It was one of those things that just pop into my mind for no good reason, but I decided to test if my imagination had gone kerflooey and did a Yahoo! search on “brek ek ek ek” to see if anything would happen.
I believe I ran across this “cheer” decades ago, perhaps in a book of old music or college songs or something along those lines. I’m pretty sure I never heard it being used at a game I attended.
But the very idea made me think the topic would be fun to pursue, with other examples of bizarre or crazy cheers from wherever. YouTube clips would be even more exciting. For instance: The Yale Long Cheer
Anyway, what’s the most unusual cheer you’ve run across?
There were all sorts of “blue language” cheers that random small groups would scream out at the high school I attended, but they were not “official” by any stretch. Funny, yes. Approved, no.
A long time ago, Georgetown University had an amateur athletic club called the Stonewalls, and their fans used to chant “Huia saxa,” a sort of cockeyed Latin phrase meaning (sort of)“What Stones!”
That’s supposedly where the current team nickname, “Hoyas,” came from.
I think most of the football teams have a song like that. I don’t know they’re official or if they’ve just been so broadly adopted by fans that they are practically official. A bunch of them are not the type of Jock Jams stuff we’d associate with U.S. sports teams.
There’s Bossy Cow Cow, used at UC Davis (which started out as the UC farm school).
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Bossy cow cow!
Honey bee bee!
Oleo-margarine
Oleo-butterine
Alfalfa Hay!
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It’s a parody of Berkeley’s Oski Yell, itself a somewhat old old cheer.
Back when CCNY had the best college basketball team in the world and all the best players were Jewish (and before point shaving scandals destroyed the program), their patented chant was…
