# What are/were your team/school's favorite sporting chants? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876 "2003-11-07T13:23:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/1 "2003-11-07T13:23:55Z")
[Michigan Hockey fans are getting raunchy](http://www.michiganhockey.net/info/chants.html) Some are fairly good in here. When visiting a fripend of ours who coaches College Hockey their fans shout to the opposing crowd: 'i]Safety School. Safety School" \* which was pretty funny in a cereberal kind a way once we asked what the hell that meant. I know that furren footie team supporters have some interesting chants and I’d love to see them here. ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/2 "2003-11-07T14:09:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/3 "2003-11-07T15:24:34Z")
“Rah rah ree! Kick’em in the knee! Rah rah rass! Kick’em in the other knee!” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/4 "2003-11-07T15:30:31Z")
The only lyrics to the Pitt Fight Song anybody knows: “Penn State sucks, Penn State sucks. P-E-N-N-S-T sucks!” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/5 "2003-11-07T15:47:33Z")
“That’s all right, that’s okay, You’ll be pumping our gas some day.” My school was not a football power. By Boston College hockey fans at games vs. Boston University: “Sucks to B. U. !” Ohio State fans to the tune of “Hail to the Victors”, the Michigan fight song: No, upon further review, can’t bleep it enough. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/6 "2003-11-07T16:03:37Z")
“We’re not nasty! We’re not mean! We’ll give a cheer, For the other team! rah.” For the Anderson High School Indians… "Oo sa sa! Oo sa sa! Hit 'em in the head, With an oo sa sa! Oo sa sa! Oo sa sa! Hit 'em in the gourd, With a board!" (I never met anyone who knew what an oo sa sa was.) ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/7 "2003-11-07T16:10:24Z")
Heh. The Rock Chalk Chant. Creepiest thing I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/8 "2003-11-07T16:48:13Z")
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!" \* -lv ---
**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 7, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/9 "2003-11-07T17:31:59Z")
Fans at Union College hockey games would point at the opposing goalie and chant: _Sieve, sieve, sieve_. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/10 "2003-11-07T17:58:47Z")
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](http://mbrbp.tripod.com/montgomeryalumni/id36.htm) (warning: hokey story ahead). ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/11 "2003-11-07T18:09:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/12 "2003-11-07T18:20:40Z")
My HS mascot was the Fighting Irish. One of our favorite football cheers was: _Let’s go Irish Put 'em in the grass! Stick that football Up thier YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!_ And also the perennial favorite: _Nuts and bolts! Nuts and bolts! We got screwed!_ Or: _GIMME A Q! **Q!** GIMME A Q! **Q!** GIMME A Q! **Q!** GIMME A Q! **Q!** WHAT’S THAT SPELL? **4 Q!** _ ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/13 "2003-11-07T19:15:40Z")
Of course, the Rangers fans countered with “Beat your wife Potvin, beat your wife (clap clap)!” and later “We want fishsticks!” Two notable ones from from Syracuse: first, an add-on to Rock 'n Roll Part 2: Hey! You suck! Hey! You suck! Rough em up fuck em up go S-U! We’re gonna kick the shit out of you! And of course, the old “What time is it?” “it’s \_\_\_\_” “And Georgetown still sucks”. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/14 "2003-11-08T19:56:13Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/15 "2003-11-08T22:55:21Z")
Don’t you cry, don’t be blue. Frankenstein was ugly too! Rick’em, rack’em, rock’em, ruck’em, Get that ball and really FIGHT! And a classic off an old Nipsy Russell comedy album: “We are the girls of Norfolk. Norfolk. Norfolk. We don’t drink, we don’t smoke. Norfolk. Norfolk” If you don’t get it, read it out loud. And then be embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/16 "2003-11-08T22:59:28Z")
Was in the service with a guy from Maine, and one time a story of his included their football fight chant: "Brewster runs, Brewster falls, We’ve got Brewster by the…kneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. Indiana University used to/may still have a very scatological anti-Purdue fight chant: Gimme a _P_ Gimme a _U_ Gimme a _R_ Gimme a _D_ Gimme a _U_ Gimme an _E_ What’s it spell? SHIT!!! ---
**Author:** ![the\_idler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@the\_idler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_idler)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/17 "2003-11-08T23:03:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/18 "2003-11-08T23:08:59Z")
From college hockey games at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Fight Song, as far as anyone knew: “Blah blah blah Rensselaer, Blah Blah Blah Blah, Blah blah blah Rensselaer, Blaah Blaah Blaah” At games versus Brown: “What’s the color of dogshit?” “Brown Brown Brown.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/19 "2003-11-09T01:58:27Z")
Silent cheer! Silent cheer! Are you ready? (Fans stand up, open mouths, wave arms, without a sound). Watermelon cheer! (Fans move hands side to side as if eating watermelon, then loudly spit to the side) **the idler** , do go on, please. I’m fascinated. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876/20 "2003-11-09T02:25:58Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-your-team-schools-favorite-sporting-chants/211876.md?page=2)