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re: What should be the cutoff number for "greatest" traditions?
Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:34 am to claygast
Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:34 am to claygast
My favorite part of going to games in Tuscaloosa, well besides the actual game itself, is the video with highlights from all the championship years and the video that has Coach Bryant talking all the way through it. I get chills every time I hear his voice come across the PA in Bryant Denny.
Videos arent anything unique in CFB, every team has them. But its whats in the videos that touch the fans of that team. Familiar voices, memorable plays, and usually slowly building music that whips your emotions into a frenzy until the culminating moment when the team hits the field just as the song hits the point of headbanging sending the entire stadium into a 102,000 man moshpit of crimson and white.... damn, I'm getting chills thinking about it. But the fans of other schools are prolly reading this snickeing at how dumb they think it is. Thats what traditions are. Awesome to you, absolutely nothing to anyone else.
The most special traditions are the ones that an outsider just doesnt get, but they have an emotional effect on the fans that they are for that cannot be described to anyone that doesnt already get it.
Videos arent anything unique in CFB, every team has them. But its whats in the videos that touch the fans of that team. Familiar voices, memorable plays, and usually slowly building music that whips your emotions into a frenzy until the culminating moment when the team hits the field just as the song hits the point of headbanging sending the entire stadium into a 102,000 man moshpit of crimson and white.... damn, I'm getting chills thinking about it. But the fans of other schools are prolly reading this snickeing at how dumb they think it is. Thats what traditions are. Awesome to you, absolutely nothing to anyone else.
The most special traditions are the ones that an outsider just doesnt get, but they have an emotional effect on the fans that they are for that cannot be described to anyone that doesnt already get it.
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Posted on 5/18/11 at 11:11 am to ThaKaptin
i get other schools traditions. there's just a few that i don't.
1. throwing toilet paper on trees. i get that they're old sacred trees but why do something so juvenile?
2. A&M yell leaders give me the creeps. they're super gay looking and act out the part. Reminds me of a more synchronized version of The Village People.
3. the southern cal trojan guy. it's like a grown man on a horse wearing shitty armour. he then stabs the field like it was attacking him or something.
4. cowbells
fwiw, i don't even think the hogcall is that cool. well, it could be, but we don't do it enough anymore and surely don't use it at opportune times very often.
1. throwing toilet paper on trees. i get that they're old sacred trees but why do something so juvenile?
2. A&M yell leaders give me the creeps. they're super gay looking and act out the part. Reminds me of a more synchronized version of The Village People.
3. the southern cal trojan guy. it's like a grown man on a horse wearing shitty armour. he then stabs the field like it was attacking him or something.
4. cowbells
fwiw, i don't even think the hogcall is that cool. well, it could be, but we don't do it enough anymore and surely don't use it at opportune times very often.
This post was edited on 5/18/11 at 11:12 am
Posted on 5/18/11 at 11:56 am to WG_Dawg
I can recognized and respect other traditions that other schools have. Like you said though, some of them are silly.
Virginia Tech's "enter the sandman" "The greatest tradition in college football"? Give me a break. Thats a joke.
I would say there are about 25-30 schools that have unique traditions that I would consider "Great"
Virginia Tech's "enter the sandman" "The greatest tradition in college football"? Give me a break. Thats a joke.
I would say there are about 25-30 schools that have unique traditions that I would consider "Great"
Posted on 5/18/11 at 12:01 pm to PrideOfTheSouthland
I love the fact that Dan Bourne, the anouncer in TS, anounces the setting of the sun in the western sky and welcomes "Nightime in Tiger Stadium"......I't a good time to toss back a cocktail and pour out a libation to the "ghosts of Tigers passed".
ETA: I do not consider this "great", I just enjoy it and it is unique. Pre-game is great to me as well as the same notes to begin the 4th quarter.
ETA: I do not consider this "great", I just enjoy it and it is unique. Pre-game is great to me as well as the same notes to begin the 4th quarter.
This post was edited on 5/18/11 at 12:03 pm
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