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Virginia has gone winless in its last 12 football games against Virginia Tech, but ineptness on the field hasn't derailed the Hoos from flaunting a replica of the Commonwealth Cup.
Swag for #UVA's football alumni weekend. Bronco Mendenhall has invited former Cavs back to C'ville. pic.twitter.com/6Id4XF68wl— Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) April 8, 2016
Reminder, the Hokies have possessed the actual Commonwealth Cup for 4,156 straight days.
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whoever their photoshop guy is has obviously graduated to 3D printing
more fake commonwealth cups than fans at a loluva spring game
This is just more fun than a human should ever have !!! Please, I think I'm going to have another hernia. :--)
Well Frank dunked it on their ass... I guess someone retrieved it
Someone asked Barber about it and apparently he didn't notice, but he'll ask this week when he's back up there. Can't wait to hear the response.
Taking a page out of the UVA playbook, I fixed it.
Yay, now everyone gets a trophy! Those wahoos will be all coddled up and ready for the real world in just a few short
yearsseasons.Edit. The culture really is changing over there if they think they've already won the commonwealth cup.
Ah hahaha!
I thought you were going to photoshop like six of them all over the background. The best way to predict Commonwealth Cup ownership is to create it.
I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me faaaaaaaaaar too long to realize what changed. Well played VTGM
I just noticed the trophy says "Commonwealth Cup Participant", I actually LOL'd!
Joe, I know it doesn't exist, but comments with >100 upvotes really need to go plaid
That is some very nice Photoshop work.
Sad thing is we,could make a "National Championship Participant" trophy. UVA could not.
That should be used on the recruiting trail.
If you can't win it on the field, build a fake one. It reminds them what they've been missing the last 12 years.
Creating what doesn't exist has been their MO for a while....
The forensic investigation by the members of TKP that lead to this image being created is still one of my long standing favorite moments. Brings a tear of joy to my eye every time I think of it.
This is just sad. It reminds me of the episode of Rick and Morty where Jerry refuses to accept that Pluto isn't a planet anymore.
+1 just for the Rick and Morty reference. None of my coworkers watch it. Probably explains why I don't like any of them.
I watch Rick and Morty. Now get me a job in your office!
Unfortunately, as you see from my previous post, being a Rick and Morty fan isn't a prerequisite for my job. :(
Your office needs a culture change!
Psych was a hilarious show, always will get a leg from me!
I tweeted it to VT Football, Pete Morris, and Whit Babcock.
I just tweeted it to Bronco Mendenhall, complimenting their replica
Now which fine TKP citizens will share this post on Facebook and Reddit?
Already shared your this post!
Phew. What a great laugh to start the morning.
Savage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States
Looks like they deleted the tweet?
Appears so. Oh well, the text from the tweet is still there. They just had 2 pictures, one of the Commonwealth Cup and the other from the top of this post side by side. Troll level: Over 9000.
Guerry brought it back
I bet they didn't have permission to use Barber's image.
Can I say, again, that I LOVE what Guerry has done with our social media game!!! In an era where that medium is the easiest way to get to these kids...this was a GREAT hire for us!
We need him to join TKP...think he would fit right in...
I actually kinda like the Jawing coming out from the "coaches". Never thought I would see that here at Tech. Feels a little bit like the SEC. This is no longer your "golly gee" program anymore.
I love the ACC championship and other trophies included in the pic. Nice little dig at UVA, since none of their players were even born the last time they were co-champions.
I assume this was so the players knew what it looked like. I'm sure there has been debate to whether or not it actually existed.
I propose to add a topic "Section" to TKP for LOLUVA. I think this has graduated from "Off Topic" and needs its own category. This will also save a lot of time during hate week. Do I have a second?
I'll second this.
All in favor say Aye.
dear lord no! Don't you know recognition to loluva is like water on a mogwai?! Even a once of it will spawn douchebags like crazy! delete this blasphemy before it's too late!
UVA continuing to invent ways to be even more pathetic.
Because we have the lock on inventing the future, so they try to invent the past.
"...but, but you haven't won in the last 12 years"
Why on earth would you create a sad reminder to your fans that the cup has not been in your possession for so long?
Photoshopped figures don't have emotions.
Maybe you haven't seen the countdown clock hanging in the locker room. Negative reinforcement is obviously working for them /s.
I thought we installed that clock for them and was representative of when the other teams next victory is?
Pretty soon they're going to have to change the days heading to years
Actually, the clock is not configured like this anymore. London had the lower half removed the last year of his tenure there.
I guess even Mike finally recognized a lost cause when it was staring him in the face.
I figured it was similar thinking as to why we removed the empty NC trophy case. At least our goals were much higher.
It's easy enough to add the case when you get the trophy.
Sadly, it was gathering too much dust. :(
Why in the hell did they make a clock for an FCS team?
EDIT: Forgot hoo we were talking about for a second, and their level of competition....
It is pitiful, but as you can see from Hokie_x3_Hi's pic, their Commonwealth Cup is a tiny replica, like their dignity. Just like UVA to dream big, and produce little. It is definitely a good laugh!
If you can't earn it, I guess their will buy a replica...
Yeah, no problem there. Daddy will take care of that for them.
This kind of kills that empty national championship trophy case argument they always give us grief over, no???
I mean, I guess we could just make a mini replica nattie?
:(
Empty case, one thing.
Fake trophy, something else.
Ding, ding, ding. Give that man a cigar.
I had to look it up.
The Commonwealth Cup has existed since 1996.
UVA has won it thrice. VT has won it 18 times.
18 times? You mean
I would show off how well I know this skit! Honestly, this HBO stand-up was one of the few times ever I fell on the floor laughing so hard. RIP Robin Williams.
"Then there is a flat green where the hole is at and I will put a flag there just to give you f**king hope, then I put trees, bushes, and high grass to f**k with your ball again! Hahahaaaa"
that is a great skit. Every season I like to watch it before my first round of golf. It cracks me up every time.
Apparently this is an old money ACC trend. LOLUVa bought a trophy they couldn't win and UNC gets rings they didn't deserve. Next thing you know, Clemson's $55mil facility will have a trophy case with a 2016 national championship trophy replica to fill it.
This is beautiful. Made my day.
In other Hoo news, beatings will continue until morale improves.
But Bronco's teams are known for their fighting skills.
Exhibit #2:
Amazing. Fuente vs. Mendenhall 1.0
You dirty #12!
The irony here is not lost on us.
what irony? look at the evidence in gifs above. He clearly does not tolerate fighting within his team. That's what other teams are for.
1 punch against teammate = 100 up downs
1 punch against opposing team = Commonwealth Cup (the smaller, fake kind)
Can we sue them for trophy infringement?
Forgery.
The whole point of the Commonwealth Cup is that only one team has it at any given time.
It's right there on the wiki page. VT is currently in possession of it.
Slander, libel, defamation of character
The commonwealth cup could be tarnished forever being seen that close to anything loluva
I dunno, felt right.
They really do make it so damn easy to laugh at them.
It has been that way at least since I graduated from high school, and that was 1968. They really are special.
Hence the name LOL.
It's so small it will fit well in their Bowl trophy room
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CURSE YOU, TINY TOILET!
Quite unrelated, but has anyone ever gone to the CougarSports.com forums and noticed that their message boards are just as horrible as those on Le Sabwah?
No wonder they were able to get Bronco. Everything felt like home.
Never forget #fakethingstogether
Commonwealth Cup twitter
They keep a running count of how long we have possessed the commonwealth cup. Appears to be updated daily.