[GeneD]

A few random comments:

Hey Bob, when will you apologize for Bob Byrd?

What did you expect with your team playing in the Continental Tire Bowl?!?!?

You're mad because your team lost, and to add to the indignity, your team lost in the Continental Tire Bowl.

Bob, now that you're out of the House, get a sense of humor.

[TN4Liberty]

When friends kid each other about their teams and schools, it is appropriate to say "get a sense of humor." When a state university seeks to degrade another state and the opponent for the game, that is just trashy.

One would think that UVa would be interested in having at least the illusion of good sportsmanship. I would be very disappointed if my community high school pulled a stunt like this. I expect more from a university. In their attempt to put down WVa, they instead made themselves look small and petty.

[Tennessee_Bob]

The contestant said to be from West Virginia wore blue overalls and pigtails, had a talent for square dancing and declared a dream to move to Beverly Hills, Calif. -- a reference to "The Beverly Hillbillies."

And all this time, I thought Jed and all his kin were from Tennessee, not West Virginia...

[Savage Beast]

It could have been worse. They could have done a Big Byrd number with a cross burning.

[ikka]

Unfounded stereotype? You ever driven through W. Va?

Then again, the W. Va girl could just as well have been from the southwest corner of Va too.

[Guillermo]

As long as they keep on electing wackos, they deserve the abuse.

[VadeRetro]

Typical Democrat. No sense of humor and bludgeons with his victimhood.

[Billthedrill]

I've seen worse. I was there the time the Stanford Marching Band came out at halftime during the USC game dressed in garbage bags. "Trojans," get it?

[eddie willers]

"Yee Haw!....A feud!"
"Get me my shooting iron."

[Ben Bolt]

Mr. Wise ,

I've duly noted that some people refer to my state in spelling as Floriduh . I feel your pain .

Respectfully ,

Grow a pair

CC :

Donald Rumsfeld

[Redmen4ever]

What are we, in Virginia, to do?

TOP TEN APOLOGIES:

10. We're sorry, but we thought you could take a joke.

9. We're sorry, but we didn't think you'd consider it to be an insult.

8. We're sorry, but we didn't think you'd understand.

7. We're sorry, but some of our best friends are Appalachians.

6. We're sorry, and we will now hire more Appalachians.

5. We're sorry, but we only now realize how insensitive we've been to Appalachians all of our lives.

4. We're sorry, and we will go on the Appalachian Entertainment Network to apologize some more.

3. We're sorry, and we will resign, and allow somebody else who thinks just like we do to take our place.

2. We're sorry, but you're the guys with "Mountaineers" as your mascot.

1. We're not sorry, and next year we're going to kick your football team's collective Appalachian butt even harder!

[ArcLight]

They need to apologize for playing in the Tire Bowl!

Seriously, though, the band was behaving quite badly. The whole thing was in deeply poor taste and should not have been done.

Gotta admit, though...it sounds hilarious!

[driftless]

My advice to the WV gub is to get over it. We Wisconsinites are depicted by Illinois residents, mostly rubes themselves, as being simple cow-loving cheesehead-wearing hayseeds who constantly eat brats and drink beer while watching the Packers. That is a false and scurrilous statement. We don't always watch the Packers.

[Maedhros]

virginia r0x0r; west virginia sux0r

[ZULU]

"Gov. Bob Wise on Monday demanded an apology from the University of Virginia because a pep band lampooned his state's rural image during the halftime show of a college football bowl game."

He's right. They should have lampooned the state for that brain-dead liberal nee kukluxer Byrd-brain.

[Corin Stormhands]

"This type of performance merely perpetuates the unfounded stereotypes that we in West Virginia are fighting so hard to overcome," Wise said in a letter to University of Virginia President John T. Casteen.

1) As a Virginia Tech fan, it is difficult for me to side with UVA, except when it deals with "outsiders." Maybe it was a little tacky, but for heaven's sake football is all about tacky and about making fun of your opponents.

2) The only difference here is that there was too much truth in the portrayal.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder if the stunt the band pulled is worth a "Hold muh beer" ping?