🏈 10 Reason Bama Fans should hate the Rammer Jammer

[rtauburnsucks]

Wipes drool from face.

*nom nom nom*

Agreed


and to the starter of this thread.....BOOOOOO!!!

 

[RollTideinGA]

How about Crimson pants?

 

[Guest]

How about Crimson pants?

How about making the helmets metallic?

But put me down as a proponent of discontinuing RJ...for all the reasons listed above and then some...not the least of which is "we have never won a national championship in a season during which we did Rammer Jammer."

Its true.

 

[BamaGradinTN]

But put me down as a proponent of discontinuing RJ...for all the reasons listed above and then some...not the least of which is "we have never won a national championship in a season during which we did Rammer Jammer."

Its true.

No, it's not. You're too young. I distinctly remember the Rammer Jammer my last two years at UA, which included the 1978 season (NC #10). And back in those days, we did the Rammer Jammer before the game as well..."Hey Auburn...we're GONNA beat the...""

 

[Guest]

But put me down as a proponent of discontinuing RJ...for all the reasons listed above and then some...not the least of which is "we have never won a national championship in a season during which we did Rammer Jammer."

Its true.

No, it's not. You're too young. I distinctly remember the Rammer Jammer my last two years at UA, which included the 1978 season (NC #10). And back in those days, we did the Rammer Jammer before the game as well..."Hey Auburn...we're GONNA beat the...""

Considering Dr. Ferguson didn't start it until his last year at Bama, I don't see how you could remember it. He retired a year after Bryant if I remember correctly. Bryant would not have allowed it...taunting was a pet peeve of his.

I have quite a few games on video from those seasons, and there is no RJ.

I'm not too young, but I would not discount you being senile.

 

[rooster03]

Did they do rammer jammer in the 92 season?

 

[Guest]

I Enjoyed the RAMMER JAMMER when we beat Georgia and I got to see all the damn Dawg fans around here stop barking and cry when the chant started! And the Nov 29th blow out to put the Barners back in their place it was a the sweetest sound to me!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7td10b-h1mU&eurl=http://www.myspace.com/pyronismo2000&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAmFlZelSfA&eurl=http://www.myspace.com/pyronismo2000&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Oh SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

You know if people don't like because for what ever the reason they can plug there ears or not come to the games.

God I hate a PC world. :roll:

 

[BamaGradinTN]

But put me down as a proponent of discontinuing RJ...for all the reasons listed above and then some...not the least of which is "we have never won a national championship in a season during which we did Rammer Jammer."

Its true.

No, it's not. You're too young. I distinctly remember the Rammer Jammer my last two years at UA, which included the 1978 season (NC #10). And back in those days, we did the Rammer Jammer before the game as well..."Hey Auburn...we're GONNA beat the...""

Considering Dr. Ferguson didn't start it until his last year at Bama, I don't see how you could remember it. He retired a year after Bryant if I remember correctly. Bryant would not have allowed it...taunting was a pet peeve of his.

I have quite a few games on video from those seasons, and there is no RJ.

I'm not too young, but I would not discount you being senile.

According to sources I found, Dr. Ferguson did not start the RJ, but did change the cadence to resemble Ole Miss's. Furthermore, he is credited with having done this when he arrived at Bama in 1971.

"The university briefly forbade the Million Dollar Band from playing it, on account of its taunting nature and its use of the word "hell".[1] The move was was met with a significant amount of criticism. In a vote at Homecoming 2005, the question was posed to students of whether the cheer should be banned. 98% of students voted in favor of keeping the cheer.[2] Before the university's attempt to remove the cheer it was played before kickoff and at the end of the game...Also, when the cheer was played before kickoff, fans would replace the lyrics "We just" with 'We're gonna.'...Also, when the cheer was played before kickoff, fans would replace the lyrics "We just" with "We're gonna."

The lyrics originate from "The Rammer-Jammer," a student newspaper in the 1920s, and the yellowhammer, Alabama's state bird. The cadence of the cheer was adapted from the Ole Miss cheer "Hotty Toddy" after then Ole Miss marching band director Dr. James Ferguson was appointed director of the Million Dollar Band. The cheer was long referred to as "Ole Miss", and today the drum major's signal is still the motioning of one arm in a full circle (an 'O')."

And as far as Bryant not allowing taunting, near the end of our 1978 blowout of Auburn, the Bama cheerleaders struck up a chant, "What Bowl, Auburn?" Kind of stupid and didn't last very long. And when we opened the Super Dome in the first Sugar Bowl played there, vs. Penn State on 1-1-1976, Bama male cheerleaders put on T-shirts that said "Happy Fiesta Nebraska" and got on national TV with them...a dig at the Cornhuskers, as the 11-1 #3 team in the country getting shipped out to an early Fiesta Bowl to face the WAC Champion instead of getting to go to a major bowl like the Sugar Bowl (Penn State had 2 losses and was #8). Nebraska did not accept the Fiesta Bowl until a second invitation was issued. Husker fans were whining, and our cheerleaders got in a pretty good dig at them on national TV. Bryant may not have liked taunting, but he wasn't always in a position to prevent it.


http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2079314/Alabama-Rammer-Jammer-Cheer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_traditions
http://texasyank.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-i-love-fiesta-bowl.html

 

[BamaGradinTN]

White helmets anyone?

Beat me to it :lol:

We wore them as recently as 1971 against USC and Houston. USC was on the road so it was all white...helmets, jerseys, and pants. Pretty boring. Houston was home...white helmets, crimson jerseys, white pants...that actually didn't look too bad. I think that we must have worn them in contrast to the other teams' helmets. I don't think we''ve ever worn crimson pants.

 

[Outlaw]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

 

[Guest]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

 

[shayes2448]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

1992 Iron Bowl post game interview. Listen to the background noise starting around the 1:50 mark while Pat Dye is being interviewed. This proves that we have played Rammer Jammer in a national championship year.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgudGpF9oEw[/youtube]

 

[rooster03]

Thanks I was wonder if it was played in the 92 season.

 

[rammajamma]

Pat Dye was a class act, but I am glad he's down there picking out coaches for them now. Anyone who want's to ban the cheer has probably never sat through a hard fought game in the same stadium with Bama. When that clock hits zero, the euphoria that a win makes me feel is like a good cigar after beating the Vols. I could almost float over the stadium on every glorious note.

 

[Swamptick]

Are we still talking about this?

:wink:

 

[Guest]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

1992 Iron Bowl post game interview. Listen to the background noise starting around the 1:50 mark while Pat Dye is being interviewed. This proves that we have played Rammer Jammer in a national championship year.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgudGpF9oEw[/youtube]

Nice 1st post since 2006! :lol:

I'm with swamptick.

 

[moreno_iv]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[BamaJay73]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

1992 Iron Bowl post game interview. Listen to the background noise starting around the 1:50 mark while Pat Dye is being interviewed. This proves that we have played Rammer Jammer in a national championship year.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgudGpF9oEw[/youtube]

Sounded like rammer jammer to me. I'm sure that was not the only year Bama won a NC & played RJ.

 

[BamaGradinTN]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

Maybe not, but it shows someone besides me has a memory of it. And eyewitness accounts are a darn good source of info...certainly good enough to get someone sent to prison. Looks like Shayes2448 pretty much proved you don't know what you are talking about on this subject. You might want to think twice before being being so sure to discount people's eyewitness accounts, especially of events that happened when you were a child.

 

[Guest]

I don't think RJ has any bearing whatsoever on winning a national championship. :wink:

Maybe not.

But we have never done it during a season when we won a national title.

As for what others may say...
Wikipedia is (at best) not an accurate source of information.

Maybe not, but it shows someone besides me has a memory of it. And eyewitness accounts are a darn good source of info...certainly good enough to get someone sent to prison. Looks like Shayes2448 pretty much proved you don't know what you are talking about on this subject. You might want to think twice before being being so sure to discount people's eyewitness accounts, especially of events that happened when you were a child.

:lol: Nice video I believe that is RJ in the background! Music to my ears!