Posted on 10/02/2018 6:28:37 AM PDT by C19fan
FIGHT SONG FOOLISHNESS Texas plays Oklahoma on Saturday, which means three things: Friday night in Dallas will be buck wild; Saturday at the Texas State Fair will be one of the best scenes in college football; and everyone will want to strangle the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band (31) by the end of the day.
As the endless purveyors of “Boomer Sooner,” the band will drive everyone in the Cotton Bowl crazy. The tune itself isn’t too bad, just highly repetitive — and when you couple that repetition with the lyrics and the backstory, this is America’s worst fight song. Which is saying something.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
It was composed in 1939 by the bandleader Fred Waring in 1939 after a petition request from OU students and faculty.
Forgive the redundancy considering the vanity thread, but read the story and give it a listen here:
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208806151
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You should know that neither the University of Iowa nor Iowa State fight songs mention corn.
I do believe Iowa opponents should learn this short song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mn16d8hs04
The Iowa Corn Song is the unofficial touchdown song at home games in Iowa City.
It’s played at Northern iowa, some high schools and was played at least once in the Iowa House of Representatives back in the mid-1970s.
“That’s where the tall corn grows.”
Imported a few SouthWest Conference fight songs.
Texas A&M (with its stirring call to “Saw varsity’s horn’s off” ) is focused against the University of Texas ‘s longhorn mascot - which did get its horn’s pruned back in the 1920’s.
The Florida Gator tune “We Are the Boys from Old Florida” is badly miscast as a fight song. Of unknown composition, in the 1920s it became popular and somehow remains traditional at University of Florida football games. Sung as a waltz at the end of the third quarter, it lacks the rousing tempo of an effective fight song and is burdened with lyrics such as a claim Florida is “Where the girls are the fairest, The boys are the squarest.” Yeah, that’ll intimidate the opposition! The song belongs at ice cream socials instead of football games.
I thought UI gave it up years ago. I only recall hearing ‘On Iowa’.
The current ‘Iowa Fight Song’ is a Meredith Wilson tune that isn’t that old in the college football world.
The ultimate generic college fight son is ‘Fight On for Old’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atakACn42es
Minnesota, hats off to thee!
To thy colors true we shall ever be,
Firm and strong, united are we.
Rah, rah, rah, for Ski-U-Mah,
Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Rah for the U of M.
[Repeat]
M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A!
Minnesota, Minnesota!
Yay, Gophers! RAH!
- Roll Tide -
I love those wacky old ones. I feel so old.
The two songs USC plays incessantly during their games. They should be outlawed. “Men of Troy” and Conquest.” I mute the sound on the tv when UW and USC play. Would rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard!
He said the best football. JK, I love all the SEC, even the Vols. Roll Tide.
And now you got me all bleary eyed. I gave the eulogy at my father’s funeral. My parting words to the mourners were to warn heaven that a Tide fan was coming home. I finished with GO BAMA!, and the entire congregation responded with a ROLL TIDE that shook the roof.
Same here...UT grad who thinks Bear Bryant was the greatest football coach ever!!!!!
Thanks for the link. I think the best promotion for ‘Bama was the opening scene from “Crimson Ride” where all the submariners yells “ROLL TIDE”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRxdrg9BtU
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