[NU Sports] Columbia U. Band Banned from Final Game

[Joe Thiegs]

Any list members who have not yet read "Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer" by
Warren St. John really must do so.

See http://www.rammerjammeryellowhammer.com/wstjohn-book.htm

St. John grew up in Alabama as a Crimson Tide fan (as a preteen, even got a
picture with Bear Bryant near the end of his career).  He went away to
college at Columbia, where all his classmates thought him crazy because of
the degree to which college football mattered to him, and he couldn't
fathom how his classmates inexplicably didn't seem to care about
football--or sports in general--at all.  He mentions Columbia's and NU's
losing streaks early in the book.  He wrote this book as an attempt to
figure out what makes sports fans tick, and why it matters so much to some
people and so little to others.  It's a great, funny read.  If you've been
a college football fan for a while, you'll remember parts of the 1999-2000
season he chronicled and maybe some of the older games he references.

-Joe

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:55 PM, <neonrye at aol.com> wrote:

>
> List Friends,
> As some of you may be aware, I attended Columbia University School of Law.
>  As a consequence, I thus matriculated at the two universities with the
> longest losing streets in FBS history.  That fact was brought home to me
> yet again when I read the following article from today's NY POST online:
> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_bans_band_from_final_home_hIaVkDsEOjtn5TnRmccrYO
>
> The Columbia Administration has prohibited the Band from participating in
> the Lions' final home game this Saturday, due to their sarcastic (I would
> say hysterical) re-write of "Roar Lions Roar", Columbia's fight song.
>  Those of you who were in NUMB will probably appreciate this story the
> most.  All I know is that I was laughing out loud at my office desk when I
> read it.  The "new" lyrics are a scream (maybe a roar, too).
>
> I am proud to say that I could never bring myself to travel 100 blocks
> (about 5 miles) north of the Law School (on the Main Campus) to attend a
> Columbia football game--although I did have a good time watching the hoops
> team play.  Ivy League football just didn't make it for me, after watching
> the Big Ten at NU.
>
> Anyway, laugh away,
>
> Paul (Lion) Levinson
>
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