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WE LIT FAM.
VIRGINIA TECH. CLEMSON. PRIME TIME UNDER THE LIGHTS!!!8PM on ABC pic.twitter.com/l9eRWIgqZJ— HokiesFB (@HokiesFB) September 18, 2017
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Primetime motherfucker.
13.1 Hours of tailgating... Confirmed
26.2. Go all the way.
This guy got it figured out.
See you in the parking lot at 6 pm Friday evening! Do you think TOTS will deliver Rails?
I wish we could deliver rails. I have always dreamed of a mobile Rail-making tailgate van. The stupid ABC would not like that.
GUYS GUYS GUYS!!! WE HAVE A TOTS MANAGER ON THE SITE!!! Add his user name to the celebrity list alongside
Shayne Graham, Papa Mook, and Coleton Beck's alter ego (Henry Skutt)
I'm just honored to be a TKP celebrity.
oh well screw you too. I don't want to be a tkp celebrity anyway. I'm taking my ball and going home, bitches /s
Side note: recruits will be a coming and they are excited
ABC doesn't have to know!
but ABC is broadcasting the game, so there shouldn't be any issues
it's hard to hit a moving target!
Oh yay, I figured out who you are CBO V...I'm gonna need unlimited free rails and a place to crash for the weekend for at least 2 football weekends a year or I'll reveal your identity...
Just kidding, hope all is good man.
Uh, guys? It's 295 hours to kickoff.
Well... that's a buzzkill. Now I'm going to end my work day starting to count hours rather than jumping all day... You really killed that mood in a hurry...
(Sarcastic, as I usually am)
A quick Google search tells me that the world record for the longest on-going tailgate does not exist yet. TIME TO INVENT THE FUTURE, YA'LL!!!
Just think of your calf muscles though....
You read me wrong. I'm saying what's this 13.1/26.2 hour tailgate bullshit? We got nearly 300 hours of tailgating ahead of us.
I rescind my previous remark, and replace it with an upvote, as well as a "By George, he's got it!"
Drop the decimal point and you've got me.
#ALLMAROONEVERYTHING
If that's not a #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING game AND Maroon effect, idk what I did so wrong in my life....
#WARPAINT
Thought we were on ESPN... what does this mean for Gameday?
Even better of a chance. Usually Gameday goes to the 8PM ABC game.
ABC is ESPN. Gameday is going to happen.
This is going to be the most epic tailgate in Lot 18. I am getting at least 10 hours in.
More details on this coming soon. Annual TKP tailgate is happening and its going to be too turnt.
I am bringing my full smoker. My plan right now is 4 racks of ribs and a ~10lb chicken.
Good you can take over for me. I will not be smoking a butt this time.
Y'all need any Yuengling?
I mean it wouldn't be a TKP tailgate without a mountain of Yuengling cases to climb.
Though wasn't it Bud Light Platinum that made a big appearance for Ohio State and caused certain people to pass out in the bushes?
I don't remember the Bud Platinum. But I also don't remember passing out in the bushes either so I cannot confirm this story.
The liquor pinata at the Miami game in 2014 is when I passed away.
**Note to self....Nick is not allowed to participate in liquor pinata this year
Need everyone's thoughts and prayers for this to happen. Wife is having minor surgery either this week or next. Whichever week it happens I can't go to that weekends game, so we need it to happen this week.
Look on the bright side, you might be able to cover the cost of the surgery selling your tickets on the secondary market for this one.
I already sold my tickets and parking pass to a fellow TKPer, enjoy, and then bought 2 more when the tickets for Hokie Club members opened. It's a great perk to have for times like these isn't it?
It's almost like people should join the Hokie Club.
I would NEVER presume to tell people to join a sports booster club. I can only tell you of the benefits I've received from joining.
Y'all ain't thinking about this hard enough. They just called and said surgery will be next Tuesday or Thursday. If it's Thursday there is no way in hell Im leaving her to come to the game. I MIGHT have a chance if it's on Tuesday.
Tell the doctor's office you have a fist full of Hardee's coupons with their names on 'em if they can get you Tuesday.
I honestly had to Google if we even had a Hardess down here. We do but it's merged with some strange fast food burrito place, "Red Burito".
Hey all -- I've just scored a Clemson game ticket and will be making the trek from NashVegas to Blacksburg to catch this as my only game of the year. I'm SO stoked. Not to mention my birthday is 9/29, so this trip and game are my birthday present to myself (sans wife and 3 kids...whom I love dearly, of course).
I've never been to one of the TKP tailgates, but after participating in this community from afar for quite a few years, it feels like I should consummate it in real life. What better way than a TKP tailgate!?
Are there tailgate details yet, or how can I best keep posted?
PS -- if anyone cares, I'm best known around here as the "- )" post guy. Or, something like that, I'm too lazy to research back through the archives to find it.
Deets coming really soon. Lookout for them.
Ooh man, were Primetime again!
Let's not get Louisville'd though!!
I'm so hype!!!
I HATE MY COUSIN SOOOOOO MUCH.
HER GODDAMN WEDDING IS AT 5 P.M. IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
It's a shame you have to miss your cousins wedding....
edit: oh what the fuck, I was not expecting this to get over 100 updoots.
Just go to the next one
reminds me of one of my cousins who had a shotgun marriage while deployed. Later had a "wedding" when they got back to the states, the baby was the flower girl, yadda yadda yadda. They crank out another kid and then get divorced shortly after. Next thing I know he's getting remarried and my family is pressuring me to make the trip for the ceremony. "But I went to the last one!" Ended up the girl dumped him a couple weeks before the wedding so dodged that bullet...
DVR the wedding
Got a couple grand?
^this guy, doing gods work
I'm at a wedding in Staunton at 4:00p.... I feel your pain.
Is it a black tie wedding full of mostly UVA folks?
I've already rented a $175 tux and a hotel room and my family would probably murder me but there's a chance I get hammered in Blacksburg before the wedding and cannot make it.
She's also my least favorite cousin.
You should just go to the game and make sure that feeling's mutual.
said no West Virginian ever
WVU be like
I skipped my cousin's wedding for the Furman game a few years back. Skip it. Do it.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Should we page eshiben to come up with his forecast for this?
Go to wedding and then tell everyone you got lost on the way to the reception. Go back to hotel room and watch the game or find a local Hokie gathering to watch it with.
I have slightly calmed my nerves for the past hour. At the very least I am going to Blacksburg on Thursday, partying with friends Friday night and checking out Gameday Saturday before showing up to the reception in Cville. Screw the actual wedding. Now, how I'm going to actually be able to pull myself out of Blacksburg at approx 3-4 p.m. is going to be the big question...
Just admit it to yourself. You aren't going to that wedding if you are not leaving until 3-4 pm. The electricity in the air will be palpable.
So what you're saying...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVAsGCOl8Ak
What's the worst thing that can happen if you don't go? Now take that and compare it to being inside Lane with 66,000 of your best friends when a top 15 matchup is going on at night. What are you thinking now?
I can't stand up from my desk...
WHO IN THE ACTUAL FUCK SCHEDULES A WEDDING DURING FOOTBALL SEASON??!?!?!
UVA grads. This wedding will be 90% UVA people
That's not the sort of people you should be associating with, sir...
Totally agree, but it's my cousin....
I'd say no-show and they'll understand.... but they're UVA, so no-show anyway and **** 'em.
UVa, not WVU... you have your fanbases mixed up
I think we have an official "no copulating with the cousins" policy at VT.
True, but the difference is, with a WVU cousin, you have to actively fight off his or her advances
FTFY
If they're UVA people, they won't understand getting excited about football. They don't even remember the last time they were...
That's three degrees of familial separation. Practically strangers. :)
Yes, but your least favorite cousin!
Isn't it chess season though?
They should know better.
That's because for UVA, it's festival season, not football season.
I do, but it is on October 14.
Not going to lie, I wrote that earlier, told my fiance about it, and she reminded me that we're most likely getting married while we're back home for the Duke game... I love her. Always there to point out how stupid I can be...
Perfect! UVa plays UNC. You can fuck up their fan's weekend!
Both of them
This is my anniversary too, but we scheduled our wedding for a Friday night so there was no chance of anyone actually missing a game. I highly recommend this strategy, btw... the whole wedding was like happy hour.
But once every seven years, you land an anniversary on a football saturday....
I see no problem here, Blacksburg is a great place to spend your anniversary.
Very true, but that was only my problem from then on. I just didn't want to keep my friends from seeing a game.
We did the same thing. Friday night in October, but also in Blacksburg. We definitely waited until after the football schedule was released before planning any kind of date though.
We sure did. No way we were missing a game for our wedding.
there should be a service where you can hire a doppelganger to go to inconveniently scheduled weddings like this.
"Gee, Carl, you were really quiet at Sally's wedding. Barely said a word. And your hair's a lot longer than it was two days ago..."
I have a wedding in Richmond....
I don't get this at all, my cousin and her husband did the same thing, a Saturday wedding in the fall, during WVU in '99!! They both graduated from Tech, now granted in the sticks where they lived the game wasn't on TV but still.
I'll be at my alma mater's game...which is a 6 PM kickoff. This seemed like a great plan when me and my buddies planned it out in April.
My father in law was asked to be the best man in his best friends wedding the weekend of VT vs Bama back in the 70's. Father in law straight up told him no chance and went to the game. Surely you can do the same. No one likes the cousins anyway.
Advise your cousin that every VT gameday wedding my wife and I attended back in the day ended in divorce. Its serious bad mojo and your cousin doesn't want that.
It's only your cousin!
I'll take Things Said to The Bride at a WVU Wedding for $300, Alex
I too am at my brother's wedding at 5 that day. What. In the actual. F***
Ok that is a little more understandable to moss a VT game but you better still be streaming/watching after the ceremony.
This is why I longer have cousins.
Fuente's reaction to all of this: "Hey Fellas, let's go 1-0 this week."
Good, I hope so. But this ain't the VT locker room. This TKP so full steam ahead on the hype train!!
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IN SEATS BY 7:30 PM bringing back the Terror Dome. Who's with me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbQ3idN7jU
Shit, gonna hafta leave the tailgate by 6 just to get in lol but seriously...not missing the entrance for anything. NOT EVEN IF THERE'S A FIRE.
I'll be out of town that weekend. My decision to fly back home Sunday instead of Saturday night has just been validated.
Is that bad?
You forgot the last part.
Guess I'll need to cancel my order of 2 trailers worth of bourbon and make it 4 trailers
Make it 5. I'll pitch in for 1.
Now the hard part of all of this. Figuring out travel times and accommodations. We snagged tickets but have no where to stay. It may be a camping in the car night.
Where are you coming from? Lots of hotels still with rooms near NC.
From Richmond so its not far. Ideally we don't want to have to drive after the game so we can go full participation status, just uber and walk. Plenty of rooms in Salem but if we need to drive to the hotel, might as well save the money and drive home after the game.
Richmond Hokie Club bus is an option ($60)... it is a little rough for the night games since you get back around 4am but better than driving all the way back yourself.
I'll have to look into that. Thanks!
Just sleep it off in your car. You can post-game all you want, and by the time you wake up, traffic should be a non-issue.
I just booked a place on AirBnB this morning for $50 in Salem.
Check airbnb. I scored a room less than a mile from Lane for $60 a night for the UNC game
I did. Nothing in the Blacksburg area and the close stuff is very expensive right now. Worst case I will drive home after the game. I have done it for 3-4 night games before and isn't too bad.
I just bought a 4 bedroom house in Vinton/Roanoke... maybe it's time I look into making that an AirBnB for football season...
Advertise it as a UVA Wedding House Getaway.
6am: House Alarm set to Enter Sandman
7am to 8am: bacon, eggs, VT shaped waffles
8:01am: head to Blacksburg
No better way to jump out of bed.
VT shaped waffles? Please elaborate.
Imma invent a waffle iron, in the shape of our VT logo... sweet, delicious taste of VicTory.
Perfect, go ahead and put me down on the preorder list.
hoping you leave some time for a pre-drive poop? Worst thing is to get a couple miles down the road and go uh ohhh
I just got a place in Roanoke this past weekend, it's gonna cost about 375 for two nights but screw it, I can't wait for this game!
I started jumping already
Just got tickets today, hype video coming soon, all is right with the world
Air BnB
HYPE HYPE HYPE
They'r comin.... to OUR citaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Weird how night games came back once the Loefflerfense was banished to the nether realms.
Loeffense?
LOLfense
LOLs are good. I don't want to associate something good with something bad.
Anybody else notice the similarities of this game to the 2003 Miami game?
on ABCIT IS PREORDAINED!!! I am calling it now. 31-7 good guys.
Don't you DARE put that evil on this team. They LOST the game before that Miami game to WVU! STOOOOOOP!
Don't you know the rules around here? Can't do that line without the gif.
ABC didn't regularly start showing Saturday night games until the 2006 season.
I was thinking it has more of a '05 Miami at VT vibe to it. Both Miami and VT were top 5 I believe, undefeated, but it was much later in the season. Marcus had his worst game ever, and there was barely room to stand in the student section, East stands. I helped paint a Jimmy Williams jersey on my roommate for that game. Gameday setup under Torg bridge, and we camped out all night, played football under the bridge, etc.
Again: Stop comparing it to VT loses! Please!
Believe that was like a 34-7 whitewashing
INCOHERENT GOBBLING INTENSIFIES
#GAMEDAY4FRANK
I miss noon games.
I was seriously considering downlegging you temporarily for comedic effect, but then I read your username.
Actually the 8 game isn't so bad. I can wake up at 5, watch the game, and then go back to sleep for a few hours. It's the 3:30 games that kill me. But noon is primetime Saturday night here.
You're forgetting game prep time...you need to wake up around 3, drink heavily, watch the game, then go back to sleep
God I hope VT brings it. Imagine us winning this game? It would mean so much. Clemson is a good fucking team, right there at the Bama level for the past few years. Really hope we don't get embarrassed. But lets not think about that, for now LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Some would say they are ABOVE Bama after beating them last year
someones gonna die...
Sometimes they just die
Need to crowd source some material for a sign.
If we have a Hatin' on Clemson thread instead of just Hatin' on Dabo and people actually try there will probably be some good material in there.
Can't go wrong with whatever the popular meme is or whatever is in the news cycle that week.
"Don't be a nub join the Hokie Club"
Well this thread has totally jinxed the game as well as the ODU game. Going to have to use some good Ju Ju !
this should fix it...
The only thing that would make this game better would be an October 30th date to get that Halloween vibe...
A Monday night game? I'd take it if the date was Monday, January 8, 2018...
I didn't physically mean the actual date of Oct. 30.... but if it was a Saturday night, Oct 30th game, the Halloween vibes would add to the experience.... no doubt half of the game day attendees would be up and in costume for the show
Then go for broke and wish for Saturday to fall on October 31.
No way that'll ever happen.
No chance we were going to win this game, especially now that it's going to be a primetime game.
Whoa whoa where is that negativ--- ohhhh. Carry on.
My first "I see...." post. The release is amazing.
/S
FUCK.
This might be the end of my relationship. Mrs. Lwyr bought tickets to her favorite band MONTHS ago before the ACC released the schedule. I'd been hoping for a nooner or a 3:30 so I could find a bar and use the game as a tailgate for the concert.
Doors open at kickoff. I'm going to either have to bail on the concert and hope she forgives me or try to find a way to not be a mopy shitbag for the entire concert.
Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Who's the band? Very important!
Not Metallica
Florida Georgia Line.
See you in Lane!
lol. Don't I wish. Even if I can find a way to duck this thing I'm still 1523 miles from Lane Stadium.
Hey, my brother is 2000 miles away and he isnt making excuses.
Paging VT Fencer, can you price this one out too?
I just used Kayak. If he's closer to a major airport it'll probably be cheaper to just take commercial.
Sounds like she would really enjoy taking one of her girl friends to the concert instead.
Florida Georgia Line screwed up the Monday Night Football song.
Will FGL have another concert sometime next year?
Will VT host a night game against a top 2 team next year?
Well Miami's bak, so......
No, probably not.
So that concert's in Denver? I take it you wouldn't be traveling for the game?
Here's your game plan as I would approach the situation to earn maximum brownie points:
1. Bring up now you wanna bail...but mention that you'd feel bad doing so.
2. Get her reaction and judge it.
3. If she seems super bummed, wait until about 3 days prior to the concert and tell her you'll go cuz you want to
make her happy.
(Mention that you'll just periodically check the game/score during.)
4. Watch it on your phone during the concert (bring extra power supply if necessary)
Possible Results:
A: If for some ungodly reason the game doesn't go well, you can turn it off and go into concert mode and drank dranks and enjoy music. Then, go home with a happy (probably tipsy) wife, get a blowie for "sacrificing your night" to take her to see her favorite band.
B: If for some reason we can channel 2003 Lane Stadium Terrordome, you have one hell of a night, including a VT win, drunk at a concert, happy (probably tipsy) wife, blowie/relations at home due to wife's good mood for "sacrificing your night" to take her to see her favorite band.
C: You ditch the concert entirely, get drunk, watch the game. Gamble on the on mood of your wife post concert. If she didn't care and had a good time....relations..., if she's upset you bailed, wait a week = make up relations.
The tldr version; congrats! You're gonna make whoopie!
"Marriage is easy. All conflicts basically resolve themselves and everyone gets laid." - A single guy
Plot Twist: I'm married......
If you marry a cool chick, everything ends with getting laid.
if you haven't seen this, its a much watch...
I'm going to need a flowchart of this with all possible scenarios and arrows leading directly to "relations."
Don't get married is the only direct path to that outcome. It takes work Once you get married.
The "Don't Get Married" flow chart is easy:
Not Married ---> Travel to game ---> Get drunk ---> Go To Sharkeys/Big Als ---> Look At College Chicks ---> Go to hotel room ---> Please one's self.
If I didn't miss 2 weeks of work to go to Italy, I would for sure sit down for an hour and design a flow chart with all possibilities ending in "relations".
Watching on the phone is pretty much the plan. She's generally really good about cfb, and has pretty strongly adopted the good guys as her team. I did agree to this thing (I think in like, december?) thinking 'end of sept? Sounds like the BC game nooner'll make for a good concert pregame'. Because I'm an idiot.
The extra power supply is a good idea. Although, now that I'm thinking this through, my idea to throw an ipad in her purse is sounding less ridiculous, especially since superstitious me remembers that I watched most of 'anosu vol. 1, horseshoe bugaloo' on an ipad at a golf tournament.
Ipad it is.
That's not how this works . . .
Sooooo......the first baby shower for our first child is somewhere around noon on the 30th. Does that trump a football-season-wedding...?
Easier to move a baby shower. But at least the shower at noon keeps the option of at least watching the game open.
Of course, I also have some strong personal negative feelings about baby showers...
OMG, I FUCKING HATE BABIES TOO!
Bump it up to a baby shower brunch, hit the road, be there by kickoff
Didn't I read on the interwebs that parents should play music and speak to their child as it is developing?
Pretty sure I know Enter Sandman and 66,000 of your closest friends would meet that requirement, which may end up doing more good for the child down the road rather than a baby shower...
4VPISU, coming up with real solutions to real problems. Get this man some turkey legs people!!!
So i won't be able to go to the game but if there is anyone looking for a sign idea that does not yet have one, may I give a suggestion. I know it's popular to make Venmo signs at Gameday since that one guy did it for beer money and ended up with 25k? Anyways if anyone would like, (I believe there are some stoolies on here who recognize this name), but the Venmo is @Unclechaps (again not my Venmo). He is a
formerMarine and Purple Heart recipient, and all around good dude. If he gets enough money (What i'm hoping it being on gameday would do) it would probably go to his favorite charity K9sforwarriors, and if not (like it only ends up $30 max then it may just go to a full body red or whisky or what ever that handsome bitcc drinks). I know non-stoolies may not get alot of what I said but if anyone is looking for a sign idea I believe this is a good one that almost certainly goes to a good cause.I heard a nasty rumor that his venmo is closed
The haters and losers of which there are many have said the venmo is closed. Well the haters and losers are wrong, Hi Haters-Uncle Chaps...probably
Yea Chaps said he has to regularly open and close it because there are so many transactions on Venmo and the daily withdrawal limit is like 5000 or so? Glad to see it back open. Great cause.
Some may say it's
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These people are losing their minds, by these people I mean all of us!
Such a great call by Mike Patrick
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Maybe this is an obvious answer, but when did we last have a home SATURDAY night game. Was it the '05 Miami disaster? Saturday nighters in Lane are much better than Thursday's (yes, its true), Mondays or Fridays. If we can somehow get the 03 Miami Lane, we cant lose.
And the answer is other than a 6 pm start vs Clemson in '11 (which I dont count) this is the first night game on Saturday in Lane in 12 years. Twelve years. And we havent won a night game on a Saturday in Lane in 14 years. If you had told me 14 years ago I would have been severely upset. We are due, the damn stadium needs to be rocking like its 1999. We could see another eclipse before this happens again.
This is the first time that Saturday Night Football (the current incarnation on ABC since 2006) has broadcast from Lane.
If I wake up Sunday morning and still have my voice, I would have failed miserably.
Be cool if Lane was rocking the entire game jumping up and down enter sandman style while Clemson had the ball.
In 2006, we hosted Southern Miss on a Saturday at 7pm. But other than that, we haven't hosted a true Saturday Night game since the '05 debacle.
We could have a new Call to Arms video, v.2017
For anyone that needs a reference to 'Call to Arms' - 2005 Miami.
Almost started doing push-ups in my office. Combining my favorite rapper and team... so HYPED
SOOO MUCH SWAG
O.o
Initial weather forecast says 45 and rainy.
Im smelling another hurricane game
You know there's a hurricane about to hit New York and another Cat 5 in the Atlantic bearing down on the tiny islands, right?
of course I do, but when the occasion arises to use a Pineapple Express gif....I'mma take it, and run with it like McMillian to the endzone
There ya go.
There ya go:
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/players/mcmillian_travon.html
* McMillian
Not according to this guy who was calling the game. he was pronouncing like "McMillion".
But he was a dweb as the other announcer would get it correct.
It could be July. I don't care. If I hear the word hurricane, I'm going to take advantage of the opportunity to say "I thought hurricane season was over"
I'm glad you and SoupHokie are hear to remind me that I'm not alone. No one ever understands the reference, but regardless, I use it EVERY DAMN TIME
this is one I use on the frequent that no one else comprehends.....
So this doesn't quite deserve it's own thread but Kiper and McShay over at ESPN decided to pick their conference champs after week 3. They both picked Clemson for the ACC but their comments stood out to me...
We may not be there quite yet but it looks like we're certainly starting to turn some heads.