So I've been called a geek for many things in my life. It's gotten to the point where it pretty much rolls right off. But one of the things that I loved most about the ACC Tournament in 2001 was not just seeing the cheerleaders from each school and seeing four days of ACC basketball, but hearing all the pep bands play their schools' respective fight songs. I now actually look forward to when a visiting band comes into Byrd so I can hear their fight song, because I think the ACC has some pretty good fight songs. I tried linking these songs directly from fightmusic.com, but it wouldn't let me, so click on this link and check out the fight songs of the ACC, albeit with three new additions since I was at that ACC tourney:
http://fightmusic.com/acc.html
Boston College ("On Boston")
Clemson ("Tiger Rag")
Duke ("Fight Blue Devils Fight")
FSU ("FSU Fight Song")
GA Tech ("Ramblin' Wreck of Georgia Tech")
Maryland ("Victory Song")
Miami ("Miami Fight Song")
NC State ("Pregame Fight Song")
UNC ("I'm a Tar Heel Born and Raised")
UVA ("Good Old Song")
VA Tech ("VPI Victory March")
Wake Forest ("Here's to Wake Forest")
So this begs the question of which are my favorites? And for these purposes, I use the songs that may not be designated as a school's "fight song" but what they play after a touchdown (see UNC, Maryland). I would go with Clemson and was going to go with them until I found out that "The Tiger Rag" is a generic song used by a number of schools whose mascots are the Tigers (LSU, Auburn). It's still a fun song.
I'd have to conclude that my top three, in order, are Wake Forest, UNC, and Georgia Tech. I like Maryland's, and would probably put it at #5 (Clemson being #4).
And even if this wasn't "UVA Hate Week," I would rank their "fight song" 14th out of 12 teams. The holding hands and swaying to your school's own words to Auld Lang Syne is about the gayest thing that is done in college football. As if the ties and popped collar Oxford shirts weren't already enough.
Your thoughts/comments/rankings on fight songs?
October 18, 2007
ACC Fight Songs
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once again i will have to tell you to refer to your side bar....i know it is the wrong division...but who doesn't love USC fight song along with that tommy trojan and traveler?
USC's would be pretty good, if they didn't play it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Plus, the only fan participating is making bunny ears. Lame.
My faves are Maryland (of course), Clemson (C-L-E-M-S-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH-N!) and Georgia Tech, but only because I can hear the words in my head. Plus, it has a great breakdown at the end.
I'm partial to NC State's too, but it starts off too theatrically. Plus, I like teams have original songs (even if that makes me a Clemson hypocrite.)
Georgia Tech!?!? Even the students that go to the school don't know any of the words except "To Hell with Georgia" and the chant at the end "Fight, Win, Drink, Get Naked!", which is especially bad since the ratio is about 80-20 male.
Also, after the third quarter, they do this lame bounce thing where the fans squat up and down and the cheer is "When you say Buuud-Weiser, you say it all".
If UVa is 14th out of 12 teams, GT should be a close 13th...
I'll grant you that the fight song itself is pretty good, but the fan experience is thoroughly ruined.
bunny ears...that is the victory sign...like praising the gods. better known as tommy tojan.
I know it's the victory sign. I just thought that we had better call it something else since USC loses to powerhouses like Stanford and UCLA.
wait...now your cutting a little close to the tip here. sure the lost to standford was bad and losing our bell last year to ucla was unforgivable, but all and all usc has also had a great team and always manages to rise to the top.
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