Balloon Boy and Hokie Football

October 15, 2009 seemed to be a normal day for everyone until that afternoon when Falcon Heene was believed to be floating high in the clouds in a homemade balloon made by his family. In the end the boy was not in the balloon which floated high in the sky for about two and a half hours before finally landing in California a far cry from where it started in Colorado. The boy was eventually found hiding in his home and everyone was safe in the end. I know this can be scary for anyone, but his boy had the whole country paying attention to him and his family for a short amount of time today , but you have to consider several different things when you thing about this incident. The first one is why did the parents want to make this balloon? Why didn’t the parents know where their son was? And how do you not make sure your child is not in the balloon?
I don’t know all the answers because I am not his mother, and the rest of the world only knows what the newspapers and other news websites report for us to read. Now authorities believe that the whole even was a hoax and are going file charges against the family. The whole situation is really dumb because there is no need for that family to create a homemade balloon for no reason.
In the days sense the actual launching of the balloon many sites are reported that the whole even was not real and they just did it to get attention and they did. On yahoo.com I saw where the father pitched an idea to TLC trying to get a reality show out of the incident, one that would be similar to “Jon and Kate plus 8”. The network passes on the show idea, but if you thought your child was in the balloon, wouldn’t you as parent want to make sure that your child is safe before trying to get a reality show out of it. Now that this has been reported the entire event seems to be even more of a hoax, considering the family just wanted to land a reality show just for the money.
No matter what happens with a family, trying to fake something like this can never turn out to be good. I would never in a million years put my children in this situation. If the family needs money, there are alternative options than to fake that your son is floating away in the sky. No matter what the situation is, endangering you children whether it is by sending up in a balloon to float around in the sky or using them to land a reality TV show, it is always going to have a bad ending.

Virginia Tech Football
Virginia Tech was ranked fourth in the nation until Saturday night when the nineteenth ranked team in the nation Georgia Tech beat them with a score of 28-23. Virginia Tech has played really well in some games, and not so well during other games. If Virginia Tech had won, they would have stood a good chance at staying ranked fourth in the nation, but with their loss this weekend, Tech moved down into the number 15 spot in the AP poll. Virginia Tech has played decent teams this season, but in the Atlantic Coast Conference there is no guarantee who is going to show up at the game and win. Just because a team is ranked higher than the other, does not always mean the higher ranked team will win. You can look at Virginia Tech this weekend to see that.
As a student at Virginia Tech, we are suppose to support our team and I do support Virginia Tech, but is Virginia Tech really a national Championship team? The way the Hokies play certain games, you would think that they have never played football before. Then for other games, they look like the team has been playing together for years. I will always support the Hokies, but if you truly watch them play then you can see that they have good games, and then they have downright ugly games.
Virginia Tech can be a national championship team if they play every game like the Miami game. Tech has to have a consistent offense and defense to prove to the country that they can be contenders for the national championship. In my opinion, tech needs to play harder teams in different conferences to open the season up with and prove to everyone that they can handle teams from the Southern eastern conference. Tech played Alabama this year at the beginning of the season and lost to them, but it was a game that the team could come back from Atlanta and improve on what they did wrong. Then after that game the team prevailed and came to win every other game until this past weekend. Every Hokie fan this weekend knew that if Tech did not do well, it would be bad news for Tech and where they will be ranked the following week. The fans were right because Tech sank 11 spots after their five point loss to Georgia Tech.
No matter what who Virginia Tech plays people are always going to say that they will never be contenders for a national championship, but nobody will ever know that for sure. Just because other schools in different conferences have won many national championships. Tech will eventually win a national championship, but we will never know when. Every team has there up and downs, or up and down seasons. No matter what a team does a true fan will support them through there up and downs. Virginia Tech may not win a National championship this year, but they will have a successful rest of the season to go along with the other wins in during the first half of the season. The only way to improve the rest of the season is to see where you have difficulty and Virginia Tech has learned where they are having difficulty and will be able to improve for the next game during practice and the rest of the season will hopefully be as successful as the first half without any more losses.