Silly Penn State

Submitted by Eskimoan on

So Penn State pparently admires one of our traditional slogans 

 

 

 

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Of course Harbaugh is flattered

 

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Bodogblog

August 6th, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^

Yes, the words. But Bo posted that phrase in the locker room in his first year, when his impossibly difficult practices has guys dropping off the team left and right, and near mutiny among some that remained. That's how words become lore, through the story of how they were used, and that's why it's Bo's thing. Same with The Team, The Team, The Team, of course he's not the first person to say this. But the locker room speech that it comes from is one of the legendary audios in college football. You read it and hear him say it. So it's become associated with that speech and the program.

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CLord

August 5th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^

Hate everything about Penn State except that they are in Pennsylvania which isn't such a bad state.  Aside from the obvious reasons over the last 5 years, their uniforms are awful, yet admired nationwide.  

Admiration for Penn State uniforms makes about as much sense as people admiring an empty canvas as art.  "Aaah the simplicity!  The cleanliness of it!  Undiluted in it's purity!"  A roll of toilet paper is more interesting than Penn State's uniforms.  The soap dish in my shower has more imagination than whomever designed the Penn State uniforms.

Fuck Penn State.

Then there's the "We Are Penn State" chant.  I remember going to a game there in the mid-90's when we were losing to Lavar Arrington and company only to pull it out and crush their souls in the last 10 minutes.  I'd never heard the chant until then and it befuddled me.

LIKE NO SH*T YOU ARE PENN STATE Captains of obvious?  That's really the best you can do for a chant?  State the most obvious thing in the stadium, wearing colorless gear devoid of an ounce of imagination in cheers, team colors, uniforms, etc...

I mean, it would be infinitely more interesting and imaginative if they instead chanted "WE ARE NOT!  [INSERT OPPONENT NAME HERE]!" So it could rotate every week.

Seriously the coolest thing about Penn State was Paterno's giant nose, his shades and his flooder slacks.  That's it.

Fuuuuuck Penn State.

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JBE

August 6th, 2016 at 10:59 AM ^

I'm always curious why any mid to high level recruit would choose PSU. Their whole legacy is built on covering up the sexual abuse of children, their campus is terrible, their uniforms are boring, their offense is mundane, and their coach is an asshole. I forsee them struggling for quite a while. I'd rather go to Maryland or even Rutgers if I was a kid from that area that wanted to stay closer to home.

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August 6th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^

Well, they invented the We Are Penn State chant so many other schools copied for years and years.

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