We now have an answer to the question of ‘Suppose the ACC gave a football championship game and nobody came?’ The answer, of course, is ‘Virginia Tech would win it, as usual.’ The Hokies knocked off Fredo last Saturday in the relative solitude of Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium. If Tech is going to continue to [...]
Al be home for Christmas. Hoo can count on me. In most of the country, Thanksgiving Day ushers in the holiday season of carols and consumption. Not so in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this neck of the woods the official start of festivities comes a couple of days later. That is when Tech beats [...]
Thawed out yet? That exhilarating display of offensive football in brisk conditions last Saturday night was certainly a wonder to behold. Uh, let’s rephrase that. Brisk? Brisk my [still] numb hindquarters. It was damn cold. Let’s try this again. That miserable display of offensive ineptitude on the frozen tundra of Lane Stadium last Saturday night [...]
What if they gave a conference championship game and nobody came? The ACC is blanketing the football airwaves with commercials begging people to buy tickets for its annual not quite extravaganza. Actually, forty-eight hours in Ybor City doesn’t sound half-bad. There does, however, seem to be a problem. Nobody wants to play in the game. [...]
Many will recall the riotous adventures experienced last year by the Clubhouse Tailgate in dealing with Catch-17. The marvelously-devious Catch-17 stated that RVs must have a parking permit to park in Lot 17, then the designated RV lot, unless one had a parking permit, in which case it could not park in Lot 17. Enacting [...]
There certainly seem to be a lot of unhappy fans around. My Sunday morning habit of scanning the message boards of losing teams for amusement not only sets a bright tone for the day, it reveals the absolute depths of misery and despair that seems to accompany being a fan of college football. Go figure. [...]
We have reached what is roughly the halfway point of the season. As is usually the case, things have gotten fairly interesting. The Virginia Tech football team had last week off. Unlike Frank’s crew, I did not. Despite my best attempts at working very hard at not working very hard, I seem to have gotten [...]
It certainly was an interesting weekend. The ACC discovered that there seems to be a football conference it can dominate. A master, such as he is, continued his dominance over former pupils. An annual autumnal rite is in full swing. And how about that epic battle in Durham, sure to become the stuff of legend? [...]
Winning Again 09/22/08 Act 2, a win is a win is a win. For the second straight week, the Virginia Tech football team garnered few style points. For the second straight week, they looked downright ugly at times. For the second straight week, they still managed to win. For the second straight week, they won [...]
A-Line Extra Hoo head football coach algroh said that while he continued to work very hard, he still found opportunities to spend quality time with boygroh. The Great NFL Legend said that over the last 2 ½ days, “I’d calculate that I have spent, hmmm, zero minus zero is zero, nothing to carry, sixty minus [...]