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TideLegacy

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Bye week so we can talk a little off the field stuff....

Me and Mrs. TideLegacy were at the Tenn. game. .Prior to this the last game I attended in Tuscaloosa was 2007 (though was in Fayetteville last year and Athens in 2008).

The wife and I were unpleasantly surprised at the game presentation during the UT game. .Much different than in '07.

Almost every time-out was filled with hip-hop music, beastie boys, ac/dc, and the screaming rants of the S&C coach. .Seemed very bush-league and like something you'd expect at a place like Memphis or Southern Miss, very much akin to an NBA game.

BDS is one of the finest stadiums in the country, with great fans, unmatched tradition and history. .I felt the game presentation not only did not match all of this but actually detracted from it. Frankly I thought some of it was beneath a program the stature of Alabama.

If that is what the players and recruits like I guess that is what is most important, though I don't think they notice it as much. .I'm not saying it just has to be the band, clips of Bear, music only Sweet Home Alabama and various Alabama songs or only country music, etc., .but think there could be a happy median? .Is it like this for every game now and what is everyone's thoughts on the current game presentation at BDS?
 
It's every game. Saban himself has said that the hip hop music is for the kids they are recruiting. It's what they like. I find it's too loud most of the time, as I'm yelling to converse with the person 2 seats over from me. I'd rather hear the band. I find it in poor taste that the songs they are playing at times, have words blanked out of them. The Scott Cochran ranting is to get people to actually get up and do their job, you can see from many threads on this site that we have a problem with lots of folks sitting on their hands during the games.
 
They do still play "sweet home alabama", dixieland delight" and such so i guess there is somewhat a happy median..
 
At some point last week, while listening to the radio broadcast, I could hear Sweet Caroline being played in the background. Since when did that start? Next thing we know, they're going to have the crowd singing along to Buttercup. :rolleyes:
 
I first heard it on the broadcast of the Arkansas game I think. I have heard that it is copied from Penn State. I prefer to think they stole it from Fenway but wherever it came from the reviews are decidedly mixed with many people finding the Diamond unsuitable for an SEC football game.
 
Yeah, I think PSU sings Sweet Caroline and I know Wisconsin sings Buttercup. Good Lord, help us! I like both of those songs, but it just doesn't seem to set right for Alabama.

 
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SavannahDare said:
At some point last week, while listening to the radio broadcast, I could hear Sweet Caroline being played in the background. Since when did that start? Next thing we know, they're going to have the crowd singing along to Buttercup. :rolleyes:
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I have been to quite a few games and until Arky this year I never heard Sweet Caroline. I thought I missed something because the whole crowd was into it and I kept asking "When did this start?"
 
Silverback said:
I have been to quite a few games and until Arky this year I never heard Sweet Caroline. I thought I missed something because the whole crowd was into it and I kept asking "When did this start?"
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I felt the same way. I felt like I was the only one in the stadium that didn't know about it. I loved it though, and it was lots of fun. Of course the Arky game was so fun anyway, so it was icing on the top. It's just another way to get the crowd into the entire game atmosphere. My teenage son thought the entire thing from music to noise monitors to crowd interaction was so cool. So there you go. It works.
 
I like the changes. Granted all the songs aren't my favorites the constant movement and upbeat songs and Coach Cochran's screams gets the fans up and loud. BDS has never been known as one of the loudest stadiums in the country. With our size, passion and tradition there is no reason we shouldn't be. Night games, t-shirts, loud music, and flair is what college football is now. We must accept it and embrace it. Nick Saban wants us loud because it affects the other team and it looks great for recruits. Nothing but good can come from it. RTR.
 
I'm disappointed if we're doing Sweet Caroline. To me, that's a Boston Red Sox tradition that should stay at Fenway. It's cool there, but come on....do something original. Ever since "Fever Pitch", people have been hacking that tradition from Boston and it's stupid.
 
bamanut_aj said:
I'm disappointed if we're doing Sweet Caroline. To me, that's a Boston Red Sox tradition that should stay at Fenway. It's cool there, but come on....do something original. Ever since "Fever Pitch", people have been hacking that tradition from Boston and it's stupid.
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And even in Fenway that "tradition" only goes back 10 years or so.
 
At the Tenn game I actually heard someone ask if Delilah was DJ-ing the game. I can't imagine that it helps keep the guys pumped up in between plays to hear Sweet Caroline.
 
Sweet Caroline is something they always do at Bama basketball games, and it is very popular with the crowd, lots of audience participation. So, I can see it as a natural carryover to the stadium and, its been obvious from the first time they did it, people (except the OP and perhaps a few of you) enjoy it.

My question to the OP; it's your right to complain/gripe or simply not like it, but what do you want them to do instead? There are 101,800+ fans in BDS, you're never going to please everyone of them.

In my typical way of not knowing when to quit, allow me one more thing. I'm all about tradition, especially Bama's. Schools borrow/steal 'traditions' from each other all the time (Rammer Jammer anyone?). If you don't introduce new stuff from time to time, our only cheer might still be "Two bits". When's the last time you heard that one at a Bama game, lol. We went through this with the MDB playing Basket Case at the end of the 3rd quarter. Some liked it, some still hate it, but its become more or less expected now. Same with saying "Roll Tide" after a first down. Ole Miss was doing something like this years before Mrs. Terry asked us fans to embrace this little chant. I didn't like it at first, in fact I'm still not crazy about it, but now everytime Tony Giles says: 'that's good for another Alabama first down", I find myself saying "Roll Tide". For me, our two most important "traditions" are: sportsmanship and winning (not necessarily in that order). Lots of the other stuff is nice, but it's fluff, and not worth getting too riled up over. You're free to feel differently.
 
I thought it was pretty cool when I went to Fenway a couple of years ago. I was at the UT game though, and I thought it was pretty lame. Better suited for baseball not football. That's JMO.
 
Typed on an iPad, apologize for auto corrected words and typing issues up front.

I was at the Penn State game and they played Sweet Caroline and all the crowd went crazy. The student section had a nice shaker routine to it. We actually laughed and said that is a song we will not hear at BDS. We said it is their Dixeland Delight.

I came back to Hoover, told other Bama fans about the music played at Penn State like YMCA, Sweet Caroline and etc. They did have some Rap but not as much. The next home game they play sweet Caroline and my cellphone starts getting text like "you are kidding me". It has grown on me especially since they have added the words and put Roll Tide Roll in it.

However, the game day experience is highly "produced". Videos start at the same time on the pre game clock, the music is usually in the same order and etc. It is all what CNS wants. Other away games are becoming very similar.

I had an ACC friend (obnious one, who thought the commentators talking about game day experience like the SEC were nuts, he would argue the ACC were just as big as the SEC) came to the Arkansas game. He was blown away. The Videos, the This is Alabama Football and the tailgating, students in sundresses and fears with coat and tie. The fraternity and Sorority houses, the friendliness all stunned him. He went away realizing that this is big time football, we have moved to the next level. He is now the loudest critic of the ACC and how they aren't in the sane league now.
 
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SavannahDare said:
At some point last week, while listening to the radio broadcast, I could hear Sweet Caroline being played in the background. Since when did that start? Next thing we know, they're going to have the crowd singing along to Buttercup. :rolleyes:
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SWEET CAROLINE"?,.....at a BAMA game? Good Lord.......That's bad enough...I'll file a complaint if the belt out Rocky Top over the speakers...
 
The times are changing. Another positive that came from CNS was to get all permanent advertising out of BDS. There are only small ads at field level in the corners with score and play clocks. Very hard to notice. Now if only they could get rid of the ads on the ribbon boards. We have come a long way from the cheesy Mayfield Ice Cream ads with a deer in the headlights stiff Shula on the Jumbotron. The Alabama power, bird commercials on the Jumbotron. They would play those during time outs and just kill the mood in the stadium. The only video ads now are public service or for other sports. Whether we like it or not they have
developed and produced all this to keep the momentum of the crowd during the never-ending long tv timeouts. It is well planned and executed. I like it, my teenage children love it. We are winning the next generation, we are on the cutting edge and it's nice for a change. The winning isn't hurting either.
 
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