I've had multiple requests to refresh TKP's Decade of Dominance t-shirts. There have already been some do-it-yourself modifications.
That time, 3 years ago, when I made a few modifications to my @thekeyplay shirt 🙌. Maybe I just need a new shirt now. #15straight #hokies pic.twitter.com/OsbG2Cu9Tp— Leeyah (@LeeyahNotLayah) November 29, 2018
This would be as basic as updating the text at the top, keeping the same exact graphic in the middle, and some how incorporating the number 15 instead of 10.
Do any of y'all have thoughts or suggestions?
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Maybe some poo on the ground behind the horse for Cav Man to fall into? /s
Yes whatever is done YES
Can't spell Caval1er5 without 15
Top: "Continued Dominance"
Bottom: "Let's Go HOK1E5"
I suggest somehow putting a spinner where the number of years is, so you can just turn it one higher every year.
This begs the question. Two or three digits?
I guess we don't even know if t-shirts will still be a thing in 85 years though.
Just my $0.02:
I already have that shirt, so adding a '15' in place of the '10' wouldn't be enough change to where I'd buy this one. I'm all for the idea of another shirt for the 15th straight year though. How about a maroon shirt with "15 In a Row", "#15Straight", or something of the like in orange letters on the front and then on the back have a list of scores from every game as a column. I think it'd be lethally simple and effective.
What if it looked something like:
"Teen-angst: losing fifteen straight in football and to a sixteen seed in basketball."
That might take too much away from VT though.
Add a reference to them smashing a brick with a sledgehammer but still failing to beat us.
Hokie stone is stronger than a landscaping paver.
Oh...i like this train of thought. Maybe a Hokie stone with "Beat Tech" painted on it and a broken sledgehammer next to it?
Another idea: paving stone with "Beat Tech" written on it. Cavman standing next to it with a sledgehammer and a Hokie stone falling on his head.
Hokie stone, with "Hokie" on it resting above a broken paver...broke into 15 pieces, one above the other, top one says "Tech" bottom one says "beat"
Hokie
Tech
Beat
Or a Hokie Stone, with a shattered sledgehammer next to it.
VT logo on stone, loluva logo on sledge.
Save it for next year's shirt...
What's more embarrassing, Losing 16 in a row or losing to 16 seed?
Either way, sucks to be UVA
EDIT: meant as a reply to warthog
I like "Our UVa streak just got it's driver's license. Our baby is all grown up." for the 16th t-shirt.
Can also do - High school graduate for win #18 t-shirt, and legal drinker for the 21st win t-shirt.
I'm already hyped up to buy the "The streak is still healthy now that it gets Medicare" t-shirt after win #65.
If only Virginia had common law marriage, that would be a good shirt too
And if we had a similar streak vs WVU...
never mind
Or having 16 fans at your spring game?
FTFY
plus points to incorporate a UMBC good boy on the shirt in some way.
I think Joe was going to do a shirt just for that after that game but there was copyright issues with using that logo.
Any generic
goldenretriever would get the point across.Could even have a double meaning
UMBC's mascot is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever
"The Cup is Going Nowhere Mikey!"
The HokieBird dressed up and celebrating its Quinceañera while drinking from the Cup.
We have to make it about a quinceaneras!
...and next year about our baby gettingbits drivers license.
I feel like this also requires sombrero Beamer.
You knew where I was going with this, I see.
This doesn't deserve it's own thread, but since this post has a horse in it, I decided to post here.
This is badass.
Someone PLEASE tell me the story behind this. Is he a real cowboy?
Gameday I believe had a segment on him one week. Here is an article about him:
Devin White Owns 7 Horses
Based on his skills, he is practiced on horseback.
1.5 Decades of Dominance
Keep the rest the same
Or, if you wanted to get fun with it.... add in a pile of 15 Commonwealth Cups
I like fractions better...1 1/2 Decades
I also like the idea of purposely making it look edited
3/2 Decades of Dominance 100% of the Time.
Thomas Jefferson probably never knew that the Zima drinking Defeat Cobras that populate Charlottesville would suck at football but Addison Caldwell did!
1.5 decades of dominance?
Holy crap I love this
Top: Hoo's Your Daddy?
Middle: pic of commonwealth cup and VT logo
Bottom: 15 Years And Counting
SInce he played a large role in several of our victories, shouldn't it be Hoo's Your Dadi?
hmmm. that would be a great name for a Sabre troll account.
Or just keep it as simple as an all maroon tee with an orange 15 on it.
I was thinking of something similar.
Maroon shirt, silver commonwealth cup on it, orange 15 either on the cup or under it.
"Decade (and a half) of Dominance"
It's not the shirt we deserve, but it is the shirt we need.
Decade.5 of Dominance
Three Quinquennium of Dominance!
THIS 15 HOME with a picture of the cup underneath. Or make the 1 and the 5 in "this" the 15. you get the picture
#This15Home
Maybe a picture of Lane North with #This15secondhome
Already taken
Even if this photochop was better, you'd know it was photochopped, because they don't have enough fans to hold up the cards without holes in it.
It would be glorious to take over that stadium one year and pull our own card trick for Tech.
I've always been a fan of "Decade of Dominance, v1.5"
Instead of updating the shirt every year with the new numbers, just make a shirt with velcro and sell the updated patches
I like
"COMMONWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEALTH CUP"
Something like this? But with 15 W's of course.
I think this was in the RTD paper last year, right?
I would like a shirt without a hashtag.
In related news...get off my lawn!
This can't possibly be an unpopular opinion right? Hashtags on shirts or literally anywhere that they aren't actually a hyperlink to that topic or being used in jest is silly.
#imgettingoffyourlawnalready
I think just your simple 15-0, maybe add in a blurb about it being the 100th game of the "rivalry". Nothing fancy.
Front: Got 15?
Back: Hoo Don't? You Don't!
Front: HOO'S RISING???
Back: 15 Straight.
I'm in for at least 2.
38-0 bro
I kind of like the Hokie Stone unbroken with the UVA sledgehammer broken on the front and the following on the back.
2004 VT 24-10
2005 VT 52-14
2006 VT 17-0
2007 VT 33-21
2008 VT 17-14
2009 VT 42-13
2010 VT 37-7
2011 VT 38-0
2012 VT 17-14
2013 VT 16-6
2014 VT 24-20
2015 VT 23-20
2016 VT 52-10
2017 VT 10-0
2018 VT 34-31(OT)
15 Straight and counting...
You misspelled "38-0, bro"
Maybe some sort of play on "15 minutes of fame"
Quinceanera Hokie might be my favorite Hokie.
Knock Knock
Hoo's There?
Loser
Loser Hoo?
Exactly!
15 Years And Counting....
They break bricks
We break Hoos
Maroon shirt, 15 hokiestones.
Each hokie stone with the score on it?
I like it.
Let's bring some math into this (if we are the engineering school we claim to be).
lim VT (W) = ∞
Win Streak
How about just adding:
"Real stone doesn't break so easily"
And changing the 10 to 15
What about some sort of decade and a half of dominance front and on back an individual Hokie stone with each score?
Make it digital, so we can just do an app update each year.
I was thinking a countdown type of thing like:
15 straight wins
14 defensive touchdowns
13 different QBs
...
1 seed losing to a 16
(or 1 owner of the Cup, whichever)
"If you want to do more than just break a paver, you better not drop the ROCK"
Amazing
Insert pic of UVa players botching a hand-off of the Cup
I need a GIF of that and one of the uva player in the endzone trying to recover the Cup before we jump on it in my life.
cut to the old guy from the Geico commercial "you gotta be quicker than that" at the end.
Really just a clip of Steven Peoples carrying the cup to the endzone, fumbling it, UVa coming sooooooo close to picking it up, then having a Hokie come up with it would be the metaphorical summary of the streak and that game.
I think I can do this
More specifically, I'm waiting.
Regardless of the design, I'd really like it to be SUPER obvious just by glancing at it what the shirt is referring to. I love my Decade of Dominance t-shirt and HOAT shirt and have gotten lots of compliments, but I've had many people (Hokie fans included) have to stop and take the time to read it up close to understand it. I dunno, maybe I just only run into people with poor vision.
WELCOME TO THE INDICTION OF INCOMPETENCE
in·dic·tion - /inˈdikSHən/ noun
a fiscal period of fifteen years used as a means of dating events and transactions in the Roman Empire and in the papal and some royal courts. The system was instituted by the Emperor Constantine in AD 313 and was used until the 16th century in some places.
2. Also known as how long the Virginia Tech Hokies have held the Commonwealth Cup against UVA for consecutive years.
Front: THIS 15 HOME
Back: ALSO, UVA WAS THE FIRST EVER #1 SEED TO LOSE TO A #16 SEED
Am I in the minority that thinks we shouldn't have a reference to UVA losing to a #16 seed on a Virginia Tech shirt?
I'm in agreement.
It was embarrassing, but it wasn't our accomplishment.
It's also a basketball reference on a football shirt.
Well done sir.
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Add an orange 15 on TJ's lapel.
3/4 Score AGO...
How about something minimalist.
A large 15 on top of a smashed paving stone. With the tagline, "Some teams break pavers, others break records"
I would like that a lot more if we hadn't had so many other teams break scoring/yardage records against us this season.
fair point. maybe...
"Some teams break pavers, others destroy dreams"
How about:
"Good thing VT wasn't built with PAVER's"
with the aforementioned picture of a Hokie Stone and broken sledgehammer.
A lot of recommendations about the paver. But very few people would even know what it is in reference to. I cant tell you how many people I have had to explain my DBU shirt to. Simpler the better.
isn't that part of the fun of having the shirt? you know what it is, it looks cool and others want to know what it's about. That encapsulates the perfect shirt IMO
I don't mind getting tapped on the shoulder with "awesome shirt. Go Hokies".
It's awkward to get "I guess this is a VT shirt but what does it mean?" I reply "well you see UVA broke a paver with Beat Tech on it in a team building exercise in Fall practice and made VT the focus of their season only to come up short on Black Friday" I look up and the nice man wanting to make small talk is walking away.
those that are worth knowing will be glad to stay and listen. Those that are not worth the time will walk away.
More straight wins against Hooville than Hooville had at its spring game. (Although that's not saying much)
Please let me know when/where to buy.
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In ten years, we can issue antique tags for the cup streak. Just an idea for future use.