I know we had a thread wondering if it would be happening, but now it's official. I'm a fan of this combination with the matte helmet. Can't wait to see it coming out of the tunnel! Bring on ND.
Game 5 • Uniform Reveal#HardSmartTough 🦃 pic.twitter.com/nzpHb8DGMT— HokiesFB 🦃 (@HokiesFB) October 3, 2018
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Saw the post from HokieSports on Facebook early this morning. Had to check over here to make sure TheKeyPlay hosting server didn't melt down.
INJECT MATTE PAINT INTO MY VEINS.
ummm... I'll pass thanks
edit: It should be noted that I am a painter
Matte AME is gonna be lit!
LOVE IT. Glad they're going matte
The matte helmets tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Remember to wear your designated color! :)
I would love this to work and look good, but it won't.
Why? Why is everyone so hateful to VT trying to do something like this and crapping all over it before it even happens? Stop!!!!! If other fan bases can pull it off, VT sure can. We have a lot smarter alumni base and fan base than others that have been successful, so there is no reason to doubt this.
Because the top third of the east sideline is the wild west for students trying to sit with their friends and not in the assign seat. I'm skeptical as well.
On top of that I think people severely underestimate how many people out of 66,000 are going to do no research or improper research on what color to wear. It's easy enough to hear just "wear maroon" or "wear orange" through word of mouth, or to throw on a T-shirt that is actually given to you at the stadium. But while we all sit here on the internet all day and have seen the striped seating chart a million times and treat it like common knowledge at this point, there are probably thousands of people attending this game who haven't seen it once and never will.
Sure. We just need a wealthy alumni (or group of) to buy 67,000 tshirts and have volunteers place one on each seat. That'd work, right?
Because it's been communicated poorly, I have talked to about 20 people this week who didn't know it was going on and are season ticket holders. I also talked to someone who works at the university and is a season ticket holder who hasn't heard of it either.
Did you let them know? If so, they know now...and it's before kickoff.
It's on the schedule, it's on the ticket, and it's on the very first page of the season ticket book. I don't understand how it could be communicated any more effectively than that. I think the bigger problem is people not paying attention.
I don't know what might be going on, but I fall into the last category of "University employee and season ticket holder," and I've gotten multiple emails over the last few weeks. Have whoever you talked to check their spam folder and filter settings. One thing that VT might be able to do to improve is to not send email from "hokiesports.com" but to have a "vt.edu" email address so that messages don't get marked as spam. But that's just a guess at what's happening.
Signs are up in the bookstore, across campus and in buildings, online, and announcements made via email. I don't know how people are still uninformed about this.
As someone who hasn't been to the game in 3 years and picked up tickets off of stub hub, I haven't gotten an email from hokiesports since I was a student. I have gotten at least 3 emails about the stripe effect since I bought my tickets on stubhub....
Mentioned in all for of these emails. 9:05 this morning. October 3, Sept 24th, Sep 20th. I think they're doing as much as they can here.
I'm not hating on the concept. If this works, its going to look great.
My issue is that we have a fanbase that is convinced the color orange is purely evil and should be abolished and never seen again within the confines of Lane Stadium, and a student section that.... Shit at this point we might as well double the size of the NEZ and keep all students there. I have zero hope they'll be able to make that work as well as one would hope.
So.... My hopes aren't too high. I think it'll look like a valiant attempt, but not as good as it should be.
See Vader gif above.
I have a framed panorama of Lane that shows that the fanbase WILL wear orange quite effectively. Just because some people (including me) don't love orange jerseys doesn't mean we won't wear it as fans.
Both upper east corners may blur a bit. That's fine. I see no reason this thing wouldn't work.
perhaps the orange in the stands helps to suck out the evil of the orange that would be on the grass...
a LOT of suck.
I wore orange to the Duke game and just look what happened! I'm in a maroon section this week though, so I have to decide if I go back to my jersey or actually wear the specific effect shirt for the game. Also, have we considered painting the seats orange and maroon? Just to help things along. It works for Duke, after all.
You could wear your effect shirt over a long sleeved orange shirt (if it gets cool after dark)
You're confusing actual fans with message board memes. Also, all the student sections are the same color, which was actually quite clever since we know they can't sit still
except part of the student section extends to the top of section 3, and even 5 maybe? so I'm worried that's where it's gonna fall apart.
Because those of us in school at the time maroon effect became a thing know that it was just us stealing tradition from Texas A&M. The student council voted to do the maroon effect the next year after we saw A&M do it. It was a tradition at A&M. It's a gimmick at VT. We have our traditions that make us VT. Wearing certain colors during games wasnt one of them.
YES - Section 15: I get to wear AME to match
more of this! get rid of white effect
You mean rainbow poncho effect.
Wanted to post the freedom boner gif but it was borderline distasteful. This will have to do.
Pro tip: dont Google "freedom boner gif"
Did the American flag bald eagle penis pop up? Classic
Maroon Unis Good
Orange Unis Bad
#WARPAINT
This doesn't have nearly enough legs.
Brooklyn 99 always gets a leg
Matte maroon makes me go-
...maybe you should see a doctor about that.
Ehhhhh. It's only been 2 hours and 36 minutes. He's fine.
the blue waffle? (don't google the blue waffle)
Randy Marsh's ectoplasm isn't for everyone but Golden Girls is.
You're gonna want to change this. It's been banned for being NSFW. Censored multiple times by the mods.
It's only Elmers
A spooky ghost!
Haha it's ectoplasm
What happened to moderation by committee?
We got one master moderator to control the masses. But he is a busy man. It's not that it is offensive(which yeah it can be, even if it is hilarious) it's that this needs to be a work friendly site. It has been made a point that this gif just is too much.
Hahahhha. I loled. Bravo.
Honestly, all the gifs of women showing off their legs or like Emma Watson gifs would look pretty bad if someone walked by your desk.
Apparently people are cooler with Emma Watson's legs than a male cartoon character covered in ectoplasm.... who knew?
Didn't know it was an ultimatum.
Apologies for my absence in recent weeks. I just submitted a $1.25 million proposal to NIH and it has sapped the life out of me. I am now, officially, only slightly less busy than usual.
Thanks to the community for peacefully dealing with stuff like this.
That's all?
Should've doubled it right before submission. ;^)
Yeah, I mean, what're you doing, buying pencils?
Toilet seats
What's wrong with the Golden Girls?
Okay, I had to google this to see what you're talking about. I laughed out loud, but yeah, I can see where that would be somewhat NSFW.
MATTE HELMETS ARE GOOD FOR THE SOOOOOOOUUUUL
Not bad, not bad at all heheh
AME is done on purpose to disguise all the Irish blood that will be spilled.
Metaphorically not literally of course
So damn sexy.
It's like they know what we want
I miss that gold flake
This is new!! And potentially dangerous
Fresh off of last weekend's SNL debut!
Us walking to the tunnel... NDs reaction
Doc Holiday got all the best lines, tracking shots , etc in Tombstone.
"Why Jonny Ringo. You look like someone just...walked over your grave"
He is my all time fav movie character and real life hero. My next tat will be this! We need more tombstone gifs in the key play!
You can see the exact moment the sugar hits the bloodstream
If that gif went any longer you'd've seen that girl say, "FUUUUUUUCK YEAH!"
Let me tell you something. Cotton Candy vomit is one of the grossest things in the world. Do not recommend having to clean it up.
AME:
A
Massive
Erection
Love it!! Maroon is our primary color, stick to it. #NEVERORANGE
Look good, feel good, play good!
Thrilled we aren't wearing stripes! With no announcement and the stripe the stadium gimmick, thought there was a chance we do something repulsive.
All I can say is...
AME????
I'm not sure I can get anymore pumped for this game!!!
Just got so hyped and handed out legs to every pro - maroon post. Keep the love flowing FEEL MY ENERGY LETS GO HOKIES!!!!