The Lane Stadium faithful pulled off an awesome card stunt during the Hokies' 54-17 route of East Carolina.
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Awesome. Think it would have been better w/ a maroon border, since with the orange effect, it gets a little lost, but yeah, good stunt.
Maybe only use the white cards, let the shirts do the rest?
What is the symbol to the right of the "IS"? Looks like that section had something to display but I can't make it out.
I believe its Coca-Cola
Yep good ole product placement
It's supposed to be the coca-cola symbol.
If there has to be a part of the stunt to be illegible, this is my preference.
I'm guessing it says Coca - Cola, but I agree it is hard to make out
It was more visible at the game. I guess Coke ponied up the money for the cards.
If I was Coke, I would request a refund.
If you take your card to any kroger, you can get a free 2L of coke
That's a great idea.
TSL was all over this yesterday in comparing to the crowd at UNC... Can't embed the tweet now, but if you were a recruit why would you want to play in front of that pathetic UNC crowd? And they have no excuse, they won the division last year. They just don't care.
Which reminds me, tickets for the game in 2 weeks are going for very cheap prices on StubHub right now. Let's take over Kenan!
I'm trying to convince my wife it would be ok if I drive up and back in same day for the game when she has just had a baby. I'm hoping for early kickoff so she will agree.
Just rewatched games and I have to say again I'm disappointed in the number of students who didn't show up or left early from the game.
It's been the case every year that I've watched Hokie football regularly (15 years now). I've stopped caring because there's not much you can do to stop it. At least it only happens at Homecoming games and not every game.
It was a typical Homecoming game. You have all of those sororities and fats that only come for the halftime nonsense. There was a mass exodus from the student sections by all of the ditzy sorority chicks right at the end of halftime. I have always hated Homecoming for that reason.
Addition by subtraction when they all leave to be honest.
We should also be honest, it was hot AF all day too, and the sporadic at best cloud cover can test even the best of us.
I immediately ditched my wool Highty Tighty Alumni Sweater and bought a 2XL Orange shirt for 5 bucks just to make it through the game.
well it was 38-0 at halftime? I stayed for the whole game so not making excuses. but....
In my euphoria after the game I found it necessary to take every unused and still taped up card I could find. Now I have alot of white and orange cards that serve little to no actual use outside of the stadium...
They have a little value. Each of those cards have a coupon for a free 1.25 L of Coke at Kroger!
I kept 5.
That's awesome.
Look at it this way.
How many places, especially in the ACC, could coke identify as knowing it would be full enough to work well?
Especially against a midmajor OOC opponent?
Tickets as low as $29
StubHub
Just bought 13 tickets. We're bringing the noise in Section 202.
Yeah we are!
....can i come with?
Don't worry I'll be there.
I'll give UNCheat credit...their cloak of invisibility cards were awesome!
Which, btw would be an awesome stunt for us at Lane North...have cards made up that look like empty seats. Then the TV camera can show it in its truest form...empty.
UVA pulls this stunt every year at its spring game....only it's not a stunt
I got tickets for this back in June it will be my 1st away game I'm totally stoked!
I wasn't expecting it at all and I never knew how badly I wanted it until it happened.
I really hope the recruits took notice
Definitely was cool and fun. Hope they do more this season.
Kinda added to the festive atmosphere yesterday.
I was a part of the coke part so I'm a bit aggravated that I wasn't monetarily compensated for being a part of a corporate advertisement. However, my wife grabbed about 15 cards left laying around on the way out and is going to use the coupons.
The coupon was the compensation.
We use them to bag recruits.
Is there supposed to be a /s on this? You could have just not held up the card in protest.
Yes we were demolishing ECU I didn't give a shit about being the coke part in the card stunt. However my wife did get a bunch of those coupons. That wasn't sarcasm lol.
It just armed the students with materials to build paper airplanes.
How bad was it?
Not as bad as you'd think because they were kind of difficult to mold into a proper aerial machine. I saw three in east but none made the field.
I'd say double digits flying over me.
I did not notice any on TV.
One smacked my girlfriend in the back of the head. The students who decided to make them were either not engineers (or have no concept of physics) or were overly cocky aerospace majors thinking they could do it. The cards didn't lend themselves to providing enough lift for the mass.
Pretty soon after this the "Geniuses" of Esprit de Corps tried to start the wave.
I have never been so close to coming down from the stands and lighting into another person in my life.
uh.... why?
Because paper airplanes and the wave have no place at football games.
And what do you suggest as an alternative for students to do to have fun while standing in the sun during TV timeouts?
And while homecoming was a little bit different in regards to attendance, the students are the ones who most consistently fill up their sections. Hell, they even pack in more people than the rows allow, just so they're closer to the field. Why can't they have some fun at the same time? The Corps of Cadets are the ones who try to start the wave, and they are part of the unique identity of home football games in Lane Stadium. They're the ones doing 54 pushups in the 4th quarter. Why shouldn't they be allowed to have some fun and engage the entire stadium at the same time?
If the wave and paper airplanes don't have a place at a college football game -- which are known for their exciting environments and atmospheres -- where do they have a place?
The wave is for baseball or some other slow sport or at high school games. As for paper airplanes really because I'm pretty sure it takes more than a TV timeout to make one and launch it. It's annoying to people trying to actually watch the game. It looks like shit on TV to see paper airplanes flying around DURING A FOOTBALL GAME.
Oh wow you were actually serious.... Why must you hate fun so much
The wave meh, I won't do it but whatever, it only really annoys me when they do it during a play. But paper airplanes during football games, no f'ing way. I've crushed one s people try and make during the game.
Where do you typically sit? In my experience, only sitting in East have I encountered the paper airplanes. If it bothers you, which is fair, I would recommend trying to find seats in West with alumni less likely to do it rather than down-throw of the students in East.
Last year was in East this year in West next year back to east.
Was your experience better in West? If so I wonder if there is some sort of seat picking or swapping for families wanting to be in alumni side instead of below the student section.
So far I've made it to one game this year. But for me it wasn't about being below students, last year I had a ticket at the very top of East, people were turning around and throwing paper airplanes up the stands. Why?
Now this is strange. The only reason I throw them is to see how badly I fail at making it to the field. Usually they fly two rows and land on another student. I am confused on why someone would throw it UP the stands.
The top of East is mostly students and students do stupid stuff. Its (mostly) harmless but I get why its annoying to some. I have personally noticed that sitting far away from students is the best way to get a more professional atmosphere for watching the game, with less profanity and shenangians. Its definitely less hype, and I don't prefer it, but I think it would be great for people wanting to enjoy just the football and enjoy the atmosphere with a distance from some of the early 20 year old stuff.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I like sitting in the top of the South Endzone. It's a good view and it's (for now) usually pretty sparse with people. You can get into the game and still be able to see the whole field pretty well. Especially if the student section isn't for you. I love the student sections and they are a lot of fun, but sometimes it's nice to sit up there as well.
Paper airplanes are the same as spitballs from the back of the classroom.
I understand you have no empathy and cannot fathom how a kid cannot enjoy or even have an enhanced experience, getting hit in the back of the head while infantile people several rows back laugh about it.
One of my girls gets hit each game, in the head or face.
The point of the airplanes is to either make it to the field or to hit someone with it, in front of you.
Either one is selfish and immature. It disturbs someone else for your own gratification.
Its a paper airplane, not a rock. Get over it
I understand you have no empathy and cannot fathom how a kid cannot enjoy or even have an enhanced experience, getting hit in the back of the head while infantile people several rows back laugh about it.
But, I'll take your advice and tell my 7 y.o. Next time. I'm sure it'll cure that rock to her ego.
I'm sorry, I'm never going to find it a big deal that a piece of paper hit you or your kid. Judging from how vocal you are on here, and how much you're blowing this out of proportion, I'm sure your reaction to the situation did nothing to cause the laughter from the infantiles
And I understand how you cannot fathom how it could possibly not be an overall experience enhancing thing.
I hope you do not have to sit in the row with a screaming kid.
But, I also hope that one day you can discover how other people can be bothered by other, unnecessary things as well.
I hope nothing but good game experience for you.
See, you absolutely cannot help but to be snide and condescending when others have a comment which you disagree with.
For someone with so many things you are unhappy about, I expected more.
OPERATION: I CAN SAY WHATEVER I WANT BECAUSE I HAVE ALL THE LEGS...ACTIVATE!!!
I see the downvote barrage has started. Groupthink at its best, gotta love it
Quit trolling. Seriously.
So pointing out the absurdity of his argument is trolling, but ad hominem stuff like this:
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is totally fine. I'm sorry, but the passive aggressive stuff from Egbert was every bit as trolling as you claim my statements were. It was pure bait to get into a bickering back and forth and not necessarily have a conversation. I could have gone way down that rabbit hole with the back and forth, but we've been there before and it ain't worth it, so I put up 2 gifs to try and turn the topic back to being lighthearted. Perhaps that was taken the wrong way, and I apologize if that's the case.
You were condescending from the outset, telling Egbert to shrug off the discomfort of his children because "it's not a rock." That's callous, man. GIF usage to lighten the mood is all cool in my book, but the ones you used are really not used in that vein. Maybe you intended them to be, but they contribute in every way to making you look like you're just trying to get under Egbert's skin. Which you did. This should have been a one-comment exchange, but it had to be perpetuated. We get that you feel differently; there's no need to tell him that his kids should suck it up and deal with it, then perpetuate a bunch more negativity.
Fair enough.
or (again, for good measure)
TV timeouts make the game slow....
It really doesn't take long to make a paper airplane -- I've made one in between changes in possession without a TV timeout. It was a shitty plane, but it was made. And I would love to see a video of a game where you can see a paper airplane flying around.
Football is a slow sport. I love it, but it takes like 3.5 hours to play an hour long game (by the game clock) and a lot of that hour is standing around while the clock churns.
Students are gonna get a little bored and restless. The other side of the coin when you actually get them to stay in their seats past the homecoming 'festivities' is that they're gonna find other ways to entertain themselves during a blowout. I dislike the wave when they try to do it during a close game, especially when we're on offense... but those conditions did not apply Saturday so it's not a big deal.
Paper airplanes can go the way of Stick it In, it's only fair.
Agree with you on the wave. Just doesn't seem to fit a football game
or even Lane stadium for that matter. When it started Saturday, I was kinda
like what's this all about, it just doesn't fit the mood, the game, etc.
The problem is when someone decides to start the wave right in the middle of an offensive drive. If you want to do the wave during a timeout or halftime, that's fine. But during play on the field? That looks absolutely embarrassing.
Question.... at what point in the game did it happen?
First quarter when it was still a close game? Second quarter when we're piling it on? Ok, yeah... not the best time
Third quarter after we've hung 45 or so on them and the ECU offense is sputtering at best, only able to hit the homerun, and even that was barely working? Fourth quarter when we have the 2nd string in and ECU is already waving the white flag? Yeah, let the kids have fun.
It was sometime in the third quarter. I don't believe it started while there was play on the field, but it definitely spilled over into it. Granted, this was a blowout win so it isn't so bad. But it has started up before in games that are incredibly close and while we're on a crucial offensive drive. That is just unacceptable.
I'm not against fun. But I'm not that far removed from college, and I have never thought the wave was interesting or fun. I'm used to standing all game and screaming until the final whistle and being hoarse the next few days. That's a good, fun football game to me.
Wave tried to get started in the break between change of possession right before we got the safety. It stopped, everyone yelled their heads off, and we celebrated a safety. It didn't spill over into the next play.
Oh christ, not this again. People with that attitude don't belong at football games either in my opinion.
Yea who cares that I drive from South Carolina, pay about 750 dollars in total for each game I go to, donate money to get parking pass and tickets to enjoy watching the game. I should be happy that others get to do things that take away from the game because it gives them something to do when they get bored. The game is there to watch, and I know this is weird, the game.
everyone needs to calm down. Remember: Hokie Respect
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I saw like three paper airplanes Saturday. Was it immature and trashy? Yes. Did it ruin the game experience for me? Nah. It seems obvious now that they aren't going to do anything about the paper airplanes, so I don't worry about it. Like you said, there's a game going on that deserves my full attention. Don't let them bug you so much. Hokie home games only come six times a year.
I heard the wildlife sciences department was working on a solution.
#InventTheFuture
60 minutes of game time. 3 hours of being there due to absurd amounts of tv timeouts and such. It's great you donate and drive far to watch the team you live, but no one in the stadiums owes you anything at all. That's two hours of standing around in the heat. Not liking paper airplanes I understand, but the freaking wave? Come on, that's is ridiculous.
It's typical negative mentality that clings to the one or two things they don't like that dictates how they perceive things. Nevermind that 95% of the game everyone is involved, yelling and cheering, but that one time people try to do the wave it immediately ruins the game.
Its funny, because if someone were to bring up the fact that they spend all this money to go to a game and they'd prefer not to have another family's child screaming and crying and climbing all over their row the entire game, and constantly being told their language was too harsh for the youngens ears, you'd lose your mind.
Actually what I said then And will say now is that family should remove themselves from that situation, not be banned prior to even bringing the kids in which is what you and others advocated.
What to do if it's the airplane hitting them that causes the upset and crying jag?
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I liked the Card stunt.
This thread is turning into the bag thread all over again.
I am truly sorry about that.
That is the very reason I stopped posting so much.
I will go back into lurking again. See if I can get him to leave me alone.
I hope you meant that as sarcasm because no one should ever stop posting because of something like this! Post as much as you want my friend. I just hate seeing threads turn like this, especially with the direction the program is headed in!
This thread, with the "This is Home" theme and the bickering, reminds me of Family Dinner from SNL:
One of my favorite SNL skits.
The irony of some of these posts is kinda incredible.
Coulda been a pretty cool thread for a cool thing that happened. Shame.