NASHVILLE — When it was all over but the locker room celebration Saturday evening, when the Pride of the Southland Marching Band had serenaded their Tennessee football heroes with everything from "Rocky Top" to the "Tennessee Waltz," when the Big Orange Nation's touching chants of "Eric Berry! Eric Berry!" — a salute to their former All-American and current NFL star who may have lymphoma — had begun to fade, when Vanderbilt's stadium had begun to sound at least a wee bit less like Neyland West, junior wideout Pig Howard was still beaming, his feet barely touching the plastic grass.