First For 2016 Football: Back to the Future As UT Vols To Play VA Tech At Gargantuan Bristol Motor Speedway

FORGET THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, OBAMACARE, PRINCE GEORGE'S CHRISTENING AND DEBT CEILING DEBACLE

PREDICTED TO BREAK---SHATTER!---ALL SPEED, I MEAN ATTENDANCE RECORDS FOR US SPORTS EVENTS, this from  today's Tennessean:

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee will play Virginia Tech in 2016 in a football game that could shatter every major attendance record for team sports in the United States.

The long-discussed meeting at Bristol Motor Speedway is expected to be officially announced Monday at the facility. The speedway has scheduled a news conference at 11 a.m. to make a “major announcement.”

ESPN’s Joe Schad and CBS Sports’ Bruce Feldman tweeted the news of the game nearly simultaneously Wednesday. Neither Tennessee nor Virginia Tech would confirm the report.

I mean when football and NASCAR manias join up in East Tennessee, there won't have been anything like it before.  Nary a motel/hotel room for hundreds of miles in all directions---including  but not limited to outer space. And don't even want to contemplate the clogged interestates....



It's hard to over-estimate the size of this place. When I drive in to fish nearby on the South Holston River,  I'm always in awe of  this massive monument to Americana and what's it's done and doing for the economy in the hills and hollers of East Tennessee and how it all got started  with making  illegal moonshine and delivering it to customers by outrunning sheriff's deputies in souped up drag cars.

Rev your engines, spike your footballs and secure your tailgates ladies and gentlemen!  The greatest show on earth is about to take place.