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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 5151914, member: 874"] As a Knoxville resident, I despise that song. I avoid it as much as possible. One thing that feeds into that is that a segment of UT fans actually think it was written specifically for the university rather than realizing it had no original connection to it and was later adopted by it. It's probably not the song I hate so much as it is the ignorance and arrogance of the fans. What's really stupid is that the song is about a mountain in the smokies and Knoxville is in the valley. The municipal leaders in a nearby area north of the city, opposite the direction of the actual rocky top, are so stupid they changed the name of their town from Lake City to Rocky Top in an attempt to increase tourism. Even before I lived in Knoxville and grew to hate UT fans, I preferred other fight songs. Rant over. [/QUOTE]