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🏈 Alabama Football: Is It Time To Stop Yellow Hammer Cheer and Show More Class?
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Yes, but it's still early in the season and there is a need to develop canned stories. Larry Burton (who I've heard is a syndicated writer) is indeed recycling a topic.
The softening up of America. A little trash talk cheer after a victory and people get offended. Next we are going to stop keeping score and give both teams trophies. :lance: Oh wait they already do that to our kids in some school sanctioned events so everybody wins and everybody is happy. The winner and the loser both get a trophy. The loser trophy says 2nd place. :rofl:
and for the younger kids they dont even put 1st place or 2nd place....just has the year. it really p's me off. the whole PC thing argghhh!!!!! bunch of pansies
I don't think it should be done away with, but I don't think it should be used after every win. First, I think it should only be used against major opponents like SEC and other big time teams (as in not SJS or Ga. St. I see no reason to brag about beating the hell outta somebody that your scout team could probably beat.). Second, the margin of victory should be no less than 14 points. Even if it's Auburn or UT, it's not beating the hell outta somebody to win by 2 or 3 on a last minute field goal.
With that said, it doesn't bother me that it's done after every home win, I just think that should be how it's handled.
With that said, it doesn't bother me that it's done after every home win, I just think that should be how it's handled.
I think there is a time and a place for it. As several have stated earlier, don't sing it after beating the piss out of a team that your scout team would beat. Don't sing it when you hang on by the skin of your teeth or pull out in the end. Sing it after beating a SEC opponent that you truly have "beaten the hell out of " and after punishing a big time opponent.
I tend to agree with some. Save it for the big games. Since "big" games might be hard to define then play it at any SEC game or any obvious big game like this weekend. It would be hard to put restrictions on it (like winning by 14 but not by 13) and such. To me any win over Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, etc... is cause for Rammer Jammer no matter the score. Playing it after San Jose State though is a little lame.
I don't know that I'll join in this weekend if we beat Penn State. The rivalry might be too classy for that. Then again I hope I get to face the decision of whether to join in or not. The stress is back. :shock:
I don't know that I'll join in this weekend if we beat Penn State. The rivalry might be too classy for that. Then again I hope I get to face the decision of whether to join in or not. The stress is back. :shock:
You cant ban a cheer from certain games. You have fans that only make it to one game a year or once in every 5 years if not once in a lifetime. If UA wins they want to use that chance to do Rammer Jammer. I understand some dont want to do the cheer because it uses a dirty word (oh no!), and some dont like it becuase they consider it classless.
Everyone has a choice to do it or or not because this is a free country. But you cant push your opinion on everyone else because that takes away their choice. Thats right I used the freedom of speech defense.
I agree that sometimes I wish we would choose not to do it, but I dont get all offended if the band plays it. Honestly I cant wait to hear it with 101,000 fans cheering it. I dont care if its Tennessee, Ole Miss, Penn State, or the Southeast School for the Blind. For a fan base that rants and raves about TRADITION we are in a hurry to change parts of it when it suits us. But heaven help us if anyone mentions touching the uniform or challenges a national championship. Like it or not the cheer is a part of the tradition and the student body and the fans will continue to cheer when that clock hits zero and the Tide is victorious.
Everyone has a choice to do it or or not because this is a free country. But you cant push your opinion on everyone else because that takes away their choice. Thats right I used the freedom of speech defense.
I agree that sometimes I wish we would choose not to do it, but I dont get all offended if the band plays it. Honestly I cant wait to hear it with 101,000 fans cheering it. I dont care if its Tennessee, Ole Miss, Penn State, or the Southeast School for the Blind. For a fan base that rants and raves about TRADITION we are in a hurry to change parts of it when it suits us. But heaven help us if anyone mentions touching the uniform or challenges a national championship. Like it or not the cheer is a part of the tradition and the student body and the fans will continue to cheer when that clock hits zero and the Tide is victorious.
to that point...i have only been to one Bama game in my life (and we lost to Tenn in B-ham). Been a fan for as long as i can remember and been on this forum for a while...but just havent gone to games.
speaking of being on here for a while.
Delta...8443 post in 16 months!!!! Im impressed:rofl:
speaking of being on here for a while.
Delta...8443 post in 16 months!!!! Im impressed:rofl:
Come to think of it, I think beating other teams so bad is just mean spirited and shameful! We should just hand them the ball every time we get possession and then let them walk into the end zone. Especially the lesser teams. It's just shameful how we just beat people in football it really makes me question our "class."
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The fact that it is one of the loudest points in the game is testiment to the overhelming approval by fans who do it of their own passionate free will. It lives because we want it to live. It does not die because we choose to not let it die.
Cost/Benefit analysis: If we stop, will our opponents love us, respect us, or think better of us? No, and not even a little bit. If we stop, we trash a treasured tradition and gain nothing. We gain more from the positive emotion shared than we lose from the harsh feelings that will be sent our way regardless. Getting rid of it, for this reason, is a terrible idea.
The falicy is to think that it is about the opponent, its not. Its about us, for us, to us. Surely I'm not the only one who has done the cheer with no opposing fans within earshot. Its a act, not an attempt to communcate. The emotion tells the truth. One feels pride in their team, not distain for the loser.
Cost/Benefit analysis: If we stop, will our opponents love us, respect us, or think better of us? No, and not even a little bit. If we stop, we trash a treasured tradition and gain nothing. We gain more from the positive emotion shared than we lose from the harsh feelings that will be sent our way regardless. Getting rid of it, for this reason, is a terrible idea.
The falicy is to think that it is about the opponent, its not. Its about us, for us, to us. Surely I'm not the only one who has done the cheer with no opposing fans within earshot. Its a act, not an attempt to communcate. The emotion tells the truth. One feels pride in their team, not distain for the loser.
Is "hell" really a swear word nowadays? It a noun, but its not a derogatary form of another noun. It is just "hell." Should we make
"calculus" a swear word too? I guess people can be like "Go to a HIGH LEVEL MATH CLASS!" and be vulgar too.
sheesh, overly sensitive, pansy culture we live in............../mumble
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CrimsonPirate
Yeah. What's up wit dat?
I say that because I have heard people complain about it. We are cussing at our opponents. I have heard some yelling the cheer change hell to heck. I thought it was a location. In that case shouldnt Auburn be a swear word?
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