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.
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Boola Boola?.................
“...The SEC plays the best football but their fight songs are bland...”
“Rocky Top” is bland?????
The IOWA Corn Song ?
That is an adopted country song analogous to Stanford playing “All Right Now” .
Is it still called a fight song?
Won’t the word, fight trigger the little snowflakes?
Well, Yale’s Bull Dog, even though it IS by Cole Porter, is no great shakes.
Bull Dog”, by Cole Porter
Thurston Howell, III: “Moola - moola! Moola - moola!”
Vanity post forthcoming, shortly.
He was a Hahvahd man!.................
SUNG:
Fight fiercely, Harvard,
Fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.
How we will celebrate our victory,
We shall invite the whole team up for tea
(how jolly!)
Hurl that spheroid down the field, and
Fight, fight, fight!
Fight fiercely, Harvard,
Fight, fight, fight!
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Oh, fellows, do not let the crimson down,
Be of stout heart and true.
Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard’s glorious name,
Won’t it be peachy if we win the game?
(oh, goody!)
Let’s try not to injure them, but
Fight, fight, fight!
Lets not be rough though!
Fight, fight, fight!
And do fight fiercely
Fight, fight, fight!
The Whiffenpoof Song?.....................
Once liked the Notre Dame fight song but now every time I hear it, it reminds me of Obama. Ugh!
It is the adopted fight song...The original fight song is “Down The Field”, but the Vols play “Rocky Top” so much, it irritates the hell outta opponents fans...We love it...
I love that song. My father used to sing it to me when I was a kid. But it’s not a fight song, it’s a glee club song.
Whose do you like? Bing’s or Rudy’s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVUTHLFdQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDX7g25ImA
The fight songs have special meanings to the locals that outsiders won’t get.
For example, Bama’s fight song has the line: “remember the Rose Bowl we’re winning”. That might not mean much to folks outside Alabama and certainly folks outside the southeast. But that line is in reference to Bama winning the Rose Bowl in 1926 and bringing respect to the south using a sport popular at the time with ivy league schools. The south had been trying to get some respect ever since losing the Civil War. Then Bama went on to dominate the Rose Bowl for a decade, so much that the sports writers got tired of writing about the Rose Bowl committee’s team choices (it was billed as the best team in the east vs the best team in the west, thus a national championship game much like we talk about the playoff committee today). So the sportswriters created the AP poll as a way to name someone else besides Alabama the best, regardless of if the Rose Bowl committee kept picking Bama every other year and Bama kept winning it. And it was successful for a few decades, Bama wasn’t the AP national champ until Bear Bryant.
If you don’t know the backstory to the fight songs then you don’t know why they mean as much to the locals.
So us Bama fans think of that when we sing “Remember the Rose Bowl we’re winning”.
“Die You Gravy Sucking Pigs”
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