re: Something to laugh at...

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Tarheels and Vols have better marketing departments.

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I honestly know essentially nothing about the historical usage of Volunteers. I mean, obviously I'm aware that it's the Volunteer State, but it never occurred to me that locals were routinely called "Volunteers" outside of the context of the university in the same way that North Carolina residents were called tarheels, so I didn't even think about Tennessee. But, then, I'm not actually from Tennessee, so my knowledge would be limited.