...it would even be 4-5 decibels louder.
I'm torn. 99% of me thinks it's a horrible idea. The other 1% of me knows that opposing teams would hate it even more than I would, which makes me think we should do it.
and I agree with what you say 99% of the time.
Practice up on this, and you'll be ready should we ever meet:
Edit: That's a bro-hug, btw.
won't you be patting me twice on the back?
Or do you not look like your avatar?
But you're selling me a little short by assuming that I can't control my own appendages independently. (Of course I can't, but I'm still a bit offended. I couldn't find any pictures of an insectosaurus bro-hug though.)
And yes. I Googled "Insectosaurus bro hug."
size, that would make you one huge and beautiful German Carcajou.
My head hurts.
what if the band adds a vuvuzela section and they arrange the most stunning version of The Victors you've ever heard featuring the vuvuzela?
I would probably quit. And ram a drumstick down the nearest vuvuzela on the way out.
Would the vuvuzela be better or worse than the RAWK music that gets piped in?
I have to admit, I'm a little torn by the piped-in music.
Why? Both are annoying, but you stop noticing vuvuzelas after a while. The blaring PA system is designed to get your attention.
The Vuvuzela can only play one note. It's apparently a Bb.
While I think it would annoy the opposing team, it would be only a matter of time before every televised game would sound like the world cup. Please, for the love of college football, ban the vuvuzela from U.S. import.
O-H (I won't finish) chant. Do we really need something like this? Why do I have feeling that Buckeye fans are going to use them in their games...
I liked how the "O-H" chant went down when I was on South U the night before the game. It was something like this:
3 or 4 people wearing red: "O-H"
The rest of the street / sea of Maize: "F---- YOU"
I also saw one of Them get literally knocked flat in line for a bar by a girl. It kicked ass. Can't wait to have them back.
I think the Michigan response to the cheer is fantastic. My personal plea though is that Michigan folks should respond to the "O-H" / "I-O" with a hearty "Can't spell state!" Because, well... you know it's true.
Seriously the people busting out that cheer go to Ohio STATE University, not Ohio University (and the few folks I've met living in Cincinnati who go to Ohio U, really don't want to be confused as OSU grads.
Anyways, that's always my response.
They might bring them to their games, but we can count on most of them not knowing what end to blow in. Only 50% of those will get it right, so the potential noise will be mitigated.
We don't have to put up with it when we beat them - and when our fans don't sell off their tickets en masse. I never heard that chant in our stadium before 2005. (In '01, the OSU contigent was far too small to attempt it.)
We should bring them ONLY to away games. e.g. This year in Columbus. We'll sound louder than the buckeyes.
I support this proposition.
when you play them
it is a bit perplexing how these are suddenly all the rage. vuvuzelas have been around at sporting events for decades. why is this world cup so different? anyone know or have guesses? just a cheap gimmick?
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world cup 2010 = hip
vuvuzelas = world cup 2010
vuvuzelas= hip
global television viewership of the average sporting event in Africa that is not the World Cup = 97
estimated cumulative global television viewership of the 2010 World Cup = 800,000,000+
It's like those thundersticks. They were all over asia for years before they got popular during the 1996 Olympics and then started showing up in MLB and (most notably) NBA arenas almost ubiquitously.
Unfortunately those things are super cheap online and its the new "hip" thing to have. I've been putting time in trying to dissuade everyone I know from buying them, but the uconn game is probably going to have a ton of them, then I hope people see how much they suck and we don't see much more of them.
I imagine they will be banned from the stadium. I hope this doesn't make it harder for me to bring a flask to games.
I can't imagine it would. A horn is waaaaaay bigger and harder to sneak in than a flask
A horn is waaaaaay bigger ... than a flask
Clearly you're using the wrong type of flask.
Clearly. Link me a flask as big as a vuvuzela and i'll buy it immediately
Whip out that credit card, my friend, here's the brandy flask smuggler walking stick. So classy, yet so sneaky:
http://www.fashionablecanes.com/80144.html
EDIT: Curses, I've been beaten!
This one is awesome, but 100 bucks is a rip off. I'm just going to have to make my own
When I was a kid and first saw it in the closet, I thought he must have been a huge chemistry dork to want to carry test tubes with him all the time.
Almost, but not quite.
I'm not sure they're hip to anyone outside of South Africa (and possibly, South Florida).
My facebook has been blowing up with people all exciting that they just bought 10 of them. It seems to me at least that for college kids these are the things to have.
If true, between this and the way the "Temptation" teaser has been ruined with "You suck," I officially fear for the future of our sports-loving nation.
this is the most intimidating thing we do as students...
every student loves the chant....
i guess its bad sportsmanship, but it is nothing close to what other great fanbases do (cough, cough wisconsin or us at yost)
really i wish our student section was a ton more hostile and loud to make up for the people throughout the rest of the stadium that seem to think they are watching a mid-leval pga event
and ps fuck vuvuzelas ... i thought they were awful last yr for the confeds cup, they are awful this yr, and trust me, the big ten has already banned noise makers like these, they will not be allowed in and thank god for that
this is the most intimidating thing we do as students...
No, it's not.
every student loves the chant....
Most of my social group (including yours truly) hated it.
what is more intimidating ...
certainly not keys, or the band "putting the hex on" on third down
certainly not our copycat kickoff routine
rapping with eminem was fun, but its new and not that scary
seriously, its the only time we as a section do something "anti-pc"
even if you dont like it (my social group loves it), i seriously want to know what you think is more intimidating that we actually do?
Making noise.
PSU 02/04, MSU 04, Wisc 08, ND 09 were far more intimidating crowds than "you suck".
To be clear, I despise the key-jangling just as much. I never participated in that when I was a student. You're watching football, a gladiatorial competition, and you're going to stand there limp-wristed, jangling keys? It's fundamentally emasculating.
Nothing is more intimidating that regular old noise from your mouth. But you need to chant something that the whole stadium can get behind. Having 20% of the stadium chant "You suck!" is useless.
i maintain that it looks and sounds great when we do the "claw" (not a atl braves chop as many ppl think it is) and chant you suck as the opposing punter comes on
i admit i think it is even better in basketball for an opposing teams timeout after we make a run though
also, i agree noise is great, but sometimes you need to be in unison with your fellow fans and the band
"but the uconn game is probably going to have a ton of them"
Well.
That sucks. For once, I am happily in the camp of the "old fart alumni" and if the stadium does sound like that webpage, I'm thinking the alums will have those horns banned right quick.
Oh and "Get off my lawn!"
That stupid horn is one of the many reasons as to why I don't watch soccer.