Morgantown is Making Everyone Take Couches Off Their Porches Prior to the West Virginia-LSU Game
Unbeaten LSU visits unbeaten West Virginia Saturday night in college football’s marquee matchup of the weekend. (Sorry, but Alabama should handle Arkansas in Tuscaloosa, and the Cowboys and Aggies will be a fun, exciting shootout, but it’ll have zero bearing on the National Title picture.)
As everyone knows, West Virginia fans have an impressive history of lighting things on fire – win or lose – and city officials are taking preemptive steps so that Morgantown doesn’t burn this weekend.
City officials will remove furniture and other flammable items from porches and lawns this week in an effort to combat celebratory fires following the nationally televised football game this weekend.
The abatement effort, which covers much of downtown Morgantown and will be effective Thursday through Monday, requires that residents remove any furniture, construction materials, debris and other combustible materials from porches, balconies or lawns.
West Virginia, ya’ll.
A few words bloggers will be searching for on YouTube Friday, Saturday and Sunday: fire, morgantown, West Virginia, burn, Mountaineers, LSU. I love this concession from the fire chief:
“We know we’re going to have fires, but they aren’t going to be as bad,” said Fire Department Chief Mark Caravasos.
Perhaps a WVU grad can help me out here. Why fire?
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September 22nd, 2011 at 1:01 PM
fuck that.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:02 PM
west fuckin’ virginia.
/pours one out
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:02 PM
One of the few things you can start successfully with a WVU degree?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Link?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:04 PM
I still want to put a giant fence around the state of West Virginia, place all the death row inmates in there, give them weapons and put the whole thing on PPV. We could make MILLIONS.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:05 PM
FUCK WVU, redneck twats. I hope LSU Danza-Slaps them.
/Still bitter over last weekend’s game
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Perhaps a WVU grad can help me out here. Why fire?
Because fire is cool. Didn’t you watch Beavis and Butthead when you were younger?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Perhaps a WVU grad can help me out here. Why fire?
While WVU may have perfected the art of burning couches, they aren’t the only school that does it.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:07 PM
Bama is a 12 point favorite…-450 moneyline
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:07 PM
why do auburn fans teepee trees? why do michigan fans celebrate victories by leaving in the 3rd quarter? why does BYU celebrate their school’s namesake?
they just do, man. they just do.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:08 PM
why does BYU celebrate their school’s namesake?
I’m pretty sure the Angel Moroni tells them to.
/Dumdadumdumdum
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Nothing beats buying hard liquor at gas stations
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Morgantown is awesome.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:11 PM
What does a divorce and a tornado have in common?
Someone lost a trailer
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:11 PM
FIYAH!!!
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:11 PM
ms got a post up at TVF about a SMU grad
anyone interested in Phillies can check it out too
/banned
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:12 PM
yeah, because Vegas is NEVER wrong.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:12 PM
That black dude has a GAP hoodie and a visor cocked to the side. What year was that picture taken?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Y’all didn’t really even deserve to be let back in it.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 PM
You’re right … I’d imagine more double-digit underdogs win outright than not
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:14 PM
can’t believe i didn;t see a tribute to MNF here yesterday. was its 40th anniversary. that shit was gold in the 70s
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:15 PM
2011. It’s West Virginia, after all.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:16 PM
It’s probably this year – they’re a little behind the times down there.
For the engineer types (me and Miz) this is funny.
/licensed engineer in WV
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:16 PM
not saying I’m right, just saying that linking a betting line probably isn’t the best way to back up an argument before a game is played.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Those don’t exist.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Please. Bet on Bammer.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:17 PM
This is true, though if DOB didn’t play so terribly in every quarter except the 3rd, would’ve been a different game. Alas, Geno Smith killed us.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:18 PM
it’s amazing what happens to a brand like that when ESPN takes it over and they get a shitty deal for picking games.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I went to WVU. The photo is tagged as them playing Miami, so the most recent it could be is 2002.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:19 PM
College towns are the best.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:20 PM
So there’s no correlation between a double digit favorite and winning? If I want to know who should win a game, a double-digit spread in Vegas is a pretty good start
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:20 PM
For the engineer types (me and Miz) this is funny.
Roeth
Good stuff.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:21 PM
College towns are the best.
do all college towns have the college-townie divide, with various forms of tension?
/hey college boy, you lost?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Why thank you
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:23 PM
/Joe Casual Fan’d
//writes eleventy Michigan/Notre Dame posts
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:24 PM
bet on Bama then, I don’t give a fuck.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:24 PM
it’s amazing what happens to a brand like that when ESPN takes it over and they get a shitty deal for picking games.
but back in the day, the teams were onoy part of the draw. gifford/cosell/dandy don in the booth, halftime highlight package(done by NFL Films?) before cable came around with cosell narrating
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:24 PM
do all college towns have the college-townie divide, with various forms of tension?
Lawrence did and does. You want to see a group of pissed off townies, goto their bars when the college kids are trying to act cool by slumming at the townie bars.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:25 PM
For the engineer types (me and Miz) this is funny.
you lost me at engineer.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:28 PM
I don’t think couch burning is only a West Virginia tradition…shit the kids in Isla Vista (UCSB) will burn a couch for just about any reason.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:31 PM
If I could get them stright-up, I would. And you know why? B/c Vegas has them as a 2/9 favorite.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:31 PM
True. They usually only stick around for 1 drink.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:32 PM
Slum Nights are fun but I think at my age now the townies just think I’m becoming one of them
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:34 PM
(UCSB) will burn a couch for just about any reason.
hey don’t bogue the couch, motherfucker! pass that shit down here
True. They usually only stick around for 1 drink.
Roofer Vs. English major…..who ya got?
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:34 PM
right, and ESPN doesn’t have the right people for the booth, nor do they have the quality games to make up for it.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Heard that the ACC and SEC rejected WVU because they submitted their application in crayon.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:36 PM
There was a bar in Iowa City called The Nickelodeon that was on the Coralville strip. When you walked in, it was like the scene from Animal House.
“Can we dance wit yo dates?” Except these were big, fat, white farmers. They did have Keystone tallboys for $0.50 though. They sold cigarettes behind the bar for $2 a pack too.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Suck it Giants fans.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:38 PM
If I were an Eagles fan, I’d rather he sit against that front four than risk serious injury in week 3 of a 17 week season. That’s just me though.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:39 PM
i put vick on the bench this week, replaced him with fitzpatrick. even if he plays i may leave as is
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Well shut the fuck up and go suck Vegas’ dick then.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:42 PM
I understand that line of thinking, however they need to go 2-1 and get as many wins early because the end of the season schedule is brutal (@ Giants, NE sunday late game followed by Seattle thursday game, Jets, @ Dallas)
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Sorry, but Alabama should handle Arkansas in Tuscaloosa
fuck that.
BWHAHAHAHA!
/team TBL
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:17 PM
west fuckin’ virginia
That is West By God Virginia, sir, as anyone from the poor side of the Ohio River should know.
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Perhaps a WVU grad can help me out here
Again with the oxymorons.
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Nothing beats buying hard liquor at gas stations at 1:59 a.m.
/ My liver will never forgive me.
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:27 PM
I was there when this shit started. Sunnyside. What a place.
September 22nd, 2011 at 4:34 PM
True story: I was on WVU campus once, staying in a stranger’s campus apartment. We went to the grocery store. On the way back, he stops his van when he sees a woman walking alone, says “let’s rob this bitch” and jumps out after her.
And yes there were couches on almost every porch.
September 22nd, 2011 at 4:44 PM
WVU deserves props for at least one thing: the PRT. That’s the monorail conveyance that carries students between the two campuses and runs through downtown. A great way to get to and from High Street bars without driving when you’re blasted.
September 23rd, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Love me some fire in West Virginia.