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August 30th @Purdue Noon kickoff!

Cant get here soon enough. Hopefully this board doesn't completely melt down into raw 1's and 0's by then.

Between Friday Nights, Saturday Afternoons, and then Sundays I will be in heaven!

Looked like picture day at Waldo today.

(07-30-2014 10:56 AM)Cant make this sh t up Wrote:  Between Friday Nights, Saturday Afternoons, and then Sundays I will be in heaven!

From now until February we have football every weekend the rest of the way. Hall of Fame game is Sunday night. While the preseason can get pretty stale at times when the 5th stringers are fighting for spots, at least there is football on TV again. Thank God!!!!

(07-30-2014 12:32 PM)WheresWaldo42 Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 10:56 AM)Cant make this sh t up Wrote:  Between Friday Nights, Saturday Afternoons, and then Sundays I will be in heaven!

From now until February we have football every weekend the rest of the way. Hall of Fame game is Sunday night. While the preseason can get pretty stale at times when the 5th stringers are fighting for spots, at least there is football on TV again. Thank God!!!!

I feel like the offseason gets longer every year.

Anyone else wish that some no name bowl game that includes a couple mediocre squads was on ESPN tonight?

Remember that when we start complaining about how college football has too many bowl games. Cherish them in December and early January because July sucks balls.

Got my opening Friday night HS games picked out for week 1, then headed to Purdue and plan on running through campus naked when we beat those suckers!

Catch me if you can BoilerUP P O L I C E M A N...
Stay thirsty my Bronco fans, it is gonna be an interesting year, and I CANT WAIT!

Row the Boat v. Beat the Drum

In that respect, they win.

(07-30-2014 08:17 PM)Liam9903 Wrote:  Row the Boat v. Beat the Drum

"But what does a large drum have to do with a train?"

-- Angry old Purdue fans fifty years ago

In that respect, they still win.

(07-30-2014 08:45 PM)ghost bronco Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 08:17 PM)Liam9903 Wrote:  Row the Boat v. Beat the Drum

"But what does a large drum have to do with a train?"

-- Angry old Purdue fans fifty years ago

Ghost has a point. Every tradition started somewhere.

What does an elephant have to do with Crimson Tide?

What does a War Eagle have to do with a Tiger?

What does a kangaroo have to do with a zipper?

Oh yeah, good point. But, to really analyze those examples, you would find that there is a story behind each one of them as to why they became a tradition, usually a significant event ("War Eagle") that caused the community to be attached to the symbol and adopt is as part of their tradition.

I'm still trying to determine what our significant event that caused our community to become so attached to our new "symbol" albeit a saying in this case, well a nursery rhyme type saying nonetheless.

Our coach used it to keep going in life after the death of his infant child and tried to instill that type of no quit mentality into the program.

That still doesn't really answer the question, and not quite what I heard as to why it's became part of WMU's tradition.

(07-30-2014 10:25 PM)BroncoLifer Wrote:  Oh yeah, good point. But, to really analyze those examples, you would find that there is a story behind each one of them as to why they became a tradition, usually a significant event ("War Eagle") that caused the community to be attached to the symbol and adopt is as part of their tradition.

I'm still trying to determine what our significant event that caused our community to become so attached to our new "symbol" albeit a saying in this case, well a nursery rhyme type saying nonetheless.

I'm very busy these days. Perhaps you could do the research for us and tell how those unrelated mascots and traditions came about.

Add this one. Miami Hurricanes mascot is an Ibis. What's that have to do with a massive weather event?

(07-30-2014 10:33 PM)Chipdip2 Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 10:25 PM)BroncoLifer Wrote:  Oh yeah, good point. But, to really analyze those examples, you would find that there is a story behind each one of them as to why they became a tradition, usually a significant event ("War Eagle") that caused the community to be attached to the symbol and adopt is as part of their tradition.

I'm still trying to determine what our significant event that caused our community to become so attached to our new "symbol" albeit a saying in this case, well a nursery rhyme type saying nonetheless.

I'm very busy these days. Perhaps you could do the research for us and tell how those unrelated mascots and traditions came about.

Add this one. Miami Hurricanes mascot is an Ibis. What's that have to do with a massive weather event?

That's a good idea, I will do that and post those traditions in a new thread, asking you guys to rank each one of them and include "RTB" in that list. In fact, I'm sure there is a compiled list of traditions like that out there, I'll do a little research and post that if I get lucky.

Be interesting to where it shakes out because I just don't see the RTB sticking with us as a tradtion unless WMU wins a championship with it, but even then I could see us looking back on those "RTB years" and be done with it too.

(07-30-2014 10:32 PM)BroncoLifer Wrote:  That still doesn't really answer the question, and not quite what I heard as to why it's became part of WMU's tradition.

Well you didn't ask a question or share what you heard. I guess you don't like it. To each their own.

(07-30-2014 10:38 PM)BroncoLifer Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 10:33 PM)Chipdip2 Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 10:25 PM)BroncoLifer Wrote:  Oh yeah, good point. But, to really analyze those examples, you would find that there is a story behind each one of them as to why they became a tradition, usually a significant event ("War Eagle") that caused the community to be attached to the symbol and adopt is as part of their tradition.

I'm still trying to determine what our significant event that caused our community to become so attached to our new "symbol" albeit a saying in this case, well a nursery rhyme type saying nonetheless.

I'm very busy these days. Perhaps you could do the research for us and tell how those unrelated mascots and traditions came about.

Add this one. Miami Hurricanes mascot is an Ibis. What's that have to do with a massive weather event?

That's a good idea, I will do that and post those traditions in a new thread, asking you guys to rank each one of them and include "RTB" in that list. In fact, I'm sure there is a compiled list of traditions like that out there, I'll do a little research and post that if I get lucky.

Be interesting to where it shakes out because I just don't see the RTB sticking with us as a tradtion unless WMU wins a championship with it, but even then I could see us looking back on those "RTB years" and be done with it too.

CMU had the Hold the Rope mantra. Indiana has a new tradition of rubbing a rock. We got The new Factory tradition at EMU, and that goofy tree that the students at Stanford came up with. Seems as though coaches have been doing these motivational things for ages. Some stuck, some didn't. But it's hardly earth shattering.