content last updated: jan 03, 2010
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Blacksburg is a place that has an absolute love affair with its football program. It's a 100 percent crazy, loud stadium environment. You can go to places with 100,000 people and Tech's stadium is just as loud, or louder, especially for night games.
- Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN
"I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; ...the Turkey is a much more respectable bird...." Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, in a letter dated January 26, 1784
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Story of the Hokie (Turkey) Bird
"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think so." Coach Frank Beamer replied after his hire, when asked in 1986 if he believed the Hokies could win a national championship.
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National Championship Bound
"I really kind of feel like we're on a journey here ... we hope this is just the beginning of bigger and better things." Coach Frank Beamer, December 1993, post-Independece Bowl win
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Game Summary
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Player's Perspective
"Cinderella is alive and well in Blacksburg, Virginia."
Texas play-by-play announcer, Bill Schoenig, after the Sugar Bowl Victory, 1995
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Game Summary
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From 2-8-1 to Sugar Bowl Champs
"How many of you shall I see in New Orleans?" Coach Frank Beamer asks the stadium fans, after ending the 1999 season 11-0, Perfect! -
Relive 1
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