him for one play...but thankfully for the Vols, it was the right one.
John Cate I had no idea about this story, thanks for sharing. I was 17 and working as a table busser at Red Lobster in Chattanooga during this game. I'll never forget it because my manger kept threatening to fire me if I didn't quit watching the 4th qtr on the TV in the bar area and get back to work. By the end of the game 80% of every male (customers and employees) were huddled around a 20 inch TV. The place was nearly as loud as Neyland when Henry went over that pile.I'll never forget that day.
+Brian Cunningham Here's Ratliff's own account of it: www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111111aac.html Maybe they were lucky that day, but I've always said that luck finds those who are prepared. If that team was going down that day, Arkansas was going to have to earn it for 60 minutes. 58 wasn't good enough.
I've heard that story first hand...he physically showed me how he bull rushed Bulsworth on the fumble recovery play....he had 0 stats in the game until that play
I was there with my then brother in law his boss was a season ticket holder. He held out the tickets that he wasn't using that year and let his employees pick which game they wanted because he didn't think those would be good games lol. My brother in law chose the Arkansas game even though he wasn't a Bol fan he knew I was a huge fan so he really got them for me. So he and I went to the game and he rooted for the Razorbacks just to spite me by the middle of the fourth quarter he could see how heartbroken I was becoming and started rooting for Tennessee.Needless to say we won we didn't make it back home until 2 the next afternoon the strip was rocking and I think he became a vol fan that day. I've always wondered about his boss missing one of the greatest games in Tennessee history!!
Oh I remember this well. I hope we are on the verge of another season like the ones we had regularly in the 90s and the 2000's Tennessee hasn't been 4-0 in a long time
Thanks for sharing. I had the best tickets I think I ever had for that damp and wet night. On the east sideline, about the 48 yard line, just in front of the famous fumble. What a night!! Great game and what a memory.
Arkansas deserved to win this game. They outplayed the Vols on this day. But then again, it kind of proved that the Vols were a team of destiny that year. The Arkansas program never recovered from this. I'll still say that while this game was more important, seeing that this kept us alive for a National Championship, the UT - Notre Dame game in 1991 is "the Greatest Game". Nothing will beat that come from behind win to beat the Irish in their own house.
Spirit of luck. That's what you call that. They did nothing to cause that fumble. I get it luck happens and sometimes it takes that to win games for any team. But let's call it like it is. Luck.
That whole season was great! A bunch of tight wins. Syracuse with McNabb at QB Gators Goal Posts coming down the Stoerner Fumble and stopping Warrick in BCS Title game! Our Defense was full of beasts! Nice video!
I've been to lots and lots of UT games, but I still get chills when they run through the T. Tradition makes college football what it is. Let's get us a good coach and turn this mess around. Go Vols.
I remember seeing this when I was 10 years old with my dad watching it beside me on couch. And also I believe there was a scare at beginning of the year vs Syracuse
best game in Vols history period. i worked with Billy Ratliff at twin city mazda and he and i talked about that play alot. we sold cars together after he graduated . he is also the nicest and biggest vfl i have ever meet. his heart is still orange and always will be he tells me.
I was there that day! Great day in Vol History! Ward in pregame "Everything, Everything is riding on this football game" still gives me chills. I hear fans of other schools call us lucky on that play but a play in the game that is often forgotten is an Arkansas punter kicked the ball out of the back of the endZone and we should have been given first and Goal at the ten but we're not. go Vols!!
@@richardbeach2430 My understanding is the ball can not be advanced in either direction by kicking it. I'm pretty sure I asked an SEC official about this on WJOX am 690 but that was a long time ago.
@@richbrout16 When Tennessee played Auburn in 1989 Auburn had a punt snap go over the punters head and he kicked it through the end zone and I thought Tennessee would be getting the ball somewhere down there but the officials got together and gave Tennessee a safety and we got the free punt also.. That play doesn't happen much but I've always seen it ruled as a safety..
@@richardbeach2430 You may be right. I'm going to find out for both of us. Lol. My best friend works at the Conference. I'm gonna have him ask the head official. I'll ask him also if there were any rule changes using 89 and 98 as examples. May take awhile, I don't think he is there everyday but I'll let you know what I find out. Cheers!
@@richbrout16 Thanks for your insight and your interest.. Oh, btw, I hope I'm wrong but the Vols might win three games this year if they are lucky but things should get rolling pretty strong next year because I am working with a group of passionate supporters and we have put together a sizeable war chest to get to these recruits before Saban and we are letting them know they will be well taken care of if they come to Rocky Top
I will never forget this game. It had rained all game and been miserable weather. It had finally stopped late in the 4th quarter. People had left in droves when UT gave the ball back over to UA. I guy that was drunk out of his mind in my section was running up and down the stairs between sections cussing the TN fans that were leaving telling them to never come back. His drunken face was beet red. Suddenly Sterner fumbles and the stadium erupts. I look over to my friend that was with me and he was crying. Then the Cheese took it the rest of the way.
An older bloke that remembers these two teams would say the 1956 Tennessee-Georgia Tech game and the 1964 Arkansas-Texas game were greater for both programs. This 1998 game turned on a fluke. Those other two games were won by blood and guts.
I am an Auburn fan but I doubt that would be Tennessee’s greatest game.....to me the shootout against us would rank higher in my book.....Manning vs Craig in the SEC championship and even that prolly wouldn’t beat the time you guys upset us in the 80’s.....can’t remember the year off hand but I remember the game....sadly those 80’s and 90’s teams were the last glory years for Tennessee....since Fulmer left it’s been a struggle....I feel your pain.....maybe an Alabama guy can correct it for you guys....the SEC ain’t the same with Tennessee down....War Damn 🦅
Sorry. I am a huge Tennessee fan. Have been a true fan since I was a kid. 38 now and I still remember this game like it was yesterday. Not even beating Florida this year was quite as exciting. I was actually playing in Highschool football the day TN playes Florida and we had just beat a team 56-0 on a Saturday night makeup game and we all had just got on the bus listening to the final kick by Florida, that they missed. My whole team screamed and hollered the top of their lungs when John Ward called it, and that it was wide. Gave me goose bumps. But that still does not compare to Arkansas and the "Stumble Fumble." I was, as were all Tennessee fans that day I am sure, just in aww of how Arkansas played that day. They should have won. But, it was our destiny that year to win no matter what it seemed. GBO!
I will never forget this game as long as I live. It was a chilly rainy day in Arlington, TX where I was living at the time, my wife was pregnant with our first child. On that day in the span of 3 hours I experienced every single emotion a human being can have. I couldn't talk for two days after that and my wife has never watched another game with me to this day. GO BIG ORANGE!
+Wes Hall After the Tennessee/Florida game a few weeks earlier, my Wife said to me "You know, honey, it is really entertaining to watch you watch a football game."
I remember watching this on rabbit ears because the weather had knocked out the cable. I almost didn’t… thought it would be an easy win. I was 21 then. I’m 47 now. More than half a lifetime ago.
Omg, that goaline formation with 2 fullbacks behind center in front of Henry... can't be denied! Not gonna happen! That's classic smashmouth Tennessee football! And both FB dive forward to pick up blocks... that's sick! I remember watching that game on tv.. I was 10, and so I don't remember the formation! epic.
I was on the top row of DD in seats that don't exist anymore, but I'll never forget at the fumble and then the touchdown looking over the rail and seeing thousands of fans outside the stadium wondering what had just happened.
I had been waiting my whole life I was 36, then I recall it being a wet gloomy day I was at game also went to Kentucky game that magical year the stadium was unreal from the time we recovered ball and after Henry scored the stadium was deafening u could not hear the person next to u screaming unreal experience I have been to 57 games at neyland my first in 1971 none close to that Arkansas game our defense and deion grant blocked FG was unreal I knew we would win it all after that night that is the wildest I have ever saw Cumberland avenue after a game lot of alcohol was sold that nite without a doubt my greatest and they been many memory of Cumberland avenue after a game I hope to get to come close to that experience again love my Vols
...with the greatest announcer - John Ward. I still to this day receive flak from Arkansas fans over this game, so I only remind them of the Golden Nascar rule - the only lap you have to lead, is the last one. VFL '99.
Arkansas could have still played defense. Tennessee still drove 55 yards with T Henry running down their throats. That Stoerner fumble hurt them, but didn't beat them. Failure to tackle The Cheese did.
Agreed. This game, no matter which side you were on, should be a bookmark for every coach to show his players. Why? Because in this game, every player from both teams involved, "left it all" on the field that night.
They should not have had to tackle the Cheese, the game was over , the fumble absolutely beat them, they could have took a knee 4 times, not taking a knee beat them
You want to "what ifs"? If the incompetent SEC refs had gotten the penalty on Arky's punter correct, the game would not have even been in doubt at this point! Go Big Orange!
I'm a Razorback fan, but there's something about this game I enjoy. This game was portrayed in a movie called "Greater" and it was about Brandon Burlsworth (who was a Razorback). After seeing that movie, I watch this game much differently. Even though it was kind of Burlsworth's fault they lost the game, Clint Stoerner, the quarterback, still took all the heat from the press.
Or are folks that just know college football. Claiming Arkansas was ever truly a relevant team is a damn joke. Tennessee fans acting like their program was ever of any real consequence is an ever bigger joke.
I thought was gonna have a panic attack just now watching it 24 years later!!! Sometimes the good Lord just smiles down on you that’s really all there is to it 🤷🏻♂️
The 90s were a great time in vol football how i miss those times they should have never fired phil that act has jinxed are beloved program maybe we can get peyton to coach the team
we got phil back and i think a coach that is alot like phil no nonsence and pound the ball football again . Be ready vols are coming back with Jeremy . Vols will only stay down so long check the history .IT IS TIME gbo
The opposite is true. Fulmer should have retired and stepped down around '00, '01, or '02. His ego got in the way and he overstayed his welcome. He'd gotten lazy in recruiting and ran off his best recruiters. His passion for coaching just wasn't there anymore, and quite honestly, Fulmer was a mediocre X's and O's coach at best- Cutcliffe was the X's and O's guru on that team and he left for greener pastures. Fulmer ran his best recruiters off and held on to mediocre guys like John Chavis. The team nosed-dived and culminated in a team that lacked an offense: the offense was pitiful. Randy Sanders and Dave Clawson were putrid OC's compared to Cutcliffe. Recruiting was tanking. Fulmer tried to live off the one NC and in reality the type of talent Fulmer had in the 90's should have garnered at least 2 or 3 NC's, alas he was always outcaoched by guys like Spurrier. At any rate, we know what happened next. The dumb, doofus Mike Hamilton stepped in at the wrong time and hired Kiffin. Hamilton was, of course, a Haslam lackey and did his master's bidding. Kiffin left and he hired Derek "Cross-eyed" Dooley. I could go on but why bother? The point is, Fulmer should have left earlier, but our inept admin screwd it up and have been screwing up ever since.
Man there is no way Tennessee should have won that game. Arkansas was the better team, but Tennessee came through when it mattered most. And deserved to win the Natty
A glorious day for the Volunteers! I was living over 3000 miles away when this game was played, still one of my favorite Vol wins ever. The only downer was the CBS broadcast team of Sean McDonough and Terry Donahue, both of whom had a distinct prejudice against Tennessee. Donahue admitted his gripe with UT stemmed from the UT/UCLA game of Sept/91 in Knoxville, when the on-field temp was 119 degrees. One of Donahue's coaches passed out from the heat, but the on-field paramedics were busy working on "Smokey", our Blue Tick Hound mascot, who had also passed out from the heat.
i was there and after awhile you just didn't feel the rain anymore. i actually got up with my friend and started up the steps and then everyone jumped up and yelled and i knew i should have sat there and watched till the end. but i stood on those steps and watched the end of the greatest game i have ever seen. sorry vols i gave up but you didn't and i can tell you i will never do that again.
A little bit of trivia (which is probably here somewhere). In Fayetteville the very next year, the Vols had just jumped Virginia Tech and were #2 in the BCS, but were upended by Arkansas...28-24. Had they won that game, I have little doubt that they would have beaten down Alabama again in the SECCG, and probably beat FSU for the title. But instead, they played a POWERHOUSE Nebraska team, that ended up playing their absolute best game of the year. Ya win some, ya lose some...
Man shout out to Travis Henry!! I remember him, he played for the Bills in the NFL but had short career, had some good years tho before they drafted Marshawn, he was a li’l beast
I remember this game. Most people don't remember Arkansas was undefeated going into this game. I really believe if Arkansas would have won this game they would have won the national championship
I was in Fayetteville, AR for a job assignment in 2017 and of course I had on my Tenn Vols hat and the guy said you know we still upset at you guys about that game and my response was we don't to much like you guys either #VFL
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Brandon Burlsworth running down Al Wilson to save a touch down was unbelievable
He was the fast guy on the team so no it wasnt
CoopJackMac hey you have to think about it that’s fast for a lineman
@@karstonlott3387 it wasn't because he was the fastest on the team and they made a movie about the guy and give an award in his name every year
CoopJackMac dude if he was the fastest on the team he would have most likely been a freakin linebacker
@@karstonlott3387 he was always a lineman and it's not like he was fast before college and he was probably better at lineman and by your logic he should've been the running back
Rip Brandon Burlsworth 😔♥️
For real
#77 #66 ❤❤
GO VOLS
RIP #77 Brandon Burlsworth. April 28th, 1999 was such a sad and tragic day. Such a talented young man who had his whole future ahead of him.
Just watched Greater... thought it was super cool how they used these clips in the movie
Same here just finished it! It is a great movie!
Same
Who’s here after watching GREATER on Netflix?
Me
Wai*Side 93 me
R. I. P. #77
@@bradleyr.6385 yes I have a jersey
Me
Man we gotta get these two programs back to this. As an Arkansas fan this one hurt, but you know what sucks worse? Not feeling anything...like we do right now. Just apathetic. Whatever. We gotta get these two fine programs back to playing games like this in November again. Both have had it sporadically since then but nothing as big as this game.
Mudcat3434 you're ready to have your heart ripped out again is what your saying?
Im a Vol fan but the Razorbacks are basically my second favorite team. Im ready for this year; both teams will have decent years
Factoryx..Heart ripped out? If im not mistaken? Arkansas has whooped Tennessee in the last 3/4 meetings.
This game almost killed me.
Agreed buddy
This was a classic game, with national ramifications. The things that aren't seen that go on with these teams can be uplifting or truly tragic. RIP Brandon Burlsworth, from a Tennessee fan!
My dad took me to this game for my birthday. Memories I’ll never forget.
I was at this game with my Dad in section XX (I was 12 yrs old). We got up and left right before the fumble, and as we're walking the concourse we heard the crowd go WILD! Everyone flooded the tunnel back into the seats, but because it wss so packed we all just stood at rhe tunnel listening. When Henry scored, place went Bananas. Unbelievable.
Wow!!! I'm 63 I do remember watching this game live. This one the national title win at the end of that season and the 1985 teams win in the Sugar Bowl over Miami are the most satisfying I ever watched.
Must be tough for you to be a Tennessee Volunteer enthusiast the past decade...I hope that they are on the right track, the SEC need Tennessee to be great again.
Chris Oxford , I was in basic training for the Miami game. My Cuban DI made a $5 bet with me on the game. I paid dearly to collect that $5, and I loved every minute of it.
I'm 19 so I don't remember this game but man I'm just waiting for the Vols to be on top of college football again. I just wanna witness that and have that feeling of ya my teams number 1 in the country.
chris bastin I know what you mean, I’m 18 so I was born just short of the greatest years of TN Football, would love to see it again!
I was in middle school during that season. It was a great time to be a Vol fan, I can say that. It's hard to describe...but I feel things just felt different back then. Like the air was different or there was a different energy going around this place. Maybe the success brought it, maybe it was because I was younger...I dunno. lol I miss those days. I feel like things would still be different today if we were champions...not sure if we'd still experience what we did back then. And yeah, nobody could say anything to us that season. Was one of the best teams assembled. I remember our RB's in particular were hard driving bullies. Just running over guys. And our LB's were deadly. And the guys were truly a team...full of inspiring young men who were committed to each other, I felt. I have seen that kind of togetherness and leadership since then really. Maybe we see flashes of it every once in awhile from some individuals, but with them...most of the team was that way. You can see it for yourself, just watching how they played and how they carried themselves.
chris bastin the 90's were a great time to be a Vols fan. Only losing 6 games during a 5 year stretch. It was incredible to watch. So sad to see the program struggle now. Most kids today only know them from losing.
Bro I remember that game watching on tv and listening to John Ward on the radio. Good Sh*t!!
We a basketball school now lol
“Stoerner... LOST THE FOOTBALL! OH MY GOODNESS, HE STUMBLED AND FUMBLED” every time I hear that it’s major chills. GBO
One of the greatest calls ever
I remember so well sitting in the stands and saying, “unless Arkansas just gives us the ball, it’s over”, and Arkansas just gave us the ball. It was the greatest game ever. And I’ve never forgotten the name Stoerner.
I said the same thing and told my wife "Lets go it is over" Just then ark snapped the ball on the fumble.
77 for Razorbacks tripped up Qb because my homeboy 40 Billy Ratliff bull rushed him so fast and hard. Little unknown fact is Billy told the offense to not get comfortable. That the d was getting that ball back! Man!!! What an amazing season 97_98. I was only a kid but remember every single game.
77 was greater
Now way u said 77 without saying his name to bro made that school brandon burlsworth rip
Yeah I knew Billy a little. He used to party at Tee’s condo, right below my best friends condo at the end of the strip behind Pilot. They were all pretty good dudes. Except for Steve Johnson. He was a prick
Whos is here because of "Greater"
Jessiah Bailey I went to the movie but I'm a Tennessee fan even tho I wasn't old enough to watch the game I know the history behind it and I saw the movie greater and it made me want to watch this
Jessiah Bailey I love that movie
Me. I was watching it on an Amazon Fire Stick and now can't find it.
Jessiah Bailey ME
Jessiah Bailey Cause I'm from Arkansas
Glad to be able to say I was there in the rain to watch my Vols come back and conquer 💪🏻a truly magical season! Vol Nation 🧡💪🏻🧡💪🏻🧡💪🏻
Right there with ya, from under the Jumbo in LL
Yeah I was a sophomore at UT with seats in sec D about 20 rows from the field. Me and my best bud stayed even after the girls and some other friends left. We were soaked but good god. What a season. If UT can go to ONE final four before college sports end I can die a happy man. I was also at the 2001 SEC Championship debacle, just to even things out I guess😅
I've watched this 90000000000 times....I still get chills everytime
Rest In Peace Brandon Burlsworth the world misses you
Wow what a game. I sat there in the rain behind Vols bench. The Agony of defeat was setting in. Then Billy made the play of a lifetime. Great Video Brown Edwards. Brings back some awesome memories of that magical season. Hogs were just un-lucky that day. Both teams were loaded and no one deserved to lose. Lucas was a beast that we no answer for. HOGS and VOLS played a game for the ages that day.
I was there that day in Knoxville Tennessee what a great game Go Vols
I was too. Bought tickets on Kingston Pike on the way to the stadium. Pouring rain. Soaking wet. Sat in the North End end zone about 20 rows from where the team comes in. When we couldn't convert on that 4th down play after the blocked field goal, I gave up. I was as despondent as I have ever been at a football game. Then, the Billy Ratliffe fumble recovery! I couldn't believe it. Frankly, it's still hard for me to believe today! Then Fulmer had them give the ball to Travis Henry every play. With Will Bartholomew in there blocking at Fullback (a position never used in football anymore) and daring Arkansas to stop us, the boys would not be denied. We won! Incredible! I wasn't in Knoxville for the Florida game that year, so I can't compare the post-game to that night, but I have to say the post-game celebration on the Cumberland Avenue was amazing. Everyone was everyone else's best friend all night long. It was a great night to be a Vol!
Lot of words man
Me too and those were thee days of Volunteer Football baby, I’m still keeping the faith though...
Lol now look at them 💩
BMO Rigby now look at you rigby fat and old as hell. Let me guess your a Clemson fan then a bama fan and before that then a Tebow lover. 🐥🐥🐥
RIP John Ward you’re the voice of Tennessee football
John Ward and Bill Johnson were the best!
I grew up a Vols fan and ended up attending the University of Tennessee. I ran a bar on campus that year and got to attend every home game. One of the greatest years of my life and memories I'll never forget. But this day was hands-down the greatest sporting moment of my life. I just stood there in disbelief and utter Joy at what had just taken place in front of me. What a memory! All I can say is that it was a damn good thing I took that semester off, because I don't remember much of it besides partying and football 🤣🤣 Go Vols!
Quote of the century: "HE STUMBLES AND FUMBLES!!!!"
I am friends with #40 Billy ratlif. We worked together after he graduated. Could not have happen to a better vol that night.
OMG! I still get goosebumps after all these years. When the QB put the ball on the ground, my roof nearly came off!
Only game I ever cried in. I am good friends with billy ratlif and worked with him. I tell him that best play in UT history. He always just laughs and says na payton had the best plays
I remember being at the game!!! Lots of people were headed for the exits. I will never forget when he fumbled it was a different feeling in the stadium. Everyone started coming back in from the exits!! Very good game. To win a national championship you have to catch breaks as we did in that game. 💯
The QuarterBack for Tennessee Tee Martin was drafted ahead of Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft.
Dan Livni lol
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The 6 quarterbacks drafted before Tom Brady in the infamous 2000 NFL Draft
www.businessinsider.com/the-tom-brady-nfl-draft-quarterbacks-2016-12
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Everyone was drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 draft.
Dan Livni T Martin is back coaching with the Vols.
I’m not here bc of Greater but love the movie. Found this by complete accident.
I was at that game with another guy that jumped up and wanted to leave early when Tennessee didn't convert on 4th down. I think it's rude to the team to leave early, so I usually don't. But, to my shame, we were halfway down the ramp when Stoerner fumbled the ball and then we had to watch the come back on a concession stand tv...embarrassing! Got what I deserved I guess..:P What a game, and thanks for posting this!
I never left early. If I expect them to play a full 4 quarters, then I have to stay and root for them the full four quarters.
Crazy a lot of us were at this game as kids and this video brought us to the same place.
I was always jealous I never got to experience this, but now I am just grateful I got to rush the field at Alabama. My freshman year we had 3 wins and now in my junior have a chance to take the number 1 spot from Georgia. I am beyond happy.
Remember this game too well. It was electric at Neyland. Your body actually vibrated! Too many good plays to remember.
I remember this game well. I was 14. After the vols turned over on downs my dad stopped watching it and left the room. I continued to watch it and saw that and yelled. I ran to him saying Arkansas fumbled and he came back into the room lol. One of the best games
Bro i was 12 and I had tears streaming down my face... Till he fumbled.
@@dustingreen2254 if you haven't watched the movie Greater you should. It's about the Arkansas tackle that the qb tripped up on, Brandon Burlsworth. It shows this game in there. It's actually a good movie.
Great team. I think this team learned what it takes in 97 against Nebraska. Regrouped and rededicated. Came back and played like Champions in 98!
nebraska schooled florida two years before
I was there, in the North endzone, and recall telling someone next to me that it was over, and he said, "No it's not, just have a little faith." And then the Stumble and Fumble happened. I just looked at him like, really., you were right. Man, that was some game. I was there in 1982 when Tennessee beat Alabama for the first time in a while, and the goalposts came down. We couldn't get down to the field because we were in the Student Section in the upper deck. I was there when we beat Florida when they missed thier kick, and the goalposts came down. We rushed the field. People were tearing up turf for souvenirs, and one drunk guy even had a green post from the fence, said he had a piece of the goalpost. My wife asked him if she could "touch his pole." Yeeesh! I saw the goalpost cameras and goalposts heading for the strip.
My God,as a lifelong Tennessee fan,I remember every moment of this game,and this season.🙌
RIP Brandon Bulsworth you were a great player. If people don't know about him, look him up.
I saw the movie about him called, "Greater". It was a really good movie. It even showed part of this game. It was really sad that Brandon died too young. He had so much potential.
On paper, we had better teams in the 1990s than the one in 1998. That team just refused to ever give up. Billy Ratliff has said before that Brandon Burlsworth was kicking his butt all game long. The guy was an All-American and probably would have been an NFL star if he hadn't died in a car accident early in '99. Billy only got the better of him for one play...but thankfully for the Vols, it was the right one.
John Cate I had no idea about this story, thanks for sharing. I was 17 and working as a table busser at Red Lobster in Chattanooga during this game. I'll never forget it because my manger kept threatening to fire me if I didn't quit watching the 4th qtr on the TV in the bar area and get back to work. By the end of the game 80% of every male (customers and employees) were huddled around a 20 inch TV. The place was nearly as loud as Neyland when Henry went over that pile.I'll never forget that day.
+Brian Cunningham Here's Ratliff's own account of it: www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111111aac.html
Maybe they were lucky that day, but I've always said that luck finds those who are prepared. If that team was going down that day, Arkansas was going to have to earn it for 60 minutes. 58 wasn't good enough.
i wasn't born until 2001, sadly.
I've heard that story first hand...he physically showed me how he bull rushed Bulsworth on the fumble recovery play....he had 0 stats in the game until that play
Not here because of Rudy 2: Electric Boogaloo. I'm here because I'm an old Vols fan who watched this game live and like revisiting our great games.
I was at this game. My dad surprised me with tickets. Henry scored the final TD in the endzone i was sitting in. It was electrifying!!
I was there with my then brother in law his boss was a season ticket holder. He held out the tickets that he wasn't using that year and let his employees pick which game they wanted because he didn't think those would be good games lol. My brother in law chose the Arkansas game even though he wasn't a Bol fan he knew I was a huge fan so he really got them for me. So he and I went to the game and he rooted for the Razorbacks just to spite me by the middle of the fourth quarter he could see how heartbroken I was becoming and started rooting for Tennessee.Needless to say we won we didn't make it back home until 2 the next afternoon the strip was rocking and I think he became a vol fan that day. I've always wondered about his boss missing one of the greatest games in Tennessee history!!
Oh I remember this well. I hope we are on the verge of another season like the ones we had regularly in the 90s and the 2000's Tennessee hasn't been 4-0 in a long time
Thanks for sharing. I had the best tickets I think I ever had for that damp and wet night. On the east sideline, about the 48 yard line, just in front of the famous fumble. What a night!! Great game and what a memory.
What a great season! And damn, I sure do miss John Ward.
This was A GREAT YEAR in Vol history!!!
Arkansas deserved to win this game. They outplayed the Vols on this day. But then again, it kind of proved that the Vols were a team of destiny that year. The Arkansas program never recovered from this.
I'll still say that while this game was more important, seeing that this kept us alive for a National Championship, the UT - Notre Dame game in 1991 is "the Greatest Game". Nothing will beat that come from behind win to beat the Irish in their own house.
Thats what you call Tennessee Football. The spirit of never surrender.
GBO
john doe GBO go Vols go and we won the national championship that year!
John Doe lol what they only won bc Arkansas choked
john doe but always losing
Spirit of luck. That's what you call that. They did nothing to cause that fumble. I get it luck happens and sometimes it takes that to win games for any team. But let's call it like it is. Luck.
That whole season was great! A bunch of tight wins. Syracuse with McNabb at QB Gators Goal Posts coming down the Stoerner Fumble and stopping Warrick in BCS Title game! Our Defense was full of beasts! Nice video!
I was there as a kid :) was such a demoralizing game..getting beat bad and getting drenched. Then a bloody miracle :') Thank you Clint!!
Brandon is now an angel
I still get chills and thrills about this game.
I've been to lots and lots of UT games, but I still get chills when they run through the T. Tradition makes college football what it is. Let's get us a good coach and turn this mess around. Go Vols.
I remember seeing this when I was 10 years old with my dad watching it beside me on couch. And also I believe there was a scare at beginning of the year vs Syracuse
That game was phenomenal, Tee Martin vs Donovan McNabb in the Dome on the turf, stupid loud, Tennessee defense was wanted the fade that night 💪🏾
best game in Vols history period. i worked with Billy Ratliff at twin city mazda and he and i talked about that play alot. we sold cars together after he graduated . he is also the nicest and biggest vfl i have ever meet. his heart is still orange and always will be he tells me.
I dunno, that TN vs Fla game earlier that season was pretty awesome too.
i say this all the time and i’ll say it again it’s great to be a tennessee volunteer 🧡
I was there that day! Great day in Vol History! Ward in pregame "Everything, Everything is riding on this football game" still gives me chills. I hear fans of other schools call us lucky on that play but a play in the game that is often forgotten is an Arkansas punter kicked the ball out of the back of the endZone and we should have been given first and Goal at the ten but we're not. go Vols!!
It's a safety
@@richardbeach2430 My understanding is the ball can not be advanced in either direction by kicking it. I'm pretty sure I asked an SEC official about this on WJOX am 690 but that was a long time ago.
@@richbrout16 When Tennessee played Auburn in 1989 Auburn had a punt snap go over the punters head and he kicked it through the end zone and I thought Tennessee would be getting the ball somewhere down there but the officials got together and gave Tennessee a safety and we got the free punt also.. That play doesn't happen much but I've always seen it ruled as a safety..
@@richardbeach2430 You may be right. I'm going to find out for both of us. Lol. My best friend works at the Conference. I'm gonna have him ask the head official. I'll ask him also if there were any rule changes using 89 and 98 as examples. May take awhile, I don't think he is there everyday but I'll let you know what I find out. Cheers!
@@richbrout16 Thanks for your insight and your interest.. Oh, btw, I hope I'm wrong but the Vols might win three games this year if they are lucky but things should get rolling pretty strong next year because I am working with a group of passionate supporters and we have put together a sizeable war chest to get to these recruits before Saban and we are letting them know they will be well taken care of if they come to Rocky Top
I will never forget this game. It had rained all game and been miserable weather. It had finally stopped late in the 4th quarter. People had left in droves when UT gave the ball back over to UA. I guy that was drunk out of his mind in my section was running up and down the stairs between sections cussing the TN fans that were leaving telling them to never come back. His drunken face was beet red. Suddenly Sterner fumbles and the stadium erupts. I look over to my friend that was with me and he was crying. Then the Cheese took it the rest of the way.
RIP Brandon burlsworth such a good player 😭😭
Heartbreaking game but even more so about that Burlsworth player. RIP BB
I was at this game..Will never forget it
Brandon Bulsworth was a awesome guy. RIP Brandon
An older bloke that remembers these two teams would say the 1956 Tennessee-Georgia Tech game and the 1964 Arkansas-Texas game were greater for both programs. This 1998 game turned on a fluke. Those other two games were won by blood and guts.
I am an Auburn fan but I doubt that would be Tennessee’s greatest game.....to me the shootout against us would rank higher in my book.....Manning vs Craig in the SEC championship and even that prolly wouldn’t beat the time you guys upset us in the 80’s.....can’t remember the year off hand but I remember the game....sadly those 80’s and 90’s teams were the last glory years for Tennessee....since Fulmer left it’s been a struggle....I feel your pain.....maybe an Alabama guy can correct it for you guys....the SEC ain’t the same with Tennessee down....War Damn 🦅
"As an Auburn fan, I have to think Tennessee's greatest game had to have been played against Auburn."
-You don't say.
Coach Majors had some dam good games with Auburn and coach Dye
Sorry. I am a huge Tennessee fan. Have been a true fan since I was a kid. 38 now and I still remember this game like it was yesterday. Not even beating Florida this year was quite as exciting. I was actually playing in Highschool football the day TN playes Florida and we had just beat a team 56-0 on a Saturday night makeup game and we all had just got on the bus listening to the final kick by Florida, that they missed. My whole team screamed and hollered the top of their lungs when John Ward called it, and that it was wide. Gave me goose bumps. But that still does not compare to Arkansas and the "Stumble Fumble." I was, as were all Tennessee fans that day I am sure, just in aww of how Arkansas played that day. They should have won. But, it was our destiny that year to win no matter what it seemed. GBO!
I will never forget this game as long as I live. It was a chilly rainy day in Arlington, TX where I was living at the time, my wife was pregnant with our first child. On that day in the span of 3 hours I experienced every single emotion a human being can have. I couldn't talk for two days after that and my wife has never watched another game with me to this day. GO BIG ORANGE!
+Wes Hall After the Tennessee/Florida game a few weeks earlier, my Wife said to me "You know, honey, it is really entertaining to watch you watch a football game."
My family and I were at this game...remember it well!!!!! VFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
was so cold and rainy that night but it's a memory i'll always cherish having w/ my Dad
I was at this game. Soaking wet and miserable until that pivotal moment! My favorite game I’ve been to at Neyland hands down!
Love the Music ,I remember these tunes of the 1970's NFL
I remember watching this on rabbit ears because the weather had knocked out the cable. I almost didn’t… thought it would be an easy win. I was 21 then. I’m 47 now. More than half a lifetime ago.
Omg, that goaline formation with 2 fullbacks behind center in front of Henry... can't be denied! Not gonna happen! That's classic smashmouth Tennessee football! And both FB dive forward to pick up blocks... that's sick! I remember watching that game on tv.. I was 10, and so I don't remember the formation! epic.
The music is PERFECT
I was on the top row of DD in seats that don't exist anymore, but I'll never forget at the fumble and then the touchdown looking over the rail and seeing thousands of fans outside the stadium wondering what had just happened.
I had been waiting my whole life I was 36, then I recall it being a wet gloomy day I was at game also went to Kentucky game that magical year the stadium was unreal from the time we recovered ball and after Henry scored the stadium was deafening u could not hear the person next to u screaming unreal experience I have been to 57 games at neyland my first in 1971 none close to that Arkansas game our defense and deion grant blocked FG was unreal I knew we would win it all after that night that is the wildest I have ever saw Cumberland avenue after a game lot of alcohol was sold that nite without a doubt my greatest and they been many memory of Cumberland avenue after a game I hope to get to come close to that experience again love my Vols
BB RIP 4ever man..........and your beau family...........fly away home
...with the greatest announcer - John Ward. I still to this day receive flak from Arkansas fans over this game, so I only remind them of the Golden Nascar rule - the only lap you have to lead, is the last one. VFL '99.
Arkansas could have still played defense. Tennessee still drove 55 yards with T Henry running down their throats. That Stoerner fumble hurt them, but didn't beat them. Failure to tackle The Cheese did.
Agreed. This game, no matter which side you were on, should be a bookmark for every coach to show his players. Why? Because in this game, every player from both teams involved, "left it all" on the field that night.
They should not have had to tackle the Cheese, the game was over , the fumble absolutely beat them, they could have took a knee 4 times, not taking a knee beat them
Daryl Lynch
Too much time was on the clock to take a knee
You want to "what ifs"? If the incompetent SEC refs had gotten the penalty on Arky's punter correct, the game would not have even been in doubt at this point! Go Big Orange!
19 dislikes are razorback fans
lol, I'm a razorback fan but you probably right
I'm a Razorback fan, but there's something about this game I enjoy. This game was portrayed in a movie called "Greater" and it was about Brandon Burlsworth (who was a Razorback). After seeing that movie, I watch this game much differently. Even though it was kind of Burlsworth's fault they lost the game, Clint Stoerner, the quarterback, still took all the heat from the press.
Stoerner took all the heat in Knoxville too for sure. Probably the only place outside Arkansas where he's still a household name, haha.
btw trigger
Or are folks that just know college football. Claiming Arkansas was ever truly a relevant team is a damn joke. Tennessee fans acting like their program was ever of any real consequence is an ever bigger joke.
I thought was gonna have a panic attack just now watching it 24 years later!!! Sometimes the good Lord just smiles down on you that’s really all there is to it 🤷🏻♂️
I remember watching that. That was about as close to a miracle that you could ever see.
#VFL. GO VOLS. Also, thanks for the flashback game.
The 90s were a great time in vol football how i miss those times they should have never fired phil that act has jinxed are beloved program maybe we can get peyton to coach the team
we got phil back and i think a coach that is alot like phil no nonsence and pound the ball football again . Be ready vols are coming back with Jeremy . Vols will only stay down so long check the history .IT IS TIME gbo
The opposite is true. Fulmer should have retired and stepped down around '00, '01, or '02. His ego got in the way and he overstayed his welcome. He'd gotten lazy in recruiting and ran off his best recruiters.
His passion for coaching just wasn't there anymore, and quite honestly, Fulmer was a mediocre X's and O's coach at best- Cutcliffe was the X's and O's guru on that team and he left for greener pastures. Fulmer ran his best recruiters off and held on to mediocre guys like John Chavis. The team nosed-dived and culminated in a team that lacked an offense: the offense was pitiful. Randy Sanders and Dave Clawson were putrid OC's compared to Cutcliffe. Recruiting was tanking.
Fulmer tried to live off the one NC and in reality the type of talent Fulmer had in the 90's should have garnered at least 2 or 3 NC's, alas he was always outcaoched by guys like Spurrier.
At any rate, we know what happened next. The dumb, doofus Mike Hamilton stepped in at the wrong time and hired Kiffin. Hamilton was, of course, a Haslam lackey and did his master's bidding. Kiffin left and he hired Derek "Cross-eyed" Dooley. I could go on but why bother? The point is, Fulmer should have left earlier, but our inept admin screwd it up and have been screwing up ever since.
Stephen Grahn *our
@@johnmonkey1874, Fulmer got saved when Cutcliffe returned from Ole Miss. Cutcliffe was the real reason for our 90s success.
Man there is no way Tennessee should have won that game. Arkansas was the better team, but Tennessee came through when it mattered most. And deserved to win the Natty
A glorious day for the Volunteers! I was living over 3000 miles away when this game was played, still one of my favorite Vol wins ever. The only downer was the CBS broadcast team of Sean McDonough and Terry Donahue, both of whom had a distinct prejudice against Tennessee. Donahue admitted his gripe with UT stemmed from the UT/UCLA game of Sept/91 in Knoxville, when the on-field temp was 119 degrees. One of Donahue's coaches passed out from the heat, but the on-field paramedics were busy working on "Smokey", our Blue Tick Hound mascot, who had also passed out from the heat.
2:06 for the Brandon Burlsworth block
I was there. Section r row 1 seat one. Seat two was my dad. Best football game I ever saw
Who's here after we tore the goalposts down when we beat Alabama?
My family and I were at this game. Sadly we left when TN was down 21-3 because we thought TN couldn't win. Biggest mistake ever leaving that game.
We were there what a killer game.Best feeling ever.
i was there and after awhile you just didn't feel the rain anymore. i actually got up with my friend and started up the steps and then everyone jumped up and yelled and i knew i should have sat there and watched till the end. but i stood on those steps and watched the end of the greatest game i have ever seen. sorry vols i gave up but you didn't and i can tell you i will never do that again.
1986 Sugar Bowl against Miami or 1982 Alabama game are individually greater games.
A little bit of trivia (which is probably here somewhere). In Fayetteville the very next year, the Vols had just jumped Virginia Tech and were #2 in the BCS, but were upended by Arkansas...28-24. Had they won that game, I have little doubt that they would have beaten down Alabama again in the SECCG, and probably beat FSU for the title. But instead, they played a POWERHOUSE Nebraska team, that ended up playing their absolute best game of the year.
Ya win some, ya lose some...
That was truly a great game, and Tennessee went on to the win the National Championship that year.
Man shout out to Travis Henry!! I remember him, he played for the Bills in the NFL but had short career, had some good years tho before they drafted Marshawn, he was a li’l beast
I remember this game. Most people don't remember Arkansas was undefeated going into this game. I really believe if Arkansas would have won this game they would have won the national championship
That fumble foreshadowed current Arkansas football sadly, but we got y’all back the next season!
I’m a Vols fan I remember this game like it was yesterday Go Vols we on our way Back
I was in Fayetteville, AR for a job assignment in 2017 and of course I had on my Tenn Vols hat and the guy said you know we still upset at you guys about that game and my response was we don't to much like you guys either #VFL
I put this video on anytime I’m feeling a little down and boom pure ecstasy
The refs blew a call on the safety because they didn't know the rules, but Tennessee won anyway.
We all went through every single emotion we had that day
The great John Ward, “Voice of the Vols”. He would retire after the Championship game with FSU. RIP.