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START JUMPING.

And don’t stop until it’s over.

(stupid malware screwed up my computer. If I had time, I’d write a good Hate Fest for The North End Zone all about it.)

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I, for one, am super glad that Danny Coale is always……

Open

 

Open again

And, still open

Thanks, The Key Play for reminding me of that fact.

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Love this one. Darren Evans is all kinds of awesome.

4 days. 4 days and I’ll (and hopefully a lot of you) be in Lane Stadium watching the Hokies. Can’t wait.

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It’s Football Week, people!

Freaking finally.

Because I’ve made no secret of my (completely in my head and  albeit, fictional) relationship with Jayron Hosley, and because this was super interesting. I loved watching those Year of the Quarterback stories on ESPN, especially when they put the quarterbacks through all the drills and measured acceleration, voice, mechanics, etc.

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images North America

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VT vs. Miami-2004.

Needing a victory to clinch the ACC championship, the Hokies found themselves in a battle with Miami. Tied at 10 going into the 4th quarter, Eddie Royal took a crossing pattern 39 yards to the house with 11:29 to go for a 16-10 Hokie lead, and the defense made it stick, batting down three straight Brock Berlin passes in the last minute to seal the win, 2 by Jim Davis and the last by Darryl Tapp. A great feel good finish to a feel good season.

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(Next Friday, it will be First Football Game Eve. ) Ooh, exciting times.

But today, we’re still in the thick of the 30 Things, and here is today’s entry:

In case you were wondering, it just keeps going up....

Courtesy of The Key Play, who also taught us that David Wilson eats Chick-fil-A on Sundays. 

 

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So very glad to have Dyrell Roberts back this year.

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Beyond stupid.

Other than the cheese hats that Green Bay fans wear, the corn hat may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. Which made it all the more sweeter when my Football Brother got so excited after this happened:

that he knocked the stupid corn right off his head.

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Thanks, Illinois Hokie, don’t mind if I do….

Confession time: I didn’t make it to the end of this extremely disturbing video. Perhaps it gets better as it goes on. Probably not,though.

(Annd now I’m caught up. Ha.)

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(Okay, okay. I skipped yesterday. I knew I couldn’t keep it up for 30 consecutive days, but I gave it the old college try, right?) But, back on track I am.

I read this article yesterday on The Key Play, and after making me feel really old yet again, (after all, my 30 Things the day before WAS the Druck to a streaking Holmes for the go ahead TD and I was there, having graduated from VT the year before. I am now officially so old.), it got me thinking about how far football at VT has come in what, to me, seems like just a few short years. And yeah, it isn’t really just a few short years, I’ve been out of school now for 17 years, and didn’t actually start following Hokie football the obsessive way I do now until around 1998. When I was at Tech, there was no ticket lottery. If you wanted to go to the game, you went and got a ticket. There weren’t a lot of sell outs. After all, in 1992, the Hokies went 2-8 and Beamer almost lost his job. But then in 1993, the turnaround began, and the Hokies went to a bowl game (The Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl even) for the first time since 1986. This began a streak that has lasted for 18 seasons, the third longest in the country. And I was there for the beginning of it. Pretty cool stuff.

Maurice DeShazo, Outstanding Offensive Player 1993

Orange Bowl 2011 (January 2, 2011 – Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images North America)