Pretty nice visit to the ATL for our potentially Beantown College snake bitten Hokies. We were a bit better, perhaps a good deal better than expected, and there were several rather conspicuous plays that told the embedded tale…..including a 1st Quarter with plenty for poor Mike Goforth to have to do…..
Pre-game, the rest of the game remaining: Glennon, Taylor, B.Flow, and Kam, all
with their jerseys’ jacked, a GT media relations statement regarding what did not happen ripped from Roth & Burnup on air, some poorly hand stenciled last names with only the leading-letter capitalized, a blackened out Russell athletic logo, and a backwards orange Nike Swoosh logo later, and we are in business. No wonder GT did not want their 3 year old road jerseys back, and though SG’s was too sizes too small for the game, I’d better it fits a little better right now thanks to a 24 point win.
1st Quarter 12:44 remaining: See #22 Stephan “I’m prolly gonna earn a Letter for my special-teams minutes, and if I don’t I earned one on this play.” Virgil;…..with what I’ll call a launching (not a hit), of the GT punt-coverage gunner along the VT SL’s. If we borrow the Rector stop-watch, Virgil launched his guy about 10 yards in the air. If we go by the book, it was more like 8 yards. But it does perfectly illustrate the purposefulnesses of vectors and momentum, when it comes to landing a major hit. (i.e. it need not be an XL impact, which this hit was not, to send someone flying a long long way).
1st Quarter 12:19 remaining: see Harper’s injury on the sideline roll-up, when his cleat catches in the GT turf.
1st Quarter 6:18 remaining: watch Wheeler’s season end, as SR is sent flying over the pile, and lands the GT guy who is on top of Wheeler to begin with. Major weight bearing injury, and just not a pretty one. (you’ve been warned)
1st Quarter 3:33 remaining: note how the offensive team has the option to use their football in a college game. Check out the Silver VT (and why is it silver) on the VT pigskin, and note the Ref’ placing the laces bassackwards for poor Beau Warren, and Beau technically engaging in an Illegal Snap as he rotates the football 180 degrees with out hiking it to SG.
1st Quarter 0:42 remaining: ER with the dreaded no-contact injury, this time an open-field calf sprain.
2nd Quarter 13:35 remaining: witness #25 D.J. Parker, a 5th year Sr. get reverse-pancaked by (of all things) a true-Fr. in one Jonathan Dwyer. JD is a keeper folks. Remember that during his 2008-2010 run. (if he stays that long).
2nd Quarter 9:40 remaining: a textbook terrific block in space by of all people Mr. Marshaman on GT’s right OLB G.Guyton. If you are a Guyton family member, please fast-forward to the next play.
3rd Quarter 10:39 remaining: my boy D.Brown is sneaky, but he got caught with his hands in the cookie jar on this steal attempt, and drew his first Personal Foul for stealing this year. Not an a real malignant call, but one I expect to be a bit more benign at home if you know what I mean.
3rd Quarter 8:44 remaining: this is the 2007 play-calling pièce de résistance folks, and trust me, it’s no smack to admit so. As GT O-Cord’ “Bond, John Bond.” lured Bud in,
lured Bud in, then nearly cooked and cleaned Bud for 6 on the EPIC play-fake with the per se running GT Qb Josh Nesbitt on this one. This was very reminiscent of the play that OK made famous with Jamelle Holloway throwing to the football playing TE named Keith Jackson for the Sooners about 25 years ago. The Qb goes down the LOS, selling the run, then suddenly drops back to throw to a TE (or in this case WR) who releases on a Fly pattern after blocking for “one-one-thousand-one.” Only thing was it did not work, but our defense bought this one hook, line, sinker, float, and reel.
4th Quarter 14:50 remaining: SR gets stolen by the back-up GT LB Shane Bowen.
4th Quarter 6:20 remaining: Check out the grandstands for an impromptu (Hokie) Girls Gone Wild. Is ESPN now giving away skimpy Bristol tank-tops to girls in the stands for their actions once the cameras start rolling or what? Not that I’ve ever seen such of course. (wink-wink)
4th Quarter 3:40 remaining: see the first ever sideline celebration of an athlete mouthing: “…it’s off!” and doing a cutting motion to his own neck while prominently displaying his own cast.
4th Quarter 0:30 remaining: a chippy finish, as Cheese (who is an impoverished mans Ced’ Humes) takes a Kidney shot that at least could have been a spearing call.
ESPN Video highlights, & SG’s eye dropping I’view with the “EA” herself.
Fell perfectly free and encouraged to add your plays to this list. TIA. b’street
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