The North End Zone - A Virginia Tech Football Blog
(please feel free to leave comments as to what this situation does to C Gally, best comment wins the bacon briefcase that is still sitting in the NEZ office and an RMFW tshirt)
Ok, so its official, FX has released the season premiere date for The League!
All you League fans get ready, because starting October 6th at 10:30 you will get your weekly dose of greatness. So set your lineups and be ready see who wins The Shiva, and who is stuck holding El Sacko. No reason to draw this out with a long post, but damn it feels good to have football back and within our grasp again. And who knows, maybe this means there will be some football analysis being posted soon.... no comments
You know what sucks? Actually having to work at a real job. There's no time for fun stuff like drinking, video games, or "writing".
So let's catch up on the happenings around the sports world.
The Hokies: I could describe everything in detail... oooor you could just go to Gobbler Country. It's what I do any time you see football related information on this site.
Baseball: YOUR PITTSBURGH PIRATES are a game out of first place! They are 4 games over .500, and with 24 road wins under their belt, they've already beat last year's road record by 7 games. They had 17 road wins last year. 17!!!! Tech football came close to that this year alone.
Soccer: The buzz around the Women's World Cup shows that Americans care about things we're good at. Like kicking some ass in the space program.
Football: Hines Ward was arrested for drunk driving. It seems like cheating to pull an Asian guy over for bad driving.
News: Something about a debt ceiling. Some sort of trial. ...OMG... ID4 2 could be happening for realz. If it sucks even slightly, there will be hell to pay.
Welp, that's all for my phoned in update. More substance to follow....hopefully. no comments
Your humble editor is in grad school. As such, during the school year, I am highly encouraged to seek out a summer internship between 1st and 2ndyear. By “highly encouraged” I mean they more or less tell you to drop out if you don’t get one*.
*Joking! Please don’t do anything rash, Josh. You’ll find your place**.
**He won’t find his place.
Well, I tricked a company into hiring me, and now I’m in Houston for the summer.
I haven’t met anyone from Houston…ever, really. Even the people I’ve met here have mostly grown up elsewhere. It’s like DC, but with less douchebags and better football.
Everyone here loves talking about how much Houston sports sucks, and it’s hard to argue. The Astros just got swept by the Pirates (WOOO!!). The Rockets play in the NBA. And the Texans have a Wahoo as their starting quarterback. Who wouldn’t be depressed?
It’s also hot. Like, super hot. I’m sweating like a football player in a geology exam here (HEY-O!).
Note: These bullets are NOT jokes. They are not intended to be funny at all, just like the rest of this site.
It’s so hot…
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…they’ve built an underground tunnel system beneath downtown with stores and restaurants and stuff. It’s like Virginia Tech’s steam pipes, only you’re allowed to go in them. And there was a Wendy’s.
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…they have pool COOLERS. You know how everyone up north has pool heaters so they can use it 3 months out of the year? Yeah, it’s so hot here that they need to cool down the water.
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…they’re in the middle of a drought.
So there’s a little taste of my summer for you. Tune in next month to read the Houston HateFest post.
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The Hokie Guru sat down to talk with Chris Colston from the 2011 Hokie Annual. I told him absolutely. We are lazy and that's one less post for us to write. PLUS it includes actual football knowledge, which is something this site desperately needs.
I told him I'd post it on Monday. Granted, when he asked two weeks ago he probably assumed it was last Monday, but whatevs. We are still honest.
Part 1 concentrates on the offense. Solid stuff, after the jump.
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So here's the breakdown of what happened in your humble editor's hometown of Morgantown over the past week or so:
- A Pittsburgh (WOOO!) reporter goes public with claims that he and a colleague were approached by Bill Stewart to "dig up dirt" on coach-in-waiting Dana Holgresgrenen. Apparently reporting on the Pirates just got a little too hum-drum for this guy.
- Holegresenenden gets thrown out of a casino for being too drunk. One month with Bob Huggins will do that to you.
- Stewart resign-fires and a man named Dana is now the head coach at WVU.
No one had anything personal against Stewart. He just didn't know basic football strategy. Kinda like someone we all know...
Has anyone checked with the Roanoke Times to see if Voldemort has been asking for dirt on O'Cain? no comments
Legend of Zelda wins!
After much controversy and a big time blog fail, we have crowned Link the winner.
You see, you humble editor wrote and (presumably) posted the winner of the contest. He then went on a Griswaldian vacation with his family. This resulted in little to no internet access. He thus had no idea that multiple (two) emails were flowing in, outraged that a winner had not been named.
Thusly, your humble editor hangs his head in shame…
To make it up to the dozen of readers out there, it is time for me to make a promise:
No less than five posts per week from now until September.
You read that right. It won’t be pretty. But I need to do something to shut up our four screaming fans.
So check in often. It will likely be drunken rants about how hot Houston is.
In all seriousness, boater safety is important. I personally know a few people who have been injured on the water due to carelessness.
So get your license, kids. I know that as soon as The North End Zone gets a book deal, the first thing I'm doing is getting a jetski. After getting a license, of course.
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So we had a BlogFail, and the post about Video Game Madness results was sacraficed to the internet gods. We'll have it up tomorrow night, along with a pretty incredible and empty promise. no comments
In the gold corner, we have...
...the original Legend of Zelda! Link and the gang DESTROYED Tetris, and rightfully (in your editor's opinion) move on to the championship against...
...Super Mario Kart! This game likely caused more fights between friends than any other. Might as well make it one more.
Voting below. Good luck to all participants. no comments
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#1 Legend of Zelda
#2 Tetris
Our first #1 seed to go down! Tecmo Superbowl took one to the chin from scrappy Tetris. Also, how does everyone not own the game pictured above? Legend of Zelda was able to easily handle NBA Jam, who is no longer on fire.---------------------
#1 Super Mario Kart
#1 Super Mario Bros. 3
Both of these teams DESTROYED their opponents in the Elite Eight. Have fun making a choice here...
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Good luck to all participants. no comments
