Virginia has done everything to get their uninterested fans interested in their mediocre football program. There has been a TV show, commercials and discounted tickets in Valpak. Now there's this, a video begging UVa students to come back to the grounds for the Commonwealth Cup. A Cavalier loss is expected, but one in front of a pro-Hokie crowd would be worrisome for Mike London, a man passionately selling the Hoo brand of football across the Commonwealth.
As for the video itself, that shit cray.
This is the third version of the video uploaded by the Hoos, the other two have been removed. Some things may have changed.
0:00 - 0:05 Nothing says Thanksgiving football like the slow, soft vocals Skylar Grey delicately massaging my sensitive side.
0:05 - 0:30 Yes, we get it, you beat a ranked Georgia Tech. /round of applause
0:30 - 0:42 Let's celebrate a 21-20 OT victory against Idaho. ♫ shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots everybody ♫
0:50 - 0:57 Oh Shit! Sacking Indiana REMIX! (Indiana is currently tied for 98th nationally giving up 2.7 sacks a game, but shhhhhhh no one needs to know that!)
1:00 - 1:09 Dean Groves, former Jeopardy writer and current Macy's department store dresser.
1:11 - 1:21 "It's like, V-Tech, so, it's like totally going to be the most awesome-o bestest thing ever!"
1:22 - 1:35 I'm not a Hoo Bob. Also, I'm astonished you have to reinforce there's more to being a Hoo than the lawn. It's just a fucking lawn.
1:37 - 1:44 Hey bro, I'm Will and I represent every stereotype you've heard about UVa ever.
1:45 - 1:57 I don't have the balls to fuck with Ms. Kathy.
1:58 - 2:11 It's not called the backyard brawl, and you didn't sweep us twice in basketball last year Mike Scott. #UVaStudentAthletes
2:13 - 2:59 Bullshit, bullshit, fluff, coach speak, bullshit, took the reciprocal of the student body and got division by zero error, more bullshit, doh forgot to thank Jesus, bullshit, *fart-noises*, fluff, "orange face" the fuck?, fluff, one last please show up because my job depends on it.
3:05 Ms. Kathy said "dad-gummit".
H/T JeffreyTFerg
Comments
Alright.
Time to rain on their parade.
Great work Joe
and I wouldn't fuck with Ms. Kathy either.
I'm going to the game! Wait, I'm a Hokie. I go to every game.
Posts like these
Are exactly why The Key Play needs a "Like" button
dear lord
oh lord how embarrassing.
And since when
is the VT-UVA game known as the "Backyard Brawl"? I may be a young'un when it comes to Tech football, but I have only ever referred to it as "7 Straight".
In a couple weeks, it'll be "8 Straight".
+1
I repeat what StLHokie said to wakemeup707 above.
Also, adding a recommend feature to comments is something that's going to be implemented during the off season.
Just let it be known...
...that next weeks Photo Primer will be EPIC.
Kudos to UVA, y'all just made my already incredibly easy job that much simpler.
Will in the Lacoste polo. It could not have been more perfect.
Where is P. Diddy?
I mean, you Wahoos tease us with the beautiful voice of Skylar Gray, but then there is no P. Diddy? WTF? This is some BS!!!!!
And Mike Scott, wow! I guess you meant you swept VT in men's basketball and being a douche, because even the editor didn't catch this one. No wonder Morgan Moses got into UVA.
Hoo Bob is my homeboy.
Scott
I couldn't stop laughing when mike scott thought they swept us twice. he obviously doesn't understand the concept of the sweep.
Also, isn't it somewhat pathetic that his best reason for watching the game is that UVa won in a different sporting event in a different season...
You should go watch the UVa-Tech football game because UVa beat Tech in track in 1976. That makes sense.
Class President
Anyone else catch that Nancy Park is the 'Fourty year class president'? Wow. She better have A LOT of degrees by now... Anyway, that's just a minor mistake in an otherwise superbly edited film.
Also, the game footage (sideline views) is very reminiscent of high school... And I did not go to a very large high school.
Crafty
They have to use sideline views, as not to show the empty seats in the crowd.
Does she know STEVE HOLT
Obligatory
"Oh, I told him that she was a tranny."
Their Next Move
Thomas Jefferson/Uncle Sam "We Want You" posters to be placed on the Lawn, Rotunda and dorms.
silly wahoos
good ole' take down the video then disable comments move... #TypicalHoos
They also removed
Mike London taking the reciprocal of the fan base, and Mrs Kathy saying dad-gummit
Boo.
I just embedded the third version of the video. The first two have been pulled. They've now mixed in Zombie Nation. This is just embarrassing for them.
Wow, this is just pathetic advertising. The Brooklyn Cyclones do a better job of advertising their beer prices and theme nights than UVA does with a key rivalry game in football (I can understand the beer prices though). Go drink your Zima with a glass of chardonnay and cheese weenies- stick to what you know. But I did feel an itching sensation to make a pledge: to have another round at the end of the game when LT3 is still lighting up their "vaunted" secondary and DW3 is having a field day against that "stout defense." Yeah they beat a ranked GT team which was impressive but c'mon enough is enough already. Plus why are they advertising the game now when they go to FSU this weekend? I would be a tad more focused on that battle than us at the moment. Hell, this was the first time I thought seriously about the UVA game- more worried about UNC on Thursday than those hosers.
BTW- Scott's comment about Sweeping Tech twice = priceless. I knew it wasn't hard to get into UVA as a football player but c'mon. Oh wait- they did let in Morgan Moses and some other players who it took three tries to finally get over that Duke hump with their complex schemes of getting the ball to Varner and Vernon by any means necessary- sick burn.
Best comment written so far. Colin Cowherd esque.
wow
Very High School Production there. I was expecting an episode of Glee to break out at some point. Guess Ms Kathy squashed that quickly.
We all know they have a very skewed memory to fit what they believe. A few years ago when our soccer team was in the final 4 and when our baseball team has destroyed them, they still seem to think they won. They won't come back because of THIS. Their daddy's trust fund is hurting and they can't afford the gas for the Volvo wagon.
if we are
V Tech, wouldn't that make them "v"?
Did you notice that behind Ms Kathy is a picture titled "In the Nood" with an explanation behind it. Guess that's for the Mike Scotts of the "v" world. And who puts up a giant picture of an empty noodle counter anyway?!
Now, let's get back to Ramse. Don't sleep on them like two years ago. That one still stings. My fiances parent graduated from UNC, and she's a huge fan. Big mistake taking her to the game two years ago. Looonnnnnggggggg 7 hour ride home.
This is the most lame video I have ever watched. The V actually has to put together a video to convince fans to come back early for a VT game? I wonder why tickets are $75 for this game and they had a val-u pack for the rest of the games. I could do better production quality with my camera....and I don't even have iMovie!
Mike London
should beat box the next jock jams album
Awesome video
Some random thoughts:
Nobody has commented on the great synergy (big v word) about playing a team on Thanksgiving who's mascot is a turkey /interlocks fingers
Hoo Bob, the Drillfield is so much better than your lawn
I'm strangely attracted to Ms. Kathy
You're right Will, you are #1 baby...at being a douche. Though to be fair, he's only a Freshman, so he hasn't had his soul crushed 7 years in a row yet.
Did Mike London really say with a straight face that v is defined by their loud, energetic student section?
WVU would not be happy with them calling our game the backyard brawl
I would of course never advocate vandalism, but it would be awesome if another "T" made its way onto their field.
I really want to go to this game, but I'm being pressured (forced) by my family to join them in Memphis for Thanksgiving. I have no desire to go, so I'm just gonna be really drunk the whole time. At least if I go now I won't have to go for Christmas.
Ms. Kathy, call me...
we really do need to claim it as VT field north.
Also, why is Mike Scott trying to hide his last corporate identity of Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin.
UVA is like china in the Olympics
Uva is like china at the Olympics. Both win at sports that nobody gives a shit about and then brag like they are the greatest sports school/country ever. Bro nobody cares about lacrosse or soccer or tennis.
I'm stealing this to put it on my facebook.
Woah, hey now
This is a student-run and produced thing, you guys know that, right? Heck, the students ought to be proud of the football team this year, if they want to do something like that, more power to 'em. Especially with the crap Groh put us through. I don't share all the sentiments of the video, of course- specifically, I want both UVA and VT to dominate the ACC, I want Commonwealth football to be second to none, and show everyone that Texas, Florida, Georgia, California, et cetera, ain't all it's cracked up to be and we can compete with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Even with Virginia Tech's success, you stroll through any SEC, B1G, PAC-12, etc, board and see just what they think of Virginia Tech- it's somewhere barely above Boise State in their opinion, successful "on a steady diet of cupcakes" and "overrated as hell". Look, they rated the fucking MWC higher than the ACC this week. The classy fuckers on the Alabama board I occasionally venture on, which is akin to 4chan's /b/ in my opinion, love to still make 4-16-2007 jokes.
But, you know, whatever, guys. I come here because I'm still a Tech fan and I like to keep up with Tech sports, and I love the humor and analysis done here, the folks I've met here are of the decent sort. But it still sucks to see the hate- and I call it out on UVA boards when I see it, too. Just my two cents.
where is the hate?
I have ready every comment and I see people enjoying a slight pick at what many people consider a rival. I have never meanly teased a Hoo fan, just had fun with them. I reserve all my hate for the cousins.
Most of it's well natured
One or two posts I had my eye on in particular. And I should be fair, it's one of the reasons I hang out here rather than some other Hokie boards I've been on. Much more good-natured here, and in the spirit of an actually rivalry than a hate fest. I shouldn't lump you guys in with assholes who you guys probably find obnoxious, too, else you probably wouldn't be around here.
Like I said, my primary wish would be for UVA and VT to dominate college sports side by side- football, basketball, etc. That's why I can't do anything but wish well on any attempt to get folks out to see the games- for either team, any sport.
A Once Proud Institution
Sure, the students should be proud of the team this year. They've done pretty well and no one should begrudge them that.
I'm pretty deep in "enemy" territory here: a 'hoo living in Christiansburg and posting in a VT forum, but this thing rings hollow even to me. It's pathetic; it's pathetic to see a once proud institution with a long and storied academic and cultural history try to pretend to be something it's not.
UVA isn't a football powerhouse. It's not a massive land-grant university and it shouldn't pretend to be one. As a Wahoo, I'd love to see Virginia beat Virginia Tech and, though it'll vex my Hokie wife, I'll be cheering for the boys in blue... but even I know it's a long-shot.
Packing the stands with students won't change that... and begging them to show up is just sad. Trotting professors, the dean of students, and random people from student government out like they're some kind of motivational trump card is beyond sad; it's painfully embarrassing.
Honestly, I don't think even Tech could have done a better job of highlighting just how ill suited UVA's student culture is Big Time College Football.
Untrue
I have a friend who works for UVa video services and he told me it was definitely a professional University production.
good work.
this. is just. ridiculous.
1:30 eh?
Hope they sneak some extra Zima into the stadium to enjoy for those two hours before kickoff.
As a Hokie living in ATL
I can honestly say that every time S-EEEEE-CEE fans hear techno music, they jokingly jump around and say, "This is ACC football!!! WOO!!" I hate that techno immediately makes them think of ACC teams playing in a 30% capacity stadium. Personally I just hate techno. It's fucking annoying! Especially since South Cackalack, Kentucky, and Ole Miss all play this crap too. Anyway fellow Hokies, just know that I'm down here, behind enemy lines, pushing the stereotypes in the right direction...towards Maryland, Miami, GiT, NCST (is it just me that reads that and thinks it's an abbreviation for "incest"?...I digress), and of course, UVfuckinA.
Go Hokies!
2:40
those aren't panning still shots, but actual live video of their "energetic" fans jumping around to the "who oh oh oha oh oh" during kickoff. It's just really hard to tell the difference coach.
You have to know what will happen...
A good amount of the hoos that see the end of this video, will show up for a 1:30 game, have a few zimas and wonder why there isn't a game going on, and leave.....
...I have to live with these kind of folks on a daily basis.
After 8 in a row, could we petition to make Charlottesville an annex of Blacksburg?
Do. Not. Want.
Blacksburg doesn't need a French subsidiary unless we're planning some thorough ethnic/cultural cleansing.
Lane Stadium North. That is all.
I was actually thinking
more along the lines of urban renewal.
WE NEED YOU SHOW UP AT 1:30
WE NEED YOU
SHOW UP AT 1:30 PM
LEAVE AT 3
I vote we dedicate next weeks LOLUVA
Mascot Mock as the AscotMock.
Second!
Thy will be done
Oh Yeah
Das Awesome!
Video Hillarious, but the ticket prices are Bull!
So does VT get a bigger piece of the profit sharing in the ACC since other teams jack up ticket prices for our game?
UVA Single Game Tickets
Single game ticket prices for each of Virginia's 2011 home games are listed below.
Sept. 3 vs. William & Mary: $18, $21, $25, $35, $45
Sept. 24 vs. Southern Miss: $18, $21, $25, $35, $45
Oct. 1 vs. Idaho: $18, $21, $25, $35, $45
Oct. 15. vs. Ga. Tech: $24, $27, $32, $45, $55
Oct. 22 vs. NC State: $24, $27, $32, $45, $55
Nov. 12 vs. Duke: $24, $27, $32, $45, $55
Nov. 26 vs. Va. Tech: $70^
Same thing
Happened at the Marshall game, even though they aren't in our conference..
Are those face or the Groupon prices?
Are those face or the Groupon prices?
cute
lots of hokies pledge to be there ... again.
**Fine print
**I pledge to be there even after UVA gets their hoo-hoos handed to them at Florida State.
All due respect to Wahoos,
but did anyone else listen to them saying "I pledge" and hear a boy band singing "I swear....". It does make me feel old to think I was in the stadium the last time we lost to UVA. I sincerely hope I feel a lot older in two weeks without bagging it with UNC.