Bingo.
“A lot of people say it with excitement,” said University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior wide receiver Bingo Morton. “Sometimes they even spell it out.”
Come 1 p.m. Saturday against Mercer at Finley Stadium, Mocs football fans will hear Morton’s name blare from the loudspeakers for a final time as an active player. Redshirted as a true freshman, his five years of eligibility will come to a close, at least here in the Scenic City. His last game, as with the rest of his classmates, will be played at South Carolina on the night of Nov. 17.
But Morton and fellow senior Tavon Lawson were on hand to meet with the press during the team’s weekly media luncheon on Tuesday, discussing everything from injuries – Lawson has endured a significant one in four separate seasons – to teammates, to what they’ll cherish most about their years at UTC.
“Playing in Neyland Stadium my freshman year,” Lawson said of his most memorable moment. “I actually got to start. All your life you see teams like Tennessee playing on TV. I never thought I’d get to experience that.”