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Tennessee fans answered the call to checker Neyland Stadium for today’s game against Florida. After weeks of campaigning, the movement started by Tennessee fans and web developers Tim McLeod and Jonathan Briehl has proven to work. The Knoxville News Sentinel posted a timelapse of fans filing into the stadium before kickoff.
Tennessee fans started a movement to checker Neyland Stadium leading up to the team’s Oct. 4 matchup against Florida. Web developers Tim McLeod and Jonathan Briehl launched checkerneyland.com with a concept inspired by the following tweet:
If Oklahoma can stripe their stands in shirts, I don’t see why this can’t be done in Neyland…. #VolArtConceptpic.twitter.com/H6jYHMI2Qx — Spencer Barnett (@CleVOLander) September 15, 2014
“A friend tweeted a picture and I came up with the concept.” McLeod said. “We built the site over the next few days. It took a while to map the stadium out. Lots of coffee.”
A former freelance journalist from Nashville, Jason covers Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky