LOL, one of my buddies set that up. I think it's hilarious.This is about as bad as an idea as the whole student section doing the bernie during the OSU game randomly that has a facebook group for it.
LOL, one of my buddies set that up. I think it's hilarious.This is about as bad as an idea as the whole student section doing the bernie during the OSU game randomly that has a facebook group for it.
Two things:
-Pumped Up Kicks is a great song, but a terrible choice for a football game.
-Student section doing the Bernie is f'ing awesome. The reason that ISU doesn't have any cool traditions is most of our fanbase just regards any idea like that as stupid or embarrassing.
Bernie is freaking hilarious.
And even better, I've never heard of any other student section doing this. Absolutely every tradition in college football is patently stupid when you view it in a vacuum. What it makes it is when the fans really embrace it.
But as usual, the majority of ISU fans have a stick up their *** and are too worried about being taken seriously to have any fun.
I would be welcoming of something actually cool, but the Bernie just sucks IMO. (Like Soulja boy. Just too cliche.)
I would be welcoming of something actually cool, but the Bernie just sucks IMO. (Like Soulja boy. Just too cliche.)
OK, The guy who runs the big music box at Jack Trice, here is what you are going to do:
--No warm-up thug rap please. You can play some 1980's fat boys or maybe even some MC Hammer too legit to quit. Just kidding, but to play the absolute CRAP that they play pre-game has gotten offensive to me. The story I hear is they just carte blanche broadcast the player's request "becuase it gets them pumped up" or whatever. Put something on the air that is mildly, tangibly popular.
--Smoke on the Water is cool for the beginning of intro, but it has not crescendo, no climax. I keep waiting for more. It is 2011, and I know we have had the technology to mix music since, oh, 1915 or so. Please mix Smoke into something a little more rousing, please.
--Sweet Caroline will continue to be banned until 10 minutes after the victory.
--It would be good to hear some more original scores.....I hear the same "Ohhhhhh, oh-oh-oh-oh, ohhhhhhh" bass riff at about three different games this year (different schools) AND on television games too(anyone know this riff? It is annoyingly catchy). These schools all copy each other, and ISU seems hell bent on being a copy cat instead of an orignator.
I suggest "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People for end of third quarter this game....that song is freaking infectious...I can't get it out of my head.
--No more "Cyclone, First down!!!!" thing. DUMB!!!!!!!!
--More cow bell.
Wow, I completely disagree with almost every single argument you made (cowbell only exception)
But as usual, the majority of ISU fans have a stick up their *** and are too worried about being taken seriously to have any fun.
No, the problem is most of the time someone tries to start a new 'tradition' its completely forced (and often just plain dumb, like this) and thus never catches on. Traditions that stick tend to grow organically, and often over time, not just someone saying 'lets do this and make it a tradition!'