An earthquake and a hurricane?  OK, OK, we’ll bring back tailgate fever.  Enough already. You asked for it, so you better get fired up.  It’s game week, and we’ve got tailgate fever.  Let’s do this thing.  It takes a nation of millions to hold us back! So, where have we been you might ask?  Mostly[...] Continued Here >>

There is nothing like a come from behind win to get you excited.  That game was fun.  Really fun.  Suddenly and unexpectedly, we are fired up about football again.  A big thank you to the college football god who created the second half.  The bad news is we are a terrible first half team.  We’ve[...] Continued Here >>

Friends, Hokies, Countrymen – we have heard your cries and curses.  Where’s my Hokie Update?  Where is the vitriol?  The indignation?  Where is the massive irrelevancy?  We understand your concern and are grateful for those of you who feared we were either no longer alive or institutionalized pursuant to court order.  The answer, of course,[...] Continued Here >>

The college football gods are cruel.  It is a game of ups and downs, and that emotional roller coaster (along with tailgates and this girl) are why we care.  Heartbreaking losses are just part of the deal.  You signed up for this….if you can’t take it, go to UVA where losing is a way of[...] Continued Here >>

If you want someone to blame, blame Jim Weaver.  The Boise State game wasn’t lost in the fourth quarter.  It wasn’t even lost in the first quarter.  It was lost six months ago when we moved this game from week four to week one because ESPN said so.  Weaver says we need to be a[...] Continued Here >>

Black seems to be all anyone wants to talk about this week.  Which is fine with us, because it is time to beat the Boise State Broncos black and blue.  Sure, there will be lots of Lou Holtz-esque double speak about watching out for Boise State later in this column.  They are the #5 team[...] Continued Here >>

The lull between the end of the regular season and the bowl game is tough and the never ending creation of crappy bowls hasn’t helped.  So, between suffering through the Marshall vs. Ohio game and not having Al Groh to kick around, this isn’t exactly the most wonderful time of the year anymore.  On the bowl issue,[...] Continued Here >>

As we awoke from our tryptophan-induced slumber and rubbed the sleep from our eyes, it dawned on us that this season’s Virginia game is a little more fun-natured than usual.  In years past, with so much on the line, this game was very serious.  Now, it is just an opportunity to drop a good old[...] Continued Here >>

Just when you are about to give up, just when you’ve had enough, just when you start thinking to yourself, “I wonder what regular people do on Saturdays, maybe I will see,” tailgate fever steps in and you find yourself in a parking lot in College Park, Maryland having an unexpectedly great time.  Don’t worry,[...] Continued Here >>

The good news is there are only ten days until basketball season.  The bad news is that we will probably lose to UNC in that, too.  This sucks.  Our loss last Thursday was a full scale ultra-embarrassment.  We were again punished by an inferior team.  We again had ample scoring opportunities and wasted them all. [...] Continued Here >>

Facts are pesky little things (as is Nesbitt) and the fact is that game completely sucked.  It blew.  It bit the big one.  We threw away an essentially clear path to the ACC title game.  Let’s get on with this, because by the end of this column, we plan on being damn fired up about[...] Continued Here >>

There are games that are fun.  There are games that are really fun.  And then there is occasionally that special, rare game this is a badass, old-fashioned, hell of a good time.  Our 48-14 beatdown of the Boston College Eagle was the latter and almost enough to exorcise the demons of Matt Ryan.  At some[...] Continued Here >>

Good googly moogly we are excited about tomorrow night’s game.  Va. Tech vs. Boston College, Thursday night, ESPN.  We live for this.  Your #17 Va. Tech Hokies are 12-1 on Thursday nights (our only loss was to BC in 1995….sweet, sweet revenge shall be ours, Eagle!).  This is the defining moment of the 2006 season.  If we[...] Continued Here >>

Weaver, how could you do this to us?  What about the Pulaski Accords?  We thought finally this war between tailgators and people who suck had come to an end.  What’s wrong with the mutually agreed upon semi-respectable 1:30 kickoff?  Don’t get us wrong, it’s no 3:30 game, but it is at least reasonable and rational.  A noon kickoff?  Most students will[...] Continued Here >>

The only thing better than beating Miami is beating cocky, arrogant, overconfident Miami.  Jacory Who?  Heisman what?  Swagger when?  Pink suit where?  Pimp cup how? All week all we heard was about how the U is back.  And they are.  Back to finishing second in the ACC Coastal.  For the better part of two decades,[...] Continued Here >>

At least we are an exciting team.  Six days later we remain exhausted, physically and emotionally, from alternating screams of joy at our luck and profanity at our offensive uncoordinator.  Yes, faithful readers, if you yell at Stinesping loud enough from the East Side stands, he can hear you in the press box.  But try[...] Continued Here >>

All offseason we were promised change.  An improved offense.  The best offensive line in years.  We are going to throw downfield.  A renewed approach to moving the football.  Throwing to the tight end.  Stretching the field.  Pass protection for the quarterback.  This time we mean it. We were, of course, skeptical.  Let’s face it, we’ve heard this song and[...] Continued Here >>

And we’re live in 5, 4, 3, …., …. It feels like only moments ago that Coach Beamer, proudly wearing his 3XL Orange Bowl champions t-shirt, hoisted the trophy (which apparently is just a giant bowl of oranges) over his head following a much-more-difficult-than-it-should-have-been BCS victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats raising three interesting points: (1)[...] Continued Here >>

Another regular season behind us, another ACC Championship, another trip to the Orange Bowl, and another year of wondering what Acme Corporation strategy our offensive coordinator, Wile E. Coyote, will employ this week to try to catch the road runner.  This has been the most emotionally draining season we can ever remember….and in just a[...] Continued Here >>

After suffering through what seems like decades (but was really only four years) in Jacksonville, the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game moves to sunny Tampa, Florida.  Some say Tampa is simply the Jacksonville of the West Coast, but they couldn’t be more wrong.  Jacksonville is a Navy town; Tampa is Air Force.  Jacksonville is the[...] Continued Here >>

This year is now about a series of one-game mini-seasons.  What’s past is prologue.  Admittedly, that past includes a nearly pathetic loss to Duke in a game rivaling the 1-point overtime missed extra point “victory” at Temple for supremacy on the list of Games We Didn’t Really Win.  All that matters now is Virginia.  It[...] Continued Here >>

It is a week of good and bad. Let’s start with the bad.

For those still in denial, we lost to Miami 16-14 despite yet another dominating defensive performance which marked the four hundredth time in the last eight seasons our offense has failed to deliver a game the defense has easily won for them. This time there are two things to blame: Beamer’s refusal to kick the damn field goal and the inexplicable ineptitude that the average fan more commonly refers to as When We Have The Ball.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.  After 14 years of writing this column, life finally got in the way.  And considering it was a Thursday night game….well, you know it must have been rather serious.  Because we are Tech fans and nothing takes us away from a Thursday night game.  Especially not this[...] Continued Here >>

If the “offense” can take one, why can’t we?  Tailgate Fever will return after these messages. Poor Tyrod Taylor.  A horrible game against BC.  He struggled throwing the ball and when he did find receivers the ball, literally, bounced off their hands (and helmets).  You’ve got to feel bad for him.  He is a great[...] Continued Here >>

With a successful week against Open behind us, we reach the season’s halfway point at 5-1 and in as good a position as you could have dared to dream.  Saturday night at 8PM on ESPN2 your #17 Va. Tech Hokies take on the Might Fighting Ghosts of Matt Ryan in scenic Boston, Massachusetts (home to[...] Continued Here >>