Sweet Caroline

[scheveisu]

When did that become ISU’s hallmark song?

 

[ISUTex]

When did that become ISU’s hallmark song?

a long time ago.

 

[JEFF420]

early paul rhoads?

 

[SCNCY]

early paul rhoads?

Pretty sure you’re right about the time. As far as why it became a thing, don’t it get routinely selected as the fan choice song in the 3rd quarter, and so the AD just kept using it?

 

[JEFF420]

its needs to be sundown by gordon lightfoot

 

[wenkeej]

its needs to be sundown by gordon lightfoot

FIFY...

 

[psycln11]

.... Ba Ba Ba!!

 

[jdoggivjc]

Pretty sure I remember them playing it at games when I was attending, and I graduated in 2003.

 

[dahliaclone]

its needs to be sundown by gordon lightfoot

no

 

[JEFF420]

FIFY...

oh wtf

 

[FilthyShadow]

Hate this song - Neil Diamond creeping on 11 year-old Caroline Kennedy.

 

[shadow]

I think it went from a 3rd quarter song to celebration song around the 2011 okie state game. Maybe? It was a problem for a chunk of the fan base that @ChrisMWilliams probably talked about it for a few years before it got changed. Let’s search the cf message boards.

 

[Trice]

Late 2000s or early 2010s. Someone decided we needed a silly stolen tradition that would cause us to lose most of the games in which it was played. Lo and behold, Sweet Caroline was born.

 

[shadow]

Dug up some old threads and it looks like it became the official victory song in 2018, but it has been around close to 20 years.

 

[JSmoove]

It was a thing before my time and I started in ‘05.

 

[BCClone]

Dug up some old threads and it looks like it became the official victory song in 2018, but it has been around close to 20 years.

It was played before that, it’s just that we didnt win very often so no one ever remembered.

 

[Lexclone]

FIFY...

I thought no one but me knew this cover even existed. Kudos!

 

[Nor'MidWester]

its needs to be sundown by gordon lightfoot

Need to be The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

 

[gocy444]

I believe Mr Diamond was thinking of ISU when he wrote the song.

 

[CyclONEnationUtah]

It became a thing after I graduated. I live out of state and rarely get to attend home games. Attend away games in my area. When I see Sweet Caroline played on TV after an ISU victory, I hate it. Never understood what it has to do with ISU.