Remember when we recruited so many outstanding running backs that two transferred to WVU. I know we ended up with Ironhead and Charles Gladman and I think one more, maybe the star from Washington PA that didn’t quite make the most of his talents.. I can’t remember the two that left but I know they had pretty good careers.

The city of pittsburgh, with a population of 312,000 people has more homicides in a year than the entire state of west Virginia with a population of 1.8 million (65 in Pittsburgh, 50-65 average in WV). So while west Virginians may be poorer or more isolated than some, they have not yet fallen to the despicable levels of sub humanity prevalent in the dying city where the citizens routinely exterminate each other for corners to sling crack. After the game, you rats can crawl back to your ghettos and cop some of the dope found on most of your street corners to cope with the fact that you’re going to be destroyed. I really wish I could attend any sporting event in your city without being accosted by the hordes of homeless and drunks that can be found wandering your filthy streets.

john recorn or should i say red neck have you been to whelling or morgantown ? you dont get out of the hills mutch do you you hoopie ridge runner at least we have a real city.

The season just started. Time to beat the hoopoes and then move on to basketball. It is nice to see that we finally have generated a true dislike for wvu even though it is only three times year (1- football, 2-basketball days). Kinda like that one or two times a year that big brothernhas to remind little brother who is the silverbacks(king of the jungle). Penn State still sucks but WVU is now our real rival!

Lets go PITT! Beat the hoopoes!

Second best game after 1989 was 2007 that knocked them out of the national championship and caused rich rod to quit his Alma Mater. Even did it with a pathetic PITT team!

Dr. Tom…hilarious!

Penguins Fan…I too was at that game and my family still laughs about the tractor and e i e i o!!!

Two things I was brought up to accept as truths:

1. Joe Pa sucks and
2. West Virginia swallows

I am 3rd generation Pitt Alum and have my kids ready to be the 4th. They already hate the hoopoe scum from WVA. Both my girls grew up thinking the hillbillies ate their young, had one eye and had refrigerators on the front yard….ah, nothing like the truth.

Hail to my beloved Pitt. Beat the hoopies!

john redcorn must be one of those hoopie Rhodes scholars we keep hearing about. So therefore he’s from the select few in that forlorn state who can actually spell. Congrats john, maybe you can perform some charity work and teach the masses down there, what it’s like to be a educated a-hole.

Happy Thanksgiving. Have a great day and get Fired-up. Can we win one that we really need?

Hagen (from the House of Zo) – It is I…Otis was my roommate. We have much to catch up on. Happy Thanksgiving!
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This is for script fans:
link to bleacherreport.com

Nate – Where the hell you been boy?

Remember WVU fans no smoking, and that includes corn cob pipes.

I feel bad for the players. They should be fired up, loving the chance to go get WVU, but because the way things have worked out, they are probably strung so tight they can’t move.

All the extra pressure not to make a single mistake only makes more mistakes inevitable. I hope they can just have fun tomorrow.

Hey John Redcorn – at least our fans don’t throw rocks at your player’s bus. That was a real classy episode.

why are non Pitt alums and fans commenting on our blog. please. Moutaineers. ok.

BACKYARD BRAWL HISTORY
CHAPTER 69, THE BIRTH OF THE HOOPIE (STOLEN FROM THE INTERNET)

“Hoopie” is a derogatory term for people from the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The term is in common use in the Upper Ohio River Valley–northern West Virginia, eastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania.

This bit of regional slang came into use in the area in and around East Liverpool, Ohio. In the 19th-century, East Liverpool was the site of a substantial amount of pottery manufacture. In the days before cardboard boxes and Bubble Wrap, pottery was packed in wooden barrels, with bundles of straw used as cushioning to reduce the chance of breakage during shipment.

These barrels were built at local pottery cooper shops. The coopers used split saplings to serve as the hoops holding the barrel staves in place. They did this by winding the sapling around the barrel and then weaving together the ends, or using a small nail to hold the ends together. Iron hoops were expensive and therefore not widely used.

People living in the back hills near East Liverpool would come to town carrying bundles of the split saplings, which they would sell to the cooper shops. They would then use the cash to buy things they could not make at home, such as salt and gunpowder.

Because the sellers were often poor, ragged and illiterate hill folk, the townspeople looked down on them and derogatorily referred to them as “hoopies” because they brought the hoops into town. The term became entrenched in the area and remains in use to this day, along with its corollaries, “hillbilly” and “hilljack.”

For pete’s sake all people of that fair city of Pittsburgh are reminded to keep all their pets, animals and the like in their homes from 6am Friday thru the duration of the weekend.

Bomber, That is the most enlightening peice of information I’ve seen here in a while. Thanks.

Lets go Pitt! Beat the hoopies! Beat the Hillbillies! Beat the moonshiners!Whatever!