These KIDS Today!
The Biscuit
They need some sense slapped into them!
Dagnabbit! Rackemfrackemgarbleygoop! I used to walk uphill both ways to school! Get off my lawn!!! Other older person sayings!!!
This kid needs some serious edumacation. Since when do Notre Dame students (and DILLON GUYS in particular) write in to the Observer to defend other institutions??? And especially institutions as hated as Penn State????
I am writing to make evident another cheer performed at our football games that is clearly a signature cheer at a different school. I’m talking about the different parts of the stadium shouting, “We–Are–N–D” in response to cheerleaders holding up the respective signs. To anyone like me who has been an avid Penn State fan for most of his life, this cheer completely infringes upon Penn State’s trademark “We Are Penn State.” For those oblivious to Penn State’s cheer, the song officially called “Kernkraft 400″ by Zombie Nation is sometimes played in Beaver Stadium after a good play, and there is a point in the song when the entire stadium (100,000+) chants in unison, “We Are Penn State” If you are still skeptical, a quick Youtube search for ‘Penn State Zombie Nation’ might be worthwhile. Now don’t get me wrong - I would pick ND above Penn State any day, and so I have no complaints about just the student section doing the “We Are (clap clap) N.D. (clap clap)” at appropriate times, but the official cheerleader cheer that gets the whole stadium saying it needs to be eliminated. The concept of the entire stadium chanting “We Are…” is, I believe a Penn State tradition.
Kid, you’re killing me. First of all, your argument is flawed because you grew up a PSU fan. We already know this makes you 90% moron. Second, the PSU cheer you reference, linked below, is NOTHING LIKE THE ND CHEER! Compare yourselves…
Lame PSU Cheer (embedded video not working today, sorry for forcing you to click on a link - the horror!)
Yes, both have the words “We are INSERT SCHOOL” in them. Okay, so they share two words. Two words that are shared by EVERY OTHER SCHOOL IN THE FREAKING COUNTRY THAT HAS A “We are INSERT SCHOOL” cheer - which is EVERY OTHER SCHOOL IN THE FREAKING COUNTRY.
The difference is in presentation. Notre Dame’s chant is a once-a-game ritual telling the world that “We Are Notre Dame.” Penn State’s cheer is a raucous mad-house of a cheer with a cheesy pseudo-techno chant song in the background. PSU students yell it quickly and jump up and down. And they do it over and over and over. ND fans say it slowly and the rest of the stadium is silent waiting for their letter. The PSU song is led by whoever controls the sound system, ND’s by the cheerleaders. This isn’t even nuance, this is night and day people. What is happening to the Notre Dame education that this kid can’t get this?
And you know what the worst part is????? The ND chant was created BEFORE this PSU crap. How do I know? Well, let’s check out the history:
I went to my first ND home game in 1996. In that game, we did the “We Are N D” chant. The freaking lame-ass KernKraft Zombie Nation song this kid loves so much came out…you guessed it, AFTER THAT. In 2000 to be exact. So ND was doing this cheer FIRST. Kid, just because you heard that version first because you grew up a PSU fan, doesn’t mean it CAME first. I mean, I’m sure you think an iPod came before a Walkman too. Sheesh.
This kid is just saying random things with no logic or facts to back them up. I don’t rely on the argument about ND doing it first though, bc ND didn’t invent a cheer with “We are INSERT SCHOOL”…Yes, I know, shocking!!!! Unbelievable!!!! There are a ton of schools that used it before ND. But not in the same way. Not in the ND way.
The kid’s right in that ND shouldn’t copy the Trojan War Chant. We shouldn’t have the leprechaun running out with a buffalo ala the Colorado Buffaloes. But this letter to the editor is absurd in its defense of PSU and in the way that defense is made.
Pretty soon he’ll say that ‘yay’ or ‘whoopee’ are copyrighted. Give me a break, kid.
Some may say this is minor. Why are you spending so much time on this Biscuit? There are more important things - like the Bailout, ND-Stanford, Cops being Gestapo on ND’s campus, discussions of Hot Pockets and such. Well, I say it IS important. Because if this is what ND students call ‘logic’, and this is what they think is important we have failed in 2 major ways as an institution: 1) We’ve failed to help kids use their brains, at all 2) We’ve failed at brainwashing kids to love ND over any other school they ever even thought to like a tiny little bit. It’s ND or nothing baby.
Go Irish.
Wait, no…I can’t say “Go INSERT TEAM” cuz other people use that. Hmmmm…
Let’s go…nope
Here we go…nope.
Shit.
Irish be Good!
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