The Souvlaki restaurant in Blacksburg, Virginia, has a new graveyard for Virginia Tech football.
No, nothing affiliated with the football team is actually buried there. The restaurant has displayed a graveyard in the front window that's had headstones for each of Virginia Tech's opponents for the season. When Tech beats a team, the grave is filled in.
But the old graveyard was broken when a student fell into the window earlier this year per the Roanoke Times. It's now been replaced with a steel version designed by former Virginia Tech running back Kevin Jones, who has a design firm in Blacksburg.
The new Souvlaki Football Graveyard is complete. Void Design Haus did an incredible job. Check it out! pic.twitter.com/UF0vi3iOPk
— Souvlaki (@eatsouvlaki) October 31, 2015
A graveyard has reportedly been in the front window of the Souvlaki restaurant building since the 1980s.
When Jones and Barrette were contacted by Buchanan, they were thrilled to be part of recreating something that was “so ingrained in the town,” Jones said.
“It’s almost like commentating on the game or writing a column, but people don’t really see it as that,” Jones said about the graveyard. “It’s another form or reporting, and I think that’s the really cool part of it.”
The graveyard cost restaurant owner Mike Buchanan over $1,000, and it weighs over 100 pounds. It was installed before Virginia Tech's win over Boston College.
The news of the new graveyard now has us wondering if there needs to be a graveyard-themed rivalry trophy between Clemson and Virginia Tech. Yeah, the two are in different ACC divisions and don't play each other every year, but given that Clemson has its own graveyard it could be fun. Especially if the game is played near Halloween. Let's make it happen.
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