“Man, I hate Tennessee.”
Those four words sparked a fire, one with more crimson flames than orange that fueled a campus tradition that has come to be known as Tennessee Hate Week.
University of Alabama sophomore Irvin Carney was waiting at a Crimson Ride bus stop — those were brand new at the time — outside of Ferguson Center when senior Nick Adam approached him on Oct. 18, 2007. Adam asked Carney how he felt about Tennessee, and Carney went on a rant.
Adam immediately realized he should be filming this; that’s why he was out on campus with his camera in the first place. He was working on an Alabama-Tennessee rivalry package for a now-defunct sports website, Palestra.net. So he told Carney to hold that thought while he set everything up, hoping the microphone he had previously damaged would work.
It did.
“All right, man,” Adam said. “Just say what you’ve been saying, man. Why do you hate Tennessee?”
Boom. Magic.
“You know when you know you’ve gotten what you wanted?” Adam says 11 years later. “And you’re just like, ‘All right, I’m done. I’ve got to go to the Ferg and get some food.’ I was pumped because I didn’t have to work. It’s just nice when you don’t have to work super hard to pull good content out of people.”
The content was so good Adam immediately uploaded the raw footage to YouTube and gave it the name, “Bama fan trashing Tennessee.”
Surely you’ve seen it. It has more than 670,600 views, and that’s just on the original video. Multiple organizations have shared it on their own platforms. It goes like this:
“First of all, it’s Tennessee. I just hate them because they lowdown, they dirty, they some snitches, and I hate Phillip Fulmer. … Tennessee’s color is that throw-up orange. It’s not that orange you can sit with. It’s that puke inside a pumpkin orange, and I don’t like pumpkins.”
History backs up what Carney says in the video, or at least some of it. Personal bias may take over toward the end.
“Talk to your uncles and aunties, moms and dad, and big brothers and big sisters, they will tell you and they know,” Carney said. “People had been saying that around the dinner table, cooler or tailgate for a while. But this was the first time people had seen somebody on video talking about it.”
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