I will leave that to another generation to do that, I'll NEVER go back to that hole again. Maybe time has changed them, but I have my doubts. Go forewarned if you go for a football game, and leave your next of kin instructions.
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Two of my daughters are Mountaineers. One graduated a year ago and the other just finished sophomore year.
I have been to Morgantown a bunch. It has been nothing but great times. Met a lot of cool people. Have made wonderful family memories there.
The drive there is beautiful and easy. Nothing like 81.
I'm 55. I know what you speak of regarding the "old days" of how awful WVU treated opposing fans. That's why I never made the road trip to Morgantown back in the day.
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Truth be told, it was a long time ago, but the memories are seared into my failing brain. From the moment we arrived until the moment we got outta town, from fans (even a guy in a wheelchair trying to fight) to the policemen, it was about as miserable a trip as any of us could imagine short of adding in jailing or injury, both of which were threatened at one time or another. Tour companies in Blacksburg stopped booking bus trips there also, as I recall.
My impression that day was that most of the worst behavior wasn't students, but more local fans, some of whom seemed pretty out of control, even for college football fans. Glad to hear the experience is different today, and I have always loved the beauty of WVa and have no animus for the university itself, an excellent school.
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Since I grew up in Georgia hearing Alabama jokes, the first WV joke I'd ever heard was at cadre week, and it far outstripped any Alabama joke I'd ever heard:
Why don't they have driver's ed and sex ed on the same day in West Virginia?
The mule gets tired.
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I was in the student section in 2003, wearing maroon and orange. If you listen to broadcast you can hear "fuck the hokies" as we walked down the isle. I had a cop asked us to move for our safety, to which which I turned around and yelled about 10 rows up to the loudest students and said "Hey Matt, Ben, the cop says youre yelling at me to much." There was a pitiful "sorry" that came back down. Everyone yelling at me the most were friends I had grown up with giving me shit because they could.
I went to just about every game from 97 to 2006. I went to the 2019 game at fedex. I never had a single problem with a student or alumni while in morgantown. I loved the rivalry so much that I took pictures and laughed and told everyone when some one stuck a flying WVU sticker over my hokiebird on my license plate.
Now when friends came to VT it was different and my friend lost his toboggan he had for 20 some years as a VT fan ripped it off his head and threw it when we were losing. At FedEx I had to throw away my shoes afterwards because of how much beer was spilt on them by VT fans. Its the only time I lost clothing at a game. These are one off incidents but I feel like the WVU ones were too. (dont engage with the Walmart west Virginians)
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Happy you had such wonderful times in Morgantown, but you just don't know what went on, I guess. Simple stuff like yelling at us or sticking stickers on tags isn't what I'm talking about. We were physically threatened, including by a couple of policemen and as I mentioned, even a drunk in a wheelchair trying to fight the one person in our crowd who likely would have dealt with him harshly sans chair. Miserable experiences galore for one shot asshattery, but how about this one. My mechanic in Pearisburg and his wife and best friend and wife went to a game there one year. Best friend was an old guy, early 80s, had to pee during the game and went into a port a john since the bathrooms were too horrible to use. He was dressed in old Hokie attire of the day, turkey pants, blazer and tie, etc. When he got in, the WVA fans behind him tipped the john over with its door down and the old man essentially trapped inside soaking up the blue juice. He banged and yelled and finally a cop heard him and let him out. Cop then accompanied the fellow to his car and he bagged his clothes and wrapped up in a blanket after giving the cop his row and seat number and a request to inform his friends of where he was. This was, of course, before cell phones. This happened toward the end of the third quarter. Cop just bagged the whole thing and didn't bother to tell the old guy's people where he was. They finally sent someone out to the car just to check before they reported him missing. Fast forward two years to the next away WVA game. Old guy's birthday was a couple of weeks before the game and his wife presented him with two tickets to the game...as a joke... and my mechanic said they made a ritual and burned the tickets. I also don't think the tour companies in Blacksburg were not serious when they declined to run trips over there. We certainly didn't engage with them, but they sure engaged with us. Yes, there are rowdy no-goodnicks on both sides of any college sporting event these days, including ours, but that place was "special".
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Can we get this in football, please?
Don't care ever again to step foot in Morgantown.
Have to go there to beat the pulp out of them and get the Black Diamond back.
I will leave that to another generation to do that, I'll NEVER go back to that hole again. Maybe time has changed them, but I have my doubts. Go forewarned if you go for a football game, and leave your next of kin instructions.
Two of my daughters are Mountaineers. One graduated a year ago and the other just finished sophomore year.
I have been to Morgantown a bunch. It has been nothing but great times. Met a lot of cool people. Have made wonderful family memories there.
The drive there is beautiful and easy. Nothing like 81.
I'm 55. I know what you speak of regarding the "old days" of how awful WVU treated opposing fans. That's why I never made the road trip to Morgantown back in the day.
Truth be told, it was a long time ago, but the memories are seared into my failing brain. From the moment we arrived until the moment we got outta town, from fans (even a guy in a wheelchair trying to fight) to the policemen, it was about as miserable a trip as any of us could imagine short of adding in jailing or injury, both of which were threatened at one time or another. Tour companies in Blacksburg stopped booking bus trips there also, as I recall.
My impression that day was that most of the worst behavior wasn't students, but more local fans, some of whom seemed pretty out of control, even for college football fans. Glad to hear the experience is different today, and I have always loved the beauty of WVa and have no animus for the university itself, an excellent school.
It was just asinine behavior that at the time, put a dent in my faith in humanity. Just ridiculous behavior.
Believe me, I was relieved to experience the "new" Morgantown.
Glad to hear it, but I'll still trot out my large cache of West B'God jokes every year we play them.
Why is Halloween WV's favorite holiday?
Cuz they like to Pumpkin
Hate to admit it, but that's a lot cleaner than my faves.
Oh, I'm sure. I figure it was a safe one. There is also the Summer Teeth one. Subtle classics
Since I grew up in Georgia hearing Alabama jokes, the first WV joke I'd ever heard was at cadre week, and it far outstripped any Alabama joke I'd ever heard:
Why don't they have driver's ed and sex ed on the same day in West Virginia?
The mule gets tired.
I was in the student section in 2003, wearing maroon and orange. If you listen to broadcast you can hear "fuck the hokies" as we walked down the isle. I had a cop asked us to move for our safety, to which which I turned around and yelled about 10 rows up to the loudest students and said "Hey Matt, Ben, the cop says youre yelling at me to much." There was a pitiful "sorry" that came back down. Everyone yelling at me the most were friends I had grown up with giving me shit because they could.
I went to just about every game from 97 to 2006. I went to the 2019 game at fedex. I never had a single problem with a student or alumni while in morgantown. I loved the rivalry so much that I took pictures and laughed and told everyone when some one stuck a flying WVU sticker over my hokiebird on my license plate.
Now when friends came to VT it was different and my friend lost his toboggan he had for 20 some years as a VT fan ripped it off his head and threw it when we were losing. At FedEx I had to throw away my shoes afterwards because of how much beer was spilt on them by VT fans. Its the only time I lost clothing at a game. These are one off incidents but I feel like the WVU ones were too. (dont engage with the Walmart west Virginians)
I daresay you would've had a rougher time if you weren't from the area.
We weren't and we definitely did have a rough time.
Happy you had such wonderful times in Morgantown, but you just don't know what went on, I guess. Simple stuff like yelling at us or sticking stickers on tags isn't what I'm talking about. We were physically threatened, including by a couple of policemen and as I mentioned, even a drunk in a wheelchair trying to fight the one person in our crowd who likely would have dealt with him harshly sans chair. Miserable experiences galore for one shot asshattery, but how about this one. My mechanic in Pearisburg and his wife and best friend and wife went to a game there one year. Best friend was an old guy, early 80s, had to pee during the game and went into a port a john since the bathrooms were too horrible to use. He was dressed in old Hokie attire of the day, turkey pants, blazer and tie, etc. When he got in, the WVA fans behind him tipped the john over with its door down and the old man essentially trapped inside soaking up the blue juice. He banged and yelled and finally a cop heard him and let him out. Cop then accompanied the fellow to his car and he bagged his clothes and wrapped up in a blanket after giving the cop his row and seat number and a request to inform his friends of where he was. This was, of course, before cell phones. This happened toward the end of the third quarter. Cop just bagged the whole thing and didn't bother to tell the old guy's people where he was. They finally sent someone out to the car just to check before they reported him missing. Fast forward two years to the next away WVA game. Old guy's birthday was a couple of weeks before the game and his wife presented him with two tickets to the game...as a joke... and my mechanic said they made a ritual and burned the tickets. I also don't think the tour companies in Blacksburg were not serious when they declined to run trips over there. We certainly didn't engage with them, but they sure engaged with us. Yes, there are rowdy no-goodnicks on both sides of any college sporting event these days, including ours, but that place was "special".