[NU Sports] Back from the Cow Pasture

[Michael Vance]

Hearing the "1,2,3,4,FIRST DOWN!" thing was strange.  Very early in the 
game I turned to the PU alum friend that I was with and said, "Do you do 
that every time?"  "Yep!" she enthusiastically responded.  I said, "You do 
realize that we're the 116th-ranked defense in Division I-A?  It's going to 
get old really quickly!"  And it did.

And the damn whistle?  I was still stuck in a concession line when the 
second half started (I left the stands late because I wanted to see the 
band).  It just happened to be the concession stand that is directly below 
the scoreboard in the south end zone.  The one that is directly below the 
damn whistle.  Three-quarters of the people in line, including those in 
black and gold, jumped, and the two toddlers with their mom in front of me 
in line started crying.  If you're going to do something like that, put it 
on top of the press box, or next to an existing loudspeaker, not someplace 
where you end up making a sizable portion of your fans soil themselves.

-Michael

At 10/16/2005 02:56 PM, SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\) wrote:
> > But the problem is that the fans are annoying with
> > their cheers and
> > that darn drum booming all the time, not to mention
> > the train whistle.
>
>Now see, I love that. I love it when home fans create
>a unique home atmosphere and cheer on their team. You
>have a train whistle ... the roar of the train chug
>(drum) ... all that stuff is great, IMO. Just like the
>Nittany Lion roar. Some fans get annoyed - I love it.
>
>I do see how it can tend to get annoying when done
>every friggin play, like the USC band's 3-note tune,
>but I wish NU had more of that zest and cheer from
>their fans.
>
>Wisconsin fans may be rude, crude and obnoxious ...
>but I always say that no fans wear their team colors
>more, clap in unison better (it's thunderous when
>their band comes out pregame and the crowd claps in
>unison) and create an intimidating home field
>advantage as much as Badger fans. About the only thing
>I like about when the sea of red comes to invade
>Evanston every few years is that it usually spurs NU
>fans to cheer a little more and we could certainly do
>that more often (STAND UP ON THIRD DOWN!!!!!!! Bring
>back the PURPLE mountain majesty and America the
>Beautiful for pregame! CLAP AND STAND for Go U! etc.).
>
>And I think NU has the best game announcer in the biz
>(and best band announcer in the biz) -- so what if
>it's cheering for the home team? I love hearing "FIRST
>AND GOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL Northwestern!" boom from the
>speakers!
>
> > I was also shocked by the fact that the fans at
> > Ross-Ade repeatedly
> > booed their own team.  They weren't just booing
>
>Now that I won't defend. Boo coaches, boo bad calls
>but there's never a good enough reason, IMO, to boo
>college student athletes who are working their butts
>off to give us the world's greatest sport every
>Saturday in the fall. They're still not pros and
>mistakes will happen - no reason to boo.
>
>GO CATS!!!
>-SjT
>
>* * * * * * * * *
>STEPHEN J. TRUOG
>sjtruog at yahoo.com
>GO CATS!!!
>
>
>
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