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Hey Hokieute:

Since no one else has taken the bait . . .

Did I read that right? Did you say your grandpa died at a UT game in the 1960s?

Is there a story there? We should all be so lucky.

I guess I shouldn't joke about it so if this is a sensitive subject for you, kindly tell me to f off.
 
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i consider myself a vt fan as 9 of my family members attended the school including my three brothers, and my aunt sits on the board...that being said i attended ut and feel as though i never saw a college football game until i stepped foot in neyland. tech is great the gameday experience is fun and the fans are certainly passionate, though a bit too delusional about where the hokies stand in relation to more traditional programs. i grew up going to va tech games and before i knew any better i felt that they were pretty amazing, gameday at ut compared to gameday at virginia tech is like comparing gameday at tech to gameday at hampden-sydney both are a lot of fun but one is at an entirely different level than the other. lane can get loud at times but it can never make your ears bleed and chest feel like someones shaking your rib cage like neyland can at it's loudest. 100,000 beats 60,000 every time. tech can't come close to matching tennessee's gameday traditions: they play metallica over the loud speakers while their fans jump up and down in a faux mosh pit, they eat their mascot, they jangle keys on third down, they dance the hokie pokie, they fire a cannon when they score but i can never even see the damn thing, they chant "stick it in" in the red zone, and they have an orange bowl banner. we have running through the t, vol walk, vol navy, checkerboards, smokey, rocky top, and six national titles.
 
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voltilifall said:
i consider myself a vt fan as 9 of my family members attended the school including my three brothers, and my aunt sits on the board...that being said i attended ut and feel as though i never saw a college football game until i stepped foot in neyland. tech is great the gameday experience is fun and the fans are certainly passionate, though a bit too delusional about where the hokies stand in relation to more traditional programs. i grew up going to va tech games and before i knew any better i felt that they were pretty amazing, gameday at ut compared to gameday at virginia tech is like comparing gameday at tech to gameday at hampden-sydney both are a lot of fun but one is at an entirely different level than the other. lane can get loud at times but it can never make your ears bleed and chest feel like someones shaking your rib cage like neyland can at it's loudest. 100,000 beats 60,000 every time. tech can't come close to matching tennessee's gameday traditions: they play metallica over the loud speakers while their fans jump up and down in a faux mosh pit, they eat their mascot, they jangle keys on third down, they dance the hokie pokie, they fire a cannon when they score but i can never even see the damn thing, they chant "stick it in" in the red zone, and they have an orange bowl banner. we have running through the t, vol walk, vol navy, checkerboards, smokey, rocky top, and six national titles.
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I'm sort of in your situation. I am not from Virginia, but a lot of my extended family is, and they're split between Virginia and Virginia Tech, so I've been going to games at both for as long as I can remember, and I also felt like I had never been to a real college football game until I went to Neyland. There is just no comparison. I'm slowly converting all my family members in Virginia to Tennessee fans too. It is actually fairly easy. If you just bring them down for one game, they're hooked.
 
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VKAman said:
I don't think the VT fans are trying to compare NFL players, or the best NFL player from each team (at least, I hope not); they're just saying that they have had good players other than Vick. But honestly, when people think VT and the NFL, they probably think of Vick first even with Bruce Smith--especially with Smith being retired now. With Tennessee, there are plenty of troublemakers (J. Lewis, T. Henry, D. Stallworth) but the face of our program with regard to the NFL (Manning) is still the face of our program for all the right reasons, and we have plenty of other wildly successful players to make people forget about the bad ones. VT has maybe a couple and pretty much none who are still active.
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Yup. Here are some of our biggies if you're interested.

Virginia Tech Hokies football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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vtdom said:
So it's an opinion of a random fan...How else is a list like that supposed to be generated?
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Fair enough, but some people at least TALK about journalistic integrity...whether they practice it or not is a different story, but the writers on BleacherReport aren't really held to any standard at all.
 
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voltilifall said:
i consider myself a vt fan as 9 of my family members attended the school including my three brothers, and my aunt sits on the board...that being said i attended ut and feel as though i never saw a college football game until i stepped foot in neyland. tech is great the gameday experience is fun and the fans are certainly passionate, though a bit too delusional about where the hokies stand in relation to more traditional programs. i grew up going to va tech games and before i knew any better i felt that they were pretty amazing, gameday at ut compared to gameday at virginia tech is like comparing gameday at tech to gameday at hampden-sydney both are a lot of fun but one is at an entirely different level than the other. lane can get loud at times but it can never make your ears bleed and chest feel like someones shaking your rib cage like neyland can at it's loudest. 100,000 beats 60,000 every time. tech can't come close to matching tennessee's gameday traditions: they play metallica over the loud speakers while their fans jump up and down in a faux mosh pit, they eat their mascot, they jangle keys on third down, they dance the hokie pokie, they fire a cannon when they score but i can never even see the damn thing, they chant "stick it in" in the red zone, and they have an orange bowl banner. we have running through the t, vol walk, vol navy, checkerboards, smokey, rocky top, and six national titles.
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No you're not a VT fan... No need to describe the gameday experience at Virginia Tech with your Tennessee bias all mixed in... Just go root for Tennessee, VT fans won't miss you... You can't be a loyal and passionate fan of two teams... That makes no sense at all...
 
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SanJoseHokie said:
No you're not a VT fan... No need to describe the gameday experience at Virginia Tech with your Tennessee bias all mixed in... Just go root for Tennessee, VT fans won't miss you... You can't be a loyal and passionate fan of two teams... That makes no sense at all...
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Maybe it isn't bias. Maybe Tennessee really is objectively a lot better than Va Tech. I grew up thinking UVA/Va Tech/East Carolina/NC State were all kind of a big deal... And then I started going to SEC games. There is no comparison. Even an unbiased Va Tech fan would have to concede.

Once you go to a big time college game, every thing at Va Tech seems, well... kind of hokey. (pun intended)
 
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DyronNix said:
Did I read that right? Did you say your grandpa died at a UT game in the 1960s?

Is there a story there? We should all be so lucky.

I guess I shouldn't joke about it so if this is a sensitive subject for you, kindly tell me to f off.
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No real story there. He and my grandmother were at the Auburn game on 9/30/61 and he had a heart attack. Back in those days the paging systems were not so good. Officials caught up with my aunt and uncle at their boat after the game. The story was fairly well covered in both the Maryville Times and Knoxville News-Sentinel. No sensitivity now, just interesting family history. He was a hardcore Vol and I liken it to an addicted golfer dying at Pebble Beach after acing a par 3.
 
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SanJoseHokie said:
No you're not a VT fan... No need to describe the gameday experience at Virginia Tech with your Tennessee bias all mixed in... Just go root for Tennessee, VT fans won't miss you... You can't be a loyal and passionate fan of two teams... That makes no sense at all...
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i root for vt every saturday, i watch every one of their games that don't conflict with a vol game and my family is as entrenched in blacksburg as the beamer's so don't lecture me about which teams i can be a fan of. i never claimed to be as big of a hokie fan as a vol fan and i'm not. i went to tennessee not vt so you can accuse me of bias but i honestly approach both programs from a fans perspective and the gameday atmosphere at ut dominates vt's in every aspect. from a man who's seen an awful lot of both places i can say only one of them can give me goosebumps and that's neyland.
 
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VTJamesVT said:
Report: NCAA investigating Tennessee Volunteers recruiting practices, use of 'hostesses' - ESPN

"Tennessee has committed at least six secondary NCAA violations -- unintended violations of rules not deemed to have given the school an unfair competitive or recruiting advantage -- since Lane Kiffin took over as coach."

Come on guys....really?
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You do realize that several schools use hostesses and most schools commit about that number of secondary violations in a year.

Troll.
 
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CardassianVol said:
They have to overcome the stigma of this:

acc_championship_game_crowd_view_2007_empty_stadium_jacksonville_altel_acc_sucks_sux1.jpg



Any comment you make about how your school's fans travel well should be reserved until after they prove it in the bowl.
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That stadium only holds 76,877 not even close to neyland stadium haha
 
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