It’s been a less than thrilling season. Lots’ of frustration. More losses than expected. A fanbase that is dealing with increasing dissatisfaction with the head coach. None of this is going away. Not going to pretend otherwise.
Still, this is the Backyard Brawl. Those things should be put aside to focus the hate where it properly belongs: on the Hoopies.
Lets go PITT! Beat the hoopoes!
Second best game after 1989 was 2007 that knocked them out of the national championship and caused rich rod to quit his Alma Mater. Even did it with a pathetic PITT team!
Penguins Fan…I too was at that game and my family still laughs about the tractor and e i e i o!!!
Two things I was brought up to accept as truths:
1. Joe Pa sucks and
2. West Virginia swallows
Hail to my beloved Pitt. Beat the hoopies!
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link to bleacherreport.com
All the extra pressure not to make a single mistake only makes more mistakes inevitable. I hope they can just have fun tomorrow.
CHAPTER 69, THE BIRTH OF THE HOOPIE (STOLEN FROM THE INTERNET)
“Hoopie” is a derogatory term for people from the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The term is in common use in the Upper Ohio River Valley–northern West Virginia, eastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania.
This bit of regional slang came into use in the area in and around East Liverpool, Ohio. In the 19th-century, East Liverpool was the site of a substantial amount of pottery manufacture. In the days before cardboard boxes and Bubble Wrap, pottery was packed in wooden barrels, with bundles of straw used as cushioning to reduce the chance of breakage during shipment.
These barrels were built at local pottery cooper shops. The coopers used split saplings to serve as the hoops holding the barrel staves in place. They did this by winding the sapling around the barrel and then weaving together the ends, or using a small nail to hold the ends together. Iron hoops were expensive and therefore not widely used.
People living in the back hills near East Liverpool would come to town carrying bundles of the split saplings, which they would sell to the cooper shops. They would then use the cash to buy things they could not make at home, such as salt and gunpowder.
Because the sellers were often poor, ragged and illiterate hill folk, the townspeople looked down on them and derogatorily referred to them as “hoopies” because they brought the hoops into town. The term became entrenched in the area and remains in use to this day, along with its corollaries, “hillbilly” and “hilljack.”
Lets go Pitt! Beat the hoopies! Beat the Hillbillies! Beat the moonshiners!Whatever!