Fall practice has officially started, and there will be lots of news and analysis of depth charts, players, injuries, scrimmages and the like, but sometimes it's good to take a step back and think of something we all shared, not together - or maybe we did, but all of us had a first game at Lane.
When I went to my orientation in July of 1977, I hadn't a clue as to what I was getting myself into. It took me more than an hour to map out the route to get to Blacksburg from my house in suburban Alexandria.