Editors’ note: This story contains details of a mass casualty event and gun violence.
Rivalries are everything in college football, and it is not unusual to see bad blood boil over into some unfortunate moments during the course of a season. However, they can also provide pretty special moments where players and fans from disparate teams come together for the greater good. In the wake of the tragic shooting at Virginia, which claimed the lives of three Cavaliers football players and injured another, intrastate rival Virginia Tech paid tribute to the program ahead of its game against Liberty on Saturday.
As the Hokies ran out onto the field at Liberty’s Williams Stadium, players carried not only a Virginia Tech flag, but one for Virginia as well.
