I guess I was inspired by Hillbilly queen’s question about high school… Then got to thinking about stupid things people do to express school pride??
Our cross town rivals had an eagle… It was aquired from an old Case tractor dealership and was made of solid cast iron,and was about 3 feet tall. It sat right in front of the school as a symbol. No-one could steal it beacause it was too heavy (not that it wasn,t tried!!) A bunch of our “smart” football players decided to cut it’s head off with a hack saw…After about 50 dollars in blades one of the guys decided to break out the cutting torch…Needless to say there was an uproar in the community…after half the team was arrested…
Anything like that in your school days??
At the college I attended, Harvey Mudd in Claremont, Ca., our archrival was CalTech in Pasadena. CalTech has a really nice cannon on the lawn in front of one of their dorms. Back in the mid 80’s (this was before my time), some guys from Mudd decided to steal the cannon. Luckily, one of them was the son of the owner of a company that rented heavy machinery, so they were able to get a small crane and a flatbed truck. They forged papers from the local utility company saying that they were allowed to remove the cannon in order to work on the pipes underneath. Then they simply drove up to it with the truck, loaded it on board, and took off. They kept the cannon for two or three days before the boring old president made them take it back.
We took the cows (fully life sized) off the Dairymen’s Building in the middle of the night. Transported the cows to the other high school and placed them in a procreating position above the lobby entrance. It didn’t go over well with the popo.
Some of the guys in my school (and I did not condone this), would throw bottles of pee at the girls from the private school two blocks away.
Our rival school actually did this to us. I will be forever envious that we didn’t think of it first. It was brilliant.
Anyways, about a week before the big game, they must have come over at night and sprayed “Reedley Sucks” with Round-up onto our football field. Nobody noticed it during the week but come Friday night, when you were up in the stands…it was quite unmistakable. They eventually had to kill all of the grass on the field to get rid of it.
Maumee’s rival across the river is the Perryburg Yellowjackets. Every year they play the BIG Game for the right to bring Maumee High school’s old bell home for a year.
The following are all before my time…
One year Some punks from P-Burg stole the bell. This wasn’t bad, but they had to get it from an enclosed courtyard! The bell itself is attached to a small trailer. They would have had to either use a crane or alot of muscle work!
This was followed by a smartass who went over to P-Burg and painted a BIG Purple M in the middle of thier football field! and pouring gasoline on every other 10 yd marker and setting it aflame.
Our big stuffed Panther was stolen and dumped in the Maumee river.
Yellowjackets were busted for Grafitti, and forced to pay for a sand blasting of Maumee High.
[hyjack] another friggin’ LOVELY gag was slipping LSD into the Asst. Pricipals coffe cup. I only heard of this antic, and it’s outcome( I guess he saw Angels) Not a prank for a rival as the OP intended, but DAMN Funny, and Mr. O needed a lightening up![end hyjack]
We did not do this but it was done to us. I thought it was clever. When we were being introduced, the entire student section breaks out newspapers that they hold in front of their faces.
Oh, and when the officials ran out onto the floor, the entire student section stood up and waved money at them. They also had many signs that read something like…“we love home cooking”. Kind of cute I thought.
Michigan vs Michigan State…Michigan State has a Spartan statue that has occasionally gotten a Maize and Blue paint job. I definitely remember seeing the results of an MSU retaliation, when the U of M seal on the Graduate Library steps was painted green.
Michigan fans do something similar to the “holding newspapers in front of their faces” thing. When the opposing team’s players are introduced, the Wolverine faithful yell “WHO CARES?”
The last Maize and Blue paint job that Sparty got was done with latex paint so that the colors ran together and made… GREEN!
Whenever we play Notre Dame in football it’s common to hear “F*ck the Irish!” chanted whenever they have the ball.
I may be stealing SMUsax’s story, because I was not in the band, but at a football game, late in the year, after the grass had mostly died, each member of the SMU band, at the conclusion of the halftime show, dropped a small bag of rye seed (which would green up much earlier in the year than a more normal bermuda)… well…
It was all the way next spring when the “diamond M” popped out on TCU’s home field. Actually got featured in most of the local newspapers. I saved the photos.
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