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But our other long snapper just set the position record for the vertical jump! It was in the winter max testing numbers!

Isn't anyone listening?!?

Come on Wolfpack, close out this 12-5 matchup upset. Lessgo.

Well done by UConn, that's how you close out a game at the line: 16-17 to close the game

Eh, he's kinda right.

I do like keeping up with all the conversations on here, so it's my own fault I keep clicking on it. So I guess the button on the side would remove the temptation and, as you said, let threads I was more interested in bubble up to the top.

Wow that drive by Napier was amazing. Might have been the final nail for St Joe's

Gonna come down to free throws in this last minute.

Yeah, I think for long term entertainment I would much rather see UConn move on but seeing another close matchup like the OSU/Dayton game is always good too.

Too funny.

Definitely an interesting option.

For me downtown wasn't as much about any one bar, but more about where on that night I knew someone behind a bar if I wasn't working myself. Working downtown came with that amazing perk, as long as you tipped well, you basically drank for free. If I had to list my top places because I knew people there it would have been:

1) Sharkey's (Being right next door to my bar we were frequently BSing with each other out front as bouncers)
2) Hokie House (Especially downstairs close to closing ordering a ginourmous breakfast to go with my well endowed drinks)
3) RiverMill (had the on again off again thing with one of their lady bartenders and the beer selection was phenomenal for Blacksburg at the time)
4) TOTS (Knew the entire staff, picked up odd shifts there occasionally if they needed help with a big event, always left buzzingly happy if drinking)
5) The Library (Some of the craziest S I ever saw went on down there in that basement) Saw several good bands there, also saw Jimmy's Chickenshack there. Probably the most ingenious bar name, since all that showed up on credit card receipts was Library, so kids with mommy and daddy's credit cards would rack up huge bills and tell their parents they had to buy some additional books or supplies.
6) Big Al's because that's where a lot of my friends would be
7) Drawing a complete blank on the name because it changed every year I was there but the building that's actually behind where Woody's/Sharkey's is. That place was always losing their liquor license for serving everyone and usually had solid DJs.

Places in my mind I didn't really think of as bars:
The Cellar (Always was a date place for me)
PK's (was more an afternoon food/drink/away game place for me)

The funny part was that I didn't actually drink most nights I was out because I was a brother of Alpha Phi Omega so I did a ton of designated driving late night down there. I might on occasion though have had the drunks I was driving home make a "side trip" to IHOP in Christiansburg to buy me breakfast at 3am. That place would have been the source of so many video's if phones and video recorders were prevalent then as they are now. There would be people getting it on in back booths or others asleep on the floor of the restaurant almost every weekend. Was always amusing. Oh the good old days.

I used to have the shirt "My two favorite teams on Sunday are Washington and whoever is playing Dallas" I think my distaste for Dallas fans is way greater than my care for the Skins. I really get annoyed when someone tells me they are a Dallas fan but have never been to Texas.

Totally used it today lol