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Purgatory and Commonwealth

Purgatory and Commonwealth

How many Virginia Tech students does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 3. 1 to screw the thing in and 2 to mention how much better they did it than UVA. You can replace Virginia Tech with NC State, UVA with North Carolina, Auburn and Alabama, so on and so forth. There are games [...]

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Reflections of Glory: Football & Southern Identity

I don’t know when I first became aware of football, and I’m not sure when I attended my first game. I remember my mother cooking fried chicken to take tailgating, but I don’t remember the game (I do, however, remember eating the chicken). I remember one Saturday as a boy my father and I were [...]

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Football & Fashion

Football & Fashion

A magazine we have loved for many years (though our love felt more requited when their pages featured a dozen ways to augment a Christmas cake many moons ago) published some of their picks for ladies’ clothing for football games. Their outfit choices approach four times what we budget for our entire fall wardrobe upgrade. [...]

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