POWELL — Gary Ledford, a retired hardware salesman, drove to a Gatlinburg bar this week to find out whether the Titans game is on anywhere. The Knoxville Fox station is not carrying Sunday’s broadcast, and Ledford, who has never followed the Titans, wanted to know whether the decision was the station’s or the whole country’s. He said the errand was his own idea.
“I watch the Vols. That’s what we have the cable for,” Ledford said. “But I read they weren’t putting it on here, and I just wondered if that was us or everybody. I called around, and nobody I called knew.”
He picked Gatlinburg because he figured a town that size would have people from Nashville sitting around. Bartender Donna Weaver said he sat down at the end of the bar and asked whether they got the Titans game on Sunday.
“I said we’ve got the package, and he wanted to see it, so I put the guide up on the big screen and scrolled down until it came up. He read it and ordered a ginger ale. A little later he asked if I could go back up and show him again, and I did.”
Ledford said he may call Chattanooga next, since the station there is passing on the game too.