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Safety first

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

This story appears in the Sept. 21 issue of ESPN The Magazine. A line of Day-Glo orange snakes a quarter mile along the Tennessee River, curving around the sprawling Volunteers football complex on a sunny April morning. Thousands of fans have arrived five months before the opening game, with cameras, Tennessee jerseys and signs. It's the Orange and White Game, and as they say here, it's Football Time in Tennessee. Problem is, times haven't been so good lately. A nightmarish 5-7 season led ...

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