Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Please Don't Paint Your Body, Pat!
We all remember when Bruce Pearl showed up at a Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball game with his body painted and cheering loudly in the student section. Well it seems Pat Summit is going to return the favor, sort of.
Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt said then she was planning a similar gesture for a men's game, and now her time has come.
Summitt and her staff are planning a special appearance during Tennessee's game Tuesday night against No. 5 Florida.
Summitt didn't want to say exactly what she is doing, but she's dropped hints by mentioning her days as a cheerleader in seventh and eighth grade.
While whatever she does will be a surprise to viewers and fans in attendance, Pearl is already aware of what will transpire.
"I know what Pat is doing, but I'm not at liberty to say," he said. "I think (fans) are going to love it, and I think America is going to see a side of Pat Summitt that they haven't seen in a long time."
Summitt noted the appearance will be '"a little out of character, a lot out of character actually."
"I think people see me as being really serious, and I've just always been a kind of person that likes to have fun and do things like I'm going to do tomorrow night. But I usually don't do it on camera in front of the whole country," she said. "I figured, why not?"
I am all for this kind of school spirit and I look forward to seeing exactly what Summitt does. But she better show up in a cheerleading outfit, rather than anything that involves her painting her bare body.
4 Comments:
Wow... that should be interesting. Should be a very interesting game as well!
I think it's kind of cool. I know everybody dumped on that Tennessee coach, but I liked it.
Way to go, nice to see some fun being brought in the game. Now, all Pat needs to do is wear an orange jumpsuit to a game and she and Pearl'll be even.
Nothing wrong with a bit of over enthusiastic fandom.
Heck, I spend half my life in face paint and team colors. And thats just in my lounge.
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