Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I was hoping it was the lyrics to "Rocky Top" (Univ of Tennessee fight
song):

"Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top,
Dirt's too rocky by far.
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top,
get their corn from a jar."

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> Check out Wallace Stevens' poem, "Anecdote of the Jar."
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> Fred Shapiro
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> > In reference to the Baltimore Ravens--named for Poe's poem--Dennis
> > Baron posted these possible "literary" names on his Facebook page:
> > "St. Louis Prufrocks? The Camden Leaves? Patterson Wheelbarrows?
> > Tennessee Jars? The Amherst Slants of Light?"
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> Can someone explain the Tennessee reference?  I don't get it . . .
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