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Was just over at UMGOBLOW, and the dude that posted this inserted their "jump up and touch the GO BLUE" banner over Wiscy's "Jump Around" and tried to pass it off as the real article. Now I don't agree that "Jump Around" belongs on the list (it's cool, but 12 years does not make a tradition), but if slapping a banner is on the list, I think ND's "Play Like a Champion Today" is more poignant than scUM's "Go Blue".
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
I'm going to say that the Wisky "jump around" makes it. If you have been in Camp Randell stadium when they play that f***ing song...then you understand. I was in the upperdeck in 2003. I thought the stadium was going to colapse. I don't care if it is only 12 years old. It's pretty sweet, as much as I hate Wisconsin.
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Something that's been hinted at but not said explicitly is that:
THEY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LONGEVITY INTO ACCOUNT
Not just when they compiled the list, but also when they arranged the order.
Living in Tallahassee, it pains me to no end to see a tradition less than 30 years old (ass-a-hola's flaming spear) ranked higher than dotting the i.
For that matter, it galls me that they call it "dotting the i". The tradition is "Script Ohio" dammit! The crowd begins to go apeshit when we see them begin to create the formation from which "Script Ohio" emerges. It is a process that takes several minutes. It beats the living fuck out of a single chuck of a flaming spear. Freakin' flamers...
THEY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LONGEVITY INTO ACCOUNT
Not just when they compiled the list, but also when they arranged the order.
Living in Tallahassee, it pains me to no end to see a tradition less than 30 years old (ass-a-hola's flaming spear) ranked higher than dotting the i.
For that matter, it galls me that they call it "dotting the i". The tradition is "Script Ohio" dammit! The crowd begins to go apeshit when we see them begin to create the formation from which "Script Ohio" emerges. It is a process that takes several minutes. It beats the living fuck out of a single chuck of a flaming spear. Freakin' flamers...
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bucknut4life
even chuck norris fears laurinaitis
HAHAHAHAHH great post man..and yes i agree, i wonder why that tradition isnt on the list?? LOL
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High Lonesome
Hook 'Em
The difference is that i can only assume that the construction of wisconsin's stadium was overseen by profesionals and thus a safe structure. The bonfire was built by drunken college students. In the many years before the bonfire fell it was safe but the actuall building of it had turned into a party. It was a very sad and unfortunate event but it is time for it to come back, just under much more supervision. That is one tradition that could have taken the spot of the sooner wagon
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I think "The Running of the Quarterbacks" should be on that last. You know, an annual tradition where scrambling QBs line up across from the Michigan defense and torch them for 350/400 total yards ...
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tedginn05
Legend
10. Clemson’s Howard’s Rock
Several schools have inspiring pregame patting rituals. Notre Dame players walk down the stairs of their locker room hitting a sign that says, “Play like a champion today.” Michigan players run out of the tunnel and jump up to hit the “Go Blue” sign. Clemson’s rubbing of The Rock is the most awe-inspiring. Before Clemson games, the team runs stand at the top of a hill, rub Howard’s Rock, and then run down the hill while the crowd goes wild. It started in 1964 when Clemson alumnus S.C. Jones brought a rock back from Death Valley, California and gave it to Tiger head coach Frank Howard. Howard let it sit on his office floor before telling his secondary to “do something with it, but get it out of here.” The secretary ended up keeping the Rock, and it was eventually put on a pedestal on the top of the hill in the stadium in 1966. That day, Clemson rallied in the second half to beat Virginia and the Rock stayed. "If you're going to give me 110 percent, you can rub my rock," Howard barked at his player. "If you're not, keep your filthy hands off of it."
9. Oklahoma’s Sooner Schooner
Started in 1965 after an Oklahoma alum donated the first “Sooner Schooner,” along with the horses to pull it, the covered wagon would cruise around during the game. By 1980, it became the school’s official mascot and was zipped around the field after Oklahoma touchdowns as one of the most identifiable symbols in all of sports.
8. Wisconsin’s “Jump Around”
College football is one big party, and no school is better at letting loose than Wisconsin, ranked the number one party school in the nation by The Princeton Review. Adding to the raucous excitement of game day in Madison is the relatively new tradition of making Camp Randall Stadium one big house party after the third quarter of every game. As soon as the quarter ends, the song Jump Around by House of Pain blares over the loudspeakers, and the entire student section, along with the band and many others around the stadium and on the sidelines, jump up and down. The tradition became so wild that there were concerns about the effects on the stadium’s structure. Engineers eventually determined there was no danger, and now the upper deck shaking, human-induced earthquake goes on.
7. Tennessee’s Floatilla
Is there a better way to get to a college football game? In 1962, former Tennessee broadcaster George Mooney got to Neyland Stadium by floating on his boat down the Tennessee River starting the tradition of fans forming the “Volunteer Navy” boating their way to the game. Of course, the galas are tremendous in one of college football’s most unique tailgating parties.
6. The Grove at Ole Miss
What’s college football without a good tailgate party? The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party before the annual Florida-Georgia game might be the biggest, but the shindigs thrown before Ole Miss home games at the Grove are the best. An oasis in the normally uncivilized world of college football, the Grove is known for dressing up, drinking down, good food, and cream of the crop, Miss America caliber women.
5. Florida State’s Chief Osceola and Renegade
For pure intensity and excitement, nothing beats the electrifying few moments in Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium when a student, dressed up Seminole Tribe leader Chief Osceola, rides on the field on an Appaloosa horse and fires a flaming spear in the middle of the field. FSU graduate Bill Durham created the idea, and then got the approval of the Seminole Tribe, and then got the approval of head coach Bobby Bowden who allowed it to start in 1977. Now, it’s done before every Florida State home game cranking up the intensity level for both sides.
4. Texas A&M 12th Man
No tradition in college football embodies the spirit of the sport more than the Texas A&M 12th Man. Going against No. 1 Centre College in 1922, the Aggies were scrapping for players in a tough game that took its toll on both sides. A&M head coach Dana X. Bible, in need of more bodies, called up to the press box for E. King Gill, a basketball player who had seen a little bit of time on the football team in previous seasons, to put on a uniform and be prepared to come in if needed. The Aggies pulled off the 22-14 upset without needing Gill’s services, but he stood ready on the sidelines earning the moniker of the Twelfth Man. Now, A&M’s 12th Man is a student section that stands the entire game prepared in case they’re needed. Former Aggie head coach Jackie Sherrill took it one step further allowing A&M students to form the kickoff coverage unit. It eventually evolved into an honor belonging to one student who gets to play on special teams.
3. Army – Navy game procession
The most endearing and emotional tradition in college football, the procession, also known as the “March-On” of the Army Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen, is seen by many as more exciting than the actual game between Army and Navy. The pageantry of the procession is the perfect prelude to one of college football’s most heated, yet most sane, rivalries. It’s as good-natured as a rivalry can possibly be, with everyone in the stadium on the same team when all is said and done.
2. Ohio State's “Script Ohio”
What would college football Saturdays be without the soundtrack coming from the bands? Every school has a version of a marching band, but Ohio State’s “Script Ohio” is the most impressive and famous with the band forming the word “Ohio” in the middle of the field. Just before the end of “Le Regiment,” the drum major leads a senior sousaphone player out to the top of the “i”, points to the spot where the dot is needed, and the honored band member becomes the dot before bowing to the crowd. It’s the highest honor Ohio State bestows, and has allowed a few select non-band members, like Woody Hayes, to take part.
1. Michigan Losing Atleast Three Games a Year!!!
A great tradition started by many coaches before, this is one Old Lloyd keeps going. Lloyd has said "We never lose three games in a year", but history seems not to see the same as him. Another tradition is your star WR and Captain saying "We Suck!".
2004: 9-3-0
2003: 10-3-0
2002: 10-3-0
2001: 8-4-0
2000: 9-3-0
1998: 10-3
1996: 8-4
1995: 9-4
this is what i just posted over at a michigan fan site, can anybody think of any other michigan site's, i could only find one, and it was well, it sucked!
Several schools have inspiring pregame patting rituals. Notre Dame players walk down the stairs of their locker room hitting a sign that says, “Play like a champion today.” Michigan players run out of the tunnel and jump up to hit the “Go Blue” sign. Clemson’s rubbing of The Rock is the most awe-inspiring. Before Clemson games, the team runs stand at the top of a hill, rub Howard’s Rock, and then run down the hill while the crowd goes wild. It started in 1964 when Clemson alumnus S.C. Jones brought a rock back from Death Valley, California and gave it to Tiger head coach Frank Howard. Howard let it sit on his office floor before telling his secondary to “do something with it, but get it out of here.” The secretary ended up keeping the Rock, and it was eventually put on a pedestal on the top of the hill in the stadium in 1966. That day, Clemson rallied in the second half to beat Virginia and the Rock stayed. "If you're going to give me 110 percent, you can rub my rock," Howard barked at his player. "If you're not, keep your filthy hands off of it."
9. Oklahoma’s Sooner Schooner
Started in 1965 after an Oklahoma alum donated the first “Sooner Schooner,” along with the horses to pull it, the covered wagon would cruise around during the game. By 1980, it became the school’s official mascot and was zipped around the field after Oklahoma touchdowns as one of the most identifiable symbols in all of sports.
8. Wisconsin’s “Jump Around”
College football is one big party, and no school is better at letting loose than Wisconsin, ranked the number one party school in the nation by The Princeton Review. Adding to the raucous excitement of game day in Madison is the relatively new tradition of making Camp Randall Stadium one big house party after the third quarter of every game. As soon as the quarter ends, the song Jump Around by House of Pain blares over the loudspeakers, and the entire student section, along with the band and many others around the stadium and on the sidelines, jump up and down. The tradition became so wild that there were concerns about the effects on the stadium’s structure. Engineers eventually determined there was no danger, and now the upper deck shaking, human-induced earthquake goes on.
7. Tennessee’s Floatilla
Is there a better way to get to a college football game? In 1962, former Tennessee broadcaster George Mooney got to Neyland Stadium by floating on his boat down the Tennessee River starting the tradition of fans forming the “Volunteer Navy” boating their way to the game. Of course, the galas are tremendous in one of college football’s most unique tailgating parties.
6. The Grove at Ole Miss
What’s college football without a good tailgate party? The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party before the annual Florida-Georgia game might be the biggest, but the shindigs thrown before Ole Miss home games at the Grove are the best. An oasis in the normally uncivilized world of college football, the Grove is known for dressing up, drinking down, good food, and cream of the crop, Miss America caliber women.
5. Florida State’s Chief Osceola and Renegade
For pure intensity and excitement, nothing beats the electrifying few moments in Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium when a student, dressed up Seminole Tribe leader Chief Osceola, rides on the field on an Appaloosa horse and fires a flaming spear in the middle of the field. FSU graduate Bill Durham created the idea, and then got the approval of the Seminole Tribe, and then got the approval of head coach Bobby Bowden who allowed it to start in 1977. Now, it’s done before every Florida State home game cranking up the intensity level for both sides.
4. Texas A&M 12th Man
No tradition in college football embodies the spirit of the sport more than the Texas A&M 12th Man. Going against No. 1 Centre College in 1922, the Aggies were scrapping for players in a tough game that took its toll on both sides. A&M head coach Dana X. Bible, in need of more bodies, called up to the press box for E. King Gill, a basketball player who had seen a little bit of time on the football team in previous seasons, to put on a uniform and be prepared to come in if needed. The Aggies pulled off the 22-14 upset without needing Gill’s services, but he stood ready on the sidelines earning the moniker of the Twelfth Man. Now, A&M’s 12th Man is a student section that stands the entire game prepared in case they’re needed. Former Aggie head coach Jackie Sherrill took it one step further allowing A&M students to form the kickoff coverage unit. It eventually evolved into an honor belonging to one student who gets to play on special teams.
3. Army – Navy game procession
The most endearing and emotional tradition in college football, the procession, also known as the “March-On” of the Army Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen, is seen by many as more exciting than the actual game between Army and Navy. The pageantry of the procession is the perfect prelude to one of college football’s most heated, yet most sane, rivalries. It’s as good-natured as a rivalry can possibly be, with everyone in the stadium on the same team when all is said and done.
2. Ohio State's “Script Ohio”
What would college football Saturdays be without the soundtrack coming from the bands? Every school has a version of a marching band, but Ohio State’s “Script Ohio” is the most impressive and famous with the band forming the word “Ohio” in the middle of the field. Just before the end of “Le Regiment,” the drum major leads a senior sousaphone player out to the top of the “i”, points to the spot where the dot is needed, and the honored band member becomes the dot before bowing to the crowd. It’s the highest honor Ohio State bestows, and has allowed a few select non-band members, like Woody Hayes, to take part.
1. Michigan Losing Atleast Three Games a Year!!!
A great tradition started by many coaches before, this is one Old Lloyd keeps going. Lloyd has said "We never lose three games in a year", but history seems not to see the same as him. Another tradition is your star WR and Captain saying "We Suck!".
2004: 9-3-0
2003: 10-3-0
2002: 10-3-0
2001: 8-4-0
2000: 9-3-0
1998: 10-3
1996: 8-4
1995: 9-4
this is what i just posted over at a michigan fan site, can anybody think of any other michigan site's, i could only find one, and it was well, it sucked!
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Cincinnatibuck
Heisman
I believe as long as he continues to win the weekly try-outs, then he continues to be the 12th Man.
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GoBucks89
Straight Shooting
I agree with most of what you guys are saying, but I'd like to add one more thing: I would really love to blow up the Sooner Schooner. The only thing more annoying than that thing is their fight song.
And I'm glad that the stupid scUM banner didn't make the list.
And I'm glad that the stupid scUM banner didn't make the list.
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