FedExBusBoy

Fantastic!!!!!

fdx727pilot

When you go up for the NFL draft, it's generally understood that the player does not get to choose, the teams with draft choices do. No one is forcing you to work where you don't want to, but if you want to play pro ball, you're suppose to go with the team that drafts you. Sort of why they call it a draft. You're not a free agent in the NFL till after your initial contract, if you participate in the draft.

As for living in Memphis, I do, because:

1. I married a local girl and she refused to move back to Dallas, where I lived before FDX, and

2. I can sit B reserve and work 4 days a month. I'm all for Max money with Min work!

3. Commuted on my last airline job, and it sucked.

As for STV, since I will probably make very junior Bus Cap on the MOAB, assuming it's not really a TLB (Tiny Little Bid,) I'm at least as vunerable to STV as the next guy.

Overnitefr8

It must be the same as being here at FedEx. If you put in for the draft, you don't have to take the trip.

fdx727pilot

Yeah, but you almost never get to choose another trip if you turn down the one offered. I only say "almost never" because once, back in 2003 during a hurricane event, I was offered the choice of 5 draft trips. Rarely do you get a choice other than yes or no.

MD11Fr8Dog

Yea, supposedly Bristol offered giant guarantees. My understanding is that UT wouldn't give up one of their home games and is afraid to come to B'burg!

No Place Like Home!

MD11Fr8Dog

You mean this guy!

Who is Hokie Man?
In less than three years the Hokie Man has become an icon. In his cape, pompom skirt, and floppy hat, he leads cheers at Virginia Tech athletic events from Miami to Syracuse. No wind chill can stop him; no rain can dampen his enthusiasm for his beloved Hokies.

You can find him boosting spirit from the front row on Lane Stadium's section 16, in stadium parking lots, or on the pages of newspapers in Miami, Nashville, and Virginia Beach, his long black wig flying in the breeze.

But who is Hokie Man? Would Superman say he's Clark Kent? Would Spiderman fess up to being Peter Parker? Ask Hokie Man his identity, and all you get is "I am Hokie Man."

Here's the scoop. Hokie man is not a Tech undergraduate, as an ESPN commentator once suggested. Hokie Man is a member of the faculty. Hokie Man is the alter-ego of mild-mannered Mike Schroder (hotel, restaurant management '92), an assistant director for program development for Virginia Tech's Division of Continuing Education.

Hokie Man was born Nov. 9, 1996, when the Hokies chilled East Carolina in a nationally televised game that revealed snow blowing horizontally. Schroder was bare from waist up, save the cape draped over his shoulders. When he donned a sweatshirt at half-time, about a thousand people booed until he yielded to mob rule and removed it.

In the parking lot of the Orange Bowl weeks later, Schroder found himself leading an impromptu pep rally from atop a van. He's had a dual existence as a Tech administrator/pop-culure star ever since.

Becoming Hokie Man is no flash change undertaking; Schroder enlists the help of his wife Beth (hospitality and tourism management '94) to apply the body paint, which takes about 90 minutes. But it's worth the effort. Hokie Man is sponsored by Hokie House restaurant (where you can find a wall of his press clippings and pictures), and he's guaranteed a front row seat at Tech games.

And don't foget to pre order your copy of "Hokie Nation, The Dcoumentary" - opening in Blacksburg this Fri night!

Albief15

Bristol trivia:

Follow Beaver creek...the creek that meanders around the track on the north, east, and south side as it ambles....

Follow it downstream about 4 miles.

Look up on the right. You'll see an old colonial brick farm house, built originally in 1860. That is where Albie was a kid, and lived in what a teenage boy can only describe as heaven with fields to hunt, ride horses, and chase cattle with the family Shetlies. You could raft down the same creek to Galloway Mills, then get out and continue rafting all the way down to Boone Lake. It was the coolest childhood a kid could ever hope for.

Disregard the subdivision there to the north and to the west behind the farm. They weren't there then, and it was magic.

You guys hit the game and/or the races...Sullivan county is full of so many memories I'll just be out exploring.

JetJocF14

Got you beat.

Once when I was a 72 F/O the air conditioner in the house crapped out so I called the A/C man for that $60.00 tune up. The guy looked at my A/C and said sorry pal you need the $4000.00 dollar nothing runs like a train unit. Put in for draft and schedules calls and ask if I want a 5 day draft starting with a dead head to OAK. Took the draft, got out to OAK checked in the hotel and called schedules. My trip was CNX. Hey I said I still get paid right. Of course. So I said well as long as I'm here you can have me. The scheduler said I'll call you back in 10 minutes. Bingo an Out/back to LA and 4 days of airport standby. My captain and I were just walking out the door to go to the jet when the station manager grabs me and says schedules wants to talk to you. Turns out the F/O over at SFO no-showed so they ask me if I'll cover his trip. Sure what about the out/back. No problem you get paid for that too. Sweet but how do I get over to SFO.. Were charting you a helicopter. COOL. After 30 minutes they could get a heli in time so we took the 727 over to SFO. Rolled onto a 5 mile final in a perfect section formation landing with a southwest 737. Landed got into our 727 and flew one leg back to memphis.

D/H out ,one leg back. 3 drafts, paid about 75 hours or whatever. New A/C condensor and there right nothing runs like a train. To bad you can't do that anymore......

MD11HOG

OK, when you come across as a rational person, people will listen to you. And nothing is more rational than MAX pay for min work. But calling Eli spoiled makes you come across as an ignorant, arogant and pompas ass. Eli had a pretty solid advisor when he made his decision. Now he didn't have someone who knew as much as you, but only a guy who spent years in the NFL setting records for getting sacked because his team sucked.
Archie WHO?
I've just gotten touchy about the hypocracy of running down a nice guy who stood up for what he thought was right while defending a group of guys that are only out for themselves. I thought you were more senior than you are and I'm sick of the FedEX captains not leading by example. I'm sick of people defending DP flyers, 200%ers,parking lot deals, draft during negotiations, selling back vacations etc....Don't fly DP's and NO freaking landings for the F/Os who do. They got enough landings on the DP's. RANT OVER because everyone here has heard it before.
I think we're all ready for some SEC football.
Darren McFadden for the Heisman. Go HOGS

Toccata

Darren WHO?