By Dave Newhouse, STAFF WRITER
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — University of Tennessee football isn't a passion, not even close. UT football isn't a religion, but you're getting closer. "It's more like a birthright," Junior Manis said.
If you are born in Tennessee, the Volunteers are your surrogate birth mother. You are nursed on the Vols from the cradle, and if you're ever weaned from the Vols, you might be considered a Yankee.
Junior Manis owns the Western Plaza Barber Shop in Knoxville, on Kingston Pike, the same street as the University of Tennessee campus two miles east. Manis' shop is wall-to-wall college pennants, and no trim there goes without talk of UT football, not with the proprietor around.
"It's called Tennessee pride," Manis said. "If your team doesn't win every game, you feel let down. The sun doesn't shine on Sunday morning."
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