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a&m fans...please explain these cheers

Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:15 pm
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:15 pm
Since we Bammers will be seeing this stuff in person this weekend, please fill us in on what the yell leaders are calling for with these movements(?).


1. The piston hands


2. The weird reaching hands


3. The jazz hands


This is enough to start with...

Thanks in advance for your help.
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:16 pm to
They aren't cheers, they are yells.






You are welcome.
Posted by Coater
Madison, MS
Member since Jun 2005
33059 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:16 pm to
Nutt grabbing

Posted by Laman1978
Earth
Member since Jan 2009
10888 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:17 pm to
The "jazz hands" looks more like "spirit fingers" from the movie Bring It. That dude was probably an Aggie.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29450 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:17 pm to
It's called Aggy Hokey Pokey

"Shoot your load on the man to your right"

"Use this trajectory to make it in my mouth"

"Cup the balls to the left and the right"
This post was edited on 10/17/16 at 4:18 pm
Posted by Captain Crown
Member since Jun 2011
50677 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:17 pm to
The best one is the bus driver
Posted by Warrior Poet
Living Rent-Free in Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2011
7956 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:17 pm to
You've got them out of order.

(3) is the signal to the fans that it's time to fill our jars, (2) lets the fans know to commence filling jars, and (1) is the celebration we do when we top off a jar.
Posted by Daowna
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:18 pm to
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:18 pm to
quote:

The best one is the bus driver



I like BTHO best but it's a free country.
Posted by Spindicus Lofrus
Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:18 pm to
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20345 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:20 pm to
Those are cues to say something or make a noise in unison. The Yells are signaled in advance and you will see people in the stands mimicking the hand signals to let others know what the yell is.

Hand signals get 50,000 people doing a yell in unison. No other way to do it in a space this large.
Posted by r2d2
Member since Dec 2006
6842 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:21 pm to
Simple explanation: A&M is gay.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:22 pm to
quote:

Hand signals get 50,000 people doing a yell in unison. No other way to do it in a space this large.



Oh...I get why. I just don't get how they came up with such odd contortions when a simple number or gesture would have sufficed.
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:22 pm to
quote:

No other way to do it in a space this large


Well at least the only way a bunch of homos will notice.

Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:22 pm to
Aggies don't cheer. Aggies yell. One of the many reasons we are better than all of you and everyone else.
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:23 pm to
quote:

Those are cues to say something or make a noise in unison. The Yells are signaled in advance and you will see people in the stands mimicking the hand signals to let others know what the yell is.

Hand signals get 50,000 people doing a yell in unison. No other way to do it in a space this large.

Stop lying.

It's a bunch of gay buttfricking jizz jar filling gang signs.





Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20345 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:28 pm to
quote:

Oh...I get why. I just don't get how they came up with such odd contortions when a simple number or gesture would have sufficed.


Hard to see a finger or two from second or third deck don't you think. We have more than 10 yells so that would be a clusterfrick trying to signal up a 11 or 12 or 13.

As I said, the gesture is done to communicate the yell itself. All the stuff in the photos are what is done to keep the yell in unison. Yell leaders start by an exaggerated opening and closing of hand 3 times then the stuff in the photos goes on through the end of the yell.

If you want to understand then you will...
Posted by Daowna
Member since Dec 2010
1042 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:30 pm to
quote:

Oh...I get why. I just don't get how they came up with such odd contortions when a simple number or gesture would have sufficed.

Yell leaders became a thing in the early part of the 20th century while A&M was still an all male military school. Freshman were made to wear all white jump suits (typical for custodian work at the time I believe?) to entertain the upper classmen. The role was created in jest at first to add some clownish entertainment to the football games. However after the female visitors from other schools started to show interest in the freshmen and their jump suits the upper classmen quickly reworked the scenario in their favor to become the yell leaders.

What you are seeing is early 20th century hand gestures and over the top motions to entertain and lead yells. When you take that stuff and drop it into the year 2016, it doesn't make too much sense.. but that's what you get when you hold on to traditions as long as A&M does at times.

Hope this answers your question.
Posted by WildTchoupitoulas
Member since Jan 2010
44071 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:32 pm to
quote:

[gay men doing] Hand signals get 50,000 people doing a yell in unison. No other way to do it in a space this large.

Is that what they teach y'all at that boy's camp in College Station?

lulz








We might not be smart in Louisiana, but at least we can read.
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:33 pm to
quote:

We might not be smart in Louisiana, but at least we can read.



The closest thing LSU fans have to a synchronized A&M yell is when you demand the rival fanbase fellates a male tiger penis in unison.

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