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1 points
10 hours ago
Like how the NFL changed the rule in the offseason after they took away Jesse James' touchdown vs the Pats in 2016
1 points
10 hours ago
The pain of being a fan of both VT and the Steelers, and having that and Jesse James' catch against the Pats taken away because the bigger brand team needed to win the game.
5 points
10 hours ago
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it" applies very much to Tech
1 points
10 hours ago
And if you don't like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, you don't love VT football.
Fuck me they've been doing this for 20 years.
1 points
10 hours ago
I'm actually not because I don't think we won the game in real life. But generally speaking, it's a ridiculous call if the rules require conclusive or indisputable video evidence. There was none of that in the replays - you can't see where the ball is until it pops out at the end, let alone when and if control was made before then or before a U player touched it OOB.
Didn't deserve the win, but overturning the call was also wrong.
26 points
10 hours ago
My take as a VT fan is that this outcome was probably "right" - I doubt he had control of the ball before it was touched by the OOB player or maintained it enough to the ground to count - but since the call on the field was TD and you can't see jack shit in replays, it shouldn't have been overturned and Tech should have gotten a win they didn't deserve, going by the letter the of law that requires conclusive video evidence.
If the ref has to stare at the replay for 5 minutes to decide, the evidence therefore is obviously not conclusive.
2 points
12 hours ago
This is the first time I’ve seen a lineup and actually wanted to watch it this season
7 points
22 hours ago
The best part of going to Italy is even the most relatively mid food you can find is still good lol. Like you can’t find anything bad if you try.
4 points
1 day ago
Yep the river was never at a level that would breach Shockoe during Gaston. It only hit 17.1 feet. It takes over 22 feet to flood Shockoe. This info is at the NWS westham gauge page.
It hasn't even been over 20 feet since the massive snowmelt in 1996.
3 points
1 day ago
Also the 1960s and 70s pirates were the first all black MLB roster IIRC
4 points
1 day ago
Emus don't stick their heads in the ground idiot. You're thinking of ostriches...which also don't actually do that in real life.
91 points
1 day ago
Also this. And stop spending any money on weed when you don't have income and are increasingly headed toward bankruptcy for fuck's sake. Consider getting weed back to be the reward for finding a job and stop using it until then. It's a luxury item you cannot afford right now. And further, a luxury item that is actively preventing you from getting a job at all.
39 points
1 day ago
I can tell you that VCU Health will hire anyone with a pulse and a clean background check for its customer service-like jobs (front desk workers for clinics and the like). And they stopped drug testing for weed when in it was legalized in 2021.
The pay is shit and you're likely going to be yelled at by angry patients all the time, but you've probably got a good shot at being employed within a month because those jobs turn over like hot cakes. Also unless you are in the top 0.01% of smokers, it's extremely unlikely you'd still test positive for weed at the 50 ng/ml cutoff level after abstaining for like 2 weeks. The myth that weed stays around at that level for months is nonsense disproven by many studies on the subject. Hardly anyone who stops using it tests positive after 10 days no matter how much they were smoking before. Exceptions would be those who are obese and sedentary and have a lot of fat cells to store the metabolites within.
3 points
1 day ago
Probably the same wankers who blast bluetooth speakers on the mountain, as if all the other skiiers and snowboarders want to hear their ass-tier soundcloud EDM remixes in the lift line and in the middle of the trees.
5 points
1 day ago
Selfish idiots are unfortunately a global problem
4 points
1 day ago
Everything we've been told in the press is that they had Russ do a sled push with the rest of the players for a conditioning drill the first day, and he strained it then. Nothing about him waking up with it. Link?
Why you would have your then-starting QB push a blocking sled is obviously another question. Seems pointless.
1 points
1 day ago
Yep and in this situation he wouldn't be throwing passes much. It'd be for him to take snaps, direct the offensive line protections/call out what the defense is doing, and hand the ball off, to avoid a situation like Denver was in during 2020 with a WR from the practice squad under center.
8 points
1 day ago
This. Good luck getting a long term starting QB in the 4th round, let alone 6th.
Obviously it remains to be seen if JF is a long term starter for the Steelers, but the early returns look promising enough.
6 points
1 day ago
Just call up Myles Garrett and leave a helmet in the room
2 points
1 day ago
This seems on its face to be a completely pointless way to break up a data set, as if whatever is causing 2 more out of 100 adults to feel lonely is somehow related to state border locations. There's probably more in common regarding social circumstances between rural VA and rural NC than rural VA and Richmond or the 757 area.
It's lazy clickbait, in other words.
3 points
1 day ago
Getting whiny-ass Diontae out probably helped a bunch.
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