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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 2750598, member: 2531"]
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.
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