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Former Tennessee running back will face Vols with Alabama

The former Vols running back will play inside Neyland Stadium wearing Alabama colors; the home crowd now has a week to decide how rude to be.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYahoo Sports reports a former Tennessee running back will return to Neyland Stadium with Alabama to face his old team.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight's question: boo him or cheer him?

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKenji argues he deserves a warm welcome. Dale says boo him until the lights go out.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne speaker at a time, ninety seconds each, and nobody mentions his mother.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCheer him. The man played for Tennessee, gave them everything, and now he's visiting his old house. You clap for a visitor, that's just manners.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorManners. He left.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHe took his talent down the road to Alabama, and now he's coming back in the wrong color, which is basically a betrayal in cleats.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPeople transfer all the time. It's like switching apps. You don't boo your phone for deleting a game you stopped playing.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorApps don't run back a kickoff against your own grandfather's favorite stadium.

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThis is a very old wound, and you want to put a basket on it.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRebuttals. Dale, the timer is on. And the banned argument tonight is anything that begins with, back in my day.

  12. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFine. Then my rebuttal is that a stadium remembers. The seats remember. The concrete has a long memory, Kenji, and it is not forgiving.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe concrete?

  14. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, but the editor's angle here is nostalgia. Fans loved him, so the boos are just love with the volume turned up.

  15. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLove with the volume up. That's how every great feud starts, and that's how this one ends, with someone throwing a hot dog.

  16. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe evidence, from the Yahoo Sports story: he is returning to Neyland Stadium with Alabama.

  17. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the whole fact, and somehow both of you sound upset.

  18. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is plenty. Alabama. Neyland. In one sentence. Hank, you have just read out the end of the world.

  19. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLightning round. One sentence each. Should the stadium play his old highlight video? Kenji.

  20. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYes, and let the crowd cry a little. It's content.

  21. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOnly if it ends with a trapdoor.

  22. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShould his old locker be kept? Kenji.

  23. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTurn it into a shrine with a little rope and a gift shop.

  24. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFill it with wet towels and walk away.

  25. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShould he be allowed to smile after a touchdown? Dale.

  26. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOnly at the end of a funeral procession.

  27. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe can smile, wave, and sign a few babies.

  28. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClosing statements. Kenji, you have a minute, and I'd like it to feel like a minute.

  29. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPeople grow up and change teams. If we can't clap for that, we can't clap at weddings, and I like weddings. There's cake.

  30. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLoyalty is the only thing a crowd has left. Take that away and you are left with forty thousand strangers eating nachos in silence.

  31. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy ruling: everyone applauds politely, he gets a handshake, and the stadium offers him a small fruit tray. This ruling is final.

  32. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI reject the fruit tray, and I reject the ruling.

  33. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, boo him or cheer him? Type it now, and the winner gets read out loud, no matter how rude it is.

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