It was the Battle at Bristol. The largest attendance in CFB history at almost 157,000 passionate fans. Where else ya gonna find that. Alvin Karma shines as the Tennessee took home the W. Largest live audience, something the osu mind can’t comprehend. .
DALLAS (Jan. 1, 1990) —
Andy Kelly connected with Anthony Morgan for an 80-yard touchdown to put Tennessee ahead of Arkansas for good in the Cotton Bowl.
The Vols had to hold off a late Razorback surge to win, 31-27.
Tony Robinson dazzled in Tennessee’s 1985 season opener against UCLA, throwing for 387 yards and two touchdowns.
The game ended in a 26-26 tie, but it was a sign of things to come. Robinson led the Vols to a 38-20 thrashing of No. 1 Auburn a week later.
Sandy Koufax tried to supplement his Dodgers salary and purchased the "Tropicana Motel" in 1962.
The motor lodge, with low weekly rates and kitchenettes in all 74 rooms, was built as short and long-term housing, for those who couldn’t afford apartments.
The rich and famous, though, didn’t patronize “Sandy Koufax’s Tropicana Motel” as Koufax had hoped.
Jim Morrison of the Doors liked to drink way too much at the "The Palms", a low-rent lesbian bar across the street from the Tropicana.
Jim would then stumble back across Santa Monica Boulevard and pass out at the Tropicana.
Tom Waits lived at the Tropicana for nine years with a Steinway upright piano jammed into his room’s kitchenette.
Van Morrison wrote “T.B. Sheets” and other songs while staying there and Big Brother & the Holding Company, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Alice Cooper all worked out of, and lived in, the Tropicana.
As did Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Blondie, and Tom Petty.