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Script Ohio (official thread)

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JBaney45;1942004; said:
Nebraska fans are infamous for hijacking/dominating online polls, few years back ESPN did the "greatest team of all time" bracket and it ended up being 95 Nebraska vs 71 Nebraska in the finals.
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You mean Nebraska having 86% of the 35,533 international votes (total US votes- 16K) isn't legit? I'm shocked.
 
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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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I get that your point is about "casual fans" and I take your point concerning your preference, but geez, how can anyone suggest that a "tradition" that started in 1994 begins to rival Script Ohio?

According to ESPN, "dotting the i" is the greatest tradition in college football.

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Here's a page on college football traditions, gosh, what is pictured?

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Looks like some fans in the Big 12 know Script Ohio...and every site I find always ranks Script Ohio ahead of Nebraska, in the few cases where Nebraska is mentioned.

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Perhaps the problem is that Buckeye fans have stopped visiting ESPN's site and they are trying to generate traffic. Personally, I couldn't care what their fan poll says and I really don't care what ESPN or their personnel have to say.
 
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Steve19;1942125; said:
I get that your point is about "casual fans" and I take your point concerning your preference, but geez, how can anyone suggest that a "tradition" that started in 1994 begins to rival Script Ohio?
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Well, that's yet another part of the problem. It didn't start in 1994, it started sometime in 1920s. It was first shown on the jumbotron in the stadium in the 90s, which is all that matters to ESPin and their cronies at EA Sports. It's just one of many things they've bungled in this "contest."

EDIT - I know our press guides say the Tunnel Walk started in the 90s, BTW. Long story. It's not accurate.

Way back in 1922, when Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame, the Irish played a game at Nebraska. Not sure what field it was, because Memorial Stadium hadn't been built yet, but the Huskers won the game, beating the guys who would later go on to be dubbed The Four Horsemen.

After that game a horseshoe was found near the field. It was considered lucky, and the Huskers kept it as a good luck charm. They took that same horseshoe to South Bend when they returned the visit in 1923, where the Huskers once again won.

These were the only two losses suffered by The Four Horsemen. That makes it a pretty legendary shoe, I'd say.

Again, not sure what this has to do with determining that your tradition is "better" than ours, or anything like that. This whole contest/advertisement is stupid.

If Script Ohio wins I'll tip my cap to the Buckeyes and wish you well in the rest of the tourney. But it won't lessen my enjoyment of the Tunnel Walk when the Huskers take the field. It won't lessen my enjoyment of watching Script Ohio, either, for that matter.

I guess it helps kill time until the season starts, though. And it's something different to talk about than the same tired old crap we've had to hash over these past few months.
 
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knapplc;1942181; said:
Well, that's yet another part of the problem. It didn't start in 1994, it started sometime in 1920s. It was first shown on the jumbotron in the stadium in the 90s, which is all that matters to ESPin and their cronies at EA Sports. It's just one of many things they've bungled in this "contest."

EDIT - I know our press guides say the Tunnel Walk started in the 90s, BTW. Long story. It's not accurate.

Way back in 1922, when Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame, the Irish played a game at Nebraska. Not sure what field it was, because Memorial Stadium hadn't been built yet, but the Huskers won the game, beating the guys who would later go on to be dubbed The Four Horsemen.

After that game a horseshoe was found near the field. It was considered lucky, and the Huskers kept it as a good luck charm. They took that same horseshoe to South Bend when they returned the visit in 1923, where the Huskers once again won.

These were the only two losses suffered by The Four Horsemen. That makes it a pretty legendary shoe, I'd say.

Again, not sure what this has to do with determining that your tradition is "better" than ours, or anything like that. This whole contest/advertisement is stupid.

If Script Ohio wins I'll tip my cap to the Buckeyes and wish you well in the rest of the tourney. But it won't lessen my enjoyment of the Tunnel Walk when the Huskers take the field. It won't lessen my enjoyment of watching Script Ohio, either, for that matter.

I guess it helps kill time until the season starts, though. And it's something different to talk about than the same tired old crap we've had to hash over these past few months.
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It's a lovely tale and I don't doubt your telling of it, but your University and every other source that I can find says the tradition really began only in 1994.

I guess you missed my point. I couldn't care less what an ESPiN poll shows. It's not a random sample or survey that provides any indication of what the general public thinks. It's just another bobble meant to get the mindless to click into ESPiN and drive up their revenue. Personally, I'll give that a miss.
 
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I think HuskerMike (blog writer) has been reading my posts about this contest:

Vote Against Nebraska, Husker Fans

ESPN's SportsNation is trying to fill that summertime void by conducting an online vote for the best college traditions. Fair enough; it's summer time and we're waiting for football season to begin. The matchup is between Ohio State and Nebraska. Ohio State's tradition is the "Script Ohio" that the Buckeye Band forms each game, with one lucky individual getting the honor of dotting the "i". Great pagentry, and a great tradition.

So what was Nebraska's entry? A horseshoe.

Wait... a horseshoe? That's right, a horseshoe.

OK, let's forgive ESPN a bunch of ignorance. The horseshoe really is a bit part of a larger Nebraska tradition: the Tunnel Walk. Pretty cool tradition, mind you...but let's put it in perspective. It's less than 20 years old, and it was created by that rat b**rd Steve Pederson. Script Ohio is 58 years older and requires precise marching, and culminates with the honor of dotting the "i".
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There's more, but he's basically saying - as tradition goes, ours is not better. Vote for the Buckeyes.

While I won't vote for the Buckeyes (and you can't blame me for being a homer :biggrin:), he's right. This is not a poll we should win.
 
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I'm ashamed to show how much time I've wasted on this farce. Being curious, I broke down the vote for every state, both actual votes and percentages, and figured out what these nimrods at ESPin are doing.

When I started my little project the total vote count was 61,942, and we were tied at 50% each.

Taking all votes shown on the page, Nebraska actually leads 58,222-32,236, or 64%-36%. There were, at the time I started counting, 90,458 total votes on the map, not 61k and change like ESPN showed.

The number they're showing is an average of each state's percentage of votes. This is blatantly stupid, because Nebraska's 96%/4% split actually counts for more than Ohio's 89%/11% split. Which is dumb, because Nebraska's 96%/4% gives the Huskers 4,321 votes while Ohio's 89%/11% split gives the Buckeyes 6,133 votes.

Six thousand votes should carry more weight than four thousand.

I just wasted 30 minutes of my life on this. Embarrassing.
 
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NateG;1942490; said:
Isn't it "buttering the corn cob"??
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