Who has the most exciting pregame ritual in college football?

[woodhog14]

Virginia Tech's entrance is awsome...that gives me the chills when I see it.

[razorrog1]

Virginia Tech's the winner hands down, awesome song to get the crowd pumped.  Since Arkansas tends to get ideas from what other teams do, maybe we could run out to this songs intro....not sure Bobby would go for it though.   

It could be played while the crowd bounces up and down?
That would be pretty cool!

[hogfan064]

I don't know about their entrance, if they did it at the SEC championship game I was still too pumped about thinking we had a chance to notice (*spits*), but I can say that the band's pregame has to have been the most annoying one I've seen. "let's play the chomp to the north endzone! ok, let's play the chomp to the south endzone! What now? let's play the chomp to the west sideline! Ok, now we have to do the east sideline? What now? Uh... let's spell out 'Florida', then... PLAY THE CHOMP!"

No, I was at the SECCG and they didn't play their entrance on the video board.  The video they show is great and the PA guy is great when he introduces the Gators.  The Gator fans have many unique cheers.  2 of the best are when they singe "We are the Boys of Florida" at the end of the 3rd quarter and a fairly new one is when the fans start singing Paul Simon's "You can call me Al"(this looks great during basketball games)  That's the most random song I think I've ever heard at a sporting event.

[John Futrall]

No, I was at the SECCG and they didn't play their entrance on the video board.  The video they show is great and the PA guy is great when he introduces the Gators.  The Gator fans have many unique cheers.  2 of the best are when they singe "We are the Boys of Florida" at the end of the 3rd quarter and a fairly new one is when the fans start singing Paul Simon's "You can call me Al"(this looks great during basketball games)  That's the most random song I think I've ever heard at a sporting event.

Unless you were at Bud Walton Arena in 1993-94....

[braxhog]

No, I was at the SECCG and they didn't play their entrance on the video board.  The video they show is great and the PA guy is great when he introduces the Gators.  The Gator fans have many unique cheers.  2 of the best are when they singe "We are the Boys of Florida" at the end of the 3rd quarter and a fairly new one is when the fans start singing Paul Simon's "You can call me Al"(this looks great during basketball games)  That's the most random song I think I've ever heard at a sporting event.

I also heard the "It's great to be...a Florida Gator" cheer 3000 times.

[hogsanity]

I absolutely can not stand V-Tech Fb, but their pre game is unreal.  When they are playing at home on tv I watch just hoping they show the pre-game. 

But, when thinking of doing something like that here, think about what the most popular music is here.......................it ain't that kind.  Now, think about our crowd.  V-tech looks like the median age is 30, MAYBE, ours is about 50.

[NuttinItUp]

I absolutely can not stand V-Tech Fb, but their pre game is unreal.  When they are playing at home on tv I watch just hoping they show the pre-game. 

But, when thinking of doing something like that here, think about what the most popular music is here.......................it ain't that kind.  Now, think about our crowd.  V-tech looks like the median age is 30, MAYBE, ours is about 50.

They seem to be a lot more excitable than our crowd. I suppose the age factor you mention has something to do with that. (of course it could always be alcohol too, haha)

[josh_sec33]

Hawaii's modified War chant is really neat. i also like Univ. of Washington's marching style. Very crisp and when you stopped you popped back and stopped moving when you came back forward. Very obvious if you made a mistake, and those were rarely seen.

[alum60]

The worst half-time event I ever heard of, although I wasn't alive at the time, was in the mid-30's when LSU brought their tiger to Fayetteville and during the half-time activities they threw 2 little live pigs into the tigers cage and the tiger ate them.  The crowd and team were so incensed that the Razorbacks came out in the 2nd half and won the game.

[dowils]

Went to the Tennessee game this past season and they are some of the most passionate, classy and just good folks.  My son and I, in our razorback red, sat in a sea of orange and everyone around us was nothing but first class.  They complimented my 5 year old on his love of the Razorbacks, of course they kicked our butt which helped there demeanor....lol 

They play the opposing teams fight song at the beginning of the game and they are so into the rocky top song with crowd participation screaming yee haw, it was loud and a very fun atmosphere. 

[John Futrall]

Virginia Tech's the winner hands down, awesome song to get the crowd pumped.  Since Arkansas tends to get ideas from what other teams do, maybe we could run out to this songs intro....not sure Bobby would go for it though.  

"Thunderstruck"

[itsonlyagame]

Script Ohio and dotting the "i". The Michigan band and "Hail to the victors". A&M and the theme from Patton.

[NuttinItUp]

The worst half-time event I ever heard of, although I wasn't alive at the time, was in the mid-30's when LSU brought their tiger to Fayetteville and during the half-time activities they threw 2 little live pigs into the tigers cage and the tiger ate them.  The crowd and team were so incensed that the Razorbacks came out in the 2nd half and won the game.

Lol, that sounds like an urban legend.

[hogsanity]

Script Ohio is really good, especially on Alumni day when they have like 5 versions of it on the field all at once.

[hogfan064]

I absolutely can not stand V-Tech Fb, but their pre game is unreal.  When they are playing at home on tv I watch just hoping they show the pre-game. 

But, when thinking of doing something like that here, think about what the most popular music is here.......................it ain't that kind.  Now, think about our crowd.  V-tech looks like the median age is 30, MAYBE, ours is about 50.

VT has a young fanbase. 20 years ago VT football meant nothing to that area.

[hogsanity]

VT has a young fanbase. 20 years ago VT football meant nothing to that area.

Thats why their pregame works well.  Try something like that here and you give about 100 blue hairs heart attacks

[lyon98]

If you include high schools, the Titans are in a class by themselves, above the rest.

[hogfan064]

Thats why their pregame works well.  Try something like that here and you give about 100 blue hairs heart attacks

I agree. Plus Arkansas has tons more history associated with it than VT does.  You don't see Bama or Michigan playing "hip" music as their teams enter.  Southern Cal doesn't either.  Programs that have been around for a long time just don't do things like that.

[Smokehouse]

Unless you were at Bud Walton Arena in 1993-94....

or this year, we've played it a few times at half time. Actually, I think we did it at the Florida game, lol.

[ghg1]

The worst half-time event I ever heard of, although I wasn't alive at the time, was in the mid-30's when LSU brought their tiger to Fayetteville and during the half-time activities they threw 2 little live pigs into the tigers cage and the tiger ate them.  The crowd and team were so incensed that the Razorbacks came out in the 2nd half and won the game.

The 1st time LSU ever played in Fayetteville was 1992.

[lyon98]

The 1st time LSU ever played in Fayetteville was 1992.

Maybe they took the tiger to Shreveport.

[NuttinItUp]

The 1st time LSU ever played in Fayetteville was 1992.

I do not believe that is true.

"The teams played from 1953-56, played a 0-0 Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1947, and played every year from 1906-36, with only the exception of 1918, when Arkansas only played 5 games, probably as a result of WWI." from http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/theknightswhosay/47073 (among other sources if you google it) Surely they weren't all away or LR games.

I am betting that story is BS, though. (I'd bet a large sum of money on it in fact) No one feeds pigs to tigers in a game. I could find no reference to that ever occurring, and if it ever did, then surely there would have been a story or two at least on it, and it would be much better known about in Arkansas than one random person on the internet talking about it.

[ghg1]

I do not believe that is true.

"The teams played from 1953-56, played a 0-0 Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1947, and played every year from 1906-36, with only the exception of 1918, when Arkansas only played 5 games, probably as a result of WWI." from http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/theknightswhosay/47073 (among other sources if you google it) Surely they weren't all away or LR games.

I am betting that story is BS, though. (I'd bet a large sum of money on it in fact) No one feeds pigs to tigers in a game. I could find no reference to that ever occurring, and if it ever did, then surely there would have been a story or two at least on it, and it would be much better known about in Arkansas than one random person on the internet talking about it.

Yes it is.  In fact, 1992 was the one and only time LSU has played in Fayetteville.

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/sec/arkansas/opponents_records.php?teamid=1793

[NuttinItUp]

Yes it is.  In fact, 1992 was the one and only time LSU has played in Fayetteville.

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/sec/arkansas/opponents_records.php?teamid=1793

Amazing. It is still a BS story, no matter where we played the games.

[lyon98]

I do not believe that is true.

"The teams played from 1953-56, played a 0-0 Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1947, and played every year from 1906-36, with only the exception of 1918, when Arkansas only played 5 games, probably as a result of WWI." from http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/theknightswhosay/47073 (among other sources if you google it) Surely they weren't all away or LR games.

I am betting that story is BS, though. (I'd bet a large sum of money on it in fact) No one feeds pigs to tigers in a game. I could find no reference to that ever occurring, and if it ever did, then surely there would have been a story or two at least on it, and it would be much better known about in Arkansas than one random person on the internet talking about it.

The games before WWII were in Shreveport during the state fair days. A few were played in BR before that.

[scorekeeper]

Clemson. The players touching Howard's Rock and running down the hill is pretty cool.

I hope Coach doesn't have the players touching the wood McFadden was talking about...it seems to be a dangerous tool when pounding up the middle.

[razorrog1]

I know I started this with a college football question, but man this one still gives me chills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6kiimEsYc&feature=related

[reddogjcss]

How about a pig sqilling on 3rd & ?

[V. V. Hawg]

Clemson. The players touching Howard's Rock and running down the hill is pretty cool.

That's one of the best right there.

[ThunderHog]

Army has a pregame ritual that starts about an hour before kickoff.  My cousin acutually played there as a special teams player...never started a game, but I had a chance to go to one of the games a few years ago.  It will make the hair on your head stand up.  They have paratroopers falling out of the sky, cadets marching in unison into the stadium, cannons being fired...it is very impressive.

Their football teams have not been very good for a while but you have to realize that they can not recruit thugs or athletes that have no plans to attend class or graduate.  Their players end up in Iraq and Afghanistan as military officers making sure that we can lay down at night and enjoy a peaceful sleep.  There is no other football program I have more respect for. 

Link to a  good  video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOlUdofxgfg

[Hog inAustin]

Don't get me wrong...I love the "A" and the fight song (and how we used to call the Hogs) but having previously lived in Tennessee for years, I really came to appreciate the sight of 100,000 hunter orange Tennessee fans reacting to the announcer's call, "It's football time in Tennessee" as the team ran onto the field through the block T made by a darn big band...man those folks really get fired up over that...WPS!

[lyon98]

Thunderhog, that was an interesting video. Years ago, when Army and Navy played the game was carried on TV for a longer period than it is today and it showed both schools arriving and much more of the festitivies. That was one of the days no one messed with the tv or my time while I watched. Seemed where we lived at the time we always had a fire going in the fire place and most of the family watched with me. By far one of the most enjoyable TV games, as far as the festivites. I never got to see a game at WP but did see several at Annapolis. The middies march from the naval academy to the stadium and the students at St John's mess with them all the way out there, another traditiion, I guess.

[DickSonstreetDFW]

Here's a great, apparently homemade video that would be fitting for the Pig Screen.

People sitting at home are doing better than the Athletic Deparrtment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA-cIfRR6M&feature=related

[El Puerco]

The Va Tech video is great!!!! I have long thought that Arkansas needed to add some "umph" to the games. I mean USC has the death bell toll on 4th down, South Carolina has the rooster crowing etc. I am sure there are a lot of others but something just to get the crowd more fired up :razorback:

We have a wonderful and time-honored tradition at Arkansas that is being overlooked.  Now, it's not a pre-game ritual, per se, but it strikes fear into the hearts of our opponents nonetheless:  Each game, when there is approximately ten minutes remaining, all of the old people that sit on their cans all game long and don't cheer, stand in unison and file out of the stadium.  Simply stunning.

[Col.Mccoy]

Virginia Tech's the winner hands down, awesome song to get the crowd pumped.  Since Arkansas tends to get ideas from what other teams do, maybe we could run out to this songs intro....not sure Bobby would go for it though.  

That would be embarrassing and just a sad day for Arkansas football. Kid Rock sucks goats.