I posted this on my website. I have started an official petition to keep the rammer jammer. If this petition reaches 100,000 signatures I will take it to President Witt's door myself. I will have it video taped and posted it on my website. I will not be satisfied with just hanging it to someone at the door, I will wait for President Witt and give it to him myself.
I ask that each person who supports the rammer jammer to sign the petition. Thanks and roll tide!
Thanks guys.
I ask that each person who supports the rammer jammer to sign the petition. Thanks and roll tide!
Dear Those Who Want To Stop The Rammer Jammer - This discussion comes up about once a year. It hasn't been stopped yet, and it won't be stopped so get over it.
I’m not in Tuscaloosa for the next couple of weeks, I'm in Huntsville on a mini vacation. So I’ve been scrambling for news for the website and for all of you members. So today I’m looking around and I read over an article that said the Rammer Jammer cheer could be on the way out. This is From the Student Newspaper. The article was written on May 2nd, so it's not breaking news, but not old news either.
I shrugged the idea off again, like I do everytime this comes up, and then I stopped and thought; wait, the rammer jammer cheer could be out? Hey there's something that will get people going Smiley
So what the heck is going on? Seems as if the Student Government Association is trying to get a proposal going to ban the very popular cheer.
In 2003 the UA athletics department requested the cheer only be played if the Tide was winning in the last two minutes of the game. So that is pretty much ok with me, I wouldn’t mind them adding in “as long as we’re winning by more than 5 or 7.”
Then in I remember in 2005 on the Homecoming ballot, there was a question asking if students were in favor, or not in favor of the rammer jammer. An overwhelming 98% said that they were in favor of it.
So here we are again, trying to get the rammer jammer banned from Alabama Football games. And why? Because there is a certain group of individuals who think that the rammer jammer is not appropriate for college football. They think that it is not very sportsmanlike to say “We just beat the hell out of you.”
Well, I’m proud to say. The Rammer Jammer isn’t going anywhere. These people who are so apposed to it, can just not say it. When 90,000 people sing the same cheer anytime we win, you can bet it’s going to need major momentum to get banned from the football games; and it doesn’t have that momentum.
Why don’t those apposed to it start a fight against something that means something. Start a campaign for AIDS awareness, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), or Cancer Awareness.
Go ahead SGA, start a proposal for something that is going to better society, not restrict it. Leave the rammer jammer, just like it is, otherwise you may get “the hell beat outta you.”
Thanks guys.