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It's almost impossible to throw a ball to Sam Rogers, because even the ball is afraid of him.
Yes, this. I see that tweets including the #CapitalOneHokie hashtag get 25 votes and a photograph of yourself playing the position with the hashtag gets lots of points.
Let's just say I've found my own way to contribute to this ;)
I believe the game will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1. Best bet is to find a radio or internet stream.
I was in a computer lab at New River Community College when one of the interpreters came in and told she heard a plane hit the Pentagon. My jaws came unhinged because I couldn't understand why the Air Force didn't shoot it down.
I remember reading or hearing that if a plane gets within 1/3 of a mile of the White House, they will shoot it down.
Then my next thought was, "How in the hell did the FBI and CIA missed this?"
The lab professor turned on the projection and we watched both towers come down. We were stunned. The professor was a former Air Force colonel.
I remember just feeling overwhelmed with anger and sadness.
Those are the two events that are forever branded in my mind: 9/11/01 and 4/16/07. Never Forget.
To our soldiers, thank you. To our first responders, thank you.
Group Hug!
Tuckahoe Elementary, Middle, and Freeman High. You?
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Should I correct this equation to Bud Foster > Buddy Ryan ?
I was nine years out of VT and at work in Union, NJ (where i still work) when we started getting the news about what was happening. I work for a small family architecture firm where the office is attached to the boss's house. We went inside the house and watched on the TV as the second plane hit. My boss said 'that's it - everybody go home' as he thought something bigger like bombings or more planes might be about to happen (Union is only about 10 miles from NYC as the crow flies). I live about 40 min south from work, so I take the Garden State Parkway south to the NJ Turnpike south listening to the radio coverage, and there's a pretty high overpass where the two connect and you were able to just catch a glimpse of the towers. As I came over the overpass i realized that one of the towers was gone, and it was moments later they said on the radio the the first tower had collapsed. It was surreal driving the next 25-30 miles on the Turnpike south and seeing almost no traffic except emergency & governrment type vehicles heading north all with their emergency lights blazing. I found out later that week that one of my high school classmates died in the collapse. Thankfully, he was the only person I knew that died.
Local Fauquierian here.
Go Fauq yourself
You went to HCPS too? What schools?
Sam Rogers know where to find a unicorn, Bigfoot, and Yeti all at once.
The Kraken is actually a child of Sam Rogers and Medusa union.
british nick saban, i see what you did there
Thank you so much for the write up. Was 'forced' to get off my couch and go to a beerfest last Saturday. Missed a lot of football. This summary told me everything I could've possibly wanted to know! Much obliged.
The most creative submissions will be featured in the Mascot Challenge Gallery and weekly Matchup Highlight Reels. I would love to see a string of TKP members winning that week in and week out. We have talent to do it.
The USSR gave up on the Cold War because they heard Sam Rogers was born.
Sam Rogers lifted the Steel Curtain
THE HOKIEBIRD IS SAM ROGERS' CHILD!
I have made a game out of the # challenge as well. Almost like our Sam Rogers jokes. For instance: #CapitalOneHokie The Hokie Bird Can play DT (Defensive Tackle) because Hokie Birds naturally tackle invaders of their territory. Especially hostile envaders, like...pirates.
I just woke up and was getting ready for class that morning.
The next day (I think- it might have been that day, but I'm mostly sure it was the next day), W&M sent an email to the students with a list of campus events/memorials going on that day and over the next few days. The problem is they accidentally sent the rough draft to the student body, and the subject of the rough draft was, in all caps, "DRAFT NOTICE". It caused a mild panic.
This.
I was a Sophomore at VT and living in Hunter's Ridge. I didn't have class that morning so I was still sleeping, so my mom called me frantically after the first plane hit to tell me "We're under attack." I was half asleep and had no clue what she was talking about, but my roommates were starting to wake up to similar calls from their families and we all turned on the TV just as the second plane hit. I remember that about ten of my friends ended up congregating in my apartment throughout the day watching the news in disbelief. For not being much of a smoker, I swear I must have chain smoked two packs of cigarettes that day. Fortunately I didn't have any family in DC or NYC to worry about, but watching the images from that day are permanently scarred into my brain.
In middle school. I remember being in class and my teacher going in and out of class. Only other thing that comes to mind is being in P.E. and watching the news.
I was living in California at the time and I remember my radio coming on to wake me up before school. Just as it came on I heard the announcer say "it has been confirmed that a second plane has hit the second tower." I didn't really have a grasp of mortality at this point in my life...I thought of war as a video game I played on a computer and old WWII movies I'd watch with my friends. I went downstairs and my entire family was sitting in the living room eating breakfast and getting ready for school. I casually mentioned what I heard and my parents immediately started turning on the radio and checking the news; they had not heard.
Later that week there was a foggy morning. Being in California, a lot of our school infastructure was outdoors. I remember everyone being outside before classes and there was a lawnmower trimming the athletic fields. We could not see much due to the fog and as the mower got closer to the buildings people started freaking out. Everyone thought it was a plane about to hit us.
I consider 09/11/01 the day I lost my innocence. I was just old enough to begin understanding the world but still young enough to be a child.