You're A Good Hokie, Charlie Brown
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It's been a tough weekend to be a Hokie. As if the football embarrassment last night wasn't enough, I just watched what could have been our first basketball upset of Duke in Durham, ever, be overturned by a last-second stunner. I mean, tonight's basketball game should at least let everyone know that we have, in fact, arrived in basketball (for the most part), but the sting and the shock comes too soon after the disaster in Jacksonville.
I'm going to try to negate it by pointing out a few positive things that are associated with being a Hokie, particularly a Hokie amongst a strong concentration of fellow alumni. Witness Saturday afternoon, when I went shopping wearing my new VT hoodie. It wasn't long before one elderly gentlemen gave a smile, a thumbs-up, and asked me if we were going to win later that night. I returned the thumbs-up and replied, "I sure hope so!" During the rest of my trip around Fairfax, I got a couple of manly nods from passing folks in orange and maroon, and one guy from Michigan struck up a random conversation with me in the lunch line. It reminded me more of being at the Sugar Bowl than being back in Blacksburg, really, because on-campus you expect a certain amount of camaraderie. Though it's not as concentrated here as it was in New Orleans, you still get that sense of brotherhood when you run across another Hokie.
My point in all this is that even though we sometimes have a lot of hard times to go through, with painful losses to freaking Florida State and Miami and the like, and even though our teams don't seem to know how to play in big games, we are still a tight group here in the Hokie Nation, and I am proud to be a part of it. Now, all we gotta do is avoid playing in Jacksonville against a team from Florida, and we'll be ok...
... oh wait, scratch half of that. Ah well, whatever.
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The gator bowl sucks. I won't be going there AGAIN.
A hokie and proud! a little sad, but proud.
Well, nacho, based on what I've seen of Hokie-related blogdom, mostly everybody's still a little sad but still a little proud, and that's an encouraging thought!
And yeah, Explorer, I can imagine not wanting to go back down to Jacksonville again anytime soon. The last time I was there, we played FSU, and it left a bitter taste in my mouth for a while.
lol you called me explorer. its too bad I have to use a stupid alias, but i don't want tons of links that have my name in them.
Oh, the alias ain't that bad, and I understand that a man of your hobbies wouldn't necessarily want his name all over the place. It's all good.