Buy/Sell: It was better when cowbells were illegal.

[MSUDawg25]

Only the students and a small percentage of the fanbase brought them. The administration could still say "we do our best to keep them out of the stadium." We didn't have all the ghey "Ring responsibly" crap. The stadium was just as loud if not louder last year when they were illegal.

 

[GroveHard]

it sounded as if there were as many as usual. In crunch time the ring responsibility campaign went out of the window. I don't blame State fans at all. The win was worth 5k. State looked good, and I think you bowl easily.

 

[smootness]

Buy the crap out of. It seems a bit hokey when everyone is running around with gigantic cowbells, and that's the primary focus of the telecast. And I agree with you, this whole "ring responsibly" business is ridiculous, and the fact that our administration went along with the compromise, or even suggested it, is a farce. We should have walked into that meeting, told them where to stick it, and took whatever we had to take. We don't owe anybody any sort of compromise. If you want to take away a tradition for no good reason, go for it. But yeah...when they were illegal, you could just ring constantly because you weren't supposed to have them. Now, there aren't any more than there were already, but we have to be careful of when to ring and watch the jumboscreen. Stupid.

 

[MSUDawg25]

I sit with pops on the West side lower level, and I bet less than 5% had them last year and that's mostly kids. This year, every grandpa and grammaw has one.

 

[MrHooch]

I honestly believe once they rule cowbells "illegal" again it will be business as usual at State. It may take a season or two (good god I sound like a sheep right now) but we will win a game or two within the next 2-3 season that we will get fined for and then bells are banned again. After that a much smaller percentage of the fan-base is ringing them, and the noise becomes irrelevant audibly, but mentally distracting...

Ok feel free to tell me to shuffle on back to the pasture...

 

[coastdawg228]

There will be significantly more fines, and metal detectors.

 

[vhdawg]

....at least when we're not "supposed" to be ringing them.

One thing I did notice tonight was while I was on-again, off-again listening to Jack and Jim, I kept noticing the bells on the radio broadcast sounded significantly louder on the air than they did in real life in the stadium. I'd be hearing cowbells over Jack and Jim when I wasn't hearing cowbells in the actual stadium. Maybe something to do with how things are mic'd, but I thought it interesting.

Also, if you're the guy standing ringing your cowbell all by yourself when people around you are trying to abide by the new rule and asking you to try to do the same, then you're an *******. Don't be that guy.

 

[FlabLoser]

There are a lot more bells in the stands now. And a lot less people ringing them during the game when they're not supposed to.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Just before the second touchdown pass for Auburn they had a shot of the student section. Out of the 15 or so in the shot one was yelling, two were ringing bells and the rest were just staring.

I am fine that we generally can't used the bells to deter the oppositions offense, but we can make noise by other means.