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So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 8:51 PM
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this weekend and the WVU folks were shaking their keys. I didn't hear that they made any difference. Must be a yankee thing...
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 9:32 PM
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University of Florida used to do it as well, maybe still do. It means your done, time to go home
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 18, 2017, 7:15 AM
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The Florida example is the one I'm familiar with as well. Game no longer in question. Time to leave.
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 9:43 PM
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We used to do in at Clemson in basketball. We had a white dude, last name key.
He could jump out of the gym and whenever he got in the game (mop up work) we shook our keys.
This was around 1976
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 10:27 PM
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I made a friend with the hokie beside me at the VA tech game and he told me that it started out there as something they did for key plays like third down and that they used to have a turkey foot rattle on their key chain to make more noise before it was outlawed. Now they just do it out of tradition withou the rattle. HTH
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 10:31 PM
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having a hard time squaring West Virginia and Yankee
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Orange Blooded [3750]
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 17, 2017, 10:39 PM
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West Va sided with the north and succeeded from VA during the war of the northern aggression-hence they are yankees.HTH
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 18, 2017, 12:40 AM
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*- state not stayed
Sorry – just never heard anybody call Stonewall Jackson a Yankee haha
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 18, 2017, 8:25 AM
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Just a few tidbits of history here. General Benard Bee, born in Charleston and reared in Pendleton is credited with attaching "Stone Wall" to General Jackson at the first battle of Manassas. General Bee was mortally wounded in the Battle. One of the best biographies ever written about General Jackson is Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne.
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Re: So what is this key shaking thing? I was at WVU/TTech game
Oct 18, 2017, 9:55 AM
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That is interesting. Thanks! I always like to read the markers along the road & books like that. Thought I was the only one. Its sad how some don't know history. And calling WestVirginians yankees is... nevermind
Like they say, "Those that don't remember history are doomed to..." ...I forget the rest.
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VT fans do it too...
Oct 18, 2017, 12:36 AM
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and not only is it unbelievably stupid, it accomplishes absolutely nothing.
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Dynasty Maker [3293]
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is it one of those swinger things from the 70s?
Oct 18, 2017, 1:01 AM
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where everyone places their keys in a bowl at a happening party? like in the movie ‘the ice storm’?
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Believe it or not, Clemson tried to make this a thing too
Oct 18, 2017, 7:05 AM
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I specifically remember during my time in college (1991-95) that the jumbotron used to proclaim "SHAKE YOUR KEYS" during important points of the game. It never really caught on that I remember. I don't know if they did it before my time or not.
And now i'm having flashbacks to just how primitive that jumbotron was. I'm not even sure it could show replays.
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Re: Believe it or not, Clemson tried to make this a thing too
Oct 18, 2017, 8:46 AM
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good.its stupid and a waste of time
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