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Volume 3, Issue 3 10/11/12 - 10/17/12
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Football At VCU: Where Is It? Nick Wright wrote this
Football is the most popular sport in America, especially now that we’re right in the heat of the season. On Saturdays all you hear are college students bragging about their football teams, and us students at VCU just get to sit back and look at our Facebook and Twitter pages saying, “Shit. Where’s our football team?” The answer is we don’t know, but we do know that we want one, have many valid reasons for it. Think about the amount of nonsense that clogs your newsfeed or Twitter about how awesome your friend’s college football team is. It’s so frustrating, and with the amount of people at our school and the money we have, we could easily have a football team gracing our imaginary gridiron. It would be so much fun: all of the ridiculous tailgating adventures, drunken pictures, school spirit, and, of course, the game… assuming we remember to show up. We have basketball, and that’s fun, but it’s really difficult to get a lot of people to gear up and go to a tailgate for a basketball game. With football, everybody would be so pumped for game day and would make it a top priority. You can’t tell us that you wouldn’t want to get with a bunch of friends, start drinking mimosas at 9 o’clock in the morning, and go to an awesome tailgate. Everybody gets pissed when they see a new album about “Gobble, Gobble, Hokies 2k12.” It’s grating, because they’re an alright fan base, but VCU would be so much better. Seriously, Frank Beamer chokes every year in January, why can’t we get in on that gagging action? Now this may be a stretch but The Black Sheep thinks all we would have to do is take over the Flying Squirrels’ stadium, tear it down, make a football stadium, and get a convenient, student-only bus system. Everyone could tailgate in the stadium parking lot, which would be insane and really gather the Ram pride. Just imagine all the fat college guys chugging beers and groups of slutty girls taking pictures and crying in the beds of trucks about absolutely nothing – the entertainment would be endless! The spirit of food, drink, friends and a great atmosphere develops a spirit that any college student would dream about. But by not having a football team, we are prohibited from partaking in this
Go Green or Go Home
classic college tradition. It is our right, as college students, to wake up early, drink and eat way too much, and sleep through our team’s football game. For example, at Virginia Tech the festivities kick off at 9 or 10 o’clock in the morning, everyone is decked out in their school attire, all excited and cheerful - and there are no responsibilities except for drinking beer and screaming a lot. Who wouldn’t want to be that guy who ends up asleep
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“Welcome to McRams”
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underneath a tent at a tailgate, or that girl who lost all of her friends and is wandering along the outskirts of the stadium? That seems like the highest social honor for a college student. If we got enough people behind this idea we could annoy the board to the point where they would cave in and let us get a football team. Until then, everyone meet at the Flying Squirrels stadium parking lot and let’s get shitfaced. Practice makes perfect… right?
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