Georgia Tech Too Self-Important To Hold Whiteout
Forget avian bird flu - the biggest epidemic to hit America is the collegiate ‘whiteout’. You know the drill: The scourge started in the Big Ten at Penn State and Michigan State during the 2005 football season (Penn State has since copyrighted the phrase “White Out”). Since then, every school that hands out diplomas has held whiteouts — or, in some cases, blackouts — to generate excitement about a big game. No matter where you go, it’s an idea everyone can get behind. Except, according to the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, for Georgia Tech, even though Georgia Tech students were the ones who proposed their school have a whiteout in the first place.
(Fans enjoy a Georgia Tech whiteout)
Now Georgia Tech students and alumni have decided they’re too cool to jump on the bandwagon, with as few as 50 percent of the 49,000 ticket holders expected to wear white for tonight’s game against Miami in Atlanta. That, of course, would make the crowd completely normal, which might make Georgia Tech fans the most self-important — or fashion conscious — in the country.
