Semi-OT: Schools overly committed to a rivalry
September 26th, 2017 at 1:20 PM ^
Where UCF doesn't even know there is a rivalry...
September 26th, 2017 at 1:43 PM ^
I don't think UConn even realized there was a rivalry.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
just a figment of the UCONN AD's imagination.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
I can vouch for how obsessed Purdue fans are about Indiana. I was at the game with a good friend and his son who are both graduates of Purdue. They are embarrassed about the "I.U. Sucks" cheer, but just as obsessed themselves. The fact that their fans and band performed this cheer SEVERAL times during the game was hilarious.
September 26th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
Yep. I was on a campus tour of Purdue for prospective students and the tour guide ripped Indiana repeatedly and pointed out that they don't use the roman numeral V on their large campus clock, because then 4 O'Clock would look too close to IU (IV). So instead they use IIII for 4 O'Clock. At that point, I couldn't wait to leave the campus.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:36 AM ^
I didn’t even last that long. Purdue is one butt ugly school/campus.
September 26th, 2017 at 11:10 PM ^
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September 26th, 2017 at 1:20 PM ^
What?
September 26th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
When the clock hits 1:00 in Columbus for hockey or basketball games and the announcer says "One minute remaining" OSU fans say "And Michigan still sucks".
September 26th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
I don't know if they still do it. They used to put a picture of Bo Schembechler on the screen to get fans to boo when the visiting team shot free throws.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
The Cleveland Cavaliers (!) put up a Michigan logo when the opponent shoots free throws.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^
They do this at Columbus Bluejacket games too
September 26th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
MSU was chanting "Harbaugh Sucks" at the BGSU game this year I believe.
OSU's band usually brings up Michigan throughout the year.
Texas AM's War Chant or whatever is entirely about UT if I recall. They sing it every game.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
Came here to post about Texas A&M as well. Their "Aggie War Hymn", which is pretty much their fight song, is almost entirely dedicated to University of Texas. It features lines like "Goodbye to Texas University, so long to the orange and white" and an entire verse repeating "saw varsity's horns off". The entire stadium stands and sways while singing a song to a rival no longer in their division.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Had a UF buddy go to JerryWorld and he told me that when he was outside the stadium he heard “F**k Ohio” chants
September 26th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
But, were they Michigan or Florida fans chanting that?
September 26th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
I never understood that OSU song about not giving "a damn about the whole state of Michigan." Maybe they don't do it anymore. It's a dumb summer campy sing-along. I don't feel taunted.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
I always wondered if they sing that when they play Michigan State, too. After all, it's the whole state they don't care about, right?
Also, you know what State I don't give a damn about? Delaware. But I have never thought of singing a song about how little I care about Delaware.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
Da'hell you got against Delaware? That state is so small, and has so little going for it! Why give it so much public hate? It's like hating on a dwarf for no particular reason...
September 26th, 2017 at 2:15 PM ^
B/c it's a useless state and should probably be anexed by Pennsylvania. On top of that, it has no place being the first state of the Union. PA was supposed to be the 1st state.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
Kind of like posting stories about the FBI arresting college basketball coaches - if you're a bit late then you come in second. In this case Pennsylvania was 5 days too late to be #1. Meanwhile, Deleware entered the Union with an enthusiasm unknown to Pennsylvania.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
Is it too late to kick them out?
September 26th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
I am also very much against Deleware. Worst state in the country. The only thing it has going for it is that it was the first state, nothing else.
September 26th, 2017 at 4:29 PM ^
It's the Rutgers of constitutional ratification.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:56 PM ^
Is that true? I mean, no one has written about the time that they got some at Rehoboth Beach or something? Maybe that time someone broke down on I-95 near Wilmington?
Actually, you might be right. Never mind.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
in the cold, hard ground before I recognize Missourah!
September 26th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
I kind of like it, feels endearing. "We totes don't care about you guys so much that we're going to sing you this lovely original song created only to convey how much we don't care about you."
September 26th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
I like when schools worship us with songs in our honor. Surprised they aren't miffed that we don't care enough about them to so the same
September 26th, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
Here their marching band is singing it at an Indiana game, and they never miss a chance to sing it on TV
September 26th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
Hearing that makes me even more proud to be a Michigander!
September 26th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
It's not college, but anyone living in Chicago and going to Blackhawks games will tell you the fans start a "Detroit Sucks" chant no matter the opponent.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^
My wife was at a Tigers-White Sox game at Comiskey once, and told me that a Sox fan yelled "why don't you go back to Detroit and make a car!?" We love that one.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
Lived outside Chicago for many years and went to some games when Tigers and Red wings played there. I can confirm that a very large proportion of White Sox and Blackhawks fans are relatively classless. Cubs fans were amicable (this was long before the Cubs' turnaround).
September 26th, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^
Please ignore all incriminating evidence provided!
We once had such a large party destroying disco records that the game was cancelled!
Some of our fans got so drunk they decided to start a fight with the Royals first base coach.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
The only reason Cubs fans were amicable is they had zero success for decades and no reason to be bitter about it.
September 26th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
That, and they're in the National League so they don't really compete with the Tigers. They probably would root for the Tigers when they play the White Sox.
September 26th, 2017 at 4:00 PM ^
Now, there are lots of casual fan bandwagoners and drunk Wrigley bros have multiplied.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
Early 1980s. 4 of us were at Comiskey rooting loudly for the Tigers. Some Sox fans started giving us grief when one of them yelled, "Aw, leave 'em alone. They're probably unemployed." Ouch!
September 26th, 2017 at 3:13 PM ^
My friend bought a custom blackhawks jersey with DETROIT SUCKS on the back, was kinda weird going to a game with my Zetterberg jersey sitting next to him
September 26th, 2017 at 5:35 PM ^
You should have worn a Chelios redwings jersey instead
September 26th, 2017 at 1:35 PM ^
You're trying to hard to hit your thread starting quota.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
New York Ranger fans do a ”Potvin Sucks” chant when they're not playing the Islanders. Dumb.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
I think there is a certain subset of NY hockey fans who refer to any competent goalie as "Potvin." I think this started as a way of taunting Red Wings fans dispirited by the 1993 playoff loss to Toronto, and then morphed into something different by people who didn't grasp the premise. /theory derived from like three pieces of anecdotal evidence accumulated over several decades
September 26th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
"Beat your wife Potvin, beat your wife."
Rangers' fans still favorite chant.
Based on actual events, for those not in the know.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
A Virginia Tech fan had a sign at UVA's last game that said "Hey UVA Hokies Are Everywhere." The game took place in Boise.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
I had just discovered that plenty of school's incorporate trolling their rivals into the everyday game traditions. I'm a grad student at USC (ntUSC) and they yell "Clemson sucks!" or something like that on kickoffs. (I think it's on kickoffs.) It surprised me as a Michigan fan, because we don't do that, but it seems pretty commonplace overall.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
At every USC game the band plays the Fleetwood Mac song "Tusk" and during the chorus the fans all cheer "U-C-L-A sucks" no matter who they're playing. It's actually one of the cooler marching band songs and fan cheers I've seen.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^
Illinois fans wear their Muck Fichigan shirts to games when Michigan isn't involved.
September 26th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
The entire Illini student section wore them for the 2002 game in Champaign. Which is ironic because Illinois was the defending Big Ten Champions at that time (thanks to Spartan Bob screwing us over the previous year) so you'd think they would be wearing shirts that celebrated that, but no. Muck Fichigan it was.
We beat their Big Ten championship team 45-20 at the big house so maybe they were still smarting over that.