Rivals Top 10 Pregame Traditions

[LovelandBuckeye]

I recommend taking in a game at the Air Force Academy. Pregame includes all of the cadets in formation on the field, parachuting of the Stars and Stripes into the middle of the field, flyovers, and circling of the stadium by a live trained falcon. Maybe that's not all one great tradition, but it's a hell of a combo package.

Meh! All I would do is bitch about their lack of ability to march in formation. It is all I do for the Army-Navy Game.

The stadium is pretty sweet though.

 

[Beano Cook]

Yeah, I wouldn't have put the painting of the helmets at #7. I'd put hitting the Play Like a Champion sign, the Trumpets Under the Dome, or even the player walk before the helmet painting.

You just covered items 1-4 on any good list.

 

[knapplc]

Funny that A&M's Yell Practice made #1 on Buchanan's list, seeing how he's a bigwig over at TexAgs.com.

Ralphie at #3 is a joke. Chief Osceola is way cooler. And painting the helmets at Notre Dame should be nowhere near the top ten.

 

[Bucky32]

Funny that A&M's Yell Practice made #1 on Buchanan's list, seeing how he's a bigwig over at TexAgs.com.

Ralphie at #3 is a joke. Chief Osceola is way cooler. And painting the helmets at Notre Dame should be nowhere near the top ten.

Yeah, but Rudy did it. That's worth some major cache.

 

[knapplc]

You know, dotting the I before the OSU game trumps most of these that Rivals listed tbh.

It does. We were just discussing this on HuskerBoard and I thought maybe dotting the I wasn't included because it's not always done pre-game. But if it's pretty much always a pre-game ritual, it definitely deserves to be in the top ten. Top three, probably.

 

[buckeyesin07]

It does. We were just discussing this on HuskerBoard and I thought maybe dotting the I wasn't included because it's not always done pre-game. But if it's pretty much always a pre-game ritual, it definitely deserves to be in the top ten. Top three, probably.

It is pretty much always done pregame.

 

[Bucknut24]

It is pretty much always done pregame.

I think during the big games it's pregame, but a lot of times it is during halftime

 

[Bill Lucas]

I think during the big games it's pregame, but a lot of times it is during halftime

It's only halftime at homecoming in recent years. It was done post game about 3-4 years ago one game. It's almost exclusively pregame.

 

[alexhortdog95]

Reference: 2. Howard's Rock and The Hill, Clemson:
For atmosphere and pageantry, Clemson's pregame ceremony has been called the most exciting 25 seconds in college football. The Tigers touch "Howard's Rock" as a symbolic vow to give total effort and then enter the field by running down a hill in the east end zone to a raucous ovation.

Howard's Rock damaged by vandals

Howard's Rock, one of the iconic fixtures in college football, was vandalized on June 2 or 3, according to a police report obtained from the Clemson University Police Department.

According to the report, Lt. Gary Leslie arrived at Memorial Stadium at 2:30 p.m. on June 3 and found "a large piece of the rock was missing." Leslie reported that the plastic protective cover over the rock was sitting on the ground near the gate and that police were able to get a partial print off the pedestal. He estimated the damage to be $500, but the total damage is still pending.

Football players and coaches were not available for comment because the investigation is still pending. According to sports information director Tim Bourret, university employees Jeffrey Kallin and William Lewis went to take pictures of the rock for the marketing department, and when they arrived, they noticed the case was off and there was damage to the rock. Bourret estimated only about 15 percent of the rock was removed.

"We will still have our tradition of rubbing the rock and running down the hill," Bourret said.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9380123/howard-rock-damaged-clemson-university

I think I have found your vandals...

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