On November 27, 2004 Virginia Tech beat Virginia 24-10 to win back the Commonwealth Cup. Virginia hasn't possessed the cup since. Counting the day Tech won it back, today is the 3,000th day of continuos possession for the Hokies. If you're a purist, and want to count full days, or time since the final whistle, then you're celebrating 3,000 at some point tomorrow. Either way, it's been such a long time it took math to figure out. Or in other words...
@thekeyplay we're about to have held the #commonwealthcup for an entire papacy— Josh Thompson (@josht92) February 12, 2013
Regardless, such an occasion calls for pictures.
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via Bleed Bourbon (http://www.bleedbourbon.com/2010/11/24/cody-and-the-commonwealth-cup/)
Beamer was asked if he's ever consumed an adult beverage from the Commonwealth Cup. "I think Cody Grimm was the leader of that pack."— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) November 23, 2010
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This is what happens to the commonwealth cup DT Blacksburg twitter.com/VTBrooks68/sta…— Jaymes Brooks (@VTBrooks68) November 27, 2011
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Go Hokies!
I'm smiling very hard right now. This brings genuine happiness to me.
That tweet at the top is pure gold. An entire papacy. Awesome.
Thanks Joe for the stroll down memory lane. I noticed 2 things. 1) we never wear the same uniform twice to win the Cup. 2) I wish Adibi was still playing.
ALL MAROON EVERYTHING!!
Just needed to say that.
Wow
Tech's had the CC all the way back to the 'One Orange Sleeve' days.
That feels like a LONG time ago.
So much win on this post. This made my horrible morning 100000x better.
Except I have to add one photo: The Beard. Because who doesn't love Blake DeChristopher? Not a soul.
An excellent day for me indeed
Some Wahoo defensive linemen might not have loved DeChristopher...
Beautiful
This is a beautiful thing.
3K??????
THIS CALLS FOR CELEBRATION:
This day did not start off well
but now that I know that, I will have a grin on my mug for the remainder of the day.
I love to hate UVA
2005 Addendum
The view of midfield from their stupid hillside was especially glorious that day.
The cup got smaller as UVA became more irrelevant.
beat navy
As much as it pains me to say it, I think the only team that might be worse at winning their rivalry game is Army.
BOOOOO
Anchors Aweigh bro.
GO NAVY
BEAT ARMY
Crazy talk
I got a -1 for serving in the Navy? Hateful.
Thank you for your service.
Wasn't me, promise. Thanks for all you've done
"Wasn't me."
ML's response any time someone asks, "Who beat VT?"
*No disrespect to the serviceman or anything, I just couldn't resist takin a shot at ML. But who can?
Thanks guys
On that note, this budget issue is seriously hooking me up. Was supposed to be gone all football season but now I'll go out for a couple months til August then go out for a couple in January. So now I'll be home for the entire season, what a break!!
HAHA! In the words of Mike Patrick "These people are losing their minds. This is beautiful.”
Enjoy it Blake, Enjoy it.
#NerdAlert
#newhoos
I hope nobody in Maryland has that license plate, I'm definitely getting that.
a guy who works for one of my buddies has "uva sux"
They are a bunch of these
This is actually my brother-in-law's license plate. Either that, or his brothers. One is 'LOLUVA' and the other is 'UVALOL', I can never keep them straight as to who owns which. Just thought I'd share.
Hmmm
Anyone notice how well CFB dodged the drinking from the Commonwealth Cup question?? Well played sir, well played!!
Did anyone else notice the basketball team plays UVA tonight?
Coincidence? Maybe.
Yup. We're gonna end their tournament hopes.
Ah yeah! Cavman Down!
Bravo!
This is one of the greatest threads I have ever seen. Beamer dance in 2008 can make me smile on the worst days.
I think im gonna print and frame that picture of Beamer in the 2008 photo above. Hang it on the wall with all the other Tech stuff i got up
UVA...LOL
I had an old boss in Blacksburg who had a picture of VT fans storming the field at Scott Stadium in the 80s and tearing down the goal posts. I think this was before my time, but does anyone have a picture of it?
I remember that picture from 2004 caused a big uproar down in Miami, because we had only clinched a share of the ACC Championship after beating UVA. All the papers down there were saying Miami was super pissed (they could claim a share of the championship and the BCS bid with a win over us to end the season) and they were using it as motivation. Then we beat them too.
HAHAHAHAHA bitches.
YEAH!
MV Trumpets representing!!!
whoa hey
Someday we should start a thread to get all the MVs on here to say hi, I have no idea who anyone is. Or we could just all change our usernames to section nicknames...
I like the overall idea...
but I don't necessarily want to be known as Sir Fagdora in a public forum.
Well, it's just an MV party up in here on TKP.
They don't call us the "Spirit of Tech" for nothing...TKP is where you should come to get schooled on Hokie football #AllOfTheMVs
slowpoke
This is embarrassing, but I JUST got your twitter handle. For so long I just expected you to tweet pictures of men
I doubt Lucas would want people knowing about Sergeant McCumswallows either.
UVA Logic
First, UVA fans' logic that the 3,000 and counting days of possessing the Commonwealth Cup is a cover up of how bad the basketball team is? What the eff? Let's see...Virginia Tech fielded the worse team in 20 years and still beat LOLUVA, 20-17 thanks to Mike London and his infamous Clock Management Technique.
Second, VCU fans were just trolling.
It would be great
If we could pull one out of our hat tonight, that would be priceless. It would be the perfect way to celebrate 3K.
We're gonna win. Erick is gonna go off and I'm just feeling a good game from Eddie coming. I don't know why, there's really no reason to think it, but for some reason I see Eddie getting motivated by his immaturity from last game.
Eddie
Started the game right where he needed to be. On the bench. Golf clap for JJ.
Erick looked a little gassed and was missing everything until his string of threes. Wasn't expecting a win, but they should have made it closer. EG is like 3 or 4 inches taller than the uva pg and should have had a better shooting night. JJ needed to learn from the first game that you need someone like wood or green on joe harris. CJ never sticks near his man and everyone else was just mismatched height wise.
The next two home games for women's and men's are against duke, so it could be back to back ugly thursday nights.
Nude photo of Manti Teo's girlfriend!
I have no idea what Manti Teo's fake girlfriend has to do with being better than UVA for 3,000+ days straight, but I guess I'll just have to
Haha sorry. Offseason blues I guess. I'm going insane
I can't stop watching this!!