Before I go to bed - the reason why I support the Hokies even though I’m a https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom"> guy living in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom"> who’s never been to Blacksburg.

I got into American football in 2012 supporting the Redskins. The Redskins being terrible every year made me decide to start watching some college

Football. Decided I may as well pick a team to support. I did my research and I really loved VT. It seemed perfect. Enter Sandman videos, the Lane atmosphere, the LPD, the legacies of Beamer and Bud Foster. Even stuff like the uniform colour scheme I loved. So I started

To follow the progress and watch Hokies games when I could from 2016. College football isn’t on TV here apart from a few games a week so I streamed most games. Eventually I started to really love the Hokies and started even following stuff like recruitment. I was fully hooked

Over time I also started to enjoy watching the VT basketball team as they rose under Buzz and I’m now a fan of them too. In general I’m just a fan of Virginia Tech now and want them to do as well as possible in every aspect.

I can’t imagine there’s many college football fans in the UK as the NFL is barely popular here and it’s maybe even a bit weird to love a school you’ve never attended or been to but https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏻‍♂️" title="Man shrugging (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man shrugging (light skin tone)">

Hokie for life all the way from https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom">