Okay guys, you’ve all been really really great, very patient, and very yearning of some of the best writing EVAR! That being said, we ARE working on getting a new site going.

The new site will be a bit of a departure from what you might be used to seeing here on fulmer’s belly, but we believe it’ll be quite exciting. We hope you guys join us.

The site will hopefully be going live by the end of the month (or at least at some point in the summertime). In the meantime, check out the blogs of our friends over on the side, and we’ll look forward to seeing you guys soon.

Is it football season yet?

I for one, welcome our Gas Pumping overlords.

Honestly, who cares if Lane Kiffin told a kid he’d be pumping gas? What are we supposed to say when recruiting a kid? South Carolina is just as great as Tennessee, so do what you want?

Like all the commenters on GVX… that’s what the Vols finally are.. First in the SEC (east)!

Also, the Lady Vols passed the First! (round of the SEC tournament), so we’ve got that going for us.

First!

Well, the Tennessee Volunteers, in their annual (not anal) visit to Gainesville were able to pull out a close victory against the Florida Gators on Sunday afternoon.

That’s what most of the papers in the Knoxville area (most of the papers? Is there more than one?) will be writing about come Monday morning.

What they won’t tell you however, is that there was a much more compelling and heartening story going on right beneath their fingers. The slow meltdown of an addict.

Addiction is a hard thing to overcome. For most who suffer from it, it’s not something that can be tackled simply through one’s own personal resolve. This however, doesn’t stop many from at least trying to do so.

Bert(elkamp) is by all accounts a good man. He’s well loved within the Volunteer community (even if it’s in a mocking way like we do here at fulmer’s belly), but loved nonetheless.

That’s what makes it that much harder to be around him during this difficult time. Now, before that idiot copyright holder guy or Bert(elkamp)’s “peeps” decide to send me a nice message, of course I’m talking about Bert(elkamp)’s addiction to: Money!

Even further clarifying the concept… not “money” as in gambling debt money… but “Money!” as in “Chris Lofton just hit a three… MONEY!” money.

Honestly, this season has been difficult for Vol fans, with their lack of explosiveness, full court pressure, and three point shooting, but it’s been especially hard on Bert(elkamp) whose penchant for yelling out the one word phrase we’ve all come to love (read: loathe) has taken a dramatic hit in the 08/09 season.

It got so bad that during the Florida game on Sunday, with time winding down, and a Tennessee player shooting foul shots and after having missed his first one, sunk the second one to a Money! call from Bert(elkamp).

So, I say to the Tennessee BasketVols, if you care. If you truly care about the people around you. For goodness sake’s.. hit some fucking threes.

How come no one’s ever written a song about Mississippi? Well, I suppose people have, but it’s never been anything THAT interesting.

That being said, the BasketVols didn’t really seem to care when the Bulldogs were playing their tiny violins following their first loss to an Eastern Division team this year.

Tennessee actually played like they gave a damn, still with only token pressure in the full court (supposedly due to the team being “too long” a.k.a. “lazy”), but with actual movement on offense.

The only bad part of the game (besides the late foul on the three point shooter) was that Tom Hammond was commentating the game. Give him a set of 20 horses at the Kentucky Derby and he can rattle off every single name without a hitch, but have a dude named Brian Williams on your team? That fucker is “Brian Johnson” tonight.

All righty folks.

It does in fact seem like it’s been forever since we’ve updated anything here, and what with the fantastic run of the basketball teams (with both the Men and Women having been equal opportunity purveyers of suck this year), there hasn’t been too much to write home about.  Or write blog about?

For all of our awesome fans though, all we can promise is that we ARE working on a new vision for the site, with hopefully a fun twist to an increasingly saturating blog market.  In terms of the new name, honestly, there probably won’t be the use of any current, former or future coach’s names simply due to the volatile nature of the coaching market as of yet.  And whereas we don’t want to be pessimists with regards to the new regime, we are faced with the realization that the coach we thought would be at Tennessee forever is no longer there…

Keep checking in, we’ll probably keep this site going through basketball season, and then make a shift over the summer.

Thanks,

Jon