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[OrangeXtreme]

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[orange79]

I just love these. Great tradition.

 

[Finwad32]

Keep ‘me comin’!

 

[RMH44]

I just love these. Great tradition.

Agreed...never gets old.

 

[WestFairO]

Excuse me, but when did this traditon begin? I was a student in the 1980s and never heard of it. I can recall being at the Varsity after a home football blowout. A Varsity employee flipped the banner and everyone clapped and cheered.

 

[orangefog]

Keep ‘me comin’!

That’s what she said.

 

[721Comstock]

Excuse me, but when did this traditon begin? I was a student in the 1980s and never heard of it. I can recall being at the Varsity after a home football blowout. A Varsity employee flipped the banner and everyone clapped and cheered.

I was in SUMB in '84 and '85, and we did this after every win.

 

[buffalorange]

I was in SUMB in '84 and '85, and we did this after every win.

So simple. But what a great tradition!

 

[NJCuse97]

I just love these. Great tradition.

It’s stupid, feminine and embarrassing. We should win, then flip banners in jeans and an orange t-shirt, you know, normal clothes.
Kidding, this is great and I hope it continues as we rebuild a culture of winning.

 

[nzm136]

It’s stupid, feminine and embarrassing. We should win, then flip banners in jeans and an orange t-shirt, you know, normal clothes.
Kidding, this is great and I hope it continues as we rebuild a culture of winning.

I’ve always liked the banner flipping.

These small and organic things are what make great traditions. IMHO, we don’t need turnover backpacks, robes, planks of wood, or chains. We don’t need outlandish gimmicks. NY football has more of a history than football almost anywhere else, and SU is the unofficial torchbearer for the state.

At least in my eyes, it’s incredibly hard to walk through some of the old stadiums (like Schoellkopf) or read about (or watch) the great, historic games and not see that NY is special.

I think I like the banner flipping and fight song because I can see us doing it 80 years ago (I have no idea when we actually started, but regardless of the real date, I can imagine it happening 80+ years ago), and because it seems like a purely northeastern/NY thing to do. You almost have to have a football tradition that’s 100 years old to really authentically pull it off. It’s like all the random songs that fans sing at Ivy games. And, I think that history/legitimacy is much of what separates us from schools like UConn, or some of our newer otherwise peer programs in other areas.