I had serious doubts here tonight.... Those first 5 minutes and I thought it was going to be a UK rout.....Its natural...31 years as a Mountaineer fan and constant heartbreaks over the years... (see 1989 National title loss to Notre Dame (Football), or 1993 Sugar Bowl loss to Florida for the big one(football), or Pitt beating us 13-9 to put us out of the title game in football 3 years ago when we were favored by 28 POINTS, or Sweet sixteen meltdown in 1998 with a great great team, or Louisville coming back from 20 down at half to kill our final four hopes in 2006 with an even better team(You've been Pittsnogled!!...no all the WV fans were Pittsnogled by this massive meltdown)...My dad still talks about the heartbreak he felt when Jerry West and the Mounties lost the Basketball title game to California by 1 point in 1959...He was 9…
I'm 31 years old and I've witnessed all of these losses firsthand (except the 1959 game)...Some as a child, some as a drunken college student, and some as a somewhat responsible adult...Man its been hard to be a Mountaineer fan....
Coaches have pledged their lives to being a Mountaineer coach and then have left for the next big offer... ESPN commentators and the rest of the national sports media often play off the stereotypical image of our state in very negative ways.... (Im talking about you Gottlieb, and Vitale!!!)....The constant insults based on old and ignorant imagery are funny and yet still a bit hurtful… One of my favorite jokes goes something like “what does a West Virginia girl say after having sex?.... Alright, get off dad your crushing my cigarettes”…
Like Rodney Dangerfield we both complain and happily joke about getting “no respect”…
But being a Mountaineer fan is like being a Yankee fan or a Red Sox fan or a Crimson Tide fan… THE INTENSITY IS THAT REAL!!!! We have a deep and unrelenting love for our team…There is no bandwagon or fair weather fanhood….We breathe it and feel it in our bones….I will die a Mountaineer fan even with all the disappointments…
People often feel sorry for me for being from West Virginia and for being a Mountie fan … I feel sorry for those who don’t have a team or an institution that they can care this much about…..
If we win we win… If not fuk it I’ll be buyin season tickets again next year
Just my two cents here…..
Much Love to all you!!!! And Luck with all yer Bets!!!!!
I'm 31 years old and I've witnessed all of these losses firsthand (except the 1959 game)...Some as a child, some as a drunken college student, and some as a somewhat responsible adult...Man its been hard to be a Mountaineer fan....
Coaches have pledged their lives to being a Mountaineer coach and then have left for the next big offer... ESPN commentators and the rest of the national sports media often play off the stereotypical image of our state in very negative ways.... (Im talking about you Gottlieb, and Vitale!!!)....The constant insults based on old and ignorant imagery are funny and yet still a bit hurtful… One of my favorite jokes goes something like “what does a West Virginia girl say after having sex?.... Alright, get off dad your crushing my cigarettes”…
Like Rodney Dangerfield we both complain and happily joke about getting “no respect”…
But being a Mountaineer fan is like being a Yankee fan or a Red Sox fan or a Crimson Tide fan… THE INTENSITY IS THAT REAL!!!! We have a deep and unrelenting love for our team…There is no bandwagon or fair weather fanhood….We breathe it and feel it in our bones….I will die a Mountaineer fan even with all the disappointments…
People often feel sorry for me for being from West Virginia and for being a Mountie fan … I feel sorry for those who don’t have a team or an institution that they can care this much about…..
If we win we win… If not fuk it I’ll be buyin season tickets again next year
Just my two cents here…..
Much Love to all you!!!! And Luck with all yer Bets!!!!!