SOUND EFFECTS R FUN
That someone out there watching the Va. Tech game, in the midst of all that solemnity and ceremony, that genuine sorrow mixed with the exultation of a community coming together, could still see one tiny gesture, isolate it on video, and combine it with a cheap sound effect...well, we salute you, American Awesomeman. We've laughed all morning at this like the giggly schoolgirl we really are underneath all this raw, unadorned, and well-padded sexiness.
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A nice addition in the great tradition of EBaumsWorld’s farting preacher.
by Year2-Dave on Sep 4, 2007 11:19 AM EDT reply actions
Tell me someone got the guy that was crying and his girl, with her hand on his shoulder, mouthing “he’s very emotional” to her friend while the national anthem was playing. Classic. You got served. On national television.
That was worth watching “all the emotion” for 3 hours.
If I hear the word “emotional” to describe VT one more time, I’m smashing my chicken bag with a claw hammer.
by Scalz1 on Sep 4, 2007 11:31 AM EDT reply actions
Phew… I haven’t laughed that hard in a really, really long time. wiping tears from my eyes
Good form, mate!
by ALGator on Sep 4, 2007 11:34 AM EDT reply actions
It was a fucking football game. How in the world was that supposed to “heal” anything. If Va. Tech had lost, as they could have, would it have been like those 32 people died all over again? Jesus Christ. Who are we supposed to root for in the tragi-battle between LSU and Va. Tech? Who am I supposed to feel more sorry for? Answer me ESPN!
by Biggus Rickus on Sep 4, 2007 11:43 AM EDT reply actions
you should root for va tech b/c you hate lsu…that’s what i’m going to do.
by gerry dorsey on Sep 4, 2007 11:51 AM EDT reply actions
Let me just say that I was in the library while watching this and thought that the volume was on low. Nope, some idiot put it on high and the whole library woke up to the sound of a fart from my computer followed by maniacal laughs. Made my day.
VaTech was a tragedy, but sometime the WWL can overdo the emotion. Emotion, emotion, emotion, JESUS, I get it all ready. Play some damn football.
by BurritoBrosShits on Sep 4, 2007 11:53 AM EDT reply actions
I don’t know what y’all are talking about. I can’t wait until next week’s Tissue Bowl game between the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. They’ll be so much tragedy on the field that we’ll all cry and sniffle as the game goes on, happy that this courageous network is honoring the people most affected by these terrible events by shamelessly exploiting them for ESPN’s own profit and ratings. I can think of no other way to tastefully honor the dead than to bring up their memories constantly while making cute and banal sound bites about healing a community with a football game months removed from the tragedies.
by Youngator on Sep 4, 2007 11:58 AM EDT reply actions
“Slavery vs. the Holocaust! It’s like the Olympics of suffering!”
by Jeremy on Sep 4, 2007 12:03 PM EDT reply actions
I’m just ready for Bama to “Go Hokie” on Vanderbilt this Saturday.
by JohnInHuntsville on Sep 4, 2007 12:03 PM EDT reply actions
- - that will only be second to the eventual Hawaii v. Stanford “Tsunami/Earthquake of the Century” bowl circa 2027.
by Brian on Sep 4, 2007 12:07 PM EDT reply actions
- Scalz1 – if you run acrossd that clip – you have to post. Please promise me. I’ll cry if you don’t. I’m emotional that way.
by Out of Conference on Sep 4, 2007 12:33 PM EDT reply actions
We have over 1000 hurricane victims to their paltry 32 victims. And we all know by now since FoxNews has revealed the truth that there would be zero victims if everyone there had a shotgun and a backup sidearm.
I really don’t care about that shooting or the hurricane. That’s the real world. I do care that:
VT and LSU scheduled that first game as a season opener. Then Beamer/VT went and scheduled Ark St in a non sanctioned opener. Meaning, it counted naught but for shits, giggles and some useful experience.
They beat us. Soundly. Even He Who Doesn’t Have Time For This Shit had time for that. They ran out of ice at that game. How does a major program run out of ice at a game. They also trotted out the overrated chant. Which is it? You’re proud you beat us because we’re ranked high or you shoulda won because we suck?
They backed out on us. Twice. Now they are finally showing up. Punk bitches.
F the Hokies.
F Beamer.
F whatever alien parasite/symbiote living on Beamer’s neack.
We’re doing this for all the dogs Vick executed. There’s your cause. That and hate.
by LSUJoshua on Sep 4, 2007 12:35 PM EDT reply actions
What’re the odds that both Glennon and Flynn will survive to walk off the field at the end of the game under their own power? Low, I would think.
by DC Trojan on Sep 4, 2007 12:46 PM EDT reply actions
Glennon and Drew Weatherford are gonna capture the collective imagination of an entire nation as each tries to compete to show that he is “Division I Football’s Shakiest Starting QB!”
by PW on Sep 4, 2007 12:54 PM EDT reply actions
#15
I think you could put either of the 3 QB’s Notre Dame threw to the dogs on Saturday in that competition as well.
by Scalz1 on Sep 4, 2007 1:05 PM EDT reply actions
- - nothing like following in Reggie Ball’s footsteps and keeping the title in the ACC
by Brian on Sep 4, 2007 1:06 PM EDT reply actions
Glad I’m not the only one who got sick of the “power of healing football” speechifying on ESPN.
Those VaTech kids got just as excited about football and getting drunk during tailgating & post game like any other season. The football is a distraction. They’ll still have to walk by the memorial and site during the week. Foobaw changes nor helps none of what happened.
At least the school tried doing something productive during the pregame, as they honored Blacksburg & VaTech police officers & first responders. At least I think that’s what they were doing, as it was difficult to hear the Lane Stadium announcer over the ESPN crew’s constant chattering.
by Rival on Sep 4, 2007 1:10 PM EDT reply actions
They honored the same people that whole community vilified and blamed for the second round of shootings. I found that a little odd.
by Scalz1 on Sep 4, 2007 1:28 PM EDT reply actions
#17,
Jimmy Clausen is starting next Saturday, Charlie Weis said it today at his press conference. No more QB derby. Clausen for the next 4 years.
by champ on Sep 4, 2007 1:32 PM EDT reply actions
Pete:
Good point, well played.
It was widely reported that the response time and actions taken after the first round were atrocious.
The community called for the resignation of the Blacksburg and VT chiefs of police.
by Scalz1 on Sep 4, 2007 1:39 PM EDT reply actions
I found that ironic as well.
Ironic then went out the window when the crowd booed their home team, the very team charged with healing them.
They’re healed. It’s time to get back to normalcy and all that with the televised play of Glennon as DA Nilfong going to jail and LSU’s Dorsey playing his cell mate.
“Glennon?! You sit when you piss bitch!”
by LSUJoshua on Sep 4, 2007 1:51 PM EDT reply actions
The community called for the resignation of the Blacksburg and VT chiefs of police.
I did not know that.
ESPN’s coverage is nearing Fox News territory.
ESPN? Yeah, Fox News called and said you’ve used up the word “tragedy”. Also, they are worried you might start airing footage of 9/11 and Bush/Guiliani in rescue attire, thereby infringing on at least two Fox News copyrights.
Is next week’s TragiBowl with LSU-VT on ESPN or is it the CBS game? I foresee plenty of pre-game montages… Thankfully, those montages of death and destruction will be spliced with the healing power of foobaw clips.
Bonus: ESPN GameDay with your new host Benny Hinn.
by Rival on Sep 4, 2007 2:29 PM EDT reply actions
I’m pretty sure that clip has been altered.
I could have sworn the sound eminated from Meeeshigan….
by Professor Gundlach on Sep 4, 2007 2:49 PM EDT reply actions
The community did not ask for anybody’s resignation – the major news networks tried to bait us into that scenario but Virginia Tech students/faculty refused.
by phaph on Sep 4, 2007 6:55 PM EDT reply actions
LSUJoshua:
We weren’t booing our own team, we were yelling “Bruuuuuuuuuce” when they showed Bruce Smith on the jumbotron.
All of you would make great major news network spinners.
by phaph on Sep 4, 2007 7:32 PM EDT reply actions
That clip gets funnier every time I watch it.
#8, #10: Just wait until Israel gets a college football team.
by Digital Headbutt on Sep 4, 2007 8:37 PM EDT reply actions

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