College football traditions....

[One4Bama]

To pass this "dead time" what is some of your favorite college football traditions? It don't have to be a UA either-

Of course I think UA has some of the best traditions, gosh I don't know if I can name just a few- someone get us rolling.... (and I don't mean rollin' like Mike Price)

 

[BamaDrummerBoy]

Cool Thread. Where to start.

For Alabama, so many, I'll say the "Roll Tide Roll" on Kickoff is my favorite and the "Rammer Jammer" cheer until the current administration decided to take some fun out of the games.

The Boomer Sooner wagon in Oklahoma is cool.

The 12th man at aTm, even if Fran is there now.

The dotting of the "i" at Ohio State.

The drunks at LSU.

Even though it is the barn, the eagle they had in pregame a few years back before it got sick was really cool. And their Tiger Walk of course.

The power "T" at Tennessee and of course "Rocky Top."

The gator chomp at Florida.

The Seminole on horse back with the flaming spear at FSU.

So many more!!!!

Man, I love college football!!!!

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BamaDrummerBoy
MDB 1987-1991
ROLL TIDE!!!

 

[bayoutider]

The first 5 notes of "Yea Alabama" played by the MDB gives me chills on gameday.

 

[TNBama]

Schools that have their band play the visitors fight song. I know Tennessee is one example. During their pre-game performance, the band will turn and face the visitors section and play their fight song. Its a great way to say "welcome to our home".

 

[okbama]

smoking the cigar after beating the viles.

 

[One4Bama]

Hey Ya'll- What about the MEAT POLE"? Can't forget that one....

 

[elizabama]

The Lee Roy Jordan HEADHUNTER AWARD.

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"Alabama players don't win Heisman Trophies, Bama Teams win national championships"
(Paul "Bear" Bryant)

 

[BamaZone]

The Barns have a few, too....

Check out
http://members.aol.com/AUTrailerPark/tradtion.htm

 

[exiledNms]

Waaaaaay behind things Crimson & White, I'd mention the Grove @ Ole Miss. Pretty cool place before a game, especially if they're playing someone I can root with my Ole Miss friends against.

Also, exiled jr. & I had an absolute blast going to a game in Lincoln a couple of years ago. Great fans, knowledgeable & complimentary when they found out I was a Bama grad. (Of course, they beat the tar out of the Kansas Jayhawks then, which added to the fun). The Husker band welcomed the Jayhawks with the KU fight song, and the announcer welcomed "our guests from Kansas". At the end, the announcer said "we wish our guests from Kansas all the best against KSU in a couple of weeks, and have a safe trip home."

But give me BDS on a gameday Saturday & all that goes with it over any of 'em.

Roll Tide!

exiled

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"In short, Alabama fans have plenty to be proud of right now, and plenty to look forward to. And that pride and optimism isn’t only rooted in tangible accomplishment either. A lot of it is rooted in the class and character of the men who lead the program and of the young men who wear that crimson jersey."

Rodney Stanford, Bama Village
http://www.bamavillage.com/bv/article.cfm?articleid=544&

 

[One4Bama]

Beating Johnny Majors!!

 

[Reddog 1]

Hey Zone, I loved the report of barn's traditions. LMAO.

RTR...

 

[TerryP]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Reddog 1:
Hey Zone, I loved the report of barn's traditions. LMAO.

RTR...</font>

Sometimes, the truth is funnier than fiction. Here's a copy of an article written several years ago...it was ran in the Birmingham Paper.

The Birmingham News
Sunday, August 1, 1999

Many AU students sold on mobile-home life
by Brett J. Blackledge, News staff writer


AUBURN-Garbage bags piled on the front porch are the first giveaway that college students live here. Inside are clothes crumpled on the couch, stacks of dirty dishes in the kitchen, an empty pizza box on the floor.

Bobby Cornelius is living like most college freshmen. What’s different is where he lives. Cornelius and two roommates share a mobile home in a trailer park a few miles west of Shug Jordan Parkway on the outskirts of Auburn University.

No other college in the country has taken to trailers the way Auburn has, said Jim Grimm, the University of Florida’s housing director and past president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. (Really now?)

For years, thousands of Auburn’s 21,500 students have snubbed dorms for their own mobile homes off campus. “There are so many trailer parks around here,” said Amy Schreiner, a 21-year-old psychology major from Trussville who bought a mobile home last year with her sister. “And the majority of people who live in them are college students.”

If college campuses are a gauge of popular culture, then Auburn students are the best example of mobile homes’ wide appeal in Alabama.

“There’s kind of a stereotype that mobile home people are poor and rednecky,” Cornelius said. “That’s not generally what people here think about it.”

More than a half-dozen mobile-home parks line Wire Road just past the veterinary school. The parks look like any other, with only a few hints that under-graduates live here -- student parking decals dangling from rear-views, a few Auburn bumper stickers and license plates on cars, several porches sporting AU flags.

The students keep to themselves. And that’s the real attraction to living off-campus in a mobile home -- the privacy. There are no neighbors to worry about on the other side of the wall.

Amy Sibley bought her mobile home two years ago because she didn’t like the idea of signing an apartment lease. “You can get your money back when you sell it and you don’t have to pay rent,” said the
21-year-old senior from Russellville.

Her two older brothers lived in mobile homes while at Auburn years ago. And most of her friends are envious. She had some girlfriends over recently for a wedding
shower. “They said, ‘I wish I lived in a trailer. You can decorate it any way you want.’ “

There are occasional cracks from friends when they find out you’re living in a trailer park, friends who learned everything they know about mobile homes from Jeff Foxworthy jokes.

Even Mike Gerry, a freshman from Huntsville, was floored when he heard that his brother was moving to one. “I thought, ‘Great. My brother’s a redneck.’ “

But Gerry admits he was surprised. “When I saw how nice it was, I said, ‘Now I want to live here.’ “ Next year he hopes to move in to his brother’s mobile home.

FWIW, Texas leads the US in the number of mobile homes followed closely by South Carolina.

 

[bwdial]

Alabama Traditions:
Winning National Championships
Winning SEC Championships

[This message has been edited by bwdial (edited 03-31-2004).]

 

[vatidefan]

I'm surprised noone has mentioned ND players touching the "play like a champion today" sign above their doorway heading out to the field.

Pretty cool tradition.



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University Of Alabama:
12 NCAA Championships
21 SEC Championships
51 Bowl Appearances
87 First Team All Amer.
3rd Highest Winning % in D1 History
ANY QUESTIONS? RTR

 

[CHATTBRIT]

How about Florida State taking a portion of the sod in their opponent's colors when winning?

 

[vatidefan]

One tradition some may not know is at VA Tech. The Defenseive unit has a metal lunch pail. Last games D player of the game gets to carry it that week to all practices and the next game. Whats in it? The D's goals for the season written down and a chunk of turf from the last away game. Pretty cool.

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University Of Alabama:
12 NCAA Championships
21 SEC Championships
51 Bowl Appearances
87 First Team All Amer.
3rd Highest Winning % in D1 History
ANY QUESTIONS? RTR

 

[TexasBama]

When the band marches into the stadium before the game and strikes up

http://www.rolltide.com/livestats/music/Yea%20Alabama.mp3

The best alma mater of ANY school - "The Eyes of Texas" - sung by 80,000 in Daryl K Royal at the end of every game. A 100 year gameday tradition
http://home.comcast.net/~pflyersboy/mp3/big12/Texas__The_Eyes_Of_Texas.mp3

When the Golden Band from Tigerland marches out on the field pre-game on a Saturday night

http://www.music.lsu.edu/~bands/tb/audio/Pregame-Touchdown%20for%20LSU.mp3