Why doesn't the band do this any more at the start of games?

[JeffCuse]

Was watching this...the Tom Brady game...and so miss the way the band used to fire up the crowd at the opening kickoff. Why don't they do this any more? I'm talking about the very very start of the clip.

 

[upperdeck]

not considered politically correct any more

 

[JeffCuse]

not considered politically correct any more

Was there an undertone to it I am missing? I thought it was just an amped up fight song? Were there words i never knew?

 

[upperdeck]

just that its an Indian war chant is all i know.

 

[JeffCuse]

just that its an Indian war chant is all i know.

OK. I never heard words associated with it, had no idea. Just thought it was a rapidly increasing in tempo band music. Sigh. I miss it. Really pumped up the crowd.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Was there an undertone to it I am missing? I thought it was just an amped up fight song? Were there words i never knew?

Our mascot isn't the Saltine Warrior anymore.

 

[DoubleDee]

I have an even better question: why don’t we let the band play as much as the old days, no matter what song it is.

#outwiththecannedmusic
#letthebandplay

 

[JeffCuse]

Our mascot isn't the Saltine Warrior anymore.

I mean, that sounds very different (and I always knew that was associated with FSU). I didnt know that what the band played to start the game had anything to do with native american culture.

 

[Ragman2000]

It's been so long since I've been to a home football game I didn't even realize this went away. What a bummer, that always got me so fired up.

 

[JeffCuse]

It's been so long since I've been to a home football game I didn't even realize this went away. What a bummer, that always got me so fired up.

Yeah. I suspect very very few people who were there associated it with native american culture. It was just cool and phrenetic and perfect to get people pumped and loud

 

[cuse309]

just that its an Indian war chant is all i know.

Wrong...kind of. I asked the same question a few years back. A person associated with the band told me, that although nobody had complained about the chant, the powers that be were worried that it sounded too much like the tomahawk chop, and were worried that at some point, people would complain that it's racist. So they preemptively gave the ol'

(no pun intended).

 

[JeffCuse]

Wrong...kind of. I asked the same question a few years back. A person associated with the band told me, that although nobody had complained about the chant, the powers that be were worried that it sounded too much like the tomahawk chop, and were worried that at some point, people would complain that it's racist. So they preemptively gave the ol' View attachment 203554 (no pun intended).

Seriously??? That's so weak.

I love SU with a passion but our school's barometer when it comes to handling race-based issues is just...distorted sometimes.

 

[All4SU]

OK. I never heard words associated with it, had no idea. Just thought it was a rapidly increasing in tempo band music. Sigh. I miss it. Really pumped up the crowd.

I’ve always thoughts the words were one line repeated over and over…
“Pie eyed in the Carrier Dome…”

(Admit it, you had to sing it in your head!)

 

[cuse309]

Seriously??? That's so weak.

I love SU with a passion but our school's barometer when it comes to handling race-based issues is just...distorted sometimes.

Yeah. This happened in like 2000...we were way ahead of our time when it came to virtue signaling.

 

[Jeepers]

Yeah. I suspect very very few people who were there associated it with native american culture. It was just cool and phrenetic and perfect to get people pumped and loud

It had a chop and everything. Come on. And made even less sense since it wasn’t associated with the saltine warrior anymore.

 

[CuseGrad94]

That game is still such a painful loss to look back at. Troy, Troy, Troy, what are you doing?

 

[CuseIsGodsTeam]

It was the greatest pre-kickoff score of all time.

I’m pretty sure it was eliminated when Cantor was there ruining everything.

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

What a bummer, that always got me so fired up.

How did that get you fired up? I listened to the clip and the sound bite in question was so half-arsed.

 

[Ragman2000]

How did that get you fired up? I listened to the clip and the sound bite in question was so half-arsed.

I guess you had to be there. Hard to replicate the feeling of a highly competent football team about to kickoff against a name opponent with 40k+ in the Dome in a crappy YouTube clip. It just did.

 

[JeffCuse]

I guess you had to be there. Hard to replicate the feeling of a highly competent football team about to kickoff against a name opponent with 40k+ in the Dome in a crappy YouTube clip. It just did.

Agreed

 

[JeffCuse]

We need a time machine. Go back in time.

1- Un retire the 44
2- Un-schedule all those games in NJ
3- Unhire G-Rob
4- Un-retire this song

Bring back the energy.

 

[cuse309]

How did that get you fired up? I listened to the clip and the sound bite in question was so half-arsed.

You weren't there.

 

[OrangeMon]

One of the best games I've ever attended. Lots of fun. Very exciting!!! I remember our section going at it with a bunch of Michigan fans because the flipped our section the bird. Not a good move. Ha!

 

[Chip]

My recollection was that it became very popular when we had both a kickoff guy who always put it in the end zone, Pat O'Neill, and a kickoff returner, Qadry Ismail, that no one wanted to miss his returns.

The band wasn't tomahawk chopping, they were putting their instruments in the air. But this was also around the time where the FSU tomahawk chop was huge, and the fans basically turned it into that.

Maybe I'm wrong. But it really did get the fans into the game from the outset during those O'Neill/Ismail days. Most were in their seats already by kickoff. I know you youngsters think this is all crazy talk, but it really happened.

 

[Orangejet]

Have heard thru the SFC that a Cuse BLM video may be played before team runs onto field. Hope that’s not the case for SU, even though being a very woke university, should leave politics and social matters outside the Dome and focus on winning some football games. The band also needs to step it up with more members, especially tuba’s, and the native cheer should be reinstated before each kickoff for it also gets the players psyched on the Orange sideline.