Bad College Football Traditions

[WylieTexasTider]

TAMU's all-male cheer team. Whats up with that...

It is a cult.. :biggrin:

 

[Glenn_B]

As I've posted before, "Hotty Toddy" has nothing to do with drinking at all. It derived from the expression "Hoighty-Toighty" ("High and Mighty," as applied to someone "putting on airs"), which was still in general use when I was a kid in the late 19th century. It had elided to "Hidey-Tidey," and then to "Hotty-Toddy." And I agree that the Rammer Jammer yell makes me cringe when it's applied to some team like the upcoming hapless FAU team. OTOH, I've enjoyed it when beating someone like AU or LSU. It wasn't around when I was in school from the mid-50s through the early 60s. In fact the school newspaper, the Rammer-Jammer, had just been discontinued a year or so before I entered...

I fixed it for you Earl. :biggrin:

 

[Zorak]

Texas Tech bell ringer.

 

[colbysullivan]

knew this was coming, hilarious!

 

[liquidvengeance]

The things said by the fans of some teams during kickoffs -- their version of us saying the unsurpassed, "Roll Tide Roll." The barn has that nonsensical, "War Eagle, Hey" (or "hay" -- I guess they could be requesting snacks for their cheerleaders), FSU has some silliness that defies phonetic representation, and Arkansas yells the always enchanting "Woo, Pig, Sooie." There are others I despise (LSU particularly), but I must admit that the Georgia "Go Dawgs, Sic 'em!" followed by barking makes for a decent effect. I really enjoyed being one of a multitude of Bama fans mocking them with it back in 1985 as we left Sanford Stadium after Shula hit Al Bell with a couple of fine late game passes to beat the Bulldogs in a particularly classic and satisfying win.

Ive always wondered this and tried to understand why these teams especially the boogs with their kickoff copying chant.
Seriously why do they do this when Bama did this first?

Theres also a ton of other things that theyve done over the years that make me sick.

 

[liquidvengeance]

In 2002, when Alabama beat Arkansas to a pulp in Fayetteville (which seems to be a tradition in itself now), the Alabama fans started hollering "And that's another Arkansas .. FOURTH DOWN!" after the defense kept shutting them down.

Most of the really bad ones have already been mentioned. Auburn has an entire collection of bad cheers ("Botta Getta" or however it's spelled), the kickoff ripoff cheer, Halloween TP-rolling of trees, etc. Stanford's tree appeals to stoners but it really is dumb. The Texas A&M cheer section, complete with the mirage that it's a military school. Ole Miss' Hotty Totty cheer and the die-hard devotion to The Grove -- aka an oversized tailgate party with wine, nothing more -- may take the cake. Former UA SID Barry Allen had his own version that I particularly liked: "Hotty Totty, goshamighty, when's Ole Miss gonna beat somebody?"

This is enough of a reason in the world only why the boogers suck.

 

[Dallas4Bama]

Then you obviously never went to a basketball game during the Gottfried years because our student section did it every time we won a home game.

No, I had been gone for years before Gottfried was hired. Ugh, do they still do it now? To me its just so annoying.

 

[exiledNms]

When I was a student @ the Capstone (during the Roosevelt Administration I believe... ), we did a Rammer Jammer at the beginning of the game. "We're gonna beat (etc.)" And IIRC, we only did it for the biggies.

p.s. - Fun thread! I've found myself reading through & saying, "yeah, I should've mentioned that one too..."

 

[DiamondDust]

Not sure it's a tradition for any team, but I will use this time to express my undying hatred for the wave.

 

[Dallas4Bama]

Not sure it's a tradition for any team, but I will use this time to express my undying hatred for the wave.

Wow! While I feel like you've found every post I've made lately and argued with me, we can agree on this. I absolutely hate the wave and refuse to participate. Most in my section refuse to join in as well.

 

[DiamondDust]

Wow! While I feel like you've found every post I've made lately and argued with me, we can agree on this. I absolutely hate the wave and refuse to participate. Most in my section refuse to join in as well.

There's always time for common ground

 

[TriCountyTider]

I too HATE the wave. As far as BAD traditions go "Lil Red" at Nebraska waddling around looking like the Shoneys Big Boy is pretty stupid...

 

[tru2bama]

LOL

Maybe the Barn could play Stanford and roll their mascot


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[BamaPokerplayer]

I have not read whole thread but playing rammer jammer after beating chattahoochee community college.

 

[p'colabamaman]

I absolutely HATE the FSU chant!!! O, O, O........O, O, O. And that stupid tomahawk chop while they're doing it. Drives me nuts, and I have a family full of FSU fans.

Does anybody know where the name "Fightin Okra" came from? How can you take your team seriously if they are the "Fightin Okra'. Yeah, I know they are Delta State, but still........

 

[RammerJammer15]

The recent tradition of getting Pro Combat uniforms, some look good but some look awful.....

 

[Ole Man Dan]

West Virginia's couch burning after win.

Trooper Taylor waving white towel.

I was raised hearing to wave the white towel, was to surrender.
PS: Morgan Town does have an unpleasant odor on Fall knights when WV wins...

I don't know if TAMU still does the 'Testicle Squeeze' or not.
(Can I say that?)
I saw it in Austin, and thought it may have been Freshmen being hazed, but I was told it was tradition,
like their Midnight Yell practices...

 

[BamaInMo1]

I like Rammer Jammer after the big games but agree that when we destroy "Little Sisters of the Poor" it really has little meaning. After all, aren't we really expected to beat the %^*& out of them?

Bad tradition? The ridiculous looking "Trojan" planting a sword into the field (USCw).

 

[Snuffy Smith]

I was raised hearing to wave the white towel, was to surrender.
PS: Morgan Town does have an unpleasant odor on Fall knights when WV wins...

I don't know if TAMU still does the 'Testicle Squeeze' or not.
(Can I say that?)
I saw it in Austin, and thought it may have been Freshmen being hazed, but I was told it was tradition,
like their Midnight Yell practices...

Sounds like the midnight yell could be closely related to the first one you mentioned


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[Bama 13-0]

WOW! I've read through this entire thread and didn't see anyone mention tearing down your own goal posts. Or otherwise trashing your stadium and field after a win.