The above questions is inspired by the below tweet.
what's the dumbest or most inaccurate thing you've overheard someone say at a sporting event?— megan brown (@thatgirlondeck) April 30, 2018
I was originally thinking football games, but any game the Hokies played in is fair. Provide the game, and the stupidness.
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Guy beside me at the Clemson game was pissed that Fuente kept calling on Jackson to run the ball. He kept yelling "HE'S NOT A RUNNING BACK HE SHOULDN'T RUN!"
Then a guy behind me at the 2015 UNC game kept calling Bucky Hodges a sick bastard. I guess that's not totally incorrect though, he was pretty sick.
So sick
UVA game this past November
UVA girl said to her alleged boyfriend: "Tech only wins every year because they have better players."
While I do think that fits here it isn't exactly stupid. It's actually extremely accurate. Stupid to say, yes, but accurate nonetheless.
Sorry I had to hahahah
No one has ever said that
Yep. I mean why else would they throw them the entire game? Why would they spend most of the game not watching the game but facing backwards and make airplanes on the bench's?
Except no one does that either lol. A person makes a paper airplane once a game. 100 people do it so it seems like it is constant, but it's not one person. Takes like 10 seconds out of someone's time to make one and throw it.
I mean Ive watched college kids when my seats were last row, go around and collect paper and make dozens of them.
5 seconds per plane. 12 planes = 1 minute. 60 game = 720 planes.
Shit you must have seems some damn machine gun paper airplane throwers.
Why weren't you watching, y'know, the game?
Because they were directly in front of me. Hard not to notice this weird group of college kids making paper airplanes during a game on one of my first trips to Lane stadium.
Tech fan near me at the Clemson game was in an argument with a Clemson fan about how they really weren't that good.
"Sit down" - people sitting behind me while we're on defense.
LOL
One of the worst fan experiences I had at a VT game was a fan (and I use the term loosely) insulting a Vietnam War veteran at a game because he couldn't see the game (and asked the guy to sit down, becuase he literally could not stand up for more than 5 minutes) because the guy was standing up on defense.
Then again we were getting curbstomped by Miami on a Thursday Night game in 2014
I will always make every effort to get out of the way for someone who can't stand. But if you can stand, get off your ass and quit your bitching.
Let's try to keep this thread to actual games and not things we imagined happening. I know we all wish that game had been played, but it wasn't -- and furthermore, why do you dream about us getting curbstomped?
Let's try to keep the list of games that never really happened to Temple in 1998, and the fourth quarter of the Sugar Bowl in 1999. To add to this list would diminish its effectiveness.
Not the 2012 Sugar Bowl?
No, because the issue there wasn't that the game wasn't played, but because we were screwed by the refs. That was a catch.
You mean replay official? The officiating crew on the field got the call correct.
2006 Chick-fil-A bowl checking in to diminish effectiveness!
James Madison University? How could we have played them in football? That's not even a place.
make it plaid!
This MFer needs to go plaid.
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You added the drink gif and the comment is still green at +99
I added the drink GIF because VThokies904 beat me to the punch.
And it's 108 now.
I am a ding dong
Hey, keep that confidence up, buddy! Can't have you slipping on the anagrams.
Slipping anagrams to Pings Lip
I want to add a little context. I've had this happen several times in Lane but I think the one that pissed me off the most was last year at Miami. This woman right behind me (a Tech fan) would not stop bitching about me standing. We were about 10 rows from the field at the 20 yard line. Literally the entire section to our right was standing, so when the ball was anywhere to our right (which it normally was, since there were 80 yards of field to our right), you had to stand to see. So I respectfully told her that it's not me who's choosing to stand, it's thousands of Miami fans. I am simply standing to see over them.
She complained for the entire first half until I finally got pissed. I told her we are both dealing with the same issue, but I'm choosing to do something about it by standing up. I said even if I sat down she couldn't see the play unless the line of scrimmage was inside the 20 on our end of the field. Otherwise all those Miami fans were in her way. So then she changed her mind and said I was blocking the big video board in the corner of the end zone. The problem with that argument was there were four (4) of those huge HD screens - one in each corner. So all she had to do was turn her head to the right and she could see one of the four 6,850sqft (50' x 137') video boards (yes, I looked it up - they're the biggest in the ACC and they have four of them).
But apparently I was blocking not only the entire field but all four of the enormous high def televisions. Why do people like that travel to big games and get good seats if they're not going to actually enjoy the game?
Now I'm mad again.
slight correction about the video boards... the Dolphins have 4 giant video screens, and the Hurricanes borrow them a few times per year.
The entire ND game I was getting yelled at and cursed to sit down, not be so loud and stop chanting.
I had the same experience. ND fans were a combination of the best and worst fans I've ever met. Their stadium is also overrated. I sat on a cold, wet wooden plank.
Agree...was at that game with my son. The ND fan sitting next to him complained that the game wasn't competitive enough when we were down by 17 in the first half. He got pretty quiet in the second half.
Did you thank him for the comeback victory? ;^)
We did indeed. Not 100 % sure it was appreciated, but we made it out alive.
I went to the Duke game at Duke in 2016. The Duke fan next to me had his fingers in his ears because of my screaming. I think he was too scared to ask me to quiet down, tbh.
I knew this story.. But it is still funny. If I had been with you, the poor boy would have been terrified. He may have even cried or moved away, or both.
He was a grown-ass man though.
That makes it all the funnier/sadder. No matter how "old" he was, if he couldn't handle yelling at a football game, he was a poor boy, He would have been terrified and scarred by the 2 of us together. I am loud in my own house (I have been known to yell at the games we are re-watching this offseason and I know what is happening in those games). I am EXTREMELY LOUD at a real game. Just ask Adam and Hagy...
Yes, Hagy has already said he's not going to sit between the two of us lol.
I hate loud people.
Riiiight... And I am the Queen of England
Huh, you're not going to like me then.
(Psst, he's loud)
You don't say 😂
My brand of sarcasm isn't well understood around here yet. That's okay, we'll get there.
YOU BROTHA
Miami fan at the 1999 homegame telling me how overrated Vick was...
"Hike hike hike hike," ad infinitum.
H_ighlander_okie knows what I'm talking about.
"lets try a 74 yard FG" -end of the 4th qtr in the 3 OT duke game
"lets try a fake punt here" - Michigan sugar bowl
"lets try a fake FG here" - Clemson game
These hurt my soul
Hmmmm
UVA fan saying our defense was overrated
UvA fan saying that we only win in football
UVA fan bragging he was a super dude because he was only wearing a shirt and tie in 10 degree weather
UVA fan saying UVA deserved to have a bowl game and VT didn't
UVA fan saying Frank Beamer was incompetent
UVA fan screaming his head off every time "Smoke" got the ball
UVA fan saying Dadi Nicolas was a child murderer after he knocked Grayson Lambert out of the game
That's pretty bad when they call their own QB a child.
Please tell us that he referred to himself as a "super dude" out loud.....??
I think it was "real man" or something to that effect
How'd he get in the game with no pants?
As a former referee, I can tell you that the vast majority of people in the stadium don't have a damn clue what they're talking about. And I'll admit that I'm not in the know about a lot of newer rules and college-specific rules. But I have the good sense to keep my mouth shut.
My personal favorite was the guy who insisted it was a safety when a GT player touched a kickoff at the 2 before the next guy grabbed it and took a knee in the end zone. It was 3rd down on the next possession (after a punt, clearly no safety had been awarded) before he shut up about it.
Walking back to the tailgate after the UVA game this past year a wahoo said "wait till next year we have 9 4*s coming in" My dad responds "I don't know what recruiting services you follow but y'all have no 4* players coming in"
18 2-stars = 9 4-stars right?
That's too much credit...
Hmm, I wouldn't know too much about credit, but UNC players would
The numbers always work!
These ACC refs are amazing! -someone probably
UVA 2017 - UVA fan screaming at me to sit down after VT (yes TECH) scored the only touchdown of the damn game because...she couldn't see. She would also scream about the refs being from Blacksburg and to "go back to Blacksburg" in a really shrill, heavy country accent every time a call went against UVA.
That someone is the PAC
I wonder if that was my cousin.
Had a VT fan and his WVU fan friend behind me at FedEx last year. The WVU fan was the normal level of obnoxious for an opposing fan in a sea of Hokies, but the VT fan was horrible.
He opted to ignore the entire last playing of Enter Sandman during the crucial final WVU drive, instead wishing AIDS and death upon Joey Slye.
Might not be the worst or stupidest I've ever heard, but most recent for sure.
Anybody that complains about every play that doesn't yield 8+ yards.
Screaming to the refs about screwing up a call when it was blatantly obvious.
Backup qb worshipers are the worst.
Need more legs for this one.
Preach
QB recruit worshipers are worse.
Screaming to the refs for blatantly obvious calls is one of the most embarrassing things in sports in my opinion. I can get very emotional during games, but I'm not going to get upset about every single call, especially if it's obvious.
I've noticed this at an unbelievable rate at Clemson games throughout my life. I'm not joking, every single incomplete pass will be met with screams of unseen pass interference against the defense and every single big play they give up had some kind of illegal block. It's the biggest victim complex I've ever seen in any sport, and it's even more ridiculous now that they are a consistent top 5 team.
I've never had the misfortune of going to a game at Clemson, but living in Charleston definitely confirms this. It's hardly bearable when they play a team I don't care about, but I refuse to watch VT/Clemson games anywhere other than my couch and Lane Stadium.
Leal talk right here.
I don't know what you're talking about, but I think with our quarterback situation this year, I'm betting on Leal.
1998 vs. Temple, first VT game I went to. Didn't know at the time but my dad was in miserable pain due kidney stones. We go to the bathroom (troughs) and I see my dad sweating and have the biggest sigh of relief. Look down and there are three huge kidney stones which he then explains to me what they are and that's why he hadn't been feeling well.
Guy next to him looks down after my 9 year old self yells "Holy Crap Dad, You PEED Rocks! That's Awesome!" and proceeds to starting drunk mumbling something about peeing shit rocks. The guy RUNS to the stall and start projectile vomiting everywhere. We immediately left. I had an awesome time besides Ricky Hall (I think) dropping the pass in the end zone to win the game.
Runner Up: Fiance after Thanksgiving "It okay, VT will never beat us at basketball." Fiance after February "It doesn't matter anyway, we are going to win the national championship this year, hands down."
Holy shit VT fan of the century right there. There has to be an elite 0.1% of fans that have went to a game with kidney stones and passed a kidney stone AT THE GAME.
I'm confused. It seems like you're saying your fiance is a LOLUVa fan, but that can't be right...
Yep, she's a grad. Just all of the more reason for constant jokes. I like to make a lot of Al Groh, London, Ramming, well...just football jokes in general but they usually go over her head.
You should try to adopt a Chesapeake Bay Retriever
This should have way more legs. Like a millipedes worth.
Wait wait wait. There's more than ONE loluva fan?????? Are you sure she's not photoshopped?
I'd also like some clarification. Is she actually a fan, or just a graduate? Has she ever planned anything around the LOLUVA football schedule, or does she only watch it if she walks into a room when the game is on? If it was a Tuesday during football season, could she tell you who the next was against? Could she pick her cross-over rival out of a line-up? Can she name more than 2 players still on the team? Or is she like most LOLUVA grads, and can only repeat things about other sports she has heard others say that make UVA sound superior?
I've heard if you get kidney stones you're supposed to drink a 6 pack of light beer. Maybe this helped your dad?
That should have been two posts, because both stories deserve legs.
Guess we'll just have to make it go plaid.
"Grant Noel really wasn't that bad of a quarterback"
Regarding Curt Newsome:
I want a video replay of French's reaction when he sees this one.
"Man I really like those helmets" - UVA game 2012
Which helmets were those?
Battle at Bristol, we shot off skipper late in the game, a Tennessee fan peed themselves.
boy or girl?
I brought a girl I was into to a game once
"Yall's fans are wack...Liberty is gonna wax yall, just watch"
I was no longer into her.
Sitting in the stands during the Stinespring era. Before each play I would predict the play calling because everyone knew what the next play was going to be.
Woman in her 30's, who you could tell was dragged to the game, behind me tapped my shoulder, "Could you stop, it's not really that fun of a game to watch if I already know whats going to happen"
I laughed and said oh I am just playing around; Lady turned to husband "See I told you this is fake just like wrestling " (they were completely sober, he looked like he had given up hope)
Me and my buddy were confused the rest of the day....
Example B: (kind of racist) FSU game at VT Night game. Sitting near visitor section, FSU Fan wearing a Warrick Jersey kept yelling "Only reason you are winning is your team is full of white kids who like the cold."
After the 3rd time Ponder got crushed a guy in front of him turned around "Would you shut the F Up, our qb is the whitest guy out there and he sucks" They ending up tossing the Warrick Jersey guy for trying to start fights with an old man two rows up.
Honestly I was going to say something about people who claim they could predict every play during the Stinespring era.
Most of the time the person claiming to "know the play" is going to claim they were right if they just get the "run or pass" portion right. I don't think Stinespring was a successful offensive coordinator for us, but every playcaller has tendencies, sets, and plays that they use more often- the bread and butter plays- and plays that are more likely to be used in certain down and distance situations. It takes very little football knowledge to skew the odds heavily in favor of successfully predicting a run or pass. Ultimately I don't buy that the alleged predictability of Stinespring's playcalling was the massive issue it was made out to be anyway. He could have been out there calling fullback dives on 3rd and long or double reverses on 2nd and 1 to be unpredictable but that wouldn't have fixed the offense or made it more productive. The problem was that we were perpetually "one block away," which was coach speak for the inability to get players to successfully execute the playbook.
Well, I was 22 just trying to show off..... soooooo yea
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I agree with all of this. Anticipating a "run up the middle" is not Calling the Play. One of my favorite games was a few years ago when in the fourth quarter against UNC , VT ran the ball "up the middle" the whole drive and the color guy broke down the plays showing they were legitimately 8 different plays. It was an awesome display of power and how to put a game away.
With Stiney, it wasn't that you could predict the play call based on the situation, it was that you could predict it based on the offense's alignment. He liked to use two dozen different formations with maybe 1 or 2 different plays run out of each formation. The one example that sticks in my mind is the jumbo set he used to use, when he would shift the two TEs before the snap. I think we had one running play and one pass play (a deep bomb) from that formation. There are going to be tells our offense gives that a decent defense or DC will be able to pick up on to determine whether it's the run play or the pass play they're going to have to stop. In other words, Stiney was constantly tipping his cards by virtue of wanting ALL the formations but having a bare handful of plays to run out of each.
No, that was Rickey Bustle!
I keed, I keed...
Run to the left, run to the right, bubble screen, punt?
pretty much
"The Tech-ECU deal is great for both programs."
"FBS and G5 teams depend on their few big games so we owe it to them"
I want that series to burn in hell forever
"Im not a fan of night games. Id rather 12 o clock games, I can get home at a decent hour and still enjoy the rest of the night"
This lawn isn't gonna mow itself. Now please, stay off my lawn.
At the bar last year during the Miami game, one of the guys starts melting down eventually shouting "there we go... typical Bud Foster defense again" after one of Miami's big plays.
I literally walked out of the room and watched a majority of the rest of the game in either another area of the bar or outside with some others.
Perennial pass denied.
If there are fans out there who think that a typical Bud Foster defense isn't good they're going to crush their own skulls with their bare hands when he leaves.
Because human beings have a finite lifespan?
Bud Foster is forever, though
So we have nothing to worry about then? Bud is a God.
I heard Galen Scott is supposed to be a worthy successor
At UVA for Beamers last regular season game. UVA fan told me our rivalry would be a lot better and more competitive if we would beat them more often in basketball.
I bet they love our competitive rivalry now
I really wanted to remind him that at the time they hadn't beaten us in 11 years but when Chuck Clark picked off that pass to seal the game and he literally disappeared in the ten seconds I turned to celebrate with friends, that was good enough.
you will need another post for dumb thing overheard by UVA fans.
"I dont get the joke, Zima's not even that good. Now Mikes Hard Pomegranate Lemonade is the shit" (UVA dude in a bowtie)
" I really should leave, I have an exam on Tuesday I should be studying for"
"You know, the word football is common reference to what we call soccer, another reason other countries hate America"
edit: failed on the first attempt
"Danny Coale didn't catch the ball"
Every person without football knowledge
Well, except for that Pac-12 official...
NC State game in 2011 in Raleigh
Video board encourages wolfpack fans to make noise for their offense on 3rd down.
I stand, yell, and shake keys.
Drunk girl to me: "Stop cheering for your team! It's not your turn!"
Not the dumbest thing, but it stuck with me: It was a really frustrating game, may have been 2013 Maryland. Dude in front of me in the student section was on his phone, looks up and sees Logan Thomas getting up after being tackled, yells, "you suck, Logan" and turns is attention back to his phone. I watched the down and distance on the scoreboard change from "1st and 10" to "2nd and 2" and contemplated the banality of evil.
The curmudgeony fan and his son across the aisle from my wife and I last season screaming "EVERY WEEK, THIS HAPPENS EVERY FUCKING WEEK" right before the goal line stand against Pitt. On the way out I yelled "EVERY WEEK" back at them. They were a problem all year cussing up a storm around children when we didn't get a TFL or 5 yard gain. I should probably reseat for next season.
"UNC would have won the ACC if they didn't have to play you guys in a Hurricane" NC state Fan....
I think dumb flows through the water in that state.
Wait, this was an NC State fan?!?
(Sorry, couldn't find a gif of Emma Watson looking confused. I don't think she ever is.)
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Saw that, but didn't want the non-sequitor about sexing the animals to confuse things.
Damn, if that sentence doesn't read awkwardly.
This is what we call a Context Free Quote of the Day.
yea that's what makes it so bad. The dude bleeds NC State and then brought this up... I
Living in Raleigh, I can tell you this about the way NCSU fans think of VT and VT football
Can confirm: the locals are...not very intelligent.
Hey! I resemble that statement.
In Raleigh, if someone grew up here then they are a Duke or UNC fan first and foremost... even if they went to NC State.
I'm going to need you to talk to my manager. She was born and raised in Raleigh. Hates UNC and Duke both. I think she is the exception to that rule though.
I was born in Raleigh
Hate all 3
This is breaking the rules, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
"Ain't no way a 1-seed loses to a 16-seed."
C. L. E M. S. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh N.
Even stupider than the tomahawk chant.
At least the 'noles put their hands down once in a while.
Almost as dumb as the "OH!" in the National Anthem.
f'n Orioles fans
It's awesome in Camden Yards. Dumb everywhere else.
Did this my freshman year. The only place I had ever heard the national anthem was at O's games, so I didn't know that other places didn't do this.
There was a Clemson fan behind us (decent enough guy for an opposing fan) doing this lovely attempt of a cheer. Something had been said earlier about H-O-K-I-E-S! HOKIES! I turned around at some point in the game and asked something to the effect of "Did they know how to spell Clemson? Did they really forget/have to think that hard what came after the O?" He kinda laughed it off.
Miami/VT 2005, we were getting beat pretty bad on D, and the fan in front of me made this genius point:
"Damn it, Bud - stop them!!! They only do two things: run or pass!! How hard can it be?"
Someone should have gotten that guy a headset.
Ok so the Arkansas bowl game was probably the closest I've come to hurting someone in my life.
I was on the third row right behind the Tech bench. During the miserable first half some guy on the very first row was screaming at Jerod non-stop. I heard things such as "you're worthless," "go back to Texas where you came from, we don't want you here," and "you're so terrible it would be more appropriate for you to transfer to UVA." The thing that made this really bad was the fact that he would only start up when Jerod was close enough on the sideline to hear him. I even saw Jerod cut his eyes over on a few statements. The guy was with what seemed to be his mother but she acted completely oblivious to it all.
After about a quarter of this a few people said something to him and he just ignored them. I couldn't stand it anymore so I decided to try a different approach. I put my hand on his shoulder, squeezed as hard as I could, and whispered in his ear that if he didn't stop that I would snap him in half in front of his mother.
I was afraid that I might get kicked out or arrested but thankfully the little coward shut his mouth for the rest of the half and refrained from snitching on me.
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I have something similar from the same game....I was on the VT side about 10 rows up from the field at the 40 yd line. Our seats were next to the stairs, and at half time I heard this POS basically saying how he was tired of VT "renting" QB's and how Evans was trash. I thought to myself, this guy (Evans) just rewrote the QB record book and led us within 26 yds of winning the ACC title when we were struggling to get to a bowl game the year prior.
I had a similar experience with a drunk WVU fan at FedEx this year. The worst bit was his sober friend, who was a pretty swell guy, had to tell the guy's own ~8-12 year old kids to "take your dad back to the car" after the game.
That's a lot of twelve year olds. Was this the mom?
There's a joke to be made there about WVU and cousins and such, but I'm not going to make it.
see now I read this as "8-12 year-old kids" which is an entirely different image
I'm sure that was the original intention, but I chose not to interpret it that way. ;^)
the original intention was eight-to-twelve one year olds?
ECU fan getting mad and me and my friends because we wouldn't high five them after they scored on us.
Ok, this wasn't at a Tech game, but came from a Tech grad I know.
"It's not really a good rivalry with UVA. It would be better if UVA won every once in a while."
There was a time for 6 years, this former cop would show up every season crowing about how UVA had turned a corner.
we bakkkkkk!!!!!
Was this before or after he got punter-swagged into a lost fumble?
At the Sugar Bowl against Michigan.
There was this shirtless dude with a huge mo-hawk and he was all painted up in LSU colors. While leaving the game he arrogantly says "can't wait till the national championship to watch two REAL teams play."
It was very, very satisfying watching LSU get thumped in that game after that.
Willie Byrn..Paper Boy..over and over and over again on ESPN telecasts...was so annoying
Both true and False:
Someone: "The East stands are just easier to watch the game"
Me in my 20s:
Me in my 30s:
In your 40's, you realize its easiest to watch from home.
VT fan behind me bragging about how much money he gives VT and screaming for Marcus Vick to play when he was suspended in 2004. Went on and on about it until someone told him Vick was suspended and couldn't play that year. The guy didn't say a word for the rest of the game.
A 75+ year old woman sitting behind me decked out in Miami gear in 2011 when we started jumping to Enter Sandman on the final play of the game:
me: **Starts Jumping**
her: Hey, HEY! Sit down motherfucker! **flips me double birds**
"Hey! You're rattling my dentures!"
She had a Ray Lewis Miami jersey on.... I can't make this shit up.
The righteous indignation that Ray Lewis oozed all over espn after Ray Rice cold cocked that chick in the elevator is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
"Yalls entrance really isn't that good. Not even close to Howard's Rock" - Clemson '17
I miss the days when Clemsoning was a punch line...
Remember when UVA thought their "Cavmanimation" was better than Enter Sandman?
I love the part where all the Hoos run away from a big slow moving turtle! Then Cavman ruins a perfectly good sword, before breaking a horse's back. Finally, he can't even hit a giant turtle with his crapped up sword.
This video so defines the Hoo football program. Great pull!
If you ever see video of one their games, I'm thinking the fans in the seats are also video animation and not real.
This is something I'd find incredibly entertaining when stoned.
That is one of the stupidest things I've seen...
When Quin Blanding invited the Hokies the cross the line
GIFs or it didn't happen
Whatever you do, don't @ him though. Apparently.
Ask and ye shall receive
He doubled down when he flexed on the Navy O, while losing by 35.... and then proceeded to get run over by the QB on the next play.
I watched that game and laughed for several minutes after that. I thought something was wrong with me; I couldn't stop laughing.
He also doubled down by going undrafted this year...
Completing the cycle!
National Championship:
Sitting down for the title game against FSU, after getting primo seats off of some Nokia employees, one Nokia guy without sarcasm says: "when did Vermont get big in football?"
I've seen some green VT bumper stickers before and it's taken longer than I want to admit to realize that they're probably not Hokies.
I've posted this before, but seems appropriate again. Was in what passes for a bar in Moab, Utah back in our championship game year for the Thursday night game against WVU. I had my VT hat on, and went by the bar to hit the head. On my way back, a drunk dude looked at me, looked at the TV, looked again and then, also without a trace of sarcasm, he said "I didn't know Vermont even had a football team." I 'splained it all to him and told him that it was our year, Vick was magic, and told him we'd be in the Sugar Bowl at the end of the year. Most of the folks in the bar were routing for WVU that night, but wife and I were loud and proud and I doubt any of them forgot who Virginia Tech was after that night.
why on earth were a bunch of Utah randos picking the wrong team
what is wrong with them
Utah is clearly the West Virginia of the mountain west.
Yeah, I wondered that myself. I think it is because they'd never really heard much about us before and had heard of WVU. One couple sitting at the next table asked us who we were cheering for, and I told them about VT and how it was our year, etc. They said, well, just to keep it interesting, we'll cheer for the other guys. Sheesh, wattaya do?
Agree that the game will be more interesting now that you have someone to stand up in front of and yell and taunt when we win?
They left at the end of the third quarter.
also one I will speculate:
"we didn't win because our academic standards are too strong to get good recruits." - UNC fan
I hear that from GT fans/alum all the time.
I hear it from UVA fans all of the time.
Those schools (the "we only suck at football because we're so smart" schools) must hate Stanford. Stanford shits on that whole argument. Not only are they better at sports than you, but they're smarter too.
GF is a GT grad, and I hear this all the time. We've discussed the issues with GT athletics ad nauseam, and I've asked her to start saying "Our school/donors aren't interested in giving the athletic program the support it needs" rather than "We didn't win because our academic standards are too strong to get good recruits."
The latter is whiny and pretentious, the former is actually true.
The year we played Marshall the week after Alabama, lady behind me says something like "why couldn't we play like this last week?"
I turned around. "Because the Alabama guys are literally twice the size of the Marshall players."
Was that the white out game with the rain and multiple overtimes including a blocked field goal that almost resulted in a fat man touchdown to end the game?
ahhhh yes one of the ugliest uniforms weve ever worn
and here you go sir
That was probably the funnest game I've ever attended.
yeah it was a wild game is some sloppy weather. this is the one that sent it to OT. i think we missed like 3 FGs in this game too.
I get what you're saying but also a game we easily could have lost to Marshall would be far from my definition of fun. Beating the pants off of Georgia Tech in 2005 is one of my fondest memories. 2007 @Clemson and home against FSU and Miami were sweet too.
Oh yeah, we had no business winning that game. We tied the game on a pass that gets intercepted 99 times out of 100 and had to block a FG to extend overtime. I only lived in Blacksburg for two years (2012 and 2013), so I don't have any big wins over big rivals to reminisce, I have beating Marshall in the rain in a hilariously sloppy game, but it was legitimately fun.
This was definitely one of the most fun games for me too as a student. I was there from 2011-2014, so there was not much to write home about. I did go to OSU which was amazing, but this game just had this fun feeling to it. It was still loud even though the stadium was half empty and everyone that was still there, was having a blast. It was just an exciting game that should not have been exciting.
Funnest game is hands down... easily the 1999 Syracuse game.
It was actually a few years before that, probably the one White Out game where it didn't rain.
At the WVU game this past year, the girl behind me, on every offensive play, would start saying "snap it, snap it, HURRY UP AND SNAP IT!" once the play clock got down to 12 seconds left. She also talked a lot about how Josh Jackson just needed to believe in himself and try harder.
You just gotta belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeve
After being shut out by Cincinnati in 1995 in the rain (putting Tech 0-2), my drunk room mate screaming to the entire stadium, "f-this, we may as well lose all of them!!!! Let's go 0-11 so we can blow it up and start over! Druck Sucks, Beamer sucks.....yadadadada"
Tech went onto win 10 in a row including the stomping of Ricky Williams' Texas team - and history was made.!
I was at both games, and can confirm how absolutely miserable that Cincinnati game was. I went out and spent $300 I didn't have for decent rain gear the next week. In retrospect, I should have saved it for more fun in N'awlins.
This one is pretty terrible
Quin Blanding an impact player? IKR
He has been known to make an impact
On the ground
Our first ACC Championship game in Charlotte. It was really miserable weather, cold and sleeting. We were playing FSU. A young FSU college female student was sitting behind me. She has a light jacket on and is freezing. It starts sleeting and she says - "wait, is this what snow looks like?"
VT vs UVA. Frank's last game. There was about 4 of us seated together. We had attended VT together in the late 90's early 2000's so we were being loud and very cheerful since this wasn't something we got to do often. So while UVA was doing UVA things we were cheering and booing appropriately. About midway thru the 3rd quarter, the UVA alums in front of us, start yelling at us to stop being so loud.... "THIS ISN"T EVEN YOUR STADIUM!!"
We very politely informed them that the fan ratio at the stadium did not support that claim.
The ending of that game was fantastic.
How can they say with a straight face that the Lane Stadium Northern Annex in Charlottesville is not our stadium the Saturday after Thanksgiving every other year?
I generally wear a Tech hat whenever I'm outside (partly to keep from getting the top of my used-to-have-hair section from getting sunburned, partly to annoy wahoos), so I occasionally get comments from a hoo trying to be funny or get in a dig. Something along the lines of "Man, I can't believe you're wearing that hat in this town", or something similar. My usual response is that it's ok, we have a long term lease on your stadium, and have naming rights.
#JacoryHarrisHeismanWatch
I miss Jacory Harris.
uva fan in 2004: "We got you next year"
This reminded me of one wahoo comment just before the 2011 38-0 bro LOLUVA game.....He tells me "I think we're going to get you all this year. Rocco really has the offense humming." My response was a chuckle and a "We'll see". The look on his face the next time I saw him was priceless.
"Sean Glennon is the worst QB I've ever seen"
- heard (and honestly, probably said) at quite a few ballgames in the mid-late '00s
The poor guy had arm talent but he just wasn't in a great situation. Had he gone somewhere that had a decent O-line he would have been, at worst, an average college QB. I just don't believe that he was the worst ever. Maybe the worst ever fit for VT at the time...but that's a different statement.
Ditto. Always thought he got too bad of a rap. He was never gonna be a Heisman winner, but he was certainly serviceable.
He didn't have it bad. Did anyone ever slash his tires? Because someone slashed Maurice DeShazo's tires.
Grant Noel had to follow Michael Vick. He caught hell.
Glennon wasn't great in his situation, but I don't think he got the worst of it from fans.
Grant Noel would've caught hell no matter who he followed.
Pretty much.
4 for 16, 81 yards, 4 INT, 1 FUM. The stat line that still gets me grinding my teeth to this day.
That still pisses me off about DeShazo's tires. Pretty damn low class Hokie, there.
Duke 2004: was a kid at the time but was having a blast. Kid of comparable age behind me must have too because he yelled GIT 'R DONE over and over and over again the entire game.
Lot 18 that one time. I am not sure how it ended...
All I remember was a 4 year old girl hording all the tequila.
We should probably repeat this experience, but make sure it's a weekend I can be there. You know, for science and stuff.
It happened at the Charity Tailgate last year again. I think one hit is all it took.
Notorious story in my friend group about a girl going to her first football game freshman year asking repeatedly if someone forgot to bring the yellow line.
"The Most exciting 25 seconds in football"
Is their entrance a pretty sight? Yes.
Does their crowd have any life to it during? Not at all.
Friends claiming that since they are good at Madden, they can be successful offensive and defensive coordinators.
At last year's UVA game, during every single play when we were offense - even when the ball was handed to a RB and he was several yards downfield - the UVA fan behind me would yell "SAAAACKKKK HIMMM".
Correction - this was only for every offensive play in the first half. She left early.
I was at the legendary 2011 Miami game and one of our fans yelled "YOUR MASCOT IS A STUPID BIRD" toward the Miami sideline.
I'm not sure I can even blame that one on the sauce.
I think he was pointing out the contrast to our mascot, which is pretty clearly a smart bird
Leaving the Ohio State game I had a conversation while trying to get across this tiny, narrow bridge (everyone was nice btw):
"You guys have a good team, but your mascot is so strange? Who has a turkey as a mascot?"
My response: "Well, it could be worse - we could have something really crazy, like a nut, as our mascot ."
Insert BOOM gif, well done
2011 UNC game (COLD)... We were down low in the south end zone. Drunk lady in a short sleeve shirt was screaming all night for David Wilson to come impregnate her.
Well, maybe she was fairly athletic herself, and was hopeful of creating another athletic dynasty, a la the Fullers or the Edmundi. Personally, I think we should be lauding her selflessness.
"We are just ahead of the curve, football will be illegal within 20 years"
- sabre poster on their downward trend is "ok"
All these were from the 2009 UNC game:
"Did we lose the whole game" - Drunk ass fan sitting in front of me.
His whole group was smoking cigarettes inside the stadium and a bunch of them also decided to sit down on the feet of me and my friends instead of their seats in front of us.
Same person from said group turned around and said this to me at one point: - "Hey man if we win this game, me and you are gonna whoop someone's ass"
I think the world series was going on and they said the score of the yankees game over the PA system. Some girl in the group next to us said something along the lines of "Wooo Go Yankees! Mark Texeira!" or something like that. Drunk dude probably late 30s or 40s who was trying to hit on every female in sight starts t make fun of this girl liking the yankees. And some of the guys who were in the same group as this girl start yelling at the drunk dude and calling him a loser for wanting to come back to Tech after graduating a long time or something like that, and the drunk dude started yelling back.
Man, now I'm kinda sad that I haven't been to a game in 6 years..............
Lest we forget "Corpse of Cadets".
RIP
We're not leaving yet, it's only the third half. -Overheard coming from girl on the phone in the north stands, circa 2005
Duke 2015 - we were down 24-16 in the 4th and an obnoxious VT fan a row in front of us kept yelling for VT to hurry up since we were down two scores. He'd done nothing up til then but bash Beamer the entire game. A guy two rows in front kept trying to remind him there's such a thing as a two-point conversion, but don't think he ever convinced him. He left before we scored and tied it up (we shall not speak of the 4 overtimes that followed).
Tennessee fan sitting behind me at Bristol said, "oh man, you guys had that stupid quarterback that stole crab legs! You like crab legs?"
I responded by pointing out that he was referring to Florida State and he said "well that don't matter because your (school) colors are the same."
Why can't people get that right?? It's not that hard. If it looks right from your point of view, then it's backwards to the world.
A lot of phone cameras automatically reverse selfies. That's because we're used to seeing ourselves in the mirror, so they automatically flip it so you end up with your mirror look. There's usually a setting to reverse that.
The psychology of it can be found here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/why-selfies-sometimes...
Bottom line, he was probably doing it right, and the camera reversed the image.
But everything else in the image is not reversed...
I attribute this to him being drunk cause this was a fun day overall and we watched this live and had a good laugh.
Oh wow, you're right. I disagree with myself. He got it backwards.
(I think Marty Smith's position in the picture made it look like a selfie.)
It is a screenshot of the video. Find the video and you will laugh until your sides hurt. Mostly because we have all been there.
Awwwwwwww
Told ya. Good laugh. I don't care how embarrassing it was.
You know what, I completely give this guy a pass.
A) He looks wastey-faced as hell.
B) I'm not going to hold this middle-aged guy to a standard that I see current students butcher all the time.
All of that being said, learn to do the VT hands if you're gonna attempt to throw them up.
Why even do the VT, much easier to pull off the gobbler, as they taught us in freshman orientation back in 2002
Pretty sure that guy would've had trouble with even the gobbler in his state.
I don't think he was drunk. He realized he was on camera and started acting before his brain could process everything. I know I've done mindless stuff like that before when stone sober that I look back on and think "what the hell were you doing?"
I dunno, man. That's the classic "I'm smashed, but trying really hard to concentrate" face if I've ever seen it.
What percentage of VT fans are "stone sober" at a VT tailgate? Did the TV crew go out looking for the calmest group to show as an example of tailgating? I'm going with ASPOW here. Not excusing stuff because of alcohol, but think its more likely he's drunk than high on being on tv.
This is the Marty Party. He tends to stay close to the stadium and finds a group of people getting a little rowdy. Damn I wish lot 18 was closer.
Sorry I left the F out. Guess this is how you got your first name, Mr. Whiskey? J/K - leg.
I'm going to add another possible reason to give this guy a pass
C) He is saying "TV.... look i'm on TV"
Oh we're just allowed to throw this around all willy nilly now, huh?
Kinda like your NFL fandom.
I kid. I kid.
It was Beamers Last game at home and we had a typical drunk guy behind us trying to impress his girlfriend two clicks from top volume.
MIKE VICK WASNT THAT BAD, HE PUT THIS PLACE ON THE MAP, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PISSES ME OFF. HE DECLARES FOR THE DRAFT ONE YEAR TOO EARLY. BUT HE WASNT THE IDIOT. YOU KNOW WHO WAS. THE TEAMS. SO VICK DECLARES FOR THE DRAFT AND YOU KNOW WHO GETS PICKED #1 OVERALL IN 2000. GUESS. JUST GUESS.
:my old roommate and I are waiting because hes already screwed up stuff before it then he says the draft in 2000 which was wrong too:
RON - F***IN - DAYNE....RON MOTHER F***IN DAYNE. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?????
:at this point we just turn around to his girlfiend or wife and just tell them hes wrong on so many levels.
I think the kid made it to the 3rd quarter before falling out and getting carried out.
Same guy-
I CANT WAIT TIL WE GET TO 25 YEARS STRAIGHT WITH THE COMMONWEALTH CUP. ILL HAVE KIDS AT THAT POINT AND ILL TELL THEM I DONT EVEN REMEMBER WHEN THEY BEAT US LAST. AND THEN YOU KNOW WHATS BETTER THAN 25 STRAIGHT YEARS....
FIFTY STRAIGHT YEARS. THEY WILL JUST QUIT FOOTBALL.
I believe the post is "dumbest and/or most inaccurate"... how does this fit exactly?
I agree with you. Isn't that the goal, that we want to have the Commonwealth Cup so long that LOLUVA thinks it is some kind of legend like El Dorado or something?
Oh boy...
I can't recall any one thing in particular, but sitting in the student section at VT basketball games from 06-10 made me realize how little average joes know about basketball. It was painful for me.
2015 game against an OSU.
I vaguely remember the Ohio State fans next me complaining the ENTIRE game about how drunk and obnoxious the guy standing next to them was. Completely unfounded.