Ground Shaking Way to Start '09 Season

So I'm sitting at home this morning, putting the finishing touches (I hope) on scripts and rundowns for our Vols preseason football special, and I feel the ground shake. Literally.

We were hit with a 3.3 earthquake!

I spent the last two years opening the season with the Vols in California, and I never felt one. I once lived near Los Angeles for almost a year, and I never felt one then either. 

I spent 17 years covering Phillip Fulmer's era-- and never felt it. Ok, that's unfair. Neyland Stadium had to register on the Richter Scale the night the Vols beat Arkansas on Stoerner's fumble in 1998. 

And Tennessee figuratively shook-up the college football landscape on that special night in Tempe in 1999 ('98 title).

But there's been something strange about this year.  And this week, the season started with an earthquake. Weird.