# Favourite team cheers - school, uni, professional, whatever. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 8, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380 "2013-11-08T02:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/1 "2013-11-08T02:50:03Z")
So, what is your favourite team cheer? At Queen’s University at Kingston, one of my favourites is a “call and response” cheer: \*\*Q. What’s the Sport of Kings? A. Queen’s, Queen’s, Queen’s!\*\* And your faves? ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/2 "2013-11-08T16:34:30Z")
There is/was an MIT cheer (a similar one is used at RPI and probably other techie places) e to the u du dx e to the x dx cosine secant tangent sine 3 point 1 4 1 5 9 Integral radical mu dv Slipstick sliderule, M I T. It may have been modernized to remove the sliderule references since I graduated. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/3 "2013-11-08T16:49:30Z")
As you said, RPI has a similar but slightly different cheer. To be honest, though I don’t remember it ever actually being used at a game, although I only ever went to hockey games, never football games. e to the x, dy/dx, e to the x dx cosine, secant, tangent, sine, three point one four one five nine square root, cube root, log of pi, dis-integrate 'em RPI. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/4 "2013-11-08T18:58:06Z")
My mom went to Northwestern during the dark ages, when their academic school players had to play troglodytes from Ohio State and Michigan. The games would usually be over by halftime, and they had this cheer: “That’s all right, that’s okay You’ll be working for us someday” ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/5 "2013-11-08T20:07:15Z")
I read this one in high school. I don’t remember where. Strawberry shortcake, banana split, We think your team looks like Shift to the left, shift to the right, Stand up, sit down, fight! fight! fight! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/6 "2013-11-08T20:15:51Z")
In college, we had “Rah Rah Ree. Kick 'em in the knee! Rah Rah Rass Kick 'em in the other knee!” ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/7 "2013-11-09T01:24:42Z")
My two favorites are, as far as I know, jokes that were never actually used in games. > [@](#): > > We think we’re it, boys, > We shovel shit, boys > > –Reputed fight song of The University of New Hampshire circa 1920, when it was more of a cow college than it is today. and > [@](#): > > We don’t smoke and we don’t drink, > Norfolk! Norfolk! > > –Reputed cheer at a Norfolk, Virginia, high school game. The humor depends on a particular [pronunciation](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Norfuck) of the city name. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/8 "2013-11-09T16:03:01Z")
My friend claims that her high school’s football cheerleaders used this in the mid-1980s: KILL! KILL! BLOOD MAKES THE GRASS GROW! :eek:😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/9 "2013-11-09T16:24:03Z")
I attended Haverford, a small Quaker college in Pennsylvania. Quakers, of course, are famous for being completely non-violent pacifists. Our cheer was: Fight, fight, inner light Kill, Quakers, Kill! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/10 "2013-11-09T16:47:22Z")
The best college cheer is _ **ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!** _ What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/11 "2013-11-09T17:42:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The best college cheer is > > _ **ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!** _ > > What do I win? Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college cheer he’d ever heard! ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/12 "2013-11-09T22:34:33Z")
One of the many U of Chicago fight songs: _Themistocles, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, X squared, Y squared, H2SO4. Who for? What for? Who we gonna yell for? GO, MAROONS!_ There are, unsurprisingly, several more equally erudite verses. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/13 "2013-11-09T22:51:40Z")
Die, you gravy-sucking pigs! Try and score, you dirtbags! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/14 "2013-11-09T22:59:32Z")
Austin Peay (a college in Tennessee): “Let’s go Peay!” In the 1970s, they had a basketball player named “Fly” Williams. The cheer was expanded to say, “The Fly is open. Let’s go Peay!” ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/15 "2013-11-09T23:39:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The best college cheer is > > _ **ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!** _ > > What do I win? Is there some clever double meaning or pun there? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/16 "2013-11-10T01:04:26Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I attended Haverford, a small Quaker college in Pennsylvania. Quakers, of course, are famous for being completely non-violent pacifists. > > Our cheer was: > > Fight, fight, inner light > Kill, Quakers, Kill! My son went to a Quaker high school and used this exact cheer–it made the opposing cross country teams quiver and quake. (Actually it made them give his team funny looks.) He then went to the U of C. I never heard the Thucydides chant but it doesn’t surprise me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/17 "2013-11-10T08:58:48Z")
Hey, Tigers! Hey Tigers! We Just Beat The Hell Out Of You! Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer Give 'Em Hell Alabama! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/18 "2013-11-10T12:27:00Z")
Favourite chant for \*opponents \*of Norwich City FC, England (to the tune of the Addams Family theme): "Your father is your brother, "Your sister is your mother, "You like to fuck each other, “The Norwich family!” Rumours that incest is actually more prevalent in Norfolk than in the rest of the civilised world are, of course, completely unfounded. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/19 "2013-11-13T15:06:00Z")
Swing to the left Swing to the right Stand up sit down fight fight fight! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380/20 "2013-11-13T15:27:59Z")
I’ve always enjoyed Hotty Toddy at Ole Miss. That’s about the only one I can think of that impressed me a little bit the first time I heard it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-team-cheers-school-uni-professional-whatever/673380.md?page=2)