Hall At QB Reveals Bigger Picture

Jed Williams

At approximately 12:05 EST on Saturday, November 29, 2008, in Blacksburg, VA, Vic Hall started at quarterback for the Virginia Cavaliers.

What followed from this columnist’s mouth was neither intelligible nor appropriate. It was a combination of exhilaration, jubilation, relief, anger, and confoundment all thrown into a blender. It sounded like a shriek, a scream, and a sigh uttered at the very same time, and it could be heard blocks away (at least that’s what the neighbors three streets over told me).

Put through the interpreter, it translated as:

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