Sam Rogers visits elementary school in his hometown

By: MPHOKIE on January 15, 2015, 1:55 PM | 32 comments

Nice snippet in this week's Mechanicsville Local about Sam visiting an elementary school. No date was given for the visit but here's a screen shot from the paper.

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vtfly's picture vtfly | 11 years 5 months #

Good to see that they successfully re-calibrated Sam from "kill" to "off-season".

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

HokieBone12's picture HokieBone12 | 11 years 5 months #

I'm going to become an elementary school teacher now. I could have my students write letters to all of my favorite Hokies and meet them all!

VT Class of '12 (MSE), MVBone, Go Hokies!

BMW-Baller's picture BMW-Baller | 11 years 5 months # ^

Girlfriend is becoming one too. I'm going to have to get into her ear on this one and then "coincidentally" make a surprise visit.

GIVE IT TO ME ROSCOE!

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 11 years 5 months #

The way the title read in my mind:

SAM ROGERS VISITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN HIS HOMETOWN, EATS IT

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

VTimHokie85's picture VTimHokie85 | 11 years 5 months #

No date was given for the visit

Because the concept of "time" does not apply to Sam Rogers as it does to us

@VTimHokie85

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 11 years 5 months #

Ah, recruiting em young. That's the spirit Sam!!

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Sam Rogers Faces Off With A Former Police Officer
Mechanicsburg, VA - AP

An eerie scene played out at a local elementary school today where Virginia Tech fullback Sam Rogers visited schoolchildren to encourage them to read, part of Hokies head football coach Frank Beamer's reading program called Herma's Readers.

The visit was nearly derailed when Rogers approached the school. Apparently, a former police officer was also attempting to enter the school, belligerently yelling about, "...recruiting," as well as trying to encourage the children to, "...sign their scholarship offer in any color crayon they like." Rogers confused the former officer, a man only identified to the media as "Mike", by counting to infinity...twice.

While the washed-up officer was confused, he was handcuffed and escorted from the premises by school security, all the while apparently believing he could stop the proceedings by yelling, "TIME OUT!! TIME OUT!! TIME OUT!! TIME OUT!!" The man did not understand that he could not stop time, nor did he understand that time outs are only typically allocated in trios, making his fourth time out call irrelevant.

Eventually, Rogers proceeded into a classroom, where he was immediately piled on by hordes of adoring children. In a stunning turn of events, none of the children were injured. After teaching all the children the joy of reading and the importance of literacy, Rogers read them all stories until they fell asleep.

On exiting the building, Rogers was again confronted by the former officer, presumed homeless, but this time he was pantless and crying. Rogers consoled him before carrying him to the local pool. While tossing the half-nude man into the pool, he screamed a primal scream, yelled something about being, "fully dipped," and saved a local kitten from a tree.

VTGuitarMan's picture VTGuitarMan
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Hall of Fame post nominee.

"Exit light..."

fernleyhokie's picture fernleyhokie
🌏MAN OF MYSTERY🕵
| 11 years 5 months # ^

If I read this on any news website I would believe it 100%. pure gold

smittyvt32949's picture smittyvt32949
📡VT RESEARCH📲
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Great stuff. If you weren't a horse you could be a writer. Excellent!

Pain is Temporary, Chicks Dig Scars
Glory is Forever, Let's Go Hokies!!

coldblood4vt's picture coldblood4vt
| 11 years 5 months # ^

His writing skills have really taken off once he got a keyboard big enough to accomodate his hooves.

"Nope, launch him into the sun and fart on him on the way up"
-gobble gobble chumps

"11-0, bro"
-Hunter Carpenter (probably)

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 11 years 5 months #

SAM ROGERS VISITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN HIS HOMETOWN

There were no survivors.

Shoog's picture Shoog
🤔
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Ha Ha.
I read the title and my mind immediately went to 'I hope all of the children are ok!'

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Cut from the same cloth, we are

NavyEMC's picture NavyEMC
🥩 🍳 🥓
| 11 years 5 months #

I see he took pictures with the staff. Where are the kids?

___

-What we do is, if we need that extra push, you know what we do? -Put it up to fully dipped? -Fully dipped. Exactly. It's dork magic.

AWilkes's picture AWilkes | 11 years 5 months #

.
Needless to say, next time they'll take the proper precautions.

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 5 months #

Thus, we now understand why schools are made earthquake proof.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

Jander75's picture Jander75 | 11 years 5 months #

I refuse to believe that some mere "elementary school" could contain Sam Rogers, must be some kind of offshoot of Hogwarts with magical protection...

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

hokie4runner's picture hokie4runner | 11 years 5 months #

Sam Rogers visits elementary school in hometown...
When he left, they all had doctorate degrees from VT.

I tried....

This kid though. He'll be in the NFL one day, prime all around good guy.

HomebrewHokie08's picture HomebrewHokie08
🍺MAKES "BEER" ⚗️🦃
| 11 years 5 months #

OMG Sam Rodgers is transferring to play ball at Mechanicsville Elementary!!!

Plan for the worst and hope for the best, not the other way around.

01_hokie's picture 01_hokie | 11 years 5 months # ^

His retired jersey is already hanging on the school's entrance.

NitWhitt's picture NitWhitt
🍪 🐶 COOKIES 4 LIFE!
| 11 years 5 months #

...no children were harmed in the filming of this episode.

We put the K in Kwality

NitWhitt's picture NitWhitt
🍪 🐶 COOKIES 4 LIFE!
| 11 years 5 months #

In other news: Battlefield Park Elementary School will be closed for the fall as all the female teachers have spontaneously become pregnant.

We put the K in Kwality

papilgee4evaeva's picture papilgee4evaeva | 11 years 5 months # ^

Dork Magic in its purest form.

No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

Delltron5's picture Delltron5 | 11 years 5 months #

Well, his last name "is" Rodgers...might as well dub him Captain America now

-Being aggressive, being tough...that's the Virginia Tech way.

rogue_nine9's picture rogue_nine9 | 11 years 5 months # ^

There's no "d" in Rogers and he'll have some competition for the Captain America Title:

Joey Phililips Flag Shorts/Salute

GoKartMozart's picture GoKartMozart
SET THE TONE!
| 11 years 5 months # ^

Joey and Sam have set the precedent that to play FB for VT you must be a hard working, blue collar guy. And a mullet doesn't hurt, either.

VT_Fencer's picture VT_Fencer | 11 years 5 months # ^

You spelled Sam Rogers' name with a "d"?

Run bro.

The Orange and Maroon you see, that's fighting on to victory.

Delltron5's picture Delltron5 | 11 years 5 months # ^

Lol, I got nothing...I was in a briefing and didn't even notice I put a "D" in there. That D just felt right...lmao

-Being aggressive, being tough...that's the Virginia Tech way.

HT SF's picture HT SF
| 11 years 5 months # ^

That D just felt right

Phrasing

kosuch8's picture kosuch8 | 11 years 5 months #

No "d" in Sam Rogers

Delltron5's picture Delltron5 | 11 years 5 months # ^

Noted. It will not happen again...at least while I'm sober.

-Being aggressive, being tough...that's the Virginia Tech way.