The Boston College students would use the ‘Safety School’ chant on my alma mater, Northeastern. At least I had the practical experience to get a job when I graduated. Harrumph.
I went to the University of Wisconsin. Among the more memorable:
(When playing Iowa/Iowa St., sung to the tune of “The Old Grey Mare”)
Who gives a fuck about the whole state of Iowa,
the whole state of Iowa,
the whole state of Iowa?
Who gives a fuck about the whole state of Iowa?
Who give a fuck about corn?*
(When the band plays Steve Miller’s “Swingtown”, no matter the opponent)
*O-ooooooooooo-o-o-o-ohi-i-o State Sucks!
O-oooooo-o-ohio State Sucks!"
*
Hey, that article refers to the UM game against the school I work for. AFAIK, though, we don’t have a chant…at least I’ve never heard one.
My high school’s chant of choice, at least at football games, was “What do we want? We want The Shoe!” in reference to our grudge match trophy against Muncy HS. You can read about the origin of the trophy at the bottom of this page (warning: hokey story ahead).
Not high school, but some of my favourite anti-New York Rangers chants:
(To the tune of "If you’re happy and you know it):
IF YOU KNOW THE RANGERS SUCK, CLAP YOUR HANDS!
IF YOU KNOW THE RANGERS SUCK, CLAP YOUR HANDS!
IF YOU KNOW THE RANGERS SUCK, AND THEY’LL NEVER WIN THE CUP,
IF YOU KNOW THE RANGERS SUCK, CLAP YOUR HANDS!
Then there’s the Chicken dance where instead of the clapping, everyone chants:“THE RANGERS SUCK!”
And I truly do miss the simple "19-40! (clap clap clap-clap clap). -Of course, us intelligent bunch know when a good chant dies, unlike some brain-dead Rangers fans who insist on chanting “Potvin Sucks”, even though he’s been retired for close to 15 years now… geesh!
And in the CFL, there’s a really good anti-Argo song that I can never remember the rest of…just the opening lines which are sung to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Repulic…
“OH, I’D RATHER BE A TI-CAT THAN A DRUNKEN ARGO FAN…”
and ends with “…THE ARGOS SUCK!”.
Anybody know all the words to that one?
Everywhere we go-oh
People wanna know-oh
Whoo-o we are
Where we come from
Soo-o we tell them
(Sooo-o we tell them)
We are the (mascot)
The mighty mighty ____
Go big (dominant school color)!
Brrr, it’s cold out here
There must be some (mascot)s in the atmosphere…
(Some kind of dance or something)
Go fight win
And do it again! (with the cheerleaders struggling to hold up another one, but someone always loses their grip)
Yeah. Our cheerleaders sucked. Not surprisingly, our football team sucked. But our band kicked ass. Go, you duelin’ clarinets!
hmm… seems the english football supporters are a fair way ahead of you lot
If I had the wings of a sparrow
If I had the arse of a crow
I’d fly over Anfield tomorrow
And shit on the bastards below
shit on…
shit on…
shit on the bastards below!
In your Liverpool slums
You look in the dustbins for something to eat
You find a dead rat and you think it’s a treat
In your Liverpool slums
In your Liverpool slums
Your mum’s on the game and your dad’s in the nick
You can’t get a job cos your so f*cking thick
In your Liverpool slums
I could go on. But it would get a lot more offensive than that.
One of my all time favorites was during the 1999 World Series between Atlanta and New York. The Yankee fans had a nice take on the Tomahawk Chop. They would flip the bird, move it up and down and yell “Fuuu-uuuuck the Braa-aaaves, fuuuuu-uuuck the Braaa-aaaaves.” I hate the Yankees, but that was pretty quality.
Of course, the all-time most tasteless chant was performed by Arizona State fans against Steve Kerr back in the late 80s when they started chanting “PLO” every time he walked on the court.