Michigan vs Colorado in Sportsnation Entrance Tradition Poll
in this article: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/27947/better-tradition-colorad… espn debates which is a better tradition - our players coming down the tunnel and jumping to the GO BLUE banner or something w/ a mascot named ralphie. i am an avid college football fan, have been for more than 25 years, and have never heard of colorado's mascot's name. anyway, vote and crush them.
Mod Edit: Fixed the title to make it more informative.
It got my vote.
the players are 30 yards behind the animal. mascots < players.
The best thing about it is it says "Beat MSU"
how sad that a program with that much tradition can't sell out
/s
1. A lot of empty seats in that video
2. CU is a pretty 420 friendly university, pretty crazy to see a buffalo when you're high
3. It has been a while since Colorado has done anything in football
4. The buffalo says beat msu, maybe we should take it to EL this year
5. Buffalo's die (taste pretty good), banners do not
the people of Ann Arbor would NEVER EVER touch that stuff.
pretty crazy to see a buffalo when you're high
Whereas it's kinda "meh" when you're sober.
100% pro-Buffs in Minnesota, Iowa, and Pennsylvania (cough you suck cough). Ohio votes for Go Blue by double digits.
Love how the voting in Colorado is 60% Colorado and 40% Michigan, where as it is 97% Michigan and 3% (Sparty fans) Colorado in Michigan.
Seriously, why is CU a 6 seed and the banner an 11 seed?
I noticed that a lot of these traditions are not fan friendly traditions. By that I mean that they are done by the team behind closed doors. Most teams tough something whether its rope, or a sign about playing like a champion, but the fans cant see any of it. I personally think traditions like Michigan's banner or FSU or even Colorado's buffalo thing are better than those, because they are fan friendly.
That being said, Michigan's still the best.
if you've never heard of the tradition at CU of running Ralphie. If the Buffaloes were a more prominent program that played routinely in front of more than 100,000 fans, Ralphie would be every bit as noteworthy nationally as touching the M banner.
But they're not. That's like saying GVSU's (proud alum, here) running out of Louie the Laker is awesome and would be even better if they played D-1 and in front of 90,000 more fans.
We are losing 90-71 right now
losing to a god damned buffalo with a name.
Shows what you know. That buffalo has tenure . . .
Are these the same folks who claimed that UCLA is a better NFL feeder than Michigan? Probably.
Make it "CALL TO VOTE M > COLORADO"
We should rally the Michigan Internets and win this whole thing
Ralphie is a girl.
Also FACT-- there are plenty of stories about players stepping in buffalo poop before their own home games.
The Go Blue Banner Jump has never involved poop in any form.*
*Justin Boren notwithstanding, of course.
Ralphie would look better with cheese and slapped between two buns. Mmmm Buffalo burger! Cue Homer Simpson gargling sound.
That didn't take long for us to take the lead. When this thread started we were losing by over 20 percentage points.
Best part: as of right now we are leading in Colorado.
Don't forget to vote for Nebraska's horseshoe touch over Script Ohio. How great would it be to see them go down in the first round?
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Link.
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/6658229/2-ohio-st-vs-15-nebra…
Go, Michigan internet!
How does OSU get the script Ohio and we don't get the The Victors/Block M/Touch the Banner...we get just touch the banner?
ABC hates Michigan. It's apparent. Barry Melrose. Matt Millen. All signs point to them hating Michigan.
And the irony of osu losing to the horseshoe...
Especially given that the Michigan Marching Band started the Script OHIO in 1932...
Unfortunately a lot of people will watch the EA sports videos on that page and have that as their most recent memory. The Michigan video doesn't do it justice... it actually looks pretty lame. Someone needs to post this instead (best one I could find):
RAWK.
To be fair, there's some bare spots up in the student section seats, too. (Obviously not as many as in the CU video.)
Just sayin'.
pretty sure that's just the Space Emperor being awesomer than you remember.
nothing beats the Lil Boosie fade. Free Boosie Bad Azz!
We have taken Colorado.
With 942 votes in right now, we're leading 67%-33%. Keep em coming!
There's no denying the following:
1) The Colorado football program has seen better days. Not good to see that many empty seats in the stadium.
2) Buffaloes die. (Although so do banners sometimes, as we Michigan fans found out after the Fab Five/Tractor Traylor scandals.)
3) Ralphie is a girl.
Unfortunately, there's also no denying the following:
1) Running onto the field with a live buffalo is pretty badass.
The power that is MGoBlog has now flipped the %'s to 67-33 in our favor. I love this community.
I'm so pi$$ed at the damn lone voter in Rhode Island that likes Colorado and deceivingly makes that state look like a Buffalo lovin' juggernaut. C'mon, UM alum in the greater Providence area, make your voice be heard!
After all these years, they STILL haven't put a better recording of The Victors into their games. You have a whole Blu-ray to use up now EA, SO DO SOMETHING WITH IT!
Does anyone know if Ralphie has ever gotten loose?
USC Traveler seems seeded a bit low. I'd also replace the WVU tradition with the Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech
we're ranked #11 against #6 COLORADO? are you kidding me?
fucking insulting
Do we, the MGoCommunity, have enough power to win the whole damn thing? I sure freaking hope so. Thinking about it makes me smile and want to drink a beer.
I went to CU and can attest that the running of Ralphie is pretty sweet. However, as someone who often left CU games to watch Michigan games, I'm voting for the banner.
might have been that Ralphie is so versatile. Everyone loves Buffalo wings, even Jessica Simpson.
FWIW, my favorite tradition from another school goes to FSU. That Appaloosa is a gorgeous horse, the burning spear is cool, and the war drums are pretty catchy. Great overall entrance.
BUT you've gotta love that our banner is so iconic that that newlywed couple had it above the entrance to their wedding. (If you haven't seen it, one of our posters put up a YouTube vid of his sister's wedding reception, and as everyone entered, bride and groom included, they touched the banner. Coolness)
Nebraska is the only Big Ten state that is pro-buffalo.
Which is odd considering that Nebraska-Colorado was a season-ending rivalry game until this season.
Well now we're their big Legends Division ending rival so...