2008.10.18
Hokies appear to be getting a break
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- From early looks, Boston College's football team might not have much of a home-field edge in tonight's ACC clash with Virginia Tech.
The grounds around Alumni Stadium looked almost like a ghost town when I drove into the media parking lot around 4:45 p.m., 3 hours and 20 minutes before kickoff.It's safe to say the joint won't be rocking and rolling as usual. Most of Boston's sports fans are currently wrapped up in the plight their beloved Red Sox, who are playing the Tampa Bay Rays in tonight's Game 6 of the American League Championship Series.
The Red Sox are coming off an incredible comeback victory in Thursday's Game 5 at Fenway Park, where they rallied from a 7-0 deficit in the final three innings to stun the Rays 8-7 and force Saturday's Game 6.
It's also chilly in Boston, another reason folks weren't tailgating en masse three hours before game time.
Whatever, the Hokies won't have to deal with the usual raucous crowd of 44,000 so. Several Tech players said this week that the BC crowd has been one of the loudest and harshest crowds the Hokies have seen the past few years.
-- Randy King
I guess that home crowd impassive doesn't matter.
Comment by Jim Mask — October 18, 2008 @ 10:08 pm