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After the game I threw something of relatively little value against the wall, breaking it, and stormed into my room and slammed the door. A few minutes later my girlfriend at the time opened it and began to say something before I yelled, "Now's not the fucking time, alright?" Later we got into a fight over "how I was acting." I dumped her after the Furman game.
Beastly be thy name. Thy season come, thy dominance be done on the field as it is in practice. Give us this Saturday (or Thursday night) our weekly win, and forgive us our beatings as we curse those who score against us. And lead us not into the SEC, and deliver us from recruiting violations. For thine is the Beamer and the Foster and the 10-wins for ever and ever, Aaah-YEAH.
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I dumped a guy because he didn't like college football. WHO THE EFF DOESN'T LIKE COLLEGE FOOTBALL??
I make a nasty face at every car with a UVA or WVU sticker on it, and I'm glad we don't play WVU anymore. I loved beating them more than anything in this world, and I'm glad we went out on a high note.
I personally LOVE the key play, and I know when to use it. I tore up my hand a few times with some vicious key-shaking. I associate the key play along with stick-it-in and all the other joyful things I learned during my first fall in Blacksburg. It makes me smile just thinking about it.
I don't handle losing well. I went to bed at 3 pm after the ECU season-opening loss in 2008 and didn't get out of bed until the next evening.
A college football coach witnessed me watching and screaming instructions during the 2007 BC game, and he told me I have a future in college football.
I didn't watch the 2009 Nebraska game. I was coordinating a wedding that day and somehow missed most of it between getting the reception set up and the bride down the aisle. I saw the score after the fact and still to this day watch that clip from the last few minutes of that game once a week.
I start missing football season by January 8th.
I snuck into Lane Stadium with a friend one spring evening. Honestly, it still to this day is one of the best nights of my life.
I HATE watching VT games alone because I have no one to high-five when we score. I will go to the local VT-alumni bar to watch a game by myself if necessary. I know that as long as the games on and the beer is cold, I'll be happy. Plus, I always end up seeing old Hokie friends there.
I have a Hokie-themed Catholic school girl outfit.
Aaaaah-men.
I grieved the loss literally no more than the 15 hours it took me to get down to NOLA for 10 days of bliss. In addition I went out to catch the GT game the next week while down there but didn't pay any attention.
YouTube videos of the last 2 minutes are sureal to me as a result since I never really processed what happened, and I indeed would probably be scarred forever if not for 2010 Nebraska making things right with the universe.
I won't confess all my sins, I mean how could I know that boy I bought over the internet from Laos wasn't 18 years old yet. I will keep it to sins I have inflicted on Hokie Bird.
2002
I ask for forgiveness that I only watched the last quarter of the Miami game to end the year. I was in NYC and someone called and told me it was close, I had given up on the team after 3 straight losses.
2003
I am sorry I took your name in vain roughly 200 million times in 2003 and vowed to never watch you again.
I apologize again for that year turning off the WVU game to save me from breaking my tv and listening to the rest of the game on the radio. I also apologize for turning off said radio before the game was over. I hate WVU.
I also apologize for wearing the same shirt a few weeks later against Pitt. When we lost that game I cut up the shirt. I can't believe the girl watching with me that night is now my wife.
2004
I apologize for wishing very bad things to happen to the offensive line coaches family and friends when NCST sacked Bryan Randall 10 times.
I don't apologizing for actually liking most of the USC fans I met at the Kickoff Game.
Otherwise I don't think that I have really sinned too much.
Living in Seattle, most game days I am up around 6:30 taking care of the dogs and then making to the bar by 9:00 am for kickoff. I gather with 20 or so other Hokie fans for any game, whether on internet or TV. Now I cannot resist taking a drink or two when I am a) at a bar or b) watching the Hokies. Combine those two things and the early morning and I pretty much am wasted by noon every Saturday in the fall. I would only change it if I had season tickets, a private jet and a pad in Blacksburg.
I miss playing WVU but not losing to them. I am from Pittsburgh and a lot of my friends went to WVU. There is no reason we shouldn't play them every year. It is just losing to them hurts a little worse than the others.
My favorite Hokie moment(s) are in 1999/2000. I was at Morgantown for the WVU Michael Vick/Shane Graham final drive. Me and another Hokie were holding hands and hearing it from the fans. Although I am a shit talker for a little guy, I kept my mouth shut in the middle of Nehlan Stadium.
Also if games were only 3 quarters long then Jan 4th would be my best night ever (I would apologize to my wife but she would agree with me) as I thought we were going to win the national championship. I sat in a FSU section and 90% of those fans were nice and supportive during the game and after the loss.
As far as the keys, I agree with footballgirl. It is overused. I now make fun of the use of them and the last game I went to I brought them out on first down. Booze helped make that more funny.
By they way, I think any game day experience now is filled with twittering and texting while at the game. At least that is what I did last year to a game I went to.
Speaking as one who started in 1997, it took close to ten years just to fully eradicate key-shaking on offensive third downs.
I always viewed key-shaking as more an inefficient noisemaker than a claim of "key play", though, so using them on all defensive third downs seems OK to me.
Okay, here goes. Despite the fact that I love your blog, I really don't care much for the "key play". Reason? It's entirely too overused. Every third down play is not a key play. And, I get tired of idiots who don't realize this shaking their keys at me.
Also, I stopped watching the 2007 LSU game when they put Tyrod in. It was just too painful.
That's some dedicated fans with weak bladders. Just hold it. But then not everyone could go under the NE bleachers...
that 2005 Oklahoma-Oregon game in Eugene, I don't think anyone has any game won until the click reaches zero. I was even nervous late in the third quarter against Miami and after watching the game again sober I realized there was no fucking way Miami was going to beat us at any time in that game.
Note: So far, all of my math answers have been 9. If only Intro to Elementary Function was this easy freshman year.
How oblivious can I be?
and didn't want to walk down to piss, so .....
don't ask me about the guy who lived on barger street who went to games in depends though. ::shudder::
I bet a lot of people shit themselves during the Michael Vick years. But seriously did he soak depends with alcohol or am I reading way too much into this.
joe, your description of your in-game behavior is spot on. your self-awareness after so much bourbon is amazing.
"When we score I high five everyone I can reach." probably one of my favorite parts of being at the game.
on to confessions.
I live in florida. Somehow I have managed to surround myself with people that went to FSU. Despite the in-conference rivalry (although they aren't on our schedule again until 2012) I have thoroughly enjoyed going to games and the scene in tallahassee. And with the exception of a few, I have found their fans to be gracious hosts. I also have become way too tolerant of gator fans. I'm pretty sure 90% of them didn't even go to the school. still hate the shithole that is miami though.
Like joe, I only went to one game my freshman year. I have no excuse, except maybe Grant Noel.
i really miss some of the rivalries we lost when we moved to the acc. namely pitt and wvu.
I don't know nearly enough about vt football history. I knew a little from being a fan of college football but not much prior to the 1999 national championship game. Most of what i know begins when i showed up on campus in 2001. I should make an effort to learn more.
i'm not a fan of the gobbler noise makers. i prefer yelling and screaming. it pains me to agree with jim weaver. i do like the one on the stadium pa though.
we had guys who would buy franzia boxes of wine for their gf's. when emptied, fill it full bourbon and then tape the bag to the inside of their coats with the spout facing fwd, obviously.
during the game, hold cup at belly, open jacket, dispense bourbon from the tab.
pretty kickass.
don't ask me about the guy who lived on barger street who went to games in depends though. ::shudder::
I refuse to take alcohol into Lane Stadium because girls wear bras and cops won't search their boobs.
I feel enlightened by this revelation. When I was in school I poured the booze into freezer bags that I duct taped to my inner thigh. All I had to do was ask girl to stick some airplane bottles in her bra.
I am shocked....shocked I say that F4H allows anything or anyone to get between him and his first true love, Hokie football. What is Hokie football all about if you can't go crazy between the months of September to January?
-I was the reason that we lost the 2005 Sugar Bowl to Auburn. I had attended every game during the 2004 season, home and away. I was at the stadium with friends and was actually rooting for Miami to win a little bit so I wouldn't feel sad that I was going to miss the free trip to New Orleans. After an abysmyal 2002 and 2003 post season I had lost the faith and signed up for a study abroad trip to India through Pamplin. Try as we did, the lead Hokie bird, myself and the rest of the group couldn't find an internet bar in Mumbai that would open up at 6am Indian time so we could watch the ESPN livecast on a dialup modem. That is the only Hokie football game I have not watched in the past decade.
-Jason Campbell could have been a great NFL quarterback if he wasn't drafted by one of the most micromanaging coaches in the entire NFL.
- I wish that we would resume the series with W(effen)VU. As much as I loved Mark May's pennies comments, I miss that rivalry, though BC is quickly taking over that role of spoiler.
-I have yet to see all of a Spring Game
-I have no faith that Stiney will not run 62 consecutive "run up the gut" plays against BSU...any passing play will be Tyrod rolling out of the pocket and making something happen (aka Nebraska last year).
-I have never had season tickets and will doubtfully ever will (unless I win the lottery). Tickets are easy to come by on the secondary markets.
I think everyone thought we had that BC game won.
- When I was in middle school I used to wanted to attend the University of Virginia because they had the better swim team at the time. (give me a break, I lived in California at the time and didn't know any better). Years later when I swam for VT I vowed never to lose to a Hoo. In fact, the last swim of my career at Olympic Trials was beating the Hoo next to me. Never a better way to end a career, but I'm still atoning...
- Ive taken a liking to most WVU fans since we stopped playing each other. Although I'd gladly go back to spitting vitriol in their faces for a home and home series to begin again.
- I'm still not quite sold on Tyrod, but I pray he gives me a reason to eat crow.
- I once pretended to respect that wretched institution in order to hook up with a girl from UVA over thanksgiving break.
- I cheer for Matt Ryan in the NFL
- The only two games we have recently lost to GT (06, 09) were the only two games I watched with my younger sister. She has since been banned from viewing any and all conference games.
- All during my senior year I let my girlfriend drag me out of almost every home game after halftime because she was "sooo tiiiiiired" and wanted to go home and sleep. I dumped her shit asap. Also for a slut with large boobs, that appreciated football.
and the sin that haunts me the most......
- I left during the beginning of the 4th quarter of the 2007 Boston College game, overly confident that victory was at hand, in order to get a jump start on post game festivities. I blame myself for that touchdown. I'll never do it again.
- I like Stiney...
Now I'll go say 6 Hokie Hi's and 12 Stick-it-ins
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned against the Hokies. It has been nearly 27 years since my last confession.
- When I was nine I owned a UVa shirt. I was young and impressionable and my grandparents thought I should like both teams from the Commonwealth. My Hokie-loving aunt chastised me and told me to "take that damn thing off". Now, I refuse to even wear orange and navy blue together at the same time.
- After the USC game in 2004 I threatened to break up with my girlfriend at the time because we started dating right after the 2003 Miami game and I blamed her for all of our losses. I told her that if we lost to Western Michigan in week 2 that she was a goner. After we lost to NC State to fall to 2-2 I told her that if we lost to West Virginia she was a goner. She stayed with me despite this and two years later I dumped her for a slut with large boobs who wound up cheating on me.
- I like Bryan Stinespring.
- I think Greg Boone was overrated.
- We lost the 2000 Sugar Bowl because I forgot to take the lucky Virginia Tech rabbits foot I bought at the 1993 Independence Bowl with me to New Orleans.
- Up until I was 24 I cried every time we lost a football game.
- I don't want to play West Virginia ever again because I like being able to say we beat them the last two times we played, including handing them their only defeat in 2005.
- I've let my current girlfriend go above the Hokies on my personal ladder of importance. My desire to save money and prove to her I can be a rational human during the months of September through January is the sole reason I won't be at the Boise State game.
Please have pity on my soul for I am merely a wretch in the eyes of your Hokie holiness.
I have 15-20 sites that I cruise daily, every day, even in the middle of the off season for any bit of info.
But, we have achieved a mini-milestone- we made it to the start of practice today (Fri). At least there will be some new news.
-- Sometimes I agree with the coaching staff about the O woes that, "the players just didn't execute the plays."
-- I refuse to take alcohol into Lane Stadium because girls wear bras and cops won't search their boobs.
-- I yell at the coaching staff for not running the same plays or using the same strategies that work for me in the video games, but I cuss out the guys in front of me who always say "USE THE SPY" when we face a mobile QB, because the "SPY" never works for me in the video games, so why would it work in real life? It is called "DE CONTAIN"! Just hand me the playbook, Bud.
You're spot on this time.
He also had 20 receiving yards, but that doesn't really matter
photographic evidence of the Catholic school outfit.