Lee Suggs

My summer softball league kicked off last night right by the Washington Monument on The Mall.

We got an email yesterday afternoon with our fields and for whatever reason they included the umpires' names as well. I looked at our field and umpire...Red field, closest to the Monument...umpire's name was Lee Suggs. I laughed at the coincidence and headed to the field.

When I got to the field, I saw our umpire. He was huge. Dude looked like Machoke. And was wearing a Cleveland Browns t-shirt. It was him. Lee was my second favorite Hokie (the first being Michael Vick) and I bought his autographed poster from hokiejoe11 last summer.

I went up to him and just said "Lee Suggs". He replied "yes?" and the rest was history. I told him that his poster is in my room still, and that my second VT jersey I ever got was his. I conveniently left out the part where my first game at Lane was the one vs UConn in 2001 where he tore his ACL. He chatted with me for a few minutes and seemed genuinely happy to talk Hokie football with a fan.

Lee was cool as hell, umped a good game, and got the flying fuck out of there once it started pouring down rain and lightning started striking.

Just wanted to share this all with you guys because I needed to tell somebody that would give a shit besides my dad. If ya'll want to meet a Hokie legend, come on out to the Washington Monument on Thursday nights over the next few weeks and watch some shitty beer league softball!