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The Weekend at LSU

Posted at 5:32 pm on Friday, September 7th, 2007 by Vince

Friday 5:30pm

Delta flight 4673 took off from Charlottesville roughly 15 minutes after 11 AM with at least 7 Hokies on board (myself included). I found it somewhat ironic that there were so many Hokies on a flight leaving Hoo’ville, but there are a good number of us in the Charlottesville area. The flight followed I-81 for the first 15 minutes or so, and I got a great view of Christiansburg and Blacksburg from the air. It was kinda funny that I followed my normal route to Blacksburg from the sky to see the Hokies in Baton Rouge.

I spoke with a few Hokies while waiting to board. This is obviously a big game in SEC country, and there is a buzz about this game not felt since the USC game of 2004. The LSU fans I talked to at the Atlanta airport consider it a big game, as well. Everyone is looking forward to the weekend’s festivities.

So, now I’m checked into my hotel and enjoying a few minutes of downtime before I head off to see the LSU campus. I’ll do my best to bring you a few updates throughout the weekend.

Random sidenote: I saw “Refrigerator” Perry at the Atlanta airport. Yup, he’s still a big dude. Friendly, too.

Saturday 10:45am

Wow, do these folks know how to prepare for a football game! I walked around campus yesterday afternoon for about an hour and a half. There were lots of tents already setup for today’s tailgates, and a number of students were setup on the parade grounds for today’s broadcast of Gameday. I also took a peek at their new live mascot: Roscoe, soon to be Mike VI. He’s a cool cat. I hope to upload some pics of him at some point.

I went down to The Chimes after walking around campus. I think I spent 4 hours there last night. I arrived by 7pm and left around 11pm, and it was packed the entire time. There were lots of Hokies there, and mostly friendly banter going back and forth between Tigers and Hokies.

Well, it’s time for me to get my butt moving and headed to campus. That’s all for now.

Go Hokies!

Monday after

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to make any more updates over the weekend. However, I know everyone has saw the game and was disgusted.

My post game thoughts will be published here in a day or so, so stay tuned.

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One Response to “ The Weekend at LSU ”

  1. The Mighty Favog Says:
    September 8th, 20075:18 am at

    Good luck against my LSU Tigers tonight . . . but not THAT good of luck. I am a Baton Rouge native and an LSU grad, after all.

    But if you run across any Tiger fans insisting on being a jerk to Hokie fans, punch ‘em in the nose and tell ‘em it’s from a 1984 LSU alum.

    Seriously, though, you might want to check out this link, as well as the podcast it references:

    http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/09/tigers-and-hokies-together-win-lose-or.html

    God bless, and have a good time in Baton Rouge!

    http://www.revolution21.org
    http://revolution-21.blogspot.com