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To the curmudgeons on the board...
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To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:05 AM
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Let me get this right, so I am keeping up. We don't like:

-woo hoo during tiger rag

-hype video during the entrance

-we will rock you during the entrance

-alcohol sold in stadiums

-"it's thirrrrd down"

-bells during third down

I am trying to keep a running list of all the things that are apparently ruining or will ruin games. Let me know if I missed anything.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:06 AM
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Thank you for your service to this board.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:07 AM
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Don’t forget about Dabo, the game has passed him by and we’re doomed to 6-6 seasons until his contract is up

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Don't forget the pre-game DJ...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:08 AM
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Speaking entirely for myself (as a curmudgeon), I absolutely loath the "woo hoo". The others I can live with.

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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


Re: Don't forget the pre-game DJ...

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:33 PM
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I feel the same way an about the WooHoo nonsense. Refuse that part of our cheer and always will. Who ever started it and all that joined in are born from a different Death Valley.
Go Tigers!!

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I'm ok with all except the woo hooo

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:10 AM
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I will fight that battle until the end.

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That battle is lost. It's been about 30+ years or so now......***

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:27 PM
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Message was edited by: JParris®


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You left off adding the third "fight" on the cadence cheer.***

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:13 AM
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Re: You left off adding the third "fight" on the cadence cheer.***

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Sep 11, 2024, 10:04 AM
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The correct ending to cadence count is

Fight Tigers
Fight ######
Fight Fight

That is all.

tigercee

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This ^^^^


Sep 11, 2024, 11:38 AM
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+1

But you probably have to be a “shirt-tucking old man” to get this, and not a young ######## with no self-awareness, to get this.

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Re: You left off adding the third "fight" on the cadence cheer.***


Sep 11, 2024, 12:19 PM [ in reply to Re: You left off adding the third "fight" on the cadence cheer.*** ]
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yup, sorta the whole point of 'cadence' count. LOL

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I'd prefer the urinal cakes to be a more manly color than pink***

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:17 AM
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Re: I'd prefer the urinal cakes to be a more manly color than pink***

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:29 AM
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And they taste bad too. Can we get the mango flavored ones please?

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How do they compare to the concession stand food?***

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:50 AM
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Re: How do they compare to the concession stand food?***

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:22 AM
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Especially the delicious hand squeezed lemonade.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:23 AM
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Definitely HATE the whoo hoo. I refuse to partake in such blasphemy. At least thiiiiird down isn’t as bad as the chickens band second down music. Except when we drown the out with you suck. We also are angry there are no balloons. Tree huggers and turtle huggers be ######. Lol.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:30 AM
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fire 3rd down guy!

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...


Sep 11, 2024, 9:38 AM
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also: the transfer portal - or as a curmudgeon might call it: The I'm not good enough to play here so I will go here so that I might play OR more importantly get paid more money via NIL

I do love good ole curmudgeonry, mainly because it makes sense and I am becoming exactly that.

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Welcome to the club, we've been missing you at the meetings!

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:40 AM
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BTW...it's your turn to bring the beer and snacks to the next meeting.

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Re: Welcome to the club, we've been missing you at the meetings!


Sep 12, 2024, 8:08 AM
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Do you guys like PBR or are you more Budweiser drinkers ??

I always like a good club, the last few I have been in were full of weirdos like AA and NA LOL. Just kidding around

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Woo Hoo and bells on 3rd down - we copy wake forest now ? ? turrible . . . .***

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:41 AM
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Brad Brownell: Only Larry freaking Shyatt has a WORSE overall winning percentage among Clemson basketball coaches since 1975. Let that sink in. It's Larry Shyatt & then Brad Brownell.


All of us have our panties up our cracks over LSU copying 'Death Valley,'...


Sep 11, 2024, 11:53 AM
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and we're copying things that are trivial?

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:44 AM
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Eating last year's hot dogs and pretzels. The excess pricing must include a storage fee.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:54 AM
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You forgot we hate the Fire Marshall for not letting us fill the hill and banning the balloon release.

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To the Hipsters/Gen X/Y/Z helicopter kids

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Sep 11, 2024, 9:59 AM
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1. The woohoo sucks
2. The DJ sucks... can't help it your generation can't go three seconds with out autorap crap blasting in the background.
3. "Hype video" is ok... it's just the autotune rap crap (see above) that goes with it. Can't help that your generation can't get excited about something/anything without the required ticktock/fast edit/quick cut visual to guide your life.
4. The we will rock you is soooooo 1970's and waaaaay over played. Like "who let the dogs out". Since we are going back in time just play the Macarena.

And don't worry, soon us old guys will be dead and the world will then be perfect....

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Sep 11, 2024, 10:27 AM
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you are jumping all over the place with your discontent.

The rap is too modern, we will rock you is too 70s and dated, who let the dog is out is too old.

What exactly its the proper level of relevant for you?

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I was kinda with you..


Sep 11, 2024, 11:55 AM [ in reply to To the Hipsters/Gen X/Y/Z helicopter kids ]
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…until you lumped Queen in with the perpetrators of such nitwittery as “Who Let the Dogs Out” and “Macarena”. 😮

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noon games . how did you miss that one? i'm starting to think


Sep 11, 2024, 10:31 AM
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your post was not sincere.

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Geville Tiger on Clemson football , "Dabo's only problem is he has to deal with turd fans questioning every move he makes.”


Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...


Sep 11, 2024, 10:32 AM
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I fixed all these headaches years ago. Just ceased going to football games. Only baseball now. Saved a lot of money. Getting set to abandon TV also….going back to radio.

WOO HOO

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If they could AI Jim Phillips


Sep 11, 2024, 11:58 AM
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…convincingly, I might make the move to radio with you.

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Sep 11, 2024, 10:39 AM
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You're no fun at all.

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Sep 11, 2024, 10:42 AM
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For me it’s the woo hoo and the whooo after the cadence count. Both are absolutely embarrassing. Then add in the professor and staff of the game, people clapping during the hero of the game and not even listening to why he or she is a hero, and clay swinney on the field ever. Besides that it’s a fun day.

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:26 AM
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Yeah, I remember all of those fumbled snaps by the Swinney boys on extra points and field goals that cost us games!

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You probably missed plenty of stuff . . .


Sep 11, 2024, 11:00 AM
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but (a) I don't want to be overly curmudgeonly; and
(b) many of those things are sport-wide, not just at Clemson,

but for my part, I only have a complaint with the alcohol, the hype video, and the we will rock you. The rest is ok, so I guess i'm only 50% curmudgeonly.

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You're right about everyone of these!!!!***


Sep 11, 2024, 11:08 AM
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If you pay attention to the trajectory of Western Society . . .


Sep 11, 2024, 11:20 AM
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it's clear that the curmudgeons are usually vindicated in the end, and the pollyannaish sunshine pumpers that complain about curmudgeons are the escorts that usher history into many of it's follies, b/c the sky is never falling, and the future is supposedly always bright . . . (until it's not, at which point they act like no one could have seen it coming).

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Some additions


Sep 11, 2024, 11:22 AM
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- purple in the uniforms as anything other than a pinstripe
- These sissy little shoulder pads (Bring back the giant 80s pads!)
- kids on my lawn

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Neck rolls

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Sep 11, 2024, 1:09 PM
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Coots like you***


Sep 11, 2024, 11:28 AM
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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...


Sep 11, 2024, 11:32 AM
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You forgot the new emphasis of “ROAR” during the Alma Mater and the claw hand.

I am still campaigning for drones forming a Tiger Paw. That would be so cool at a night game.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:32 AM
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Curmudgeons don’t take orders, suggestions or requests. When I feel like talking, I’ll let you know that it’s time to listen.

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Just to be clear, are you advocating on behalf of all of these additions?

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Sep 11, 2024, 11:46 AM
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Are you not pumped on 3rd down unless someone loudly reminds you to be?

It's rare that I get to a game so I'm not familiar with many of these activities. This is the first I've heard of WWRY being part of our entrance and that does strike me as especially generic. In general, like many curmudgeons, I have come to value more of the purity of a college game...which I think we all can agree, is becoming less and less of a factor. So I won't apologize for having the opinion that the continued over-processing of the college gameday experience is making it a less enjoyable event. The non-stop need to pound attendees with stimulus is very annoying and reeks of a young marketing...er..."executive"...who ultimately thinks that football itself couldn't possibly hold their fans' collective interest. I say the same thing about ESPN...they surround the sport with so much controversy, so much analysis, so many hot takes and peripheral products because ultimately, I'm not sure the decision makers are sports fans.

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If you hadn't put the woohoo on that list I'd say you've got me all wrong.


Sep 11, 2024, 11:52 AM
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I'd complain about all of them if you'd ban the woohoo.

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 12:33 PM
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The woohoo is the only bad thing on that list...

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...


Sep 11, 2024, 12:58 PM
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Too many people do the extended-arm hand wave too early during the alma mater - you should extend your arm as soon as you start the word "O'er" not before.

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Sep 11, 2024, 1:11 PM
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Would like to see die.
I hear young alumni saying it near us now around little kids.
The Woo Hoo I have resigned myself that its here to stay.
Since I'm GEN X all of the music fits in pretty well!!!

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 1:41 PM
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Stick around you have probably missed a few no doubt.

Add lack of ballon’s to that list. 👍

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...


Sep 11, 2024, 1:44 PM
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I can't stand that gay woo Hoo. The rest I am good with. That woo Hoo is worse than the rooster.

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could be worse


Sep 11, 2024, 2:01 PM
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could have the TCU "rickety ickety rah roo" or whatever it is. The first time I heard it I was like, "man this is some serious A&M weirdo vibes"

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Sep 11, 2024, 1:59 PM
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Any talk of a mildly different uniform options is also a big no no.

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Sep 11, 2024, 2:19 PM
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We'd like our balloons back...

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Sep 11, 2024, 2:20 PM
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Yeah, all of these things are great... too many yardbirds hating on fun!

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Sep 11, 2024, 2:32 PM
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I never got the animosity toward something that clearly gives so many women and children such happiness…
Oh wait this is the curmudgeon board..
WOOHOO FOREVER!!!

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Re: To the curmudgeons on the board...

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Sep 11, 2024, 2:32 PM
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I’m not a curmudgeon, but the Hill entrance has been absolutely terrible for a while.

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Git off my Death Valley lawn


Sep 11, 2024, 2:40 PM
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or I'll have you running steps with Spud.

BTW.. I'll allow the woohoo in exchange for a case of yoohoo. It helps settle my GI tract. TIA.

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Sep 12, 2024, 12:20 AM
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Thanks. I haven't missed much then.

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Re: To the infants who still live in mommys basement.


Sep 12, 2024, 7:12 AM
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The bells are bad, they are at so many stadiums.
Woo hoo is silly.
Thirrrd down is pretty obvious, but maybe you need it pointed out.

The others, I can live with.

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