Whenever one of my teams wins, the rest of the day is pretty much a good one. Every game watched afterward becomes a little bit more tolerable, and it’s easier to enjoy and appreciate the little things about a game, whether it’s watching an offensive line setting a nice screen, when a pitcher nips the outside corner with an unhittable curveball, or when a basketball player actually makes two consecutive free throws. It doesn’t matter the sport, whenever a team I favor gets a W, everything else is just a little bit better.
Earlier, Virginia Tech slaughtered Miami, in Miami. Once #14 now unranked VT marches into what I used to refer to as “SunLiphinSharkRobbiePlayer Stadium,” based on how many times the venue had changed corporate sponsorship but is currently the home to the NFL Dolphins and University of Miami, and slaughters the #11 ranked Hurricanes on their home field. Whether or not this puts Tech back into the Top-25 is irrelevant, since it’s obvious they’re really not supposed to be anything more than a team in transition, but it’s always a pleasure to see them actually get a win.
But the cherry on top wasn’t necessarily the fact that the Hokies destroyed Miami, it’s the fact that the ESPN camera crew caught the best in-game event happening as it occurred: the mass exodus; where fans of a team preemptively declare the game as concluded, and begin their departure of the venue, well before the game is actually over, and typically in massive numbers. Typically it is the home team’s fans that do this, although it isn’t uncommon for a massive drove of opposing team fans to be present and have to shamefully make the mass exodus too.
At the point in which the mass exodus of the VT-MIA game began, Tech was up by two scores with over 11 minutes of game time left; by no means was this game necessarily over. But then Miami’s QB Stephen Morris began heaving passes deep, unsuccessfully looking for instant scores, instead of focusing on clearing the first seven points; apparently he had decided to throw in the towel well ahead in advance as well. Regardless, it’s always a treat to see a mass exodus occur, because it’s pretty much one of the lowest mannerisms a fanbase can display.
It’s especially great to see whenever it happens in the city of Miami, because there’s pretty much no city that’s as full of fair-weathered, douchy and fake sports fans then in Miami. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Hurricanes game, a Dolphins game, or a Heat game, and nobody in Miami bothers going to see the Marlins in the first place, but seeing Miamians give up on their home team and make the mass exodus out of the venue is always fun to see. But seeing Miamians give up and mass exodus as a result of one of my teams dropping the ownage, is doubly sweet.
