College Football Week Zero Thread: Give Ireland Back to the Irish

[swingline]

Here comes the king
Here comes the big number one

Budweiser beer
The king is second to none

The king is coming
So let's all cheer

(And I can't remember the rest.)

 

[dixiehack]

We're talking the other Budweiser song.

 

[Cosmo]

Mizzou plays "Mr. Brightside" to give the kids a chance to chant "fork KU."

I unironically went to a BC-NC State game in Chestnut Hill in, say, 2021, and Mr. Brightside was the only thing keeping the students around. Place emptied after that, middle third quarter. Also, full disclosure, I'm a sicko for going to a BC-Pack game as a rando VT supporter just because I happened to be there that night.

 

[Twirling Time]

I'm way late on the Week 0 thing, but I preferred it when Texas started it in 1998 or thereabouts. That's when they started giving schools 11 weeks to play 10 games. It was kind of special the first 4 years or so where teams would schedule neutral sites for games, then it became just another opening week.

The thing I liked best about it is it kept Week 10 as the dramatic finale as it had always been known. Then the UIL changed the nomenclature and Week 11 is now the tension-filled curtain-closer. Just doesn't ring the same.

 

[Twirling Time]

Alrighty then.

 

[dixiehack]

Why ban a columnist when you can get the city to tear down the entire newspaper office to erect a building with your name on it?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

LSU fans' obsession with "Neck" baffles me. It started a few years after I went there, but now there are people ready to go to war for that song. It's to the point people are willing to pay the band's fines for playing it, like IIRC Odell Beckham Jr. once did.
I guess it's the forbidden fruit aspect of it, but I really don't get it.

College kids wanting to yell obscenities in public is undefeated.

 

[da man]

Wisconsin is more famous for it. Georgia Tech picked it up when Bud Carson was coach.

All I know is when I was in the Tech band, Anheuser Busch became a big sponsor of the band and threw tons of money at us.

 

[MileHigh]

State university, state employee, I am pretty sure Colorado has laws about that sort of thing.

Sanders has specific language in his contract that requires him to speak only with "mutually agreed upon media" as part of his employment with CU. The "mutually agreed upon" clause does not appear in the contracts of either Buffs men's basketball coach Tad Boyle or women's basketball coach JR Payne — nor was it in the contract of Sanders' predecessor, Karl Dorrell.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Alrighty then.

The Red Sox have put "Mr. Brightside" with a light show in the middle inning that used to have "Sweet Caroline." The song stops and the fans finish the song just like with the song about a 7 year old girl.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I long for the good ol' days, when people who wanted to hear songs about a woman cheating on the singer turned to the music of George Jones.

 

[dixiehack]

Did Georgia Tech really send their cheerleaders and mascot to Ireland? And if so, couldn't they have spent that money instead on an OK-ish defensive tackle?