I almost barfed when that happened. Worst part of the game. If I wanted to hear that song, I'd become a Red Sox fan.
No more "Sweet Caroline" please.
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Honestly, there are a bunch of things about the game experience that are hard to change, require a lot of money, etc. Then there are the little things, like this, they do to make it worse. I would enjoy it more if they just cut the audio feed entirely.
How about not doing the fan cam when we’re down 21-0 and our fans look miserable?
I thought it was comical when they did that and 90% of people on camera looked downtrodden due to the product on the field. But maybe that’s just me.
They play Sweet Caroline at Wisconsin games. And Michigan games. And dozens of other stadiums that have better overall game day experiences than ours. Sweet Caroline isn’t the problem.
At the Wisconsin game on Saturday, FOX came back from commercial early to show the Jump Around tradition in it's entirety. They built it up and then had a bunch of crowd shots of 80,000 red-clad fans jumping and laughing. While the song is beyond cliché at this point, I was a bit envious of that stadium environment. It continues to amaze me that Fitz can be successful at all with the kind of disadvantages we have in this regard.
YES! I do have a better idea. Any other song. Literally any. Even the cringey "put your hands up in the air". Sweet Caroline is old, tired, and yet another awkward attempt at NU trying to co-opt someone else's tradition. In this case, it's one that is played at every single wedding in the country. If you want to play a wedding song, play the Hokey Pokey. At least that would be funny.
Does it always start with a scoreboard race of some kind? Fox was about a minute off and didn’t realize they were a minute off. It was pretty funny.
I don't know. The only time I was at a game at Camp Randall was to see my jerk of a brother play. This pre-dated that song.
The students did vote to change the mascot (bunch of hippies!
). The Administration & Sports Dept. would have none of that!NUMB played Purple Haze at most of the home games that year.
All of this nostalgia....
'scuse me while I kiss the sky!
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Sweet Caroline is like fingernails on a blackboard.
Really detest hearing that song. Maybe in second place most detestable, not sure, is We are the Champions
Agree it's pretty lame to copy Sweet Caroline and other songs that have been used by multiple other teams/schools. What about " Start Wearing Purple" by the gypsy punk band Gogo Bordello.? James Madison U - a FCS power the last few years- uses this at their games. Their band does a great job with the song and the original music video is a helluva lot better than a lot of the lame music that has been pumped in at Ryan Field the last 10 years.
Yeah. that would be SWEET now wouldn't it? People would feel at HOME even if they are not alums just fans from CHICAGO or someplace else.
Alabama has Sweet Home Alabama, I wonder if we could find something similar to that?
How about these alternatives to "Sweet Carload of S#it"...
1. The Blues Brothers' "Sweet Home Chicago" - a virtually timeless, more appropriate homage to "Chicago's B1G Team"
2. Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis - another homage to the Blackhawks' great Stanley Cup Championships of the new millennium
1. The Blues Brothers' "Sweet Home Chicago" - a virtually timeless, more appropriate homage to "Chicago's B1G Team"
2. Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis - another homage to the Blackhawks' great Stanley Cup Championships of the new millennium
Given the other thread topics/discussions re: gameday experience, I don't think you're gonna find too many house fans in this group.
How about “Black Betty” by Ram Jam? Especially when they’re in the black gothics?
Happy is great for kids, but how about “Blurred Lines” by Pharrell for a 4th quarter song instead? That music video sure got me pumped up back in the day.