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Postby ..fanaticjr » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:25 pm

Well Yeofoot, he just did get arrested again. Vick was charged for pointing agun at three teennagers in a McDonald's parking lot.

Here is a link to that story.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=AjEjORwy0jVvn7vRJ76sC5s5nYcB?slug=ap-t25-vickarrested&prov=ap&type=lgns

Geez, that's the longest link I've ever seen in my life. :lol:

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Postby Yeofoot » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:38 am

Ok, so what's a Hokie?

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Postby openSkies » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:16 pm

From HokieSports.com (they have a whole page on it, hahaha):

WHAT'S A HOKIE?
The answer leads all the way back to 1896 when Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College changed its name to Virginia Polytechnic Institute. With the change came the necessity for writing a new cheer and a contest for such a purpose was held by the student body.
Senior O.M. Stull won first prize for his "Hokie" yell which is still used today. Later, when asked if "Hokie" had any special meaning, Stull explained the word was solely the product of his imagination and was used only as an attention-getter for his yell. It soon became a nickname for all Tech teams and for those people loyal to Tech athletics.

WHATS A HOKIEBIRD?
The bird is a "HokieBird" which has evolved from a turkey.

From TailgateFever.com

The HokieBird is an ***-kicking chicken. Actually he's a turkey, but that's not the point. The University would have you believe that "Hokie" is a word made up in 1896 by O. M. Stull in a winning entry in the school's contest for a new cheer. A closer look at the historical record reveals the startling truth that this is a poorly concocted lie created to hide a much larger conspiracy from the student body. University records reveal that in 1896, senior cadet O. M. Stull reported what would be the first of numerous sightings of a giant cartoonish bird in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Stull's commanding officer in the Corps of Cadets dismissed the report as "hokey" (a fashionable term at the turn of the century), and the giant bird soon became known as the HokieBird. Like his friends Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, the HokieBird is simultaneously feared and adored by most humans. The sightings all report him to be a bird of great strength, great looks, and great intelligence. He has written extensively on chaos theory, nanotechnology, and the worthlessness of the Designated Hitter rule. He leaps tall buildings in a single bound, benches 405 pounds (77 reps against Akron), and has dated Jennifer Lopez, Sienna Miller, and Jessica Simpson. He has won three Nobel Peace Prizes, two Congressional Medals of Honor, and a partridge in a pear tree. He is part mascot, part super hero, and he will kick your ***.

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Haha, interesting stories...
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Postby Yeofoot » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:21 pm

that's good stuff


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