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Well, I am leaving on a trip tomorrow morning......arividerchi...:biggrin:

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A few things:

First, most Husker fans, and likely most casual fans around college football, don't know about Script Ohio outside of the Big Ten. This isn't uncommon, and frankly I'd bet most casual fans don't even know what "Touchdown Jesus" is. Most fans, in my experience, are uninformed about anything not directly related to their own team, and even about their own team their knowledge is often spotty. Even teams in their conference are strangers to most casual fans. Of course true college football fans know every one of the traditions in this bogus contest, but those are the diehards for whom college football is a 24/365 deal.

Second, EA Sports/ESPN has bungled Nebraska's entry in this thing. Nebraska's traditional entry to the field is called "The Tunnel Walk." It's not terribly dissimilar to that of many other teams. It's set to Sirius by the Alan Parson's Project (stop me if you've seen this being used by another team), which EA Sports wasn't willing to pony up the money to license, so they (wrongly) put Dear Old Nebraska U on there.. During the Tunnel Walk the players pass under a horseshoe, and some of the players touch it for luck. The horseshoe is not the focal point of the Tunnel Walk.

Third, the fact that you're losing to Nebraska in an online poll should only be surprising if you don't know that we typically win these kinds of things. I can't quote numbers and I can't quote specific polls, but our record in online polls is very good. If you guys come back and win it'll be a worthy win. I don't know why Husker fans typically dominate these polls, we just do.


Finally, this whole "tournament" is one big advertisement for their latest version of College Football version X.x or whatever it is, and I hate that they prey on school pride to sell their crap. If Script Ohio beats our intro, it won't change my love for the Tunnel Walk. Good luck in the vote. I won't say "may the best tradition win" because I personally think Script Ohio is way cooler than the Tunnel Walk, but of course I'd prefer my school to win.
 
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We are working on a newbie thread to list all of the inside jokes, but the life preserver is simply based on the thread topic.

ScriptOhio bumps tons of threads to post jokes or funny pictures he found, usually resurrecting a thread that has been dormant for years.
 
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Coqui;1940858; said:
Script Ohio vs. touching a horseshoe

Right now touching a horseshoe is winning. Let's change that
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Good luck with that. Ohio State steamrolling on-line polls against other fanbases within the conference ended the day Nebraska joined the Big Ten.

If you're not familiar with Nebraska's fan base, they send out staff emails to online polls where they're from. They cc: every friend and family member they have in their contacts list. They live to defend Nebraska's football tradition.

It's really kinda creepy, like wearing a foam corncob on your head, or having an inflatable mascot.
 
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TooTallMenardo;1940924; said:
Blasphemy.
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It's a sad reality. The thing that makes college football superior to every other sport, anywhere, ever, is the tradition. Those buckeyes all over your helmets come October/November are iconic. They say "football" to me. So does Touchdown Jesus, or The Cocktail Party (or whatever PC name they're calling it now), or Bedlam, or The Civil War. The Little Brown Jug and Chief Osceola. These are what gets my blood going, and why Fall will always be my favorite season.
 
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knapplc;1940912; said:
A few things:

First, most Husker fans, and likely most casual fans around college football, don't know about Script Ohio outside of the Big Ten. This isn't uncommon, and frankly I'd bet most casual fans don't even know what "Touchdown Jesus" is. Most fans, in my experience, are uninformed about anything not directly related to their own team, and even about their own team their knowledge is often spotty. Even teams in their conference are strangers to most casual fans. Of course true college football fans know every one of the traditions in this bogus contest, but those are the diehards for whom college football is a 24/365 deal.

Second, EA Sports/ESPN has bungled Nebraska's entry in this thing. Nebraska's traditional entry to the field is called "The Tunnel Walk." It's not terribly dissimilar to that of many other teams. It's set to Sirius by the Alan Parson's Project (stop me if you've seen this being used by another team), which EA Sports wasn't willing to pony up the money to license, so they (wrongly) put Dear Old Nebraska U on there.. During the Tunnel Walk the players pass under a horseshoe, and some of the players touch it for luck. The horseshoe is not the focal point of the Tunnel Walk.

Third, the fact that you're losing to Nebraska in an online poll should only be surprising if you don't know that we typically win these kinds of things. I can't quote numbers and I can't quote specific polls, but our record in online polls is very good. If you guys come back and win it'll be a worthy win. I don't know why Husker fans typically dominate these polls, we just do.


Finally, this whole "tournament" is one big advertisement for their latest version of College Football version X.x or whatever it is, and I hate that they prey on school pride to sell their crap. If Script Ohio beats our intro, it won't change my love for the Tunnel Walk. Good luck in the vote. I won't say "may the best tradition win" because I personally think Script Ohio is way cooler than the Tunnel Walk, but of course I'd prefer my school to win.
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This simply isn't true. In fact, at the Sugar Bowl this year the Arkansas fans wanted to know when our band was going to spell out Ohio (their words). Every other fanbase I've interacted with online has known about the Script Ohio tradition at Ohio State. It's one of the iconic traditions in college football.
 
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Dryden;1940928; said:
Good luck with that. Ohio State steamrolling on-line polls against other fanbases within the conference ended the day Nebraska joined the Big Ten.

If you're not familiar with Nebraska's fan base, they send out staff emails to online polls where they're from. They cc: every friend and family member they have in their contacts list. They live to defend Nebraska's football tradition.

It's really kinda creepy, like wearing a foam corncob on your head, or having an inflatable mascot.
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:biggrin:

In rebuttal I'd like to say..... every word is true.

Except those stupid corn cob hats. Those need to be banned. And Lil Red is for kids. Everyone over the age of 10 hates him.
 
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Bill Lucas;1940932; said:
This simply isn't true. In fact, at the Sugar Bowl this year the Arkansas fans wanted to know when our band was going to spell out Ohio (their words). Every other fanbase I've interacted with online has known about the Script Ohio tradition at Ohio State. It's one of the iconic traditions in college football.
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Note that I said casual fans. *I* know about Script Ohio, and you'll find tons of folks who know all about it, but my experience is that's the minority. I would bet those Arkie fans knew because they were playing you, and that most folks wouldn't know if they weren't playing you guys.
 
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