We had a vuvuzuela section at Yost last season. They even did a performance on the ice during the first intermission at senior night. We need this for football.
That was an awesome addition to the crowd last year. I'm not sure why you got neg'd, but it should be known that the vuvuzelas at Yost were not just mindlessly blown for the entire game. They were actually used to play Let's Go Blue, the charge song, and others. It was pretty cool.
FWIW When I was in the student section at Yost from 2000-2003, I remember a guy who would bring a vuvuzela to blow after goals. I didn't know it had a name besides a horn back then.
Triangle had them for Greek Week too. Very happy my team did not have balcony seats this year.
insert "but were they more annoying than {annoying sorority}?" joke here
FWIW, Triangle are the ones that made up the majority of the people in Yost that had them as well.
I figured as much (one of my friends is dating a brother)
/sad head shake
/walks away, hands in pockets
/NOT
But imagine this scenario: U-M allows the use of the vuvuzela for the UCONN game on a trial basis. More than a thousand are brought to the stadium, most concentrated in the student section. Every time UCONN gets to a 3rd down situation, the horns blast. At a few key moments, their QB is clearly flustered.
After the game, (a U-M victory, of course) the UCONN coaches and players comment that the vuvuzelas were instrumental in disrupting the cadence, distracted the team, etc., and contributed to their loss. Wouldn't that cause at least some amount of reflection on the part of all of us, that - perhaps - they were worth it?
Why can't we just make noise the way fans have always made noise - by cheering? Why is that difficult for our fanbase?
Because to this day the student section has opted to whip out their keys on third down instead.
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Absolutely nobody blows on them until except in quick blasts at key moments for the enemy offense (ie, on a curcial down's snap count, right before an enemy reciever is about to make a catch, or on the occasional crucial third or fourth down).
Also, horns must only be blown by old people who wouldn't be making any noise otherwise. Students and all other regular noise-makers must proceed with going bananas as normal.
Good luck trying to enforce that condition on a group of 110,000, including thousands of students whose actual interest in the game at hand is variable. Don't open Pandora's Box.
Hmmm maybe they could coordinate to do it at certain times... times one might call "key plays."
this would never happen, we would get drunk and blow on them all game
also as said above, the big ten bans objects like these, we are not even allowed to blow on a kazoo in chrisler for basketball games, vuvuzelas will not be allowed
To see fake IDs used by the crowd ... Reprising The Breakfast Club:
ANDREW: This is the worst fake ID I've ever seen. Do you realize you made yourself sixty-eight?
BRIAN: Oh, I know ... I know, I goofed it.
ANDREW: What do you need a fake ID for?
BRIAN: (like its obvious) So I can get my vuvuzela horn into the Michigan games!
The people who need these things aren't in the student section. They need to be handed out to anyone coming into the stadium who appears to be over the age of about 55. They don't make noise to begin with, so maybe this is a way to actually get them involved in the game. Student section - keep doin' what you're doin'.
I can't imagine those God-awful things being allowed in. The AD should be proactive and ban them and any other noise makers now.
It beats hearing "Welcome to the Jungle" for the fifteenth time.
Now you dun it... Axl's gonna kick your ASS.
And he's going to scream 'You Know Where You Are.... You're In the JUNGLE Baby... You GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEE" while he's got you in a choke hold.
I'll be waiting for him, like Kim Jong-Il for the North Korean squad after today's Portugal game, sharpened vuvuzela in hand.
And no other punch-line is needed.
I was going to be a smart-aleck, and post the List of Prohibited Items at Michigan Stadium; I would have taken an oath in saying that it included "horns" as a prohibited item. I seem to recall one patron, a trumpeter, who after years of coming to the game and playing "Charge," and various other clever musical lines and soundbites, was told one year that he could no longer bring it. Which made me happy, if only for the fact that, like... "Charge"?
But, damn! Here's the webpage for Prohibited Items. Do you see "horns"? I'm going to get Joe Parker cracking on this one, pronto. Allez! Tout de suite!
http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/060109aaf.html
And while you're at it, Joe, could we please have a llittle less cowbell?
using these things during an opponent's possession of the ball might prove to be very interesting. Seeing Dantonio blow up on the crowd behind him because Sparty can't hear the play call would be awesome. I change my vote!
you will be able to bring them in if you tell the usher that its for funneling the case of beer in your backpack.
...and may be used as a weapon in case of hostile attack.
I think that covers it.
Wait, one more thing; it can carry your snack foods. Because nothing would piss off the Athletic Department like not being able to sell you something on a game-day.
my 130 dollar civil infraction that read "alcohol in stadium" begs to differ.
I also have that same piece of evidence too....doh....
All respect, but you guys must have been hammered as well as obvious to get that.
I think I was just obviously hammered and they felt the need to check my pockets (it was Delaware State, the only game of the year I didn't feel the need to actually be able to remember). The shitty part is, after confiscating my booze they threw away my football ticket. However, I ran home and grabbed another one, because Delaware State tickets were worthless and no one even bothered to try and sell them.... by the time I got back to the game it was 35-0. Should've just stayed home and drank more.
Dave Brandon drafting a policy outlawing vuvu's right this mnute. It would be difficult to conceal one of these noise makers in your pants. You'd have to walk a little rigid through the turnstiles. I'd rather hide a fifth of rum.
They break down into pieces.
I suppose you could stick it down the front of your pants and into one leg. When the gate guard demands you show him what you've got in there, you just say, "I prefer to remain a virgin until I'm married."
There is no bigger vuvuzela hater than I but I do believe that if used discriminately they could be quite effective. However, such a scenario does not seem even the slightest bit possible, especially if those asked to be discriminate are thousands of drunk college students.
than Journey and "Welcome to the Jungle"
Yes, and driving into a tree is better than driving off a cliff. That doesn't make it a good thing, though.
I'm all for home field advantage in any way we can muster it. If we were to play vuvuzelas only while Michigan is on defense, we'd be so loud it'd be ridiculous. I absolutely love the idea. Just beat the crap out of any drunk kid trying to play it while on offense. It's win win.
FOR EVERYONE!!
I'm waiting for:
We might have been too quick to veto this idea. After all, the vuvuzela can be quite inspirational:
I can totally see myself in that picture.
and those who hate their ears...
Beer on Friday and breakfast at the Fleetwood before the game.
as long as you don't bust people for yelling
I will take vuvuzela's over RAWK any day of the week. I may be in the minority, but I dislike Bob Seger and Sandstorm that much.