I live about 4 miles from that stadium, I can hear and understand the Let’s go Hokies! from my yard, and if the weather is right I can hear that music as they come in.
@@stokerstchannel4828 when I got married my wife drug me up to northern Virginia for 8 years but I finally convinced her to come back here, so happy to be out of that mess.
The students in blue uniforms are members of the university's corps of cadets. They are (for the most part) part of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, or ROTC (pronounced ROT-see). Military track cadets are enrolled in the ROTC program of one of the branches of the armed forces. They take courses on military science and leadership in addition to their normal class load. Upon graduation, they are commissioned in the armed forces and serve a number of years in the military. The obligation can be anything from 4-8 years, depending on their military job. Doctors, pilots, nuclear specialists, special operations, etc have longer education or training pipelines, thus the service commitment is longer. Most universities have ROTC programs of some sort. A select few, Virginia Tech amongst them, are called "Senior Military Colleges" and have a more formal, traditional and comprehensive ROTC program. Texas A&M, the Citadel, and the Virginia Military Institute are other SMCs.
Football is a religion in America. It is never "just" football. To repeat, it's just another Saturday afternoon/evening across 100's of college campuses between August and December.
As I said in my own comment: The top 13 stadiums in North America by seating capacity are exclusively used for college football. 14th is Mexico's Estadio Azteca. 15th is another college team. 16th is home to TWO NFL teams.
It is. American football is a national sport; it doesn’t matter what level you watch there are football and baseball teams everywhere. I would venture to say the number of teams between baseball and football, in America, are close to the same. Football possibly has more, I’m not positive.
Be careful! It’s never “just” college football. College football is a much bigger thing than NFL. The small ‘case’ being carried by one of the players is lunchbox (standing for the school’s blue collar beginning) containing the names of the 32 victims of the campus shooting on April 16, 2007.
College football is not bigger than the NFL. The NFL is one league and it's massive. The superbowl is basically a holiday. The Orange Bowl or Rose Bowl is not nearly the same. There are colleges across the country and it is big and it has rabid fans. The NFL is a beast in an of itself.
On a global scale, no. CFB is not as big as the NFL. But locally, even regionally, I'd bet good money that College's see better numbers than the NFL. Now, NFL tickets are far more expensive. CFB has a whole different atmosphere. NFL games are concerts in a way. CFB are block parties that a famous band just happened to crash. Also, I never knew that the victim's names were in the lunchbox. That's a pretty awesome tribute.
Um what??? Since when??? I've lived 30 minutes from Tech and the reason they don't is because they do military bombing runs through the entire area what seems like every day so yeah.
My first cousin’s son is on the team, entering his 2nd year. He said coming into the stadium and onto the field is nothing but an out of body experience. The crowd registers the seismograph, used to detect earthquakes. Truly insane
The seismograph is only about a mile from the stadium, that is how they are about to pick it up but it is loud. You can hear the game across the campus.
Remember American Football was invented shortly after the American Civil war. It's the closest thing to a battle you'll get without actually fighting in one.
What a great entrance and what incredible fans! I only wish it had included the entire pregame. I am thoroughly enjoying these college ball reactions. Great job and keep them coming!
I was there that night. I'm a Notre Dame fan who traveled to Blacksburg, Va. to see that game. As much as you felt the energy watching it, in the stadium it was fucking unbelievable. That being said, we beat them by three TDs. Great night. Great atmosphere.
@@jeffmccarter7465 I think you’re thinking of a different year. First half was close in this game but the Irish blew it open in the second half. VT only scored once in the second half and the final was 45-23
70 years ago, the population of Blacksburg (where Va Tech is) was under 5K. This was and is during the summers, a sleepy mountain town with wonderful trails, streams, rivers, and the idyllic views to match. As the football team got better through the 80s, 90s and into the 2000s, the school has essentially grown 10-fold, as has the town/economy and so on.
So here's what you need to know about American college football: The top 13 stadiums in North America by seating capacity are used exclusively for college football. As is the 15th on the list. The 14th is the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, used for soccer. The NFL doesn't show up until number 16 on the list, and that's a stadium shared by two teams (the New York Jets and New York Giants... also the stadium is actually across the river in New Jersey not New York)
College season starts last weekend in August to last weekend in November. Conference championship week is first weekend in December. Bowl games are late December. Playoffs start first week of January. Now 12 playoff teams .
I grew up in Florida and am a huge FSU fan. Have always loved the Noles entrance. I now live about 20 minutes from Blacksburg in Hokie country and even though i hate VT, i think they do have an awesome entrance.
it is absolutely magical. I was lucky enough to have a daughter attend school there and when we went to Homecoming 2023 I was overwhelmed with emotion.
Just left your reaction video of America's High School Football Stadiums, and, living in Virginia, just HAD TO come to this one! Welcome to our World !
I live about 45 minutes north of Virginia Tech and I was outside the stadium once in my car when the Hokies entered and when Enter Sandman started I could literally feel the vibrations! It’s an amazing environment and experience!
One of the best entrances in sports. When the fans start jumping up and down, it often registers on the Richter Scale. The folks in blue are the ROTC - basically army trainees. Also fun when the music cuts out and the entire stadium keeps singing. Another great entrance is when Wisconsin comes out to "Jump Around". They go NUTS.
Like the 8 day war in Israel though. A massacre. VT hasn't been nationally relevant in 15 years. I live in cburg, so not hating, just saying. They're extremely mediocre.
@@ThisGuyRides wow. Trying to split those hairs. Pry/Clown/Beamer. There's 3. VT hasn't been relevant in 15 years. Beating OSU under Beamer, 2 coaches prior to this one, means 0 to anyone. Why not go back to 99 and relive the glory days of that ass whipping? I mean it's just 25 years ago. VT students weren't even alive then.
I am from Virginia and had a lot of friends who went to Virginia Tech. It is in a small city in a very rural area with Richmond, VA and Washington, DC being the nearest big cities that are five hours away. Literally the entire student body, loads of alumni and a huge chuck of the local population turns out for football games.
Had the great fortune to have grown up close to the college. I've been a Hokie fan my whole life. That entrance is truly an experience worth having. You can feel it all over campus when it starts. Amazing energy.
An Air Force buddy of mine has ties to VT and grew up a mile from the stadium. He moved back there after the AF and I have been to Blacksburg a few times to visit. Fun to play on the campus golf course while a football game is going on.
We love our college football over here. As a hokie alumni of multiple generations of Hokies, we thank you for sharing the excitement of our football team. But you have to actually experience it to truly feel the ground shaking beneath you! It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced. Go Hokies 🦃❤
You should see it live, but Blacksburg, where Virgina Tech is, is way out of the way. My sister has lived there for the last 20 some yrs I go down once or twice every year. Now, her and her husband with teen kids in their third house live like a mile away from the quarry they minds and stones they used to build the campus and around the stadium. It's a really cool place, all this white beautiful stone for like a mile down in the middle of the virgina woods.
As a teen in the 80s going to one of these games once in awhile the attendance was awful. Going to the games in the 90s when Vick was there brought alot of on field excitement. When I went back in 2008 my mind was blown! The fan base is exciting. I have a nephew in school there now. He and his friends are at every home game. These kids deserve a better showing on the field now
College Football is the purest form of the sport. College football was huge before the pros were even a thing. Hell, players originally thought going “professional” was a joke. Without college football there would be no professional football
There is nothing quite like American College Football. Older and bigger than the NF, with pre game atmosphere at many a school that would put the finals of some sports competitions to shame. You want to see just how serious this can get? Look into a little annual competition called "The Iron Bowl" *The yearly game played between the University of Alabama, and Auburn University*
Season tickets for top colleges have 25-year to 30-year waiting lists & people sign up their kids as soon as they are born. Basically you have to wait for someone to die to get them.
The first orange stadium is my hometown. My uncle who was in Vietnam got a scholarship to play at clemson. 80,000 plus show up every game. The energy is comparable to whats going on in Germany at Euro 24. So much energy. So much fun.
I recommend watching "The CRAZIEST college football season of all time " (2007) . It will show you how the ranking system works .. I've watch games there before . My team ECU Pirates ☠️ have played there many times . Pretty cool.
My son is a graduate of Virginia Tech. To say there is excitement when the Hokies enter the stadium for a home game, is an understatement. The Hokies entry and the crowd response is ranked as the best in the country. Virginia Tech is located in Virginia, in the relatively small town of Blacksburg.
You definitely gotta experience Enter Sandman in person. It’s an electric/chilling experience. What makes Lane Stadium and Enter Sandman more of a very special tradition is that it can show multiple man made earthquakes on the seismograph like what that sports announcer said and it’s throughout the season. With the rest of the NCAA college football traditions…not really. The only other college that can maybe probably can cause a lot of man made earthquakes is Wisconsin and there Jump Around tradition. If you play Enter Sandman in any other stadium outside of Blacksburg it does hit the same.
Consider, literally hundreds of thousands of teens and early 20s, leave home and go to college and live there. They grow, chases the girls to date, drink, and have all those life experiences you have at 19, 20, 21 etc. And College sport are like it's Friday night and a chance go honestly, get drunk and scream, with a bunch of college friends. And many live there for 4 or 5 years. They rep their college for 4 or 5 years. And forever, like in this case, You're a Virginia Tech Alum. And when you graduate and go off to life, you're still an alum of that university. And more will come behind you. So that's why you root for your old school. And it's different with every person. And look some go to schools with no good sports teams but often they still have sports and you root cause it's yours. And that is why sooo many people will identify with a college team, and will go back and watch a game, and they will put 80k, 90k 100k in a stadium. It actually is very similar to the regional or association a population has with a local football team in England. This is simply college.
Also the kids that grow up in the college's town and the surrounding areas that also become fans. I grew up and went to school in the same county that Blacksburg is in. My grandfather and uncle grew up around here but didn't go to Virginia Tech. But they had season passes and went to games every year. I myself have only been to one game and I also volunteered for concessions when I was in high school so I got to work a few games. You def knew when the team was coming out onto the field. It's impossible not to feel pumped up!
It is fun to experience for sure! One of my daughters graduated from Tech and we attended a game or two and it was so much fun and LOUD! The jumping gets the blood moving too since it was so COLD at the particular night game we attended haha
Being a long time Notre Dame fan I do have to say, sometimes I'm jealous of these entrances, and I think Notre Dame's is pretty good in and of itself -- running onto the field while the Notre Dame Victory March plays, pretty iconic song (you've heard it not only if you've seen "Rudy" but "Airplane" as well) and they add flashing lights and flames on night games. But it's damn hard to compete with freaking Metallica. (ECW knew this back in the day and played the song for the wrestler The Sandman and didn't even pay for the song, _somehow_ they got away with it even on national TV for a while, though that may be why WWE got charged a million dollars for one use of the song years later.)
Just think Lane Stadium only holds just over 66k. Not nearly as big as other schools like LSU or Michigan but they have just as big an impact considering the town where it is located only has a population of 44k.
I was at this game, I think one of the aspects that doesn’t get conveyed on video is how difficult it is to jump. The stands sway so much from everyone jumping that it is difficult to stand up straight and even harder to keep your balance when landing from a jump. Seen many drunk people fall over the years
Tech fan loyalty is something else. They’re the only team who can be mediocre at best with a 6-6 record for several years and still have a packed stadium with fans going crazy for them every single week.
I’ve lived in Blacksburg since I went to VT in 1999. I was actually on the field for enter sandman at this game. I have done the field entrance a few times and it never isn’t amazing. The video doesn’t do it justice this being an engineering school the stadium is designed to focus sound to the field. It’s the loudest thing I’ve ever witnessed. If you ever make it to the hills of south west Va look me up I might be able to get you down there to experience it. Go Hokies!
I think the atmosphere in Lane Stadium reflects the love and pride Hokies have for their school. Beautiful location, beautiful campus and beautiful people. I also think the Corps of Cadets has alot to do with the excitement.
And Metallica is coming to perform at this stadium and the register an earth quake everytime they take the field. Friends and I have said that these guys are not ready for what's about to happen especially the other bands that are touring with them because when VT and Ohio State played each other they registered over a 3.5 magnitude earth quake sustained and that's terrifying
I personally think its hard to find a video that soes it justice but prolly a decent one was fans lose their minds at lane stadium end of miami game. The song kicks on while miami is in a timeout with seconds left and tech was ahead. The entire place went crazy. I know some nfl players say its the loudest stadiun they have ever played in even over nfl stadiums.
America is a little different than the rest of the world in that the passion for university athletics are viewed as the “front door of the university. I went to a game where Va Tech played ODU a couple years ago. Great atmosphere! Definitely gets you hyped up.
College football has been around a lot longer than the NFL. Meaning the graduates of and residents of the state and out of state fans support them. Equaling the masses of folks to fill up the stadiums!
College football 25 is immediately losing at least 1-2 points for not putting enter sandman in the game absolute sacrilege to college football! This is the best entrance I’ve been there live several times and lemme tell ya there’s nothing like it the ground shakes you can’t hear a damn thing other than Metallica it’s epic asf!
I understand that this entrance actually registers on the Richter scale. I was at this Duke/UNC matchup, and as a UNC fan, I thought it was pretty electric. They play "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and this night we lit the bell tower blue on a win. ua-cam.com/video/Hk98beu4kvc/v-deo.html
Just to add on the impact that college football holds here in the states, there’s plenty, AND I MEAN PLENTY, of people who will not plan anything during college football season. My own sister knows the rules and she planned her wedding the weekend of the Georgia/Florida game in Jacksonville that my wife and I go to every year. I did not go to my sisters wedding. She knows the rules and my wife and I warned her. No regrets.
I live about 4 miles from that stadium, I can hear and understand the Let’s go Hokies! from my yard, and if the weather is right I can hear that music as they come in.
Hey from Blue Ridge! We’re practically neighbors!🧡
lucky you!!
Lived in Blacksburg since 1999! Go Hokies I was on the field for sandman during that game!
@@stokerstchannel4828 when I got married my wife drug me up to northern Virginia for 8 years but I finally convinced her to come back here, so happy to be out of that mess.
My grandmother lived not far from the stadium. She would tell me the Hokies must have done well because I heard the cannon a lot.
The students in blue uniforms are members of the university's corps of cadets. They are (for the most part) part of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, or ROTC (pronounced ROT-see).
Military track cadets are enrolled in the ROTC program of one of the branches of the armed forces. They take courses on military science and leadership in addition to their normal class load. Upon graduation, they are commissioned in the armed forces and serve a number of years in the military. The obligation can be anything from 4-8 years, depending on their military job. Doctors, pilots, nuclear specialists, special operations, etc have longer education or training pipelines, thus the service commitment is longer.
Most universities have ROTC programs of some sort. A select few, Virginia Tech amongst them, are called "Senior Military Colleges" and have a more formal, traditional and comprehensive ROTC program. Texas A&M, the Citadel, and the Virginia Military Institute are other SMCs.
LSU started as a military school
Football is a religion in America. It is never "just" football. To repeat, it's just another Saturday afternoon/evening across 100's of college campuses between August and December.
and thank god for college football
As I said in my own comment: The top 13 stadiums in North America by seating capacity are exclusively used for college football. 14th is Mexico's Estadio Azteca. 15th is another college team. 16th is home to TWO NFL teams.
that was well said, nothing brings us together like football
It is. American football is a national sport; it doesn’t matter what level you watch there are football and baseball teams everywhere. I would venture to say the number of teams between baseball and football, in America, are close to the same. Football possibly has more, I’m not positive.
Be careful! It’s never “just” college football. College football is a much bigger thing than NFL. The small ‘case’ being carried by one of the players is lunchbox (standing for the school’s blue collar beginning) containing the names of the 32 victims of the campus shooting on April 16, 2007.
I love college but it isn’t bigger than the NFL
It's not but the diehards are more passionate about it.
College football is not bigger than the NFL. The NFL is one league and it's massive. The superbowl is basically a holiday. The Orange Bowl or Rose Bowl is not nearly the same. There are colleges across the country and it is big and it has rabid fans. The NFL is a beast in an of itself.
On a global scale, no. CFB is not as big as the NFL. But locally, even regionally, I'd bet good money that College's see better numbers than the NFL. Now, NFL tickets are far more expensive. CFB has a whole different atmosphere. NFL games are concerts in a way. CFB are block parties that a famous band just happened to crash.
Also, I never knew that the victim's names were in the lunchbox. That's a pretty awesome tribute.
@@derred72314 of the 15 biggest stadiums in the country are CFB stadiums, met life is the biggest nfl stadium and it's 15th
VT normally have a military flyover during day games and the pilots are always graduates from the college.
Um what??? Since when??? I've lived 30 minutes from Tech and the reason they don't is because they do military bombing runs through the entire area what seems like every day so yeah.
As a Virginia Tech fan, it give me goosebumps every time!
I'm a UM fan, and i have to admit that VT's entrance is best!
My first cousin’s son is on the team, entering his 2nd year. He said coming into the stadium and onto the field is nothing but an out of body experience. The crowd registers the seismograph, used to detect earthquakes. Truly insane
The seismograph is only about a mile from the stadium, that is how they are about to pick it up but it is loud. You can hear the game across the campus.
@@ClayinSWVAyou can hear it across parts of Blacksburg in the late part of the seaosn
Remember American Football was invented shortly after the American Civil war. It's the closest thing to a battle you'll get without actually fighting in one.
Perfectly said
What a great entrance and what incredible fans! I only wish it had included the entire pregame. I am thoroughly enjoying these college ball reactions. Great job and keep them coming!
I was there that night. I'm a Notre Dame fan who traveled to Blacksburg, Va. to see that game. As much as you felt the energy watching it, in the stadium it was fucking unbelievable. That being said, we beat them by three TDs. Great night. Great atmosphere.
Yea the Irish smoked them that night.
Tech was up by 11 with 3 minutes to play and blew it....not 3 touchdowns!!!!
@@jeffmccarter7465 I think you’re thinking of a different year. First half was close in this game but the Irish blew it open in the second half. VT only scored once in the second half and the final was 45-23
I'm a Tech fan and was born right down the road from Blacksburg and I have to say it brings me sooo much pride in how awesome we are here!!!!!
70 years ago, the population of Blacksburg (where Va Tech is) was under 5K. This was and is during the summers, a sleepy mountain town with wonderful trails, streams, rivers, and the idyllic views to match. As the football team got better through the 80s, 90s and into the 2000s, the school has essentially grown 10-fold, as has the town/economy and so on.
Super cool 😎👍! Had no idea can't wait for football season to start and check it out.
I get chills every time ❤ Such an electric environment
I helped build and remodel parts of that stadium. It's an amazing piece of engineering.
You should be there for it live. Absolutely CHILLING!
So here's what you need to know about American college football: The top 13 stadiums in North America by seating capacity are used exclusively for college football. As is the 15th on the list. The 14th is the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, used for soccer. The NFL doesn't show up until number 16 on the list, and that's a stadium shared by two teams (the New York Jets and New York Giants... also the stadium is actually across the river in New Jersey not New York)
College season starts last weekend in August to last weekend in November.
Conference championship week is first weekend in December.
Bowl games are late December.
Playoffs start first week of January. Now 12 playoff teams .
I grew up in Florida and am a huge FSU fan. Have always loved the Noles entrance. I now live about 20 minutes from Blacksburg in Hokie country and even though i hate VT, i think they do have an awesome entrance.
Lyle if you're ever in the USA 🇺🇸 between September and November you have to go to a College football 🏈 game 😉👍❤️.
Seconded. Would host. Close to Auburn.
@@thundacracka77 WAR EAGLE 🦅 !!! 🧡💙
Third that, would host you at USC, University of Southern California 🙌🏼
it is absolutely magical. I was lucky enough to have a daughter attend school there and when we went to Homecoming 2023 I was overwhelmed with emotion.
Just left your reaction video of America's High School Football Stadiums, and, living in Virginia, just HAD TO come to this one!
Welcome to our World !
I live about 45 minutes north of Virginia Tech and I was outside the stadium once in my car when the Hokies entered and when Enter Sandman started I could literally feel the vibrations! It’s an amazing environment and experience!
UGA fan here and seeing this entrance live is a bucket list item...
One of the best entrances in sports. When the fans start jumping up and down, it often registers on the Richter Scale. The folks in blue are the ROTC - basically army trainees. Also fun when the music cuts out and the entire stadium keeps singing. Another great entrance is when Wisconsin comes out to "Jump Around". They go NUTS.
One thing to consider, this is the first time for many of these young people to be “on their own” - out of the parents’ house.
I live in Blacksburg, The energy when big games happen, when notre dame, florida state or clemson roll into town... Its War
Like the 8 day war in Israel though. A massacre. VT hasn't been nationally relevant in 15 years. I live in cburg, so not hating, just saying. They're extremely mediocre.
@@59thfsaviation79 a mediocre team that beat the national champion tOSU.
@@ThisGuyRides dude. That was 3 coaches ago. Lol
@@59thfsaviation79 that was a response to your 15 year claim, and 3 coaches ago would be Dooley.
@@ThisGuyRides wow. Trying to split those hairs. Pry/Clown/Beamer. There's 3. VT hasn't been relevant in 15 years. Beating OSU under Beamer, 2 coaches prior to this one, means 0 to anyone. Why not go back to 99 and relive the glory days of that ass whipping? I mean it's just 25 years ago. VT students weren't even alive then.
I am from Virginia and had a lot of friends who went to Virginia Tech. It is in a small city in a very rural area with Richmond, VA and Washington, DC being the nearest big cities that are five hours away. Literally the entire student body, loads of alumni and a huge chuck of the local population turns out for football games.
Had the great fortune to have grown up close to the college. I've been a Hokie fan my whole life. That entrance is truly an experience worth having. You can feel it all over campus when it starts. Amazing energy.
An Air Force buddy of mine has ties to VT and grew up a mile from the stadium. He moved back there after the AF and I have been to Blacksburg a few times to visit. Fun to play on the campus golf course while a football game is going on.
We love our college football over here. As a hokie alumni of multiple generations of Hokies, we thank you for sharing the excitement of our football team. But you have to actually experience it to truly feel the ground shaking beneath you! It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced. Go Hokies 🦃❤
You should see it live, but Blacksburg, where Virgina Tech is, is way out of the way. My sister has lived there for the last 20 some yrs I go down once or twice every year. Now, her and her husband with teen kids in their third house live like a mile away from the quarry they minds and stones they used to build the campus and around the stadium. It's a really cool place, all this white beautiful stone for like a mile down in the middle of the virgina woods.
Yep, glad you enjoyed this short version. Welcome to USA college football...across the country every Saturday in the fall. The best!
Jumping and noise registers on the earthquake seismigraph in nearby Norris [Engineering] Hall.
As a teen in the 80s going to one of these games once in awhile the attendance was awful. Going to the games in the 90s when Vick was there brought alot of on field excitement. When I went back in 2008 my mind was blown! The fan base is exciting. I have a nephew in school there now. He and his friends are at every home game. These kids deserve a better showing on the field now
College Football is the purest form of the sport. College football was huge before the pros were even a thing. Hell, players originally thought going “professional” was a joke. Without college football there would be no professional football
There is nothing quite like American College Football. Older and bigger than the NF, with pre game atmosphere at many a school that would put the finals of some sports competitions to shame. You want to see just how serious this can get? Look into a little annual competition called "The Iron Bowl" *The yearly game played between the University of Alabama, and Auburn University*
Season tickets for top colleges have 25-year to 30-year waiting lists & people sign up their kids as soon as they are born. Basically you have to wait for someone to die to get them.
The first orange stadium is my hometown. My uncle who was in Vietnam got a scholarship to play at clemson. 80,000 plus show up every game. The energy is comparable to whats going on in Germany at Euro 24. So much energy. So much fun.
Great reaction Lyle!
I recommend watching "The CRAZIEST college football season of all time " (2007) . It will show you how the ranking system works ..
I've watch games there before . My team ECU Pirates ☠️ have played there many times . Pretty cool.
My son is a graduate of Virginia Tech. To say there is excitement when the Hokies enter the stadium for a home game, is an understatement. The Hokies entry and the crowd response is ranked as the best in the country. Virginia Tech is located in Virginia, in the relatively small town of Blacksburg.
LET'S GOOOOO!
The gentlemen and ladies in the blue uniforms are the Virginia Tech Cadet Corp.
You definitely gotta experience Enter Sandman in person. It’s an electric/chilling experience. What makes Lane Stadium and Enter Sandman more of a very special tradition is that it can show multiple man made earthquakes on the seismograph like what that sports announcer said and it’s throughout the season. With the rest of the NCAA college football traditions…not really.
The only other college that can maybe probably can cause a lot of man made earthquakes is Wisconsin and there Jump Around tradition.
If you play Enter Sandman in any other stadium outside of Blacksburg it does hit the same.
You need to watch the Army Navy Game traditions and commercials
Yes, the armed forces games are on another level. Even when their teams aren't really competitive.
Consider, literally hundreds of thousands of teens and early 20s, leave home and go to college and live there. They grow, chases the girls to date, drink, and have all those life experiences you have at 19, 20, 21 etc. And College sport are like it's Friday night and a chance go honestly, get drunk and scream, with a bunch of college friends. And many live there for 4 or 5 years. They rep their college for 4 or 5 years. And forever, like in this case, You're a Virginia Tech Alum. And when you graduate and go off to life, you're still an alum of that university. And more will come behind you. So that's why you root for your old school. And it's different with every person. And look some go to schools with no good sports teams but often they still have sports and you root cause it's yours. And that is why sooo many people will identify with a college team, and will go back and watch a game, and they will put 80k, 90k 100k in a stadium. It actually is very similar to the regional or association a population has with a local football team in England. This is simply college.
Also the kids that grow up in the college's town and the surrounding areas that also become fans. I grew up and went to school in the same county that Blacksburg is in. My grandfather and uncle grew up around here but didn't go to Virginia Tech. But they had season passes and went to games every year. I myself have only been to one game and I also volunteered for concessions when I was in high school so I got to work a few games. You def knew when the team was coming out onto the field. It's impossible not to feel pumped up!
It is fun to experience for sure! One of my daughters graduated from Tech and we attended a game or two and it was so much fun and LOUD! The jumping gets the blood moving too since it was so COLD at the particular night game we attended haha
All across America every Saturday night! Good show Hokies, Go Ducks!
Being a long time Notre Dame fan I do have to say, sometimes I'm jealous of these entrances, and I think Notre Dame's is pretty good in and of itself -- running onto the field while the Notre Dame Victory March plays, pretty iconic song (you've heard it not only if you've seen "Rudy" but "Airplane" as well) and they add flashing lights and flames on night games. But it's damn hard to compete with freaking Metallica. (ECW knew this back in the day and played the song for the wrestler The Sandman and didn't even pay for the song, _somehow_ they got away with it even on national TV for a while, though that may be why WWE got charged a million dollars for one use of the song years later.)
When the crowd kept singing even after the music shut off 🔥
my high school team played another school that used enter sandman but their football field was completely sand. it was rough to play on that field.
I’m a police officer now but I was the plumber who re did the entire bathrooms in that stadium
The "T" was for Tennessee. The other was Texas A&M
Just think Lane Stadium only holds just over 66k. Not nearly as big as other schools like LSU or Michigan but they have just as big an impact considering the town where it is located only has a population of 44k.
In the south, college football is a religion
Oh, honey... Americans are MUCH more passionate about their college teams than the NFL!
And VT is rarely any good and yet you get this EVERY home game. Amazing!
College ball has 1000x the energy pro ball has🤷♂️
I was at this game, I think one of the aspects that doesn’t get conveyed on video is how difficult it is to jump. The stands sway so much from everyone jumping that it is difficult to stand up straight and even harder to keep your balance when landing from a jump. Seen many drunk people fall over the years
How did I miss this!? This is my hometown!
And another thing is that most stadiums hold over 10,000 people.
Tech fan loyalty is something else. They’re the only team who can be mediocre at best with a 6-6 record for several years and still have a packed stadium with fans going crazy for them every single week.
They once set of a seismograph. A device that detects earthquakes.
Best football entrance I have ever seen was Liverpool playing in Australia for the first time.
Just a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a football problem!
My hometown is Blacksburg, grew up on that campus, best intro in collage football! Let’s Go Hokies!!!!
The Virginia Tech crowd triggered on earthquake in 9/4/2021 ! 🧡❤ Favorite team ever !
This is every Saturday night in the southeast ….. there isn’t any such thing as “just college football” from Texas to Virginia in the US.
got a kid in Va tech right now and been at Lane twice, Amazing!
I’ve lived in Blacksburg since I went to VT in 1999. I was actually on the field for enter sandman at this game. I have done the field entrance a few times and it never isn’t amazing. The video doesn’t do it justice this being an engineering school the stadium is designed to focus sound to the field. It’s the loudest thing I’ve ever witnessed. If you ever make it to the hills of south west Va look me up I might be able to get you down there to experience it. Go Hokies!
I think the atmosphere in Lane Stadium reflects the love and pride Hokies have for their school. Beautiful location, beautiful campus and beautiful people. I also think the Corps of Cadets has alot to do with the excitement.
Actually they have 2 bands. One cadet corps and one civilian. It is an awesome entrance.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
And Metallica is coming to perform at this stadium and the register an earth quake everytime they take the field. Friends and I have said that these guys are not ready for what's about to happen especially the other bands that are touring with them because when VT and Ohio State played each other they registered over a 3.5 magnitude earth quake sustained and that's terrifying
You can love em or hate em, but there's NOTHING, NOTHING I say like Tuscaloosa!
Brother played for Tech in the eighties under Coach Bill Dooley., roommate with Bruce Smith, I think he said.
Michigan stadium is the 2nd largest in the world. Over 110,000 fans
My chills have chills!
Just remember all this is college. Not yet the NFL. And yeah over here in America we do take pride in our sports.
I personally think its hard to find a video that soes it justice but prolly a decent one was fans lose their minds at lane stadium end of miami game. The song kicks on while miami is in a timeout with seconds left and tech was ahead. The entire place went crazy. I know some nfl players say its the loudest stadiun they have ever played in even over nfl stadiums.
College football is gonna be nuts this season it start at end of Aug. So many teams added to new conferences. Since the PAC 12 has died.
America is a little different than the rest of the world in that the passion for university athletics are viewed as the “front door of the university. I went to a game where Va Tech played ODU a couple years ago. Great atmosphere! Definitely gets you hyped up.
Home Field Advantage - Big Time!!
I’ve attended VT games since the 1990’s and was there for this game. There’s just nothing else like it.
Football is life. The rest is just details!!
Every college team in the United States is a national team and it’s absolutely a national sport.
College football has been around a lot longer than the NFL. Meaning the graduates of and residents of the state and out of state fans support them. Equaling the masses of folks to fill up the stadiums!
It’s a beautiful campus.
College football 25 is immediately losing at least 1-2 points for not putting enter sandman in the game absolute sacrilege to college football! This is the best entrance I’ve been there live several times and lemme tell ya there’s nothing like it the ground shakes you can’t hear a damn thing other than Metallica it’s epic asf!
Fueled by 5 hours of tailgate.. but that is a different video.
"Not even a national team?!" Holy crap it's Virginia Tech! Most of the folks around there live for these games.
I live here. It's done even better now.
I understand that this entrance actually registers on the Richter scale. I was at this Duke/UNC matchup, and as a UNC fan, I thought it was pretty electric. They play "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and this night we lit the bell tower blue on a win.
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GO HOKIES!!! One of the best entrances in all of the land
virginia tech is a military college so thats why the band wears that uniform.
Good one Lyle.
THE GREATEST ENTRANCE TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL ENTER SANDMAN MAN VT HOKIE'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL 🏈 😎⚡️👍⚡️🇺🇸
Just to add on the impact that college football holds here in the states, there’s plenty, AND I MEAN PLENTY, of people who will not plan anything during college football season. My own sister knows the rules and she planned her wedding the weekend of the Georgia/Florida game in Jacksonville that my wife and I go to every year. I did not go to my sisters wedding. She knows the rules and my wife and I warned her. No regrets.
College football is one of the greatest specials and greatest rivalry forms in American history