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GO TO PRINCIPAL O SHAG HENNESSEY'S OFFICE A. A. RON!
Why your team sucks: This is the franchise that pretends to be classy, and yet the Niners fanbase consists mostly of your standard Bay Area hooligans, who rock goatees and stab people in the parking lot. Many Niners fans are simply Raiders fans working undercover. They're just as violent and miserable, and they deserve to have their entire franchise shuttled out 50 miles south to Santa Clara, where they can't hurt law-abiding San Franciscans. The rest of the fanbase consists of transplants who go to the Niners game just so they can network with someone they found on LinkedIn. OMG THIS STADIUM HAS NO BIKE RACK! (designs app that gets recommended in Wired but is used by no one)
Niners fans are unique in that they are both spoiled AND disloyal. This team has won FIVE Super Bowls, and even that wasn't enough to keep people hanging around during the Singletary years. Hell, they could barely tolerate Jeff Garcia taking them to the playoffs. No no, this team has to average 13 wins a season to get natives to actually look up.
yeah it's sad. i've never lived in wv but i've gone there every few months or so pretty much my entire life to visit family. there's just no infrastructure but i dont know what can really be built to improve it because of the geography. like you say, there's very little opportunity. my grandpa had a barber shop and raised beef cattle so he did alright. but for the most part if you dont work for the state, a utility, or maybe a lumber company, the only alternative is the mine. i could write a book about some of the stories my great-uncles and cousins have told me about digging for a living and lemme tell ya, it's no way to live your life.
then you get into the self fulfilling prophecy that is poverty. folks grow up with nothing, that's all they know. so when they grow up they dont expect to have or to be anything. they dont take pride in what little they have because as far as they're concerned, why should they? the welfare rates in some of those counties put the inner cities to shame.
all that being said i have a ton of fond memories about spending time there growing up. i've always said west virginia is a truly lovely place if not for the people. i got 'country roads' on the ipod and sometimes get nostalgic and bump that shit.
And Welsh! That's how my great-great grandfather ended here. They found coal in northern WV and didn't know what the fuck to do so they went and got some experts from Wales. He climbed up out of a mine in Monmouth, got on a boat, came over here and went straight down into another mine (we work hard, we're not necessarily the brightest around, though). Gingers roll deep in Wales, too...I've got dark brown hair but my beard comes in 1/3 red and it freaks my wife out.
On a happier note for former VT players, Roc Carmichael was signed by the Eagles from Houston's practice squad today.
That was a dick move. But it was hilarious. Well played sir!
Seconded. Call it an appreciation for those of a fairer skin
I remember the Marshall game in 2011 made me aware of the very lovely Kaylee Hartung (a W&L alum). Wonder who'll be covering the game this year?
same here bro, i'm married to a ginger and have officially developed a thing.
That was low, even though I'll be away on duty that weekend anyways!
I wish it were satire. I live here in the bay area, and the radio stations have callers complaining that Seattle's noise is "fan interference" and should be penalized. How were the 49ers so good for so long with such soft football fans?
Or you're calling them a Canadian metal band (How I Met Your Mother reference).
The Foreskins
Can I get an "A-men?" My kryptonite...
The Cowgirls? Why hate on a Cheerleading squad?!?! I don't understand why fans of other teams in the NFC East besides the Cowboys don't like beautiful women. But hey, more power to y'all, the ugly ones are cheaper anyways.
Sarcasm, calling the team the Cowgirls is weird since, as I pointed out, the Cowgirls is the cheerleading squad so it always sounds like non-Cowboys fans are hating on our hot cheerleaders. Unlike when I call the redskins the foreskins, because it would be very wrong to call a group of girls the foreskins.
You mean, fans aren't supposed to get into the game?!
Marshall: Classy fanbase alternative to WVU
Least favorite game of the year. Herd fan by birth, Hokie by choice
Beat me to it as I was struggling with my computer accepting the html code. Gotta love Fujitsu...
A lot of the settlers in WV were Scotch-Irish with a good bit of Swiss mixed in so there is a good population of souless gingers to be had. Red hair actually runs in my family, though I managed to get the day-walker gene and mine turned brown after I was about four years old. My sister is still full on ginger and begins to vaporize in the sun if left out for more than five minutes.
You bastard
Tosh.0 just made you dick of the week!