LETS GO!!!!! Time to go ladies and gents. We've made it through the off season. Break out the Wild Turkey 101 and Maker's Mark, pour yourselves a stiff one, the Hokies play today!
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HOKIES!!!
Excited for 6:00pm to roll around, what are we drinking tonight for the game hokies?
Sadly, only tea as I will be working. And doing client-facing tasks so no even peeking at scores. Cheer twice for me and have 2x as many drinks.
I don't think my wife will be very happy with me
Mine neither but
Pitter patter lets get at'er
Comes in just before halftime. Checks the shore. Holy cow! I'll skip the first half and drink nothing but tea the rest of the whole season if it leads to this!
Captain and coke in Lot 18!!!
Wicked Weed Pernicious!
Bourbon and I'm not waiting for the night. My 4pm meeting is going to be fire.
Update: Got caught up in the power hour and forgot to call in. I'll deal with that on Tuesday. Go HOKIES.
I like cut of you jib, sir!
What's a jib?
it's a sail
Sorry, it was a Simpson's reference
Is the poop deck really what I think it is?
Pregame, I'm gonna open a bottle of 70's vintage Wild Turkey and have a pour
During Sandman, a pour of Blackened
Fightin Hokies Lager during the game, shot of Turkey 101 every time we score.
I hope you are super drunk by the end of the game.
Blacked out at halftime. Last I checked we were up 10-0
We were never up by 10-0
Almost my plan. Wild turkey from my wedding 3 years ago for the pregame, shots for scores/big plays, hokies lager for drinking during the game, and rare breed for a big win after the game.
That's fucking awesome.
Dusty turkey is awesome! Love vintage bourbon, cracked a Hirsch blue wax for my 40th last week.
Yeah, I went a little overboard in Lexington last month. Got that, vintage old crow, and vintage OGD. In addition to the several other cases of new stuff. Don't go Bourbon shopping after bourbon drinking.
Where in the hell did you find Hirsch??
Nice! Vintage turkey and OGD are the best bang for your buck dusties in my opinion, although they've been getting up in cost too.
Connected with a guy through some fb groups a couple years ago and he gets some crazy bottles. No one at the party knows much about bourbon so I got a copy of the book "The best bourbon you'll never taste" to give them an idea, then cracked it and shared a small sample with everyone. Love the history of older bottles and it's fun to open them up after they've been just sitting on a shelf for decades.
this GIF is...backwards..?
I really love what you've done with the place!
Michters out of my tech glass with a big cube
Probably just Yeungling but I'm definitely starting during my 2:00 conference call.
100 proof, but surprisingly smooth.
Since it's Kirkland branded I can only assume you bought this at Costco and it came in a full barrel.
Glug glug
Fired up for the team
Even when outmatched talent-wise there is a way to play and represent that shows you're no pushover.
That's what I'm looking for - relentless energy and aggression
LETS KICK SOME FUCKING ASS. I am jacked up. Get out there and hit somebody.
Man I'm gonna be useless at work today.
Edit:
9:15 am update - can confirm. Completely useless.
12:15 pm update - I have emailed my father 7 gifs of people jumping with the subject line YOU JUMPING YET?
My dog isn't ready. COVID year was rather subdued. I'm going to lose my shit between 530 and whenever the game ends.
One of my four pups HATES football season (and recently basketball), but I'm hoping the CBD oil helps calm her down. Otherwise she'll be on my lap blocking the view of the TV because she thinks someone is trying hurt me.
The oil works, but grab some
sweet potatoespumpkin puree in a can. Last time, my dog lost his stomach for a few days.Thanks for the tip! Thankfully CBD is one of the few things that doesn't mess up her system for days. It works great for thunderstorms so I'm crossing my fingers
Pumpkin puree, my wife corrected me, it's pumpkin puree. It came out of a can, and was orange
I have 2 dogs. One I call my therapy dog because tries to calm me by being close so that I can pet her. The other is on my lap barking at me and the tv because she thinks that we are in danger.
I'm up and headed from Gatlinburg to Asheville. Gonna hop breweries all day in my Hokies jersey. Lets Go!
It's FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!!!!!!! I am so pumped to be back in Blacksburg. I was walking around singing Enter Sandman all day at work yesterday. I considered setting it for my alarm this morning. Hubby wasn't sure that was the best alarm.... didn't matter I was up before the alarm anyways
Gobble gobble, chumps!!!!!!!! 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃
I get to do something tonight I haven't been able to do in entirely too long
Go to the bar and watch the football with a bunch of friends.
Burmeister better be at 480 tonight otherwise there goes the series
Same! I went from planning on pounding Yuenglings on the couch to going to Graham Street Pub in Charlotte. As long as the kid can hang on until 9:30 without a meltdown it's going to be a fun night. Funner if the Hokies win.
Me at work thinking about 6pm all day.
...this disturbs me
Can't wait to eat turkey legs this season
I've got a wedding at 4:30 :( so I will be streaming during the reception with a strong cocktail in hand
Last time I had to stream a game on my phone at a wedding was the 6OT win over UNC 2 years ago, so maybe that's a good sign?
Not for my blood pressure
The good news is that there is likely to be a health care professional at a wedding, just in case.
I streamed the Purdue game a few years back during a wedding. They shouldn't have picked a game day.
I AM SO PUMPED! LETS GO BOYS AND GIRLS!
TIME TO KICK SOME TARHOLE ASS
But won't that get tar all over our shoes?
The blood of my enemies will cover my shoes
Sandman 20:21
Then we kick until we need new shoes!
Me too, but it is gameday, we have to get hype for some subtle then deep penetration of their defenses, some good hard poundings and some Tight Ends looking to score!!! Just be careful for the ole end around.
Lots of drinking tonight, I am guessing misery drinking but hoping for celebratory....
My first game day in lane since I graduated (2015). Win or lose I am hyped!!
Let's go!
I am sick and tired of hearing that UNC is anything other than a soft baby blue basketball school. Lets punch them in the mouth as if Fedora was coaching. Mack will smile at air either way and somebody might tell him they lost on the trip back.
Bump Fam
Still pessimistic yet still wearing my jersey all day like the Manchild I am. Let's go Hokies.
I am in Chicago on my way to Omaha. I'll be in front of a TV rooting for our Hokies. Not sure what I will drinking ( possibly wine or a margarita). My brother (also a VT grad) and his wife are on a pilgrimage walking from London UK to Rome IT. (They have made it into Switzerland .) He has warned me not tell him anything about what is going on during the game because by hook or crook to watch live or the replay. Go Hokies!
"My brother (also a VT grad) and his wife are on a pilgrimage walking from London UK to Rome IT. (They have made it into Switzerland .)"
Damn, that is one impressive walk. Good luck to them and hope they make it. Definitely a trip of a lifetime.
how did they cross the channel, I wonder?
Probably took the chunnel
by foot?
The English Chanel ferry doesn't allow foot passengers at the present. They had to buy bikes for the crossing and then sold / donated them in France. Bureaucracy !
I'll pass it on.
They did the Camino de Santiago (625 miles) accord northern Spain to the Atlantic coast for their 25th anniversary - and are still married!
If anyone cares, that can take a look at their blog at https://togetheronfoot.com/category/the-via-francigena/
wow, sounds like a fantastic pilgrimage...but curious how come they didn't start at Hadrian's Wall?
Go Hokies!!
They could have started at John O'Groats but they had to draw they had to draw the lone somewhere. His wife has already worn out one pair of shoes.
Covid imposed some limitation; the EU limits them to a 90 day visa.
Anybody have any good public parking recommendations? Used to use the prices fork lot but that's garage only parking now. :(
Center Street. Immerse yourself in the mayhem....
Love the feeling of nervous excitement!
I'll be finishing up my stock of beers from Hokie-owned Johnson City Brewing Company tonight!
Really bummed I wasn't able to go to this one, but I'll make do by smoking some ribs and drinking plenty of beer! Starting with a Fightin' Hokie Lager before proceeding to hit my kegs of Altbier and Oktoberfest/Märzen pretty hard. Hopefully I'll be capping the night with a celebratory lowball of Willett Straight Rye!
Let's go Hokies!
I had a partial exposure last Saturday that I found out about on Wednesday. Got tested that day. 10 minutes ago the PCR cleared as NEGATIVE no signs of anything. I am cleared to go to the game.
Plans: get through work while being completely useless, get lots of beer, get together with all my Hokie friends at 4, watch both power hour videos, then watch the Hokies play!
I'm on the west coast, most likely my work day's ending at 3 today
I'm on the east coast, but my workday will also be ending at 3 today. Gotta fire up the grill and drink a few beers before this early kickoff.
I'm on the east coast and my day is still going to end at 3. Hope the boss doesn't notice
Edit: great minds think alike, Granville!
Half the office in the CRC is leaving between noon and 2.
I decided to move the timeline up to 2:30. I was no longer getting anything done anyway. Time to crack open my first Triple Crossing Falcon Smash and get to cooking.
I'm about to dip out in t-minus 4 minutes
I had to drop something off to an off-site subcontractor and decided to not come back to work after 1245 myself...you know, get an early start to what figures to be an oh-so-productive holiday weekend...
Me at work today...
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Hope to settle in with a good root beer toninght. Plus, I'll have my liver tomorrow. Hopefully, a happy liver after a Hokies win.
Anybody else see the Metallica bus at the Roanoke Hotel...I had a UNC fan in Durham tell me they heard they were playing live tonight...I said, that's been the rumor for 20 years! 🤣
I've got a UNC fan buddy of mine on his way for his first visit Lane Stadium...told him to make sure he is in there before the team entrances for the proper experience. I hope he leaves sad.
Let's go 1-0 today boys!!
I just hung the flag on the front of my house. I'll end up watching half the game in the car on the way to the lake, but I have faith that our boys will stick their boot up some tar hole ass.
LET'S GOOO!!!
HOKIES!
Won't get off work & home until ~7:30, so I'll be watching on delay. Hopefully I can catch up somewhere in the 4th quarter.
Virginia Tech is 6-2 ATS in the last eight games vs UNC
I just had an idea, but don't have the ability to pull it off -
Hokie Nation needs a scale replica of Skipper that can shoot airplane bottles of Wild Turkey when we score. Any engineers on here that wanna take a stab at it?
Also, I hope we replicate this score.
why not use the actual Skipper and shoot handles of wild turkey into the stadium?
No, no, no. Full size circus cannon. Fires us into a pool of Wild Turkey.
Whew boy
Is it possible to watch the game on TV from Blacksburg without cable? Don't ask me why I can't go, even with free tickets, unless you want to hear a rant/sob story about leaving at 4 am tomorrow morning for a youth soccer tournament in Greensboro...
Edit: just signed up for YouTube TV. We'll see how this goes I guess.
I'm not ready😔
My son is at the game with his grandad. At 5pm, student section is already full. Hopefully they stay.
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My son texted me a picture from the student section at 4:30. I was impressed he stopped drinking early to go in Lane.
At least that's what he told you...
Stopped drinking outside the stadium - he may have been one of the first beer customers inside
Everybody stayed.
Wow. Not even the B team covering the game for ESPN.
Fam...and what a shitshow entering the stadium pregame!
Lol yeah going in the southwest corner was a breeze a few years ago, not so much last night. Everybody's rusty, they'll figure it out.