About Us

Welcome!

The Key Play.com is a 100% free community dedicated to covering the Virginia Tech Hokies. Most of the time we talk about football, sometimes about basketball, but we're always up for discussing the topic de jour. We break a lot of news around here. We caught wind of the Sugar Bowl invite, Shane Beamer returning home, and we stay on top of recruiting. We like to analyze game film. We like to be have fun. We like to pick on UVa. We like pictures with captions. We love the Hokies.

Creative & Copy

Joe @thekeyplay

As far as my eyes are concerned, maroon and orange are the two most beautiful colors in the world. I love, to the point of an unhealthy obsession, Virginia Tech football. I also enjoy Rails from TOTS and the #5 from Sub Station II.

Eric @beercontrol

There once was '95 Pamplin Business school Alum,
whose IT job kept him from being a bum.
BeerControlOffense was his old blog
and Taylor a lab mix, his dog.
Gameday is for whiskey not rum.

Nothing beats Lane in the fall
or those 5 hours pregaming for football.
In Bud he trusts,
God please don't let the offense go bust.
To hell with it all, when is last call?

Keeping the wife and kids happy, his goal
just hoping to throw some cornhole.
His SouthernPigskin pen name is Pyre,
but wishes he were Bunk from 'The Wire',
Drinking too many ales takes it's toll. Damn, getting old.

Prost!

Kevin @kburkeVT

Kevin is a junior at VT majoring in Electronic and Print Journalism. Hailing from Northern Virginia, he is a lifelong Hokie fan, witnessing his first football game at age 8 in the Music City Bowl vs Alabama. His first game in Lane was Miami in '05, but that game didn't really happen did it? His interests include the VT Drumline, sports broadcasting, supporting Washington DC sports teams, despising the mixture of blue and orange, and watching Danny Coale run down the sideline vs Nebraska.

Adam (06Hokie) @AdamAbramson

Adam is a former sports writer who still thinks he has "it." He served as the Collegiate Times sports editor from 2003-2005. Kellen Winslow once cursed at him about how loud it was in Lane Stadium. After leaving Blacksburg, he blogged the national college football scene for Newsday, covering two Heisman Trophy ceremonies. After a few years, he started working in television and became jealous of how much fun everyone was having on The Key Play so he decided to give it another go.

Joe (HokieJoe3) @kngjb3

I'm a fall 2006 alum who loves football and might be a bit too obsessed about Virginia Tech. At first i wasn't happy attending VT because my college choice was Salisbury, best party/visit of schools that recruited me to play football, but my parents wisely forced me to VT. My angst at not playing football quickly transformed into the joy of watching the Hokies play and then love of VT football during the experience that was being a freshman sitting in the North Endzone during the 2003 Miami game.

I'm an optimist but like to think I'm in touch with reality and hope to convey that when writing about VT.

I had a room reserved last year for the Orange Bowl, but I couldn't make the game and had to cancel the reservation. I dreamed big this year and have a room reserved at the JW Marriott New Orleans for January 6-10 that I'm hoping not to cancel.

Art Department

Magdalyn @magduffs

Charleston, SC native, defected from a Clemson family to go to VT (would've been a third generation engineer at Clemson), studied ocean engineering and vocal performance, VT football freak - favorite memory is the 2003 Miami game, a bourbon-powered moment on the field of Lane Stadium basking in Hokie goodness, recently opened my own graphic design firm based Design Mayjah in Charleston.

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