# Niner fans, what is your equivalent to the "chop"?

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**Created:** [February 2, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/niner-fans-what-is-your-equivalent-to-the-chop/847359 "2020-02-02T03:25:34Z")\
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> [@Velocity](#):
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> Reminds me of the Yale students who posed as Harvard students and infiltrated the Harvard side of the stadium before the Harvard-Yale football game, getting them to hold up signs that, together as a group, formed “WE SUCK.” They had told the Harvard fans that the signs were patterned to read “GO HARVARD.”

It’s a hack that has happened several times, going back to 1957, the 1961 Rose Bowl, and others. The Havard-Yale version happened in 2004.

> **[The Great Rose Bowl Hoax](https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/rose_bowl_hoax)**
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> A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.

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