ALL HAIL THE LIGHTNING-VOMITING BEARS OF MAINE

Actually, I think that would be 1.21 gigawatts as Doc Brown taught us in Back to Future. But I agree, a billion volts sounds cooler.

Vomiting lightning? Fuck, I can puke a more vicious and deadly substance after a fifth of Jameson and a few Budweiser chasers.

Actually, the intro/spalsh screen looks less like a bear vomitting lightning and much more like A BEAR WITH A SPINAL CORD MADE OF LIGHTNING.

[I was born in Maine. It’s okay to make fun of them. There are fewer reason every year to consider them a protected class.]

Um, isn’t that a grizzly rather than a black bear? Whatever, it still kicks ass.

For my money, the true debate for best fight song is not Michigan versus Notre Dame but rather Army versus Maine. The latter actually went to #1 on the pop charts in 1930.

Way to be “that guy” HudiBlitz

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Pretty catchy. The band version is better than the singing version here. Screw ND & especially DickRodU, who stole the Jackson Murrah HS fight song.

www2.umaine.edu/pepband/audio/steinsongsinging.mp3

Holy schnikes. The Maine school song is awesome. The fight song is ok, but the alma mater is rockin.

Peewee hockey league at Alfond Arena in Orono… fond childhood memories. #movedtoatlyearsagoandcannotrecallwhaticelookslike

I love a school that advertises football and hockey tickets at the same time! I actually uttered the phrase the other day that I couldn’t wait for football season to start because that meant it was almost hockey season.

Woo hoo! And in keeping with this entry…GO LIGHTNING! (Please…)

I love teams like Maine. First of all, great nickname even without the lightning-spew. And second of all, talk about being the only game in town – these guys are the only game in state. Unless Bowdoin is some sort of traditional power I didn’t know about.

Bravo, Black Bears.

However, since Maine has supplied my alma mater Old Dominion with a football coach for their inaugural season, I have to root for them indirectly.

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you know jackson prep has the notre dame fight song as well. aparently it was very popular back in the day.

@10, I believe Bowdoin’s last big win was at Little Round Top.

Oh, no, HudiBlitz. You just didn’t . . . oh, no.

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ND fight song at Prep, how fitting. I can only imagine how snooty Prep must have been and is. Nobody went there before 1970, as the Jackson Public Skools were purty damn good way back in the days of Thompson’s Tank.

So Orson, whatever happened to teh Friday bunda? I thought that was an excellent tradition.

Bunda disappeared long ago… Digital viking is where it’s at now… who could it be this week? Gonna be hard to top Ian Fleming.

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hey hey now. not everyone that went there is snooty. but you are right about the public schools being decent back in the day. now it seems everyone has moved to madison!

I’m just glad they finally let the private schools and public schools in MS play each other. promotes better athletes and better competition.

Starkville High School also ripped off the ND fight song. Speaking of Starkville, I just fact-checked you, Orson, and Maine beat Mississippi State in 2004, not 2005 OH MY GOD I HATE MYSELF FOR DOING THAT.

OMG. That logo is so much less cool than i thought it would be.
How do you fuck up a bear vomiting lighnting, I ask you?

I will give away my incredibly nerdy past by saying this but, I know that you got the lightning bolt image from a Magic the Gathering playing card. Its lightning bolt, costs one red mana and does three damage.

I think I need to give myself a swirly for that.

So did Oxford High (Class of ’91 REPRESENT).

Hell…is there a high school in the state that DOESN"T use the ND Fight Song?

@ex-croominator
I bet the number’s less than five. I drove by the Murrah practice field earlier in the week and heard the band belting it out. Yeah, I stopped and listened.

I think we are interpreting this all wrong. Maybe Maine’s logo is LIGHTING WITH AN ANGRY BEAR HEADS AT THE ENDS!!!! As if thunderstorms weren’t scary enough.

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Could be….but my guess would be that it’s whatever the first picture that came up was when Orson google image’d the word “lightning.”

I never would have guessed the ND fight song was popular with high schools across Mississippi. Figured Dixie was the obvious choice there, followed by something from Skynnyrd.

Maine beat MSU in 2004, not 2005. I watched that horseshit live and drove two hours home with my buddy in a completely silent car. I broke (read that: BROKE) a cowbell at that game. Hit it against a concrete support beam underneath the stadium so hard that it broke a weld. The next week we went to the game at LSU and the first guy we saw exiting the portal into the grandstand at Tiger Stadium was a guy wearing a blue “Maine” t-shirt. We shook his hand and congratulated him on an excellent and effective taunt.

Then Croom, idiot of idiots, somehow got Ron Zook fired from Florida. How do you lose to Maine and beat Florida three weeks later? God bless Ole Miss for kicking the shit out of us in the Egg Bowl last year and getting him fired. Best day of my year.

Also, my boss went to Maine. He played DE. I’m a fan, but mainly (Maine-ly?) because he is much, much larger than I am, and I wouldn’t dare say anything else.

paste new layer, outer-glow… paste new layer, outer glow…paste new layer, outer glow…paste new layer, outer glow.

Maine has a great campus. Lots of places to poop.

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Unless it has been changed, the Murrah fight song is not ND’s but is DickRodU’s fight song.

BTW, is Starksville Jr HS still the Fire Ants?

Maine? Moosef**kers.

yoyofutbawl, last I checked there’s no longer a Starkville Jr. High but Armstrong Middle School instead. Plus it seems they have a school each for every grade (sixth grade has their own school). Yellowjackets across the board.

I went to Oxford Jr. High, but after I left it became Oxford Middle School, then Central Elementary, then back to Jr. High…the school district also built two new buildings in the last 15 years and doubled their enrollment (insert bitching about how much the old hometown has changed here).