But it came down to a choice between two pictures. Not that it isn't a good likeness of an otherwise forgettable face, but a man doesn't go plastering a picture of himself in the teary mode on the World Wide Web if he can't explain the context. Thus the picture with the allegiance displayed. Several readers very early on offered to send T's to add to the brim to make the cap more in style. But I respectively declined.
Rivalries are interesting.
I went to both Hampden-Sydney College and UVa and dated a girl from VirginiaTech while in school. I later married into a family of ardent Hokies, my wife having attended the institution of orange and maroons, uh, maroon. Her father was arguably the biggest Hokie fan to walk the planet. In his lifetime, he likely lambasted the Wahoos more than any one individual on record. Carl Trippeer served in the military and started at quarterback for the Air Force Academy and was the kind of American who would have collared the average flag burner by the scruff of the neck and launched him into the nearest river if he had had the opportunity.