Epic WVU stories from 2006-2007

[mildone]

Ha! Listen I was never mistaken for being a big guy, yet even I could carry 2 empty kegs, as such, when I spent 3 summers working in a liquor store. Definitely NOT an easy thing to do - carry 2 of them full - but doable.

Could it be done by a power-lifter? Sure. Briefly. Could someone just walk around with two half-barrels on their shoulders. I don't think so.

Like I said, I went up and down stairs with two of them on a hand-truck. In college, I weighed about 145 and bench workout started around 200 and went up to 245 before coming back down. Not college football strong, but not exactly weak either. And I can tell you it was careful work to move those two kegs around at the same time on a hand-truck. It took good, careful technique.

A power-lifter or exceedingly strong football player could lift them and move about a bit. But they'd have to be very careful and they couldn't do it for very long.

 

[Randal7]

I did a google search for "Owen Schmitt keg" and got this website: http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4059367

On it, there's a story from 2009 that reads:

Funny story, actually. As I've mentioned a couple times, my best friend was a football player at WVU. One night he was at a party with Owen Schmitt, and the party ran dry of potent potables.

Schmitt was supposedly quite unhappy with this, and trekked out to the liquor store to retrieve another keg. Pretty normal. I'm sure a number of us have been there. What a number of us have NOT done, I think, is WALK about a half-mile to the liquor store in a Morgantown winter snow, and then CARRY the full keg half a mile back to the party.

 

[Bones131]

Just confirms that school is filled with trash. I enjoy watching them be the Siberia of the B12.

You don't think there's similar stories about RU players?

 

[cicero grimes]

I did a google search for "Owen Schmitt keg" and got this website: http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4059367

On it, there's a story from 2009 that reads:

Funny story, actually. As I've mentioned a couple times, my best friend was a football player at WVU. One night he was at a party with Owen Schmitt, and the party ran dry of potent potables.

Schmitt was supposedly quite unhappy with this, and trekked out to the liquor store to retrieve another keg. Pretty normal. I'm sure a number of us have been there. What a number of us have NOT done, I think, is WALK about a half-mile to the liquor store in a Morgantown winter snow, and then CARRY the full keg half a mile back to the party.

Very similar to how I met my wife although I only had to carry the keg back to her house from the liquor store on the corner of Senior street.

 

[mildone]

I did a google search for "Owen Schmitt keg" and got this website: http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4059367

On it, there's a story from 2009 that reads:

Funny story, actually. As I've mentioned a couple times, my best friend was a football player at WVU. One night he was at a party with Owen Schmitt, and the party ran dry of potent potables.

Schmitt was supposedly quite unhappy with this, and trekked out to the liquor store to retrieve another keg. Pretty normal. I'm sure a number of us have been there. What a number of us have NOT done, I think, is WALK about a half-mile to the liquor store in a Morgantown winter snow, and then CARRY the full keg half a mile back to the party.

One keg is more believable. I carried single kegs across rooms during my beer delivery summer job. But I sure couldn't have walked a half mile, snow or not, with one.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

One keg is more believable. I carried single kegs across rooms during my beer delivery summer job. But I sure couldn't have walked a half mile, snow or not, with one.

Nobody is saying he walked 2 miles uphill in the snow; the guy said "out if the distributor" so probably to the truck and, IMHO, doable for a guy like him.

 

[Randal7]

Nobody is saying he walked 2 miles uphill in the snow; the guy said "out if the distributor" so probably to the truck and, IMHO, doable for a guy like him.

EXACTLY! I think it's very possible.

 

[mullerpesq]

I go to a chiropractor who studied exercise science/sports science as a WVU undergrad in the 2006-2007 timeframe. Because of the great affinity we built during the hillbilly-guido period we share some stories and reminisce about that period. He was around the team a lot so has some really interesting stories -- too good not to share.

1) Owen Schmitt went through 9 helmets his senior season. I think we all knew he was a beast, but apparently he was averaging about 1 broken helmet every 1.5 games. He also, routinely, would go to the beer distributorship and throw a keg over EACH SHOULDER! Imagine that. Dude would walk out of the beer distributorship squat-walking 2 kegs of beer

2) Pat McAfee (kicker, punter now in the NFL) gave zero $hits. He was a real party guy, always surrounded by girls and would routinely get wasted the night before games. He was a kicker who needed to do 1 thing and he knew that -- so he didn't care. The unfortunate thing though, is when he missed 2 shorties in that WVU-Pitt game in 2007 (brutal WVU loss) that kept them out of the national championship, McAfee had to take the rest of his classes remotely because of how pissed the fanbase was. Apparently, he had bricks thrown through his windows and someone, or some group, attempted to commit arson on his off-campus house (yeah, they tried to burn his house down).

3) Noelle Devine could squat about 500 pounds. Strongest guy on the team on a per-pound basis. However, strongest guy overall was Schmitt, who could squat more than 600 pounds. When he squatted and did dead lifts, the bar bent.

4) Jarrett Brown was apparently not a real cerebral dude. I'll leave it at that

5) When Rich Rod left and WVU was making succession plans the fanbase really wasn't too keen on Bill Stewart taking the reigns but Pat White basically said, "he should have the job" following that 48-28 win over Oklahoma in the Fiesta bowl, so everyone sorta shrugged and said, "OK"

A 1/2 keg when full weighs 160.5 pounds. That would be a squat of 321 pounds. This is doable while walking for a large very strong person. Difficulty is getting them up there.

 

[hrdcorhays]

I can't explain how much heavier a 160lb keg is than a 160lb bar. The beer swishes around. It's weird. I just cannot for the life of me picture someone picking up even two empty kegs ON their shoulder at the same time. Not to mention the barrel shape.

Let's put it this way. I'd need photo/video evidence of this before I believe it. There is none on a fairly extensive Google search. I'm a Skeptic by nature.

 

[Randal7]

 

[mildone]

I can't explain how much heavier a 160lb keg is than a 160lb bar. The beer swishes around. It's weird. I just cannot for the life of me picture someone picking up even two empty kegs ON their shoulder at the same time. Not to mention the barrel shape.

Let's put it this way. I'd need photo/video evidence of this before I believe it. There is none on a fairly extensive Google search. I'm a Skeptic by nature.

Agreed. I'm very skeptical. I'd need to see a video or photos at least.

Having lifted more a lot more than 160 lbs in workouts and having carried single keg's around, I'm with you. It's the same principle that makes lifting free weights harder than nautilus, but multiplied. When the weight shifts around on you, it gets a whole lot more difficult. Lifting 160 pounds of static weight is relatively easy. Lifting 320+ pounds of shifting weight over one's shoulders and then moving around with it - much, much harder.

Doing it with one keg I believe, even carrying it a half mile (as the second set of quotes mentioned) for someone that's super fit. But moving two on one's shoulders even 50 feet is tough to believe. Dead weight, okay. Shifting weight - not so much.

Pix or it never happened.