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We thought for a while that the place was cursed. In 2003, it was a club called Woody's, then something else the next year, which I'm forgetting entirely.

Oh lord, I think that was a revolving door of bars. Kind of amazing that Sharkey's has stayed there for 10 years.

I'm disappointed that there are no Kellen Winslow Jr. quotes. Huge missed opportunity, imo.

Come back and I will taunt you for a second time!

Definitely going to be a passionate month!
I appreciate the level headed discourse, I really do.
But when it comes to football...VT football...and now that it is August...
Well, I'll stay in line, but I'm about as diplomatic as this guy:

Kam Chancellor is the best strong safety in the NFL right now. He should get paid like one. He is underpaid for what hes been doing to opposing teams.

Very nice. If we haven't moved by then I will have to take you up on that. I had some friends "serve" beer at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver for a few years. Suspiciously they only last for 2 hrs before they could no longer speak coherently and/or stand of their own free will

I'm actively trying to counter my Hokie homerism with my intrinsic analytical side. Both fan bases are going to ratchet up their optimism now; it's a natural consequence of August rolling around. The Buckeye faithful are going to say, "it can't possibly happen two years in a row!" and they have reason to believe that because, after all, the whole National Championship thing. Hokies are going to point to last year and say "anything can happen - we did it once and now we're on our turf!"

And then the VT hype video drops tomorrow.

It really is fun having OSU fans around to chat with; good conversations so far. A bit more impassioned in the last few days, but that's to be expected :)

Obviously I'm new here, but navigating the Football Forum seems a little clunky.

Maybe I'm missing it, but is there a way to get directly to the football forum in one click?

May I suggest possibly having a drop down under the FORUM tab that allows you to select the football forum directly without having to make two clicks?

Not a huge deal just a minor though, it's a great forum thanks for having me!

Very level-headed response.

Rather than wade into the sub-thread above, I'll say that this is my impression of Decker's comments: they're inconsistent or incomplete. He's mixing a bit of diplomacy with confidence. What else would we expect from a college kid? He did alright but not perfect:

1. In fairness, he absolutely does give credit to our scheme and players. Respect.
2. He makes a few statements that are too generic to be universally true (we did in fact beat some guys one-on-one, but true it wasn't "every time." We also didn't simply outnumber them every time, but that implication is probably just from poor word choice.)
3. anOSU finally figured out the Bear? Cool story, we won't do the same thing.

Finally, this conversation is just all of us gearing up for one hell of a matchup. If healthy, VT will have an elite defense this year. anOSU has a collection of outstanding athletes on both sides of the ball. Our offense...no one knows but the potential is there.

Sept. 7 can't get here soon enough.

Ask your fellow fans. We are just another pushover. Ask any Hokie. We wanna kick the shit outta you.....respectfully :)