By JIM DUCIBELLA, The Virginian-Pilot

Few things depress Sonny Stallings more than his fall visits to Charlottesville, Blacksburg or Williamsburg. Talking with alumni of the colleges located there causes his mood to drop like a crisp, crimson leaf. “Invariably, the conversation turns to football,” said Stallings, a 1972 Old Dominion University graduate now on the school’s Board of Visitors. “People talk about what Tech and Virginia did. Then someone will ask: 'Where did you go to school?’”

Here it comes, Stallings thinks.
“Old Dominion,” he replies before enduring what one might call “the sympathy pause.”

“It’s like they’re thinking: 'Poor thing, you’ve never really enjoyed a Saturday afternoon, have you?




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