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What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia?

What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs In their first home game for the 1996 season, the University of Tennessee Volunteers may well be playing in the largest college stadium in the country if plans materialize to expand the current seating capacity of Neyland Stadium of 96,000. Why such a huge "Roman" structure is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, "the Gateway to the Smokies," is one of the more glaring paradoxes in Appalachia since, judging from the general character of the settlers of the region, the erection of a coliseum was certainly not very high on their list of priorities if present at all in their thinking. They may or may not have known anything about the trouble early Christians, criminals, and animals had in stadia in the ancient world, but they were skeptical of power of the organized state symbolized by the institution of knighthood, a major feature of the Rome-London Axis. To be sure, the "mixed people," including a large element of Scotch-Irish (or ScotsIrish) from Ulster, loved play in many forms and were often excellent athletes and fighters, but these attributes did not either singly or collectively http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia?

Higgs, Robert J.
Appalachian Review , Volume 24 (2) – Jan 8, 1996
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What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs In their first home game for the 1996 season, the University of Tennessee Volunteers may well be playing in the largest college stadium in the country if plans materialize to expand the current seating capacity of Neyland Stadium of 96,000. Why such a huge "Roman" structure is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, "the Gateway to the Smokies," is one of the more glaring paradoxes in Appalachia since, judging from the general character of the settlers of the region, the erection of a coliseum was certainly not very high on their list of priorities if present at all in their thinking. They may or may not have known anything about the trouble early Christians, criminals, and animals had in stadia in the ancient world, but they were skeptical of power of the organized state symbolized by the institution of knighthood, a major feature of the Rome-London Axis. To be sure, the "mixed people," including a large element of Scotch-Irish (or ScotsIrish) from Ulster, loved play in many forms and were often excellent athletes and fighters, but these attributes did not either singly or collectively

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1996

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