[No Longer Free State]

Good sportsmanship. Like all the head-slapping the Cards did? Like the penalty the Hokies had called for a legal hit on the quarterback? Like the dual penalties called when a Cardinal repeatedly hit a Hokie in the head who was just trying to hold the Card away?

Yep. Great sportsmanship.

[Palmetto]

No excuse

[danneskjold]

Good sportsmanship. Like all the head-slapping the Cards did? Like the penalty the Hokies had called for a legal hit on the quarterback? Like the dual penalties called when a Cardinal repeatedly hit a Hokie in the head who was just trying to hold the Card away?

Yep. Great sportsmanship.

Something comes to mind about "two wrongs don't make a right..."

Besides, your pristine Hokies won the game...get over it...

[commish]

YOu are arguing apples and oranges.

Head slaps happen on every play of every game, just as holding and hands to the face. Every team does it, every player does it. Also, you cannot hold the Cardinals liable for Officials incompetence and call it SPortsmanship. Sportsmanship has nothing to do with officials making bad calls. (and I agree with you the officials were pathetic).

But all of that really doesn't fall under sportsmanship -- it falls under gamesmanship -- and is completely different from a played deliberately trying to injure another player.

[Logophile]

Good sportsmanship. Like all the head-slapping the Cards did? Like the penalty the Hokies had called for a legal hit on the quarterback? Like the dual penalties called when a Cardinal repeatedly hit a Hokie in the head who was just trying to hold the Card away?

None of that matters. Sportsmanship means doing the right thing—regardless of what your opponents or the officials do.

Even if the officiating was as bad as you say, that in no way excuses a player who tries to injure another player.