Still Feelin’ That West Virginia Love
Well, not really.
I didn’t make the trip up to Morgantown for LSU’s butt-whippin’ of that SEC wannabe club up there. I watched Mushberger and Herb Street blab about it on TV.
But my uncle T-Claude went.
He said Morgantown’s a dump. He said the hotel he stayed in cost a fortune and it reminded him of one of those no-tell motels on Airline Highway all those preachers got caught doin’ hookers in back in the old days.
And he said there’s two groups of people you’ll meet there if you go to a West Virginia football game. There are the old folks who are just as nice as can be, who would give their left arms to have that school get into the SEC – or any decent conference, for that matter, and who absolutely would kiss the butt of any LSU fans they could find – and then there are the college kids, most of whom have a real limited vocabulary.
They do know that word that starts with F, though. And they say it over and over. Like F you, F LSU, F your mother.
Charming young people. Just charming.
He said they ain’t southern. He said the talent level is horrible there. “Those wimmin think a muffin top is a fashion statement from what it looks like,” was his direct quote. “That ain’t gonna make it in big-time college football. They need a yogalates place up there or sump’n.”
He also said he’s glad he wasn’t there when that poor guy and his pregnant wife from LSU got the crap beaten out of them. He says it was probably the young ‘uns who did it rather than the nice old people.
He said Geno Smith can play, and those little receivers they’ve got are pretty damn good. He said playin’ those people was like playin’ a team full of Lance Moores, and that if West Virginia doesn’t win that crappy league they play in it’ll be a surprise.
But he said goin’ up there was like seein’ How The Other Half Lives.
And he said he ain’t goin’ back.
Particularly not since he saw this.
I think we should cut off all motor fuel supplies to West Virginia for a week just for this T-shirt. Teach this punk who is depending on whom.
YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER WATCHING THE LSU GAME ON TV AND LISTENING ON THE RADIO TO JIM AND DOUG. YOU LEARN A LOT MORE AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE YANKEE SPORTSCASTERS TALKING UGLY ABOUT LSU.
I listened to HAwthorne, but he.must have been at a different game. The five second delay did not take away the surprise cause he rarely got the play right. Thank God for Doug Moreau correcting him so politely. If I hear again how ‘wide open’ a receiver out of the backfield is after gaining only two yards, I don’t think I will have any hair left after pulling it out.
I say the same thing every game. Love the sound of his voice but damn that “wide open!” thing drives me crazy.
I attended the game and will NEVER go back to that place!!! It is truly a dump full of total idiots that have no clue how to welcome a visiting team. LSU fans may give you hell but they will feed you well and offer you drinks right after. I would not have anything to do with most of the WVU fans and students I saw there!! The coach is a great example of classlessness as well!! What a big whiny baby!! I now see why big TV avoids that place. They will never make it to the SEC so stop dreaming!! I was very disappointed in the experience I had there. I WAS a fan of their sports teams before I arrived but my opinion has changed!! They can have that place!!!!
Actually, there are idiots on both
sides. Try walking through LSU fans with a shirt or cap that has the
other team’s name on it. It is dangerous. And, never put anything
on your car other than LSU or your car could be damaged.
http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=108733
Hey West Virginia, call me when the next mine collapses. YOU HAVE NO CLASS
You have no class.
I really hope they catch the idiots responsible for the assault on the LSU folks. There’s no excuse for that and if they are students they need to be expelled and they need to spend some time in a prison cell with “Big Bubba”. I hope someone who saw what happened comes forward.
Concur with “Uncle T-Claude’s” assessment of Morgantown as a dump. As I crossed Airline h- ahem, highway 705 headed to the game, I couldn’t help but notice the abudance of bratwurst, cheap beer, and Steelers swag in evidence alongside that of WVU. Saturday was a strong argument to raise the legal drinking age in West Virginia to 25; almost without exception, the younger WVU crowd did an abysmal job of representing their school. Also, there was a noticable lack of bourbon amid the sea of PBR and OMB, their fans booed when our players went down with injuries (Gator fans from the panhandle of Florida on their worst bender haven’t stooped that low), and their pale, piped-in movie quotes from Rocky, Anchorman, and Varisty Blues were louder than their fans, who need a lesson in when they should get loud (hint: it’s not after the opposing team’s QB breaks his huddle, makes an audible, and is waiting on the snap). Also, someone needs to tell the “little feller” in the photo to know his history; Louisiana Tigers pwned the West Virginians in every battle they squared off in starting with Jackson’s Valley Campaign in 1862. Sorry to the older WVU alumni who presented a great image; good luck on your way to a 9th Big East Title! Thanks and Tigerbait.
I have to agree with the above article where his uncle states that the older people there are just as friendly as can be and would do anything for you but the younger people stink. My husband’s job sent us up there for three years and it was so cold I hardly ever went out in the ice and snow but when all that melted and everybody came out into the sunshine it was one of the most beautiful states ever. I never made it up to Morgantown but did go to Clarksburg, not too far from Morgantown, to a state park area call Canaan Valley, not pronounced like it is in the Bible. They say ka-naan’. It was a gorgeous place as all their state parks are…there are a lot up in those mountains. Had to learn to drive on those as well as the ice and snow. They build their houses on the mountain side, I don’t know how they stay there but they work year round on their roads and interstates, day and night, and have some of the best roads and highways ever. They are a poor state thanks to their “beloved” senator, Robert Byrd, using all their/our taxpayer money to build that Greenbrier playground for all his Washington cronies as well as numerous projects as monuments to himself.
But the young people were a mess while we were there in the late 80′s and early 90′s. There was a Charleston Town Center Mall in downtown Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, built right by a housing project with all races mixed and those people thought that the mall was their playground. The young “gangs” would hang out inside the mall during the winter and block shoppers. There was even a couple of gangs at odds with each other who ran through the mall shooting at each other. Thank goodness no one was hurt or killed. But the merchants put security and restrictions on the youngsters and, believe it or not, the parents of those thugs started protesting about their “children” not being able to hang out at “their” mall. Those parents had to be informed that the merchants owned the mall, not the public, and had the right to restrict who could and couldn’t shop there.
But that was just my experience living up there for three years. The food was great, but, of course, nothing like we have down here, and, as mentioned above, the people in general, were just as nice, friendly and helpful as they could be. We were also in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio, close to Morgantown. But please consider that Morgantown is right on the border with Pennsylvania and Ohio and those are some of the rudest, ugliest, bad tempered, heathens I’ve ever been around and I have a feeling that a lot of those Morgantown college kids are from those other Yankee states. Most West Virginians don’t consider themselves Yankees!
Just my opinion but GO LSU TIGERS!!!!!!
See, the comments on here are exactly why we Marshall University grads/fans absolutely hate the hole up north called WVU. They do offensive things like this or like beating opposing fans and treating them like crap, and embarrass the entire state because everyone outside WV looks at them as our representation. They treat our fans the same way and we are all from WV. They even made shirts that said “We WERE Marshall” with a plane crashing to make fun of the 1970 plane crash and wore them at our home field. That is about the only time you will see a Marshall fan beat down an opposing fan, and rightfully so. I can tell you one thing, we are NOTHING like those clowns up north nor are the majority of WV residents. The majority of those who cause problems are from PA, NJ, and MD. However, it is definitely the younger crowd that gives them and us all a bad name. LSU has every right to have a bad impression of WV after visiting Morgantown, I would too if I didn’t grow up in WV and know better. Please do not associate the rest of us with those idiots up there. 95% of WV residents are nothing like them. Maybe one day LSU can come give Marshall a whipping, but then you can see how we treat opposing fans and what WV hospitality truly is like. Just ask Va. Tech.