School Mascots

Every weekend from now until the new year, football will dominate, whether it be professional, high school, college or even the little tykes at the recreation center. Yes, the oddly-shaped pig skin will get a workout and with it singing and chanting fans.

While researching, there is research sometimes to write Hello, famous college football chants were mentioned again and again. Out of the mouths of seemingly educated folks comes some unlikely babbling.

Kansas University Jayhawk fans cheer and chant, “Rock Chalk Jayhawks.” Research shows that their campus has a limestone outcropping that looks like chalk, so there you go simple, logical explanation, but other college chants defy explanations.

Alabama fans love to rub salt in the wounds of their competition by chanting another bizarre bunch of babble, “Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.” It’s worth a Google to find the origin of this chant.

Auburn fans learned English real good, they scream for hours, “Bodda Getta,” Back to Google for that one.

Everyone at Arkansas games likes to call the Hogs by chanting, “Woo-Pig-Sooie” with emphasis on the “Sooie.” Every pig farmer knows what that means. “Boomer Sooner” can be heard for hours at Oklahoma games and fans of Georgia, their just “Junkyard Dawgs” who chant “Go, Dawgs, Sic ‘em” followed by a hardy, “Woof, Woof, Woof.”

In an official survey, the number two chant of college football fans comes to us from Austin Peay University, named for Tennessee Governor, Austin Peay. The dignified student body cheers their team by yelling, “Let’s all P.” This is no joke.

As for number 1, that distinction goes to the Tennessee Volunteer fans who don’t chant, but sing the same song for hours, “Rocky Top” (there’s nine verses), whether they’re winning or losing.

Locally, let’s cheer our own, “Go, Win, ‘Canes and Cougars!”