I hadn't seen this before, many of you probably have, but it's making its way around Reddit, so for those who haven't seen it...
The following video is obligatory.
The original image came from http://cannonball.geos.vt.edu/heli/, unfortunately I was unable to find images older than May to see how other Sandmans compared.
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I think someone used game genie to adjust the momentum right there...
This circulated probably a couple days after the game. Pretty crazy stuff. I know in the north endzone we leaned on each other a couple times from how much the bleachers were shaking.
Yeah. I elected to go to the Clemson game the week before. FML.
Me too. I drove all the way in from Chicago to watch us lay an egg against Clemson, was offered a ticket to the Miami game, and turned them down because it would have been such a long trip to make twice in a row. Still kicking myself for that.
My friends and I were jumping on one of the bleachers in North so hard that we actually ended up breaking it right off its supports, probably the greatest accomplishment of my fan career.
I think this is the only time I've ever stopped jumping to simply take in the insanity of that moment.
That and preventing myself from falling off the bleachers and on to my face
does anybody know if the different colors mean anything or if it's just to help differentiate between the lines?
Yep, it is just there to differentiate the lines at 10 minute intervals and then the x-axis splits up each line into singular minutes.
i was in north endzone for that game. ill never forget it that was the loudest enter sandman by the time we stopped jumping around me and friends were two sections over from when we were originally standing
I remember the week leading up to the Clemson game that year that I was pissed my mom, brother, nephew and I had tickets to the Miami game. After the loss and having tweaked the lower muscles in my back at the gym I was like do i really want to drive 5 hours to see a possible loss to Miami? (We get one set of free tickets for one game each year from my mom's boss who's dad is an alum.) And still steaming inside that Glennon forced Tyrods redshirt to be burned and wondering if LT3 could play QB efficiently. I said fuck it its my Birthday we are playing Miami and I only get to go to Blacksburg once a year. After we get to BBurg walking to Lane I was considering and had been all week whether I wanted to buy an LT3 Maroon Jersey or not and my back was hurting a little bit every step i took. Once we got to the stadium i made the final decision to buy Logan's Jersey and the rest as they say is history. In the video at the 1:38 mark if you look closely enough a few sections above the Miami bench you can see me throwing my back out lol not really, the adrenaline was flowing through me so much that I didn't even feel it happen but the walk back to the car was excruciating. This event forced me to miss a week of work with a ton of back pain but it was 150% worth every second of it and I'm very happy to say i was apart if it.
One of the best games in my life. INSANE. "These people are losing their mind...Just your typical Saturday afternoon in Lane Stadium."
I went to that game with my sister and brother-in-law. He's from Texas and is a diehard Longhorn fan. That was his first time in Lane, and needless to say, he came away impressed.
Normally when they play enter sandman when its NOT during our entrance, its normally a death wish or it jinxes us. In this case it did not. Thank the heavens
I get the same feeling. Shades of Matt Ryan 2007. Everytime they do it, I think "Oh Sh&# not again!" This time it was awesome though.
This is probably my favorite Hokie game.
Others are epic memories, like Darren Evans vs. All of Maryland, the Clemson game when we scored three or four non-offensive touchdowns, or David Wilson burying Georgia Tech with the return TD, but this one went wire to wire. We were in control, lost control, and came back in the end in spectacular fashion.
It very much reminds me of the Nebraska game in Blacksburg, where a final-drive TD got us the win after a long and stressful game. But this was against Miami, and Sandman was the appropriate punctuation. Also unlike the Nebraska game, Stinespring didn't call Scramble Drill and just leave it in the hands of Tyrod. I think O'Cain was calling the plays against Miami that day.
back when I was a geology major this was the first slide I saw in class on the Monday following the game
enter sandman isn't always a death wish post kickoff IE david wilson's return vs GT
You know, I bet that one guy back there that the anouncer was talking about was Alonzo Tweedy. i wasn't at the game, so I can only assume. But, if I was Bud Foster and had to put one guy back there, I would put one of the best specialists VT has ever had. Can anyone at the game confirm who was the Defensive player Foster placed back there.
If your referring to the one playing center field to prevent any HailMarys i believe it was Eddie Whitley.
Man, that video never gets old!
That youtube video still gives me goosebumps. I love it!
I wanted to bump this up since Buzzfeed (the most respectable news outlet on the internet, I know) wrote that Mariano Rivera's Enter Sandman is second to Tech's.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjkiebus/the-six-most-goosebump-inducing-uses-of-enter-sandman-in-spo