Comments on: West Virginia has its own Saints

By: WV DOC 69

WV DOC 69 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:50:56 +0000

Reading these responses makes me laugh my head off. Shows how stupid people from other states are. I read responses about meth labs-so what are you some some kind of unempoyed, uneducated crack head to know so much about meth labs? I read that the WVU team is garbage. Well Mr Sports, I hate to inform you but this “garbage” team won the big east and is headed to the final four. I read jokes about road kill-ha ha that is so funny-you are too stupid to realize your jokes are just that-stupid. Even have idiots posting that they would rather shoot themself than live in West Virginia. I have a gun if you would like to borrow it to blow your ignorant head off!

By: Kevin from Philly

Kevin from Philly — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:27:29 +0000

Won’t it be tough to say “How do you like our trophy” with the missing teeth?

By: Brickmaker

Brickmaker — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:33:36 +0000

Your article tonight is wrong..Bob Huggins did not grow up in West Va. He was born in West Va but grew up in Gnadenhutten, Ohio where he was a star member of his Dad’s HS basketball team in 1972 when the team became Ohio state BB champions. He attended Ohio University at Athens, Ohio as a freshman and then transferred to W Va to complete his college career.
….The Brickmaker

By: Rothlestool

Rothlestool — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:18:37 +0000

All you West Virginians calm down, take a nice Sunday Evening Drive and find your evening vittals on the side of the road. Fess Parker just passed away, who has dibbs on the innards of his coon-skin cap.

By: Bigbluefan

Bigbluefan — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:09:04 +0000

West VA is so bad Ben will not go there to pick up college girls
West Va the only state in the nation where after you split with your wife your still kin
West Va americas trash dump
Dental School went out of business in West Va when they say tooth brush they mean a brush for the tooth

By: boltfanfromwv

boltfanfromwv — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:55:29 +0000

Grew up in WV and lived all over the US… CA, TX, IL, AZ, MI, OH, MD,VA, and traveled to most all the others for long periods of time for work. They all have their own issues. I’d argue none short of maybe Texas have the pride in their state that WV has. And i don’t care what any of you have to say about it becuase I’ve lived it and seen it for myself. It’s why I came back here to live. To all you haters… keep hatin. Who give a shit. We’re goin to cut down the nets in INDY. Let’s go Mountaineers!!!!!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:09:22 +0000

@ dead money (and the rest of you), STFU and start your own website.

By: UncleTuna

UncleTuna — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:01:08 +0000

Florio…
E-N-O-U-G-H
with the hypocrisy…
you’re column posts stories of biased reporters (Thank You for calling them out)…
then you go and do the same thing?!?
WTF?!?
a smartsy line within a story without an overstretched segue is one thing, but this dedicated puff piece stuff makes me lose the faith that someone can actually do some objective reporting…

By: Rothlestool

Rothlestool — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:49:49 +0000

I think this x-files episode says it all. Chuck, lighten up, this could be you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-1Zdgx0bQ

By: aious

aious — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:57:00 +0000

I would rather shoot myself than live in West Virginia

By: ttommytom

ttommytom — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:25:49 +0000

Greg: Yes to the part where one had the luck to be born.
p.s.
Like I said before, WV had the guts to split from VA when it mattered most.

By: Burritto

Burritto — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:57:54 +0000

It’s a close comparison… except that I don’t think rampant toothlessness is a disaster quite on the level of Katrina.

By: HereThere

HereThere — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:51:39 +0000

What self-indulgent crap. Speaking of Rodrigez, nice you guys could stop burning couches long enough to send him him death threats. But keep patting yourself on the back, Florio.

By: JakeDSnake

JakeDSnake — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:03:54 +0000

It’s that ‘special breeding’ that gives the basketball team an unfair advantage: six fingers on both hands gives them better ball handling skills.

By: chadgoy

chadgoy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:59:31 +0000

Question: What is a Western Virginians favourite hollieday?….. A: Halloweenie, cuz they like to pump kin!

By: GregWV

GregWV — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:20:59 +0000

While proud of my state and team, I won’t compare it to post-Katrina New Orleans, other than the fact that a sports team has the ability to unify disparate people and give them a point of focus and pride when things aren’t going well otherwise. That’s true anytime and anywhere, but it’s more noticeable in bad times and distressed areas.
I don’t argue with the people that say this doesn’t belong on a pro football site. I don’t argue that there is a contingent of our fanbase that embarrases me, and whether you believe it or not, the majority of WV fans. You can believe that it’s all our fanbase, I really don’t care- we know differently, but I also understand the perception. The acts of a handful of idiots are certainly understandably memorable and visible.
This however i will argue, brasho.
brasho says: March 28, 2010 12:46 PM
As a native Virginian, I am still embarrassed and apalled that the state of West Virginia shares our name. The Virginia/West Virginia split-up was for good reason and the two states couldn’t have gone in more different directions.
On another note, didn’t Jerry West bring West Virginia into the limelight nearly 50 years ago? John Denver’s song? Randy Moss recently? Nah, it would take an act of God to make the Toofless State to come into relevance.
This good reason of which you speak? I assume you speak of slavery? You decided to leave the union to keep your lifestyle. You didn’t seperate from us because you were so superior, we seperated from you when the choice was staying with you or staying with the union. (And yes, I know there were many other factors involved, but that’s not for here.) Yes, it’s a shock that the region with all the coastline, the farmland, and the prime property that was first choice among the colonists has fared better than the area with 85% of its land vertical, settled by people who came here to be Americans, not to get rich. They settled in the only place that they could afford and worked at a subsistance level to get by. There was no “old money” here, never was. An area where the best and brightest have had to leave for years to ensure a better future for their children, and I don’t blame them. Some of us chose to stay and make things better here, understanding that it’s an uphill battle, but we never begrudge the people that leave, and they never stop thinking of themselves as West Virginians. That’s neither here nor there though. A successful nation needs the type of people that you THINK you are, and the kind of people that most of us are. Personally, I wish we had taken Vandalia(ugh) or one of the other name options when we split also, not due to any dislike for Virginia, but for our own identity.
I don’t think any less of the current residents of Virginia, but I don’t think they’re any better than I am, just as I don’t think I am any better than they or anyone else, for that matter. Thinking you’re superior due to only to where you had the fortune to be born…well…’nuff said. Now had you personally done something to create the situation, I would applaud that, but looking at the structure and spelling in your last sentence tells me that maybe you haven’t taken full advantage of the educational opportunities your superior state offered to you. Nah, it would take an act of God to make the Toofless State to come into relevance. Really? Toofless? …to make…to come?
I don’t pretend WV is a shining beacon that the rest of the states are striving to become, but it’s my state, and I love it. I think everyone should love their homes….but people like Brasho make my brain sad…wherever they may be from…

By: AlanSaysYo

AlanSaysYo — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:15:39 +0000

Wow, what an enormous double standard from Florio. We watch you take cheap shots from your moral high ground, see you overscrutinize the character of any player or coach that finds themselves in the news, and beat minor ethical infractions like a dead horse, all on a daily basis. And here you have the nerve to write this sugary manifesto about, of all things, a college BASKETBALL program whose coach is a far worse person that most of the figures you publicly flog here every day.
This site posts story upon story about things like how horrible it is that Urban Meyer never changed Tim Tebow’s throwing motion, how Bill Parcells contracdicts his “thugs and hoodlums” edict, and how Josh McDaniels acts like an inept child, and NONE of those transgressions come close to the rotten character of Bob Huggins. Your feel-good portrayl of the WVU program completely ignores how selfish, irresponsible, classless, and thick-headed this man has been for YEARS. It’s touching that he wants to bring a sense of civic pride to your beloved state, but that’s just about the only positive thing that anyone may ever find to say about him. If you treated him like everyone else you write about, you’d have him burning in hell for all of eternity.
This ridiculous act of giving Bob Huggins a pass has permanently tarnished your credibility in my eyes, Florio. Huggins is one of the worst examples of a college coach on so many different levels, and I am disappointed that you turn a blind eye to all of it simply because he’s coahing your school.

By: aDickRunsThisSite

aDickRunsThisSite — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:13:12 +0000

huggins players have just about the worst possible graduation ratio known to mankind.
now im a WV fan and this guy is what it takes to make me feel full of pride for my university?
thats pretty sad Florio. Huggins is Rich Rodriguez.you just dont see it coming,yet.

By: toothpick

toothpick — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:48:33 +0000

John Denver was full of sh!t

By: chadgoy

chadgoy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:38:09 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Chuck M is F’ing hilarious!!! “Der! Youse guys sere is powieful behind yer computies! I’m definitely way more powieful behin mine! I’m so powieful I’ll threaten to shoot you. Then I’ll get my uncle/daddy/grampa tuh do an orgy with mah sister, an git sum more kin.” O yea Chuck M, u are definitely inbred! LOL!!! WV doesnt stand a chance

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:19:04 +0000

Hey Chuck M,
I am a Mountaineer fan, FROM West Virginia! What I meant to say is that Huntington DOES NOT support us simply because of Marshall. Plus, Huntington is the most obese city in America.
So, I hope you die from all the fire you spew out.
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS!!!

By: dashoe

dashoe — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:56:00 +0000

B-U-T-L-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Chuck M

Chuck M — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:55:23 +0000

Tell you what, go to a WV coal miner’s meeting, read them this crap, then tell ‘em to get a grip. Then, get back on here and tell us all how it went…

By: TryTheVeal

TryTheVeal — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:47:35 +0000

Chuck……..just be glad one of your illegitimate children wasn’t anywhere near the wonderful coach Huggins when he went on his drink driving recruiting trip……….then again he could have killed you and no one would have noticed

By: wherezwaldo

wherezwaldo — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:41:34 +0000

this isnt CBT

By: TryTheVeal

TryTheVeal — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:39:57 +0000

Get a grip chuck….

By: DeuceDropper

DeuceDropper — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:31:00 +0000

The Saints inspiring a community that’s still reeling from Katrina, and WVU hoops inspiring a community trying to overcome missing teeth/incest jokes … yep, pretty much the same thing.

By: ttommytom

ttommytom — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:29:07 +0000

West Virginia had the guts to split from Virginia when it mattered most.
I love the South though. Their motto is “No child left ahead”. Something about being overfed.

By: Chuck M

Chuck M — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:24:59 +0000

Ok, here’s the G rated version-
DoomsDayD75, Reid, TryTheVeal, Jim, dead money, Rothlestool, etc. GO F*** YOURSELVES. You’re all pretty mouthy sitting behind your keyboard, but you better make sure there’s not a West Virginian around when you spew your IGNORANT S***, or you’ll end up FLAT ON YOUR A**. You sorry a** computer pecking geeks don’t have the b***s.
Like they say, too bad ignorance isn’t painful…

By: Indy Pride

Indy Pride — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:17:39 +0000

Go Mountaineers!!!!! Look forward to seeing them in Indy. Glad they made it.