CURIOUS INDEX, 6/5/2008
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One! Two! One-two-three-four! Aside from the quibble that “Jaws” is not Florida’s fight song (”Orange and Blue,” an not particularly descript piece of music, is) this is a fine way to kick off your day, test your knowledge of college fight songs, and force your breakfast up as part of a healthy bulimic diet when you hear a fight song you’re conditioned to vomit upon hearing. We lost our breakfast when they started playing the song about bestiality and killing federal agents. You know, “Rocky Top.” Starting WVU strong safety Charles Pugh has been kicked off the team after being charged with a felony for using a credit card allegedly swiped from a car in a Morgantown parking garage. Fulmer Cup points pending a good scrubbing of the police report, but we must urge restraint here in any condemnation of Pugh: it’s not as if the cardholder was the dead girlfriend of your best friend or anything. Lou Holtz’s legacy at South Carolina is finished with the formal end of three years of probation, which “increased to three the number of schools former USC coach Lou Holtz left on NCAA probation,” as helpfully noted by the State, who never fail to mention the fact that Lou Holtz left South Carolina on probation. Did we mention that Lou Holtz left South Carolina on probation? HE LEFT DANCING I TELL YOU!!!
Mack and Rick Barnes sit down for a talk about recruiting. If you imagine Peter reading Mack Brown’s lines in his impeccable Mack impression, it’s even funnier. Just a reminder: It’s only 177 days ’til the Iron Bowl, college football’s most civilized rivalry.
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Our fight song has 12 national championships.
Without any chop blocking.
Comment by JohnInHuntsville — June 6, 2008 @ 12:17 am
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#32: I have to disagree about Texas’s, it’s not bad. (And there’s some similarity to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”, but it’s not identical. At least, not to any version of it that I’ve heard.)
Wisconsin’s fight song is pretty good, as is Minnesota’s. Outside of the Big Ten and Notre Dame, I don’t know many of them (only the ones that get played every 10 seconds, and therefore suck).
Comment by SpartanDan — June 5, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
45
How could “On Wisconsin” have been overlooked?
Comment by George — June 5, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
44
Man. The economy must be getting strong in the South. Earlier this year it was 26 bucks just to meet a freshman player. Now the dollar is strong enough to make a fiver have a grip and grin with Bear?
It isn’t big time football, but this audience would appreciate Maine’s song. Contextually it jives with some properly righteous local pasttimes.
Also, plus 7 to PeterPumpkinhead at 14
Comment by Kenny — June 5, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
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Oops, I meant #41.
Comment by Diamond M — June 5, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
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#40 — I know those alternate Michigan lyrics from when I was in law school at Duke (of all places — you know those crazy basketball rivalries).
SMU had comphrehensive lyrics for a much broader array of old SWC opponents’ fight songs — most of which are not repeatable and make me, now a mother, blush. But I still do enjoy the Texas Bites song. Just a sampling:
The cow of Texas has a hard on, all the live long day.
The cow of Texas has a hard on, and it’s not from eating hay.
See the football team a-goin’, singin’ the old school song.
See the football team a-goin’, to SUCK on Bevo’s (ryhmes with song).
(Additional words to addtional verses).
Refrain:
Texas bite. Texas bite. Texas, jump and bite my — SMU. (Repeat) B - I - T - E. Jump up and bite my ass.
Interlude - chant:
Yea red. Yea blue. Yea Mustangs. SMU. Boo orange. Boo white. Boo Texas. Bite, bite, bite.
Refrain
Comment by Diamond M — June 5, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
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@30:
We have some alternate lyrics for the UM fight song where I’m from to….they go something like “Hail to those MotherF*@#ers, hail to those big c@#ksuckers, hail hail to Michigan, the cesspool of the West.” And that’s just the first time through, there are about 4 different verses.
Comment by MikeLew — June 5, 2008 @ 2:16 pm