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Virginia Tech fullback earns his stripes

Posted December 26, 2012

It had been nearly a year, right after Virginia Tech’s January appearance in the Sugar Bowl, that fullback Joey Phillips last had a haircut. But with his football career winding down, the senior could sense the straight-laced realities of the real word fast approaching.

“I was like, you know what, I’ve got to be a real person this time next year,” he said. “I might as well do something with it.”

An “executive decision” was reached earlier this month with members of the strength staff to cut it into a mullet, a down-to-party look Phillips augmented with a horseshoe mustache.

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