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BYU Game thread. Official.
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I think Apocalypse Now is a good representation of what to expect on Saturday.
I actually disagree with the "same as college kids most places". Most other student sections know the fight song(s), know the cheers "FOR" their school, etc. To a point, some of them go too far in that direction, but I'd rather that than mm mam m m m mumble mumble **** EM UP **** EM UP GO CU. After literally EVERY cheer / chant / fight song.
It's old. And weak.
And get off my lawn!
I have a similar feeling. However, I would say that generally HCP does a good job with getting the team to bounce back after poor performances. We were even super ready to go at the beginning of the BYU game, before we faded down the stretch (from the 2nd Q on). :/
Even then, we had the ball back with a chance to outright win the game with 2 mins left, only down by 3. That's all you can really hope for against a Top 25 team, especially this year. From my perspective, all we really needed was a QB who can do the basics, and we win that game. Just a bit of a passing game, see/hit wide-open WRs, which shouldn't be a big ask.
TCU is a decent team. Defense is a little weak but CU's offensive game plans are so woeful, I think a less talented, but better coached home team wins this one. BTW, that is TCU. ISU is going to be a problem, another well rounded, well coached team, ditto Utah. CU REALLY needs to pull one of these three out to have any shot at a bowl game.
Watching UH and BYU beat CU was pretty frustrating. UH is not that good, and BYU is playing a frosh QB at Folsom. I am getting pretty sour on the abysmal game planning on the O and poor game management.
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I disagree with the "most student sections" simply root for their team. That's not been my experience, at all. I attended Vandy, and I heard from far too many SEC fans and I heard most of the SEC chants of the period, especially as we almost always sucked. And I have to say, some of our chants were just awful, too--and we rarely had anything to root for. The BYU chant was mild compared to pointedly, outright racist stuff that was prevalent throughout the south--at least back in the 80's and early 90's. I'd venture to say (hope?) there may have been a period of time over the past couple of decades when all of that diminished somewhat, but I doubt it hasn't sprung back to life, recently.
Oh, I agree that few, if any, only root FOR their team. Most of them, however, do it more often than not.
My argument is that CU fans almost NEVER root FOR their team - it's always AGAINST the other team, or just **** Em Up **** em up ad nauseum.
From the TV scans, it looks likes many of the CU "students" at the games are extremely drunk or stoned 19 year olds that don't know football from tennis and are only there to have something to do. I cut them some slack. Imagine interviewing these cretins for jobs. Geezus Kay-Riste.
I already told you to get off my lawn!
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I’d imagine the fine may have been influenced by what happened in Michigan. That was horrific.
So what did the students actually say?
And has our beloved leadership and/or the geniuses at the Big 12 conference considered that consistently pushing kickoffs to 8 pm or later greatens the possibility of our drunk ass students chanting something stupid?
And has our beloved leadership and/or the geniuses at the Big 12 conference considered that consistently pushing kickoffs to 8 pm or later greatens the possibility of our drunk ass students chanting something stupid?
I have to agree with Zandi that **** em up **** em up is overused. The CU fight song is 100 years old. Adding obscenities to it is a stupid modern convention. I’m assuming most people know the backstory so I’m not going to rehash it.
I feel very sorry for the poor souls who were unable to chant it when the band stopped playing Rock n Roll Part 2 due to Gary Glitter being a pedo, but it was dumb adding it to the fight song then, and it’s dumb now. Plus we have Rock and Roll Part 2 back again, so it’s not like **** em up **** em up is going away anymore, anyway.
I know it’s not going to go away, students are going to be students, but I just had to throw my 2 cents in.
Now let me go tie my onion on my belt.
I feel very sorry for the poor souls who were unable to chant it when the band stopped playing Rock n Roll Part 2 due to Gary Glitter being a pedo, but it was dumb adding it to the fight song then, and it’s dumb now. Plus we have Rock and Roll Part 2 back again, so it’s not like **** em up **** em up is going away anymore, anyway.
I know it’s not going to go away, students are going to be students, but I just had to throw my 2 cents in.
Now let me go tie my onion on my belt.
It was neither dumb then and it’s not dumb now. It’s uniquely CU and it’s awesome.
MCskid
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This! Did any of you on this board actually go to CU? We’ve been doing this at least since the 80’s. Anyone older than me let us know how long.
MCskid
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God bless you!
MCskid
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You two feel free to transfer to byu where they chant the ‘n’ word
20th century CU football: top 20 in wins, conference championships, national championship
21st century CU football: dog**** program, but at least we say **** in our fight song and it’s awesome!
No, we chanted **** em up when the band played Rock and Roll Part 2. Then the band stopped playing it due to Gary Glitter being a pedophile. Lame ass students, apparently distraught about the fact that they couldn’t yell **** as an organized chant anymore, added it to the fight song. It was a stupid and childish move. Now that Gary Glitter!s dead, the band plays Rock and Roll Part 2 again, and we all yell **** em up to both because you can’t ever yell **** in public enough.
So it was cool when it was after a pedo song but not cool when it was added after the fight song? **** man, I’ll get off your lawn
Nuclear?
The fine is definitely an awful decision.
It wasn’t because Glitter was a diddler. It was because Tiny Dick Byyny didn’t like that you could hear the chant on the telecasts. So he ordered the band to stop playing it. Then the crowd added **** em up to the fight song and Byyny removed the embargo on RnR2. But it was too late and instead of ****s after one song he got ****s after two.
Allbuffs has eagerly embraced the asshole fan reputation and expressed an "I want us to be hated" attitude since I've been here.
I know some posters are likely thinking "well, yeah, but religious bigotry is too far", and I get that. But maybe there's an element of "be careful what you ask for" in play with this.
I know some posters are likely thinking "well, yeah, but religious bigotry is too far", and I get that. But maybe there's an element of "be careful what you ask for" in play with this.
The timeline is still a little off.
The admin tried for a couple years to change the chant to "buffalos, buffalos, go cu." As would be expected, they failed. But they did succeed in giving the rest of the stadium cover in telling their kids what the students were yelling.
But then one year they instructed the band not to play it because they wanted to kill the chant. A couple months later, the pedo stuff came out, and they pivoted to claiming that as the reason.
Anyway, the original effort was like the Streisand effect: by trying to stop the chant, the school just made it stronger.
If they had let it be, and then made a big deal about not playing the song due to the pedo stuff after that actually came out, it may have died out. It may not have, but it would have had a chance.
MCskid
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I’m older than dirt, pretty well versed in r &r history but who the hell is Gary gilitter/rock and roll history pt 2? Is this 1950’s?
Glam rocker who, after looking him up, might top the list of artists who have a bunch of songs I know without really remembering him.
Gary Glitter - Wikipedia
Oh, and also one of the most vile people humanity has produced.
But goddam that song is catchy.Glam rocker who, after looking him up, might top the list of artists who have a bunch of songs I know without really remembering him.
Gary Glitter - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Oh, and also one of the most vile people humanity has produced.