To Virginia Tech and Hokie Football

Warning: This post has nothing to do with marketing, or anything remotely related to the topic. There are times for an aside and this is one of them. For a girl has to cheer on her beloved Hokies.

VT bush at the South Gate Entrance onto VT's campus

You may not believe it, but there is a place where people show up in their RVs on Wednesdays for football games that will be played on Saturday.

There is a place where students (and alumni) impatiently anticipate the publishing of the next edition of TailgateFever before the weekend’s game. They will proceed to quote and recite the best parts of the post with their fellow Hokies like it’s an inside joke between a small few, except the majority of Hokie Nation reads the blog and can quote it right back.

There is a place where students have to pull themselves away from the tailgate in order to head to class to take that unfortunately timed Thursday afternoon quiz before the much anticipated Thursday night game.

There is a place where people proudly shout “Let’s Go” with the answering response “Hokies” and jump to the rhythm of Metallica’s Enter Sandman waiting for the team to charge out of the tunnel and onto the field.

There is a place where people proudly (and shamelessly) do the Hokie Pokie between the 3rd and 4th quarters.

There is a place where every tried and true fan knows to come equipped to a game with a set of keys and that these keys should be vigorously shaken on an opposing team’s third down for a “Key Play”.

There is a place where the deafening roar of the crowd intimidates opponents and drowns out audibles.

There is a place where people are fully familiar with Beamerball and where Bud Foster is considered a god.

There is a place where alumni join the college kids downtown at TOTS to drink the highly coveted Rail and relive the glory days of college, celebrate the big win, or drown the sorrows of a loss.

There is a place where people love the colors burnt orange and Chicago maroon and never think twice about wearing them together.

There is a place where 30,000+ know how to answer the common question, “What is a Hokie?”.

This place is in Blacksburg, Virginia, affectionately name B-burg, or The ‘burg. This place is home to Virginia Tech. Saturday my beloved team and their traveling rafter of Hokie Faithful will venture down to Atlanta to play the Alabama Crimson Tide in one hell of a season opening game.

Now you VT readers, grab your tailgating beverage of choice, give yourself some goose bumps and watch every Hokies’ favorite YouTube video, or sing along to Tech Triumph.

Cheers and GO HOKIES!

Win against Clemson. Field rush circa 2006.