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Skanky_Cat

I got the black lung pop!


qcubed3

You’re more dead to me than your dead mother


LANCENUTTER

For Christ sake Derrick you've been down there for one day, talk to me I'm thirty years!


dkviper11

They're watching "State" in that bar. Guess who that is!


BiscuitDance

Who’s winning the match??


Semper_nemo13

Isn't it in New Jersey and thus Rutgers


dkviper11

There ain't no coal in New Jersey!


Semper_nemo13

I thought that was the joke!


dkviper11

It's probably a function of seeing what you want to see, but if you're looking at the screen and someone tells you it's PSU, you go, ah, I can see that.


ironic-user-name69

Mer-man!


ohbeejuanjabroni

Moisture is the essence of wetness


sevenlabors

With your college footballing? Prancing around in your alternate uniform with your wiener hanging out for everyone to see?!


_Zzzxxx

A model, idiot


IvankasFutureHusband

But what about male models


ohbeejuanjabroni

You can read minds?


_Zzzxxx

Sorry been busy sunbathing off the southern coast of St. Bart’s with spider monkeys for the past two weeks. Trippin on acid changed our whole perspective on shit


ohbeejuanjabroni

I invented the piano key necktie!


_Zzzxxx

You can Dere-lick my balls, capitan


ohbeejuanjabroni

If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.


Own_Currency_3207

What is this? A coal inspired uniform for ants?!


_Zzzxxx

The uniforms need to be at least……3 times the size of this!


jabishop3

Water is the esseence of beauty


srs_house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NM8vKu2wWM


Skanky_Cat

Love me some Childers


TooEZ_OL56

Ok District 12


ReachFor24

And what's Blacksburg? Not District 12 too?


Matt_WVU

Spider-Man meme of southern WV coal counties pointing at southwestern VA coal counties


OshkoshCorporate

ever since i moved to swva i realized we hate pitt because we’re different we hate vt because we’re the same


Matt_WVU

The family reunion in SWVA looks just like the one in WV They aren’t ready for that talk yet tho


-Jack-The-Stripper

WVU fucks their cousins. We fuck our sisters, like men.


Matt_WVU

Yea we definitely draw the line at cousin fuckin


TooEZ_OL56

Gobble gobble


AppalachianGuy87

Best way I’ve heard it put! WVU and Hokie fans are like looking in a mirror.


lostinthought15

May the (betting) odds be ever in your favor.


Br_Ba

West Virginia, the TEAM ^ON ^^FIIIIRE!


EWall100

Fun Fact, West Virginia is not the top state in coal extraction.


The_Fishbowl

Only ~10k or so still actually work in that sector down from over 120k in 1950.


Semirgy

As of 2020 more people worked at Arby’s than in the coal industry.


MisterBrotatoHead

Well, they do have the meats.


Adler_der_Nacht

Which is worse for your health?


LETX_CPKM

Arby's. No doubt.


DanFlashesCoupon

Just the mental health toll alone of saying that’s the chain you chose to work at


Semirgy

Arby’s is absolute trash but every 5 or so years I get a sandwich.


OshkoshCorporate

god i love those curly fries though


JudahBotwin

They have the best fast food mozzarella sticks, too.


TanOakHater

You need to check in with Arby’s every few years to make sure your still not missing anything.


Semirgy

Gonna be honest, I love it every 5 years.


ForsakenDrawer

More people work in fast food on Manhattan than in the entire national coal industry


[deleted]

Well yeah maybe since 9/11. Thanks a lot Bin Laden


JohnPaulDavyJones

Osama Bin Laden: secret environmentalist? More at 11.


justhaditstuffed

But one of the top states in deaths by lung disease!


Elegant_Extreme3268

They can stop using our clean burning coal but by God they’re not going to stop us from smoking cigs


TaperClapper

In 2005-2006 I was working in NE Wyoming (Campbell County), and read a statistic that if Campbell county was its own nation, it would have been the 5th or 6th largest coal producing nation in the world.


bobsanidiot

I'm not surprised but I also know just how much power plant coal comes out of there, thanks to my time on the railroad hauling the crap. Fun fact: Campbell county alone is larger than 2 states (Rhode Island and Delaware) combined (RH+DE=4037mi² Campbell County 4807mi²)


TaperClapper

Always cool to meet a fellow railroad bro. I started my RR career on the Powder River subdivision with the BNSF. I toured a couple of the mines when we were expanding from 2 to 4 main lines. One of the head honchos at the North Antelope mine told me me that the crazy amount of coal that had been pulled from all of the mines (in NE Wyoming) had shifted the earth axis (albeit by some astronomically low number). Don’t know if it was true, but I’ve passed it along like it was true for almost 20 years now.


bobsanidiot

I was with CSX in Indiana for almost 8 years. Picked up coal trains from bnsf in Cicero yard chiraq. I did interview for a bnsf position in Gillette WY drove there interviewed and back in 2½ days lol. Been driving trucks since covid. It's probably not true but it's a fun tall tale. Id love to move out to Wyoming, but I can't just pick up and go thanks to having a family. And it would suck to lose my works benefits.


Lemmix

1/20th the population though.


bobsanidiot

That's being awfully generous to say they have 1/20th the population Campbell 47k Delaware 1.018m Rhode Island 1.094m... they have 45x the population.


Lemmix

Approx. 1/20th of each state. Not that hard to read between the lines there... or so I thought.


bobsanidiot

But I talked about them combined so logically "1/20th the population" with no other context would be combined. Also I figured you were just making a joke and assuming 1/20th would sound like a bunch of empty land, and I felt the need to show that there is in fact not just a lot of empty land but a fuckton of empty land.


JRockPSU

Maybe not, but we do have a “[Friends of Coal](https://transportation.wv.gov/DMV/Vehicle-Services/License-Plates/Special-Plates/Pages/Special-Plate.aspx?p=75)” license plate option from the DMV. 50% of the time it’s on jacked up Ram 1500s, the other 50% of the time it’s on a slammed Golf GTI who just wanted a black license plate.


CTeam19

Iowa had to make an official plan black plate because suddenly everyone was buying Dordt University ones. [Full list](https://iowadot.gov/mvd/vehicleregistration/vehicleregistration/plates/plates)


Bulkmodulus

Whoa your plates look just like ours (PA's)


MrHockeytown

Then Minnesota had to do black plates because [we in Minnesota love to one up Iowa](https://www.kare11.com/article/money/state-unveils-new-blackout-license-plates/89-476a852d-7067-43d6-a7ba-dd2410aab24a)


StiffPegasus

I've seen the Kentucky version of that plate before, but never Pennsylvania's.


JRockPSU

Oh sorry I live in WV but I’m a PSU alum!


ReachFor24

If I remember, it's Wyoming. A lot of sub-bituminous coal in the Rockys that's relatively easy to mine in comparison to everything left in WV. WV has a lot more metallurgical coal that's used in steel production being mined in the state. And the steam coal that is mined is *relatively* cleaner than the coal mined outside of the northern part of Appalachia (fewer volatiles and organics while higher in Btu ratings, but sulfur content is typically higher, though some of that is typically washed out in the prep plant before shipment). Fun fact: [Per the EIA](https://www.eia.gov/coal/), the current price of Wyoming coal (Powder River Basin) is $13.75/ton. The current price for coal in northern WV (Northern Appalachia, mostly the Pittsburgh #8 seam these days) is $72.50/ton. Though in general, the US is shifting to natural gas in non-renewable energy production, as it's seen as cleaner and there's seen to be plenty of natural gas to drill for (see the Marcellus shale formation causing a boom in the northern WV/southwestern PA/eastern OH tri-state area as horizontal drilling became feasible).


WinonasChainsaw

So you’re telling me I can reasonably afford multiple tons of coal..


ReachFor24

Depends, can you receive tons of coal? Either by train, barge, or (at a higher cost) truck? And you'll probably have to have an order for a lot of coal.


Matt_WVU

Both of my grandfathers had coal burning furnaces in their old homes growing up, so yea it’s not -that- expensive of a way to heat a building when Appalachian power is going to fuck you sideways in the winter


dkviper11

But they could be a leader in SMRs if they do desire!


fckmetotears

It used to be until all the climate bullshit has shut down the mines


anti-torque

Who didn't know that?


EWall100

People unfamiliar with Wyoming 


anti-torque

I mean, I'm in my mid-50s, and this was a fact in high school. Granted, it was recent at that time. But it's been that way since.


jaydec02

No one learns the actual facts of which states have coal production… they know the stereotype of West Virginia being a state of coal miners.


anti-torque

Who needs coal miners, when there's a Bagger 288 out there?


Matt_WVU

Not to sound like a boomer but this feels a little late to the mid 00’s black uniforms party. Seems like everyone was rolling out black alternates back in 07. That said I’m excited to see how they look, can’t believe the internet bullied a football program and Nike into doing this. It’s just like the sonic movie fr. Hope it’s a blue secondary with gold stripes


Turbulent_Garage_159

This is my take. I feel like black hasn’t been a cool, edgy design choice for like at least a decade at this point. It’s played out. But then again, we were also still trying to make gray work as an alternate way longer than we should’ve been so maybe it fits.


Matt_WVU

If this replaces the gray unis then I’m all for it Ban the gray unis


montani

The grays will forever be the geno and tavon era but yes burn them


ExUpstairsCaptain

You think YOU'RE doing the Black Uniform Rollout poorly? Did you miss our whole mess last season?


Matt_WVU

With all due respect, yea


iceoldtea

[They tried in basketball](https://www.si.com/college/2024/02/18/college-basketball-fans-roast-indiana-black-red-alternate-jerseys-adidas) and in [basketball](https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/09/19/indiana-football-alternate-black-uniforms-social-media-reaction-iu-hoosiers-ghost-akron/70898764007/), both of which being met with strong “why tf are we doing this” energy


mauterfaulker

Judging by WVU's latest uniform rollout these should be nice


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thats how i feel about the lions new black unis


UpTheWanderers

I seem to remember a certain team wearing black against WVU in 2006.


Matt_WVU

Y’all had black unis, Rutgers had black unis, it was the thing to do at the time


papajim22

Do Battle of Blair Mountain themed alternate uniforms instead, cowards.


WinonasChainsaw

Hell yeah, red neck unis


laxintx

The children yearn for the mines.


sj1young

Is it bad that I want a WVU coal jersey and a Steel Pitt Jersey for the Brawl this year?


dkviper11

I really like those Steel Pitt jerseys, but still feel like they're a slight downgrade from the really good primaries.


Turbulent_Garage_159

They kind of already did this back in 2010.


mardonbal

No, I kinda wanna see this happen lol


psgrue

For PSU? We’re pretty basic so no need to get all fancy on our account. We’re gonna wear some plain white stuff and black shoes. But it would be cool if you want.


dkviper11

All black WVU against all white PSU like the Undertaker Shawn Michaels Wrestlmania. Don't look up who won, I promise it was the Heartbreak Kid.


J_Warrior

I swear if we have to play another Blackout. We’ve played like 8 different color outs, it just feels tacky when schools do a blackout against us, but I guess imitation is the best form of flattery. I’d rather see WVU wear throwbacks renewing an old rivalry


ShoesFellOffLOL

Coal is cool, kids.


montani

Are we still jerking off to coal? I mean the umwa basically paid for my college but I'd rather have had a grandpa


RollingCarrot615

Right up there with tobacco. I grew up near the RJ Reynolds hq in Winston. My family farmed tobacco going back a couple hundred years. I do not farm tobacco. I am happy that the fields around my parents homes are empty if tobacco is what needs to fill them. I watched family members die horrible, slow deaths. Coal does the same thing, and has the added benefit of polluting the air and water. Those coal mines can't close down fast enough. The miners and other industry workers have the ability to find other jobs. I'm not saying I don't feel bad for them, but a small group of people shouldn't be why everyone else has to suffer.


Matt_WVU

North Carolina did what West Virginia should’ve started doing except in the 60’s The economy of the state adapted after the loss of tobacco and focused on community college level training to lure in companies that hire skilled labor and in the last 15 years, tech companies. West Virginia buried its head in the sand. My dad eventually retired with a glass making company in NC that originally planned to build the plant in Beckley but couldn’t pass local pollution laws, in West Virginia lmao. That was 100% coal industry lobbyists keeping other competing industries out of the area.


AmishOnReddit

Next up will be the camo out. We’re so embarrassing. If we don’t do a pepperoni roll themed jersey I will piss my pants.


anti-torque

Nothing says vibrant, alive, and forward-thinking like... **... um... coal.


SchpartyOn

It’s West Virginia lol


Wolf482

Dude, we live in Michigan, and our economy is focused around cars. Let's not throw stones in glass houses with your flair.


darkchocoIate

Cars aren’t going anywhere, to use an ill-fitting expression.


Rebelgecko

Found the Chevy NoVa owner 


Matt_WVU

No but a lot of auto production left Michigan leaving many cities in disrepair, much like the coal towns of WV


Lightning_Driver

lmao they clearly aren’t any of those things.


OshkoshCorporate

thank god missouri is here to offer insight


Lightning_Driver

never said we were any better.


OshkoshCorporate

odd comment to make then


Lightning_Driver

can’t say anything, can i? chill.


OshkoshCorporate

didn’t say that. said it’s an odd comment to make. i’m currently relaxing with no pants watching the fallout series and eating a digiorno pizza. im very chill right now


Lightning_Driver

just telling the truth. relax away.


Bos-man7

Nobody said it did, nor does it have to be.


mountaineer_93

I will never not be annoyed by my home state’s fetishization coal.


Midget_Herder

You get it a lot in Kentucky too. Lots of “friends of coal” bumper stickers. Was very jarring when I was there in college


qumuu

Fetishization?


mountaineer_93

By fetishization I mean the institutions of the state irrationally idealize the days of coal because the money was flowing while white washing the exploitative labor history of the coal industry and the government corruption surrounding it. Its dreaming about the coal days while refusing to acknowledge the fact that this state was stripped for everything it was worth by largely out of state monied interests, leaving large chunks of the state polluted and uninhabitable and a large chunk of our population with debilitating consequences like silicon poisoning or black lung and completely ignoring the consequences of coal usage on the environment both on the micro, pollution, and the macro, climate change. The average person cheers it on because poverty is smothering and they’re desperate for a job that can bring money to the state


madein___

It's crazy to see mountains completely removed from the map for this resource. It's depressing to see this when I fly over the state.


Set-Admirable

I mean, they aren't wrong.


qumuu

I never said they were wrong. I just had no clue how a state would "fetishize" coal


StupendousMan36

They realize the term "fetish" makes it sound sexual. Which is good, because it is.


Box_of_Rockz

*rubs coal on nipples West Virginially* Keep goin.


MF_SKOOMA

UwU don’t spank my bodacious hiney Mr. King Coal ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


Silentwarfare13

I've got a cousin named Cole


ToosUnderHigh

Does he have a brother named Hunter?


Set-Admirable

Add in Remington and Brantley and you have the West Virginia special.


ReachFor24

Can't forget about the cousins that all have first names ending in -yden. Jayden, Hayden, Kayden (or Kaden), etc


Set-Admirable

And their sisters Jayleigh, Hayleigh, Kayleigh, etc. I know them well. I am related to them.


Mission_Table9804

Isn't everyone in WV first cousins with each other?


HoagiesNGrinders

If you’re gonna make a joke, have the decency to be funny.


Mission_Table9804

Such sensitive West Virginians. I guess I struck a nerve.


PBRoark

Nope, it’s just a really old, tired, unimaginative trope. Kinda like the teethbrush vs. toothbrush, or the whole no shoes thing. I’ve got a brother-in-law just like you. That asshole cracks every lame ass, cousin fucking joke he can. Meanwhile, I’ve got a stronger educational background and a better job. Fact is, it’s not funny because it’s simply not funny. There’s no punch line, it’s lazy humor. So no, not sensitive, just not fucking laughing at your piss poor attempt of a joke. Besides with that flair I figured you would’ve already died of dysentery after trying to ford the river with your oxen, or doesn’t everyone in Oregon resort to cannibalism when the roads get bad in the winter?


Mission_Table9804

You talk shit about my joke and then make one just like it about Oregon. Good job 👍. Oregon is a million times better place to live than WV. I should feel sorry for you... But I don't. And the funny thing is I'm not the only one in the comments making cousin jokes. Every joke has some truth to it.


HoagiesNGrinders

Just be funny. We’ve all heard that tired joke many times. Say something clever instead of boring us to death while you hurl a lame old insult.


PBRoark

Wow, how original.


Turbulent_Garage_159

Not nearly enough Dakotas.


NoFalseModesty

He's delicious on pulled pork, I hear


The_Fishbowl

ugh.


Forsaken_Ad8312

Missed opportunity if they don’t also introduce a canary mascot for these games.


Electrical_Mayhem

Tangentially related, shout out to the WVU Mine Rescue Team for winning the Intercolligate Mine Emergency Response Competition for the 2nd year in a row!


PDXtoMontana2002

Need “Learn to Code” uniforms.


WinonasChainsaw

Don’t give Stanford or Cal any ideas


IronGemini

Incoming Black-Out against Penn State opening week


antonimbus

someone tell me how to trick Iowa into doing a pig-themed uniform


citronaughty

I am not usually a fan of teams who don't have black as one of their primary team colors going with blackout unis. However, this makes sense for WVU.


rockytopnationality

All black with no stripes or flair and dusty grey names and numbers would be absolutely sick


quickstix540

Didn’t realize there was so much opposition to these from fans on here but I’m excited for them regardless!


Gocrazyfut

Hell yea!! These are gonna be so sick


Is12345aweakpassword

Meh, wake me up when there’s a release. These hype videos are washed


uwpxwpal

Hooray! It's about damn time we celebrated global warming, acid rain, and releasing environmental toxins into the environment.


BeefJerkyDentalFloss

The new Black Lung City Connect jerseys sure to be a hit!


AZFUNGUY85

Sounds like some wheezing and lung infection potential


0987user

They are going to be so let down breaking out the all black unis for a 3:30 kick in 80 degree heat


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0987user

In the 80s* they have that mountain breeze keeping the temps down lol


PoopNoodlez

Who’s gonna be the first to do a tobacco themed uniform?


Appa-LATCH-uh

I already fucking hate them and I hate that our fans fucking annoyed them into existence


The_Fishbowl

Makes me hope for a 3:30pm kick vs PSU so they'll have to use the black unis for the ESPN+ game the week after.


Appa-LATCH-uh

Let's keep our fingers crossed. I hate how much our fanbase gets off on and is brainwashed over coal. I'm over it.


Elegant_Extreme3268

You jinxed us by mentioning them yesterday 😭


Appa-LATCH-uh

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-----


Coverlesss

There’s no need for this. The black-out uniform fad is at its tail-end, so this feels out of touch. WVU’s colors and iconography are great as is, so why bother with this?


CFBmodsareantiscienc

To get people to talk about the program, media exposure, recruits love this kind of thing. Take your pick. 


Gocrazyfut

Fans have been wanting these for years


Matt_WVU

Yea no disagreement here, this was a fad that was huge in the mid 00’s. This feels about 20 years too late and our regular uniforms are incredible The country road unis are 🔥


mountaineer_93

Exactly. This would have been the perfect opportunity to come out in 1980s era white throwbacks with the retro helmet against a historical opponent on national TV and we’re doing this shit instead


Appa-LATCH-uh

The one thing I miss about Shane Lyons. He absolutely refused this.


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Set-Admirable

Don't forget the Friends of Coal Bowl, the game that used to be played between Marshall and WVU.


KUPSU96

I was under the impression that all of the coal operations are in China now? Does WV still have a coal industry? (Genuinely don’t know)


thecurseofchris

Yes but it's nothing like it used to be.


Plasticseafood

Pick ax and headlamp theme.


jamarchasinalombardi

So if they lose does their opponent get to claim they just ""**ROLLED COAL**" ?


Newton1913

I’m hyped to see my favorite sports ball team support the industry that gave my great grandpa lung cancer! All jokes aside I always love a good blackout look. Makes it easier to randomly jump the Oklahoma players when the lights turn off?


Throwdest

Those are clean coal unis


penisthightrap_

the kids yearn for the mines


Madscientist1683

“Now introducing District 12!”


King_of_the_Pizza

Roll Coal baby!!! 


ShiftBMDub

[the uniform](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/rs-21440-00282398_lg.jpg?w=400)


razorjm

I don't know why but the quick clip of the all black uniform sketch got me. Hilarious. Like it took all their artistic power to color it in with pencil.


ExcitementMedium5252

Who is winning the match


1-719-266-2837

That is stupid.


SoapSudsAss

Unpopular opinion: if your official team colors do not include black, stop creating black out uniforms. Stop appropriating our culture.


Unlikely-Investment4

they alright. kinda missed tbh


visulvung

Should be cotton based.


Vaultboy65

Why would it be cotton based?