Category: BYU

BYU Football

BYU college football starts up this weekend with a big game against No. 3 ranked Oklahoma. It’s a funny thing growing up going to sporting events with family and friends and how that sort of sways ones enthusiastic loyalties. Going to the games with my dad was one of the few things we did through my teen years that we both enjoyed and agreed on. It continues to be one of those bonding activities in our lives. The music at a football is so often the “Jock Jams” that are only enjoyable at a live sporting arena (if then,) to either get the collective adrenaline flowing or to keep said juices flowing during downtime because of breaks between quarters, TV timeouts or the unfortunate even of injury. I read at some point that the crowd wave was invented sometime in the 60’s (if I remember correctly.) It seems odd that someone had to invent what appears to be some sort of eruption of energy on the part of a crowd. I figured today I’d post a bit of the musical highlights(?) of the songs often heard at a BYU Cougar Football home game.

Here we have the traditional fight song, ever school has got one, this one is theirs.
Cougar Fight Song

What is it about Gary Glitter in an arena that gets everyone going??
Rock and Roll (Part 2)|Gary Glitter

This is one of the newer stadium tunes that seems to get people screaming “Woo-Hoo!”
Song 2|Blur

This one is usually only brought on by the crowd when the score seems to be tilting heavily in the home favor.
We Will Rock You|Queen

Here’s one that is brought out in the event of a very slow fourth quarter and is quite unique to the crazy mormon town that is Provo – including people randomly jumping throughout the crowd with an appearance of human popcorn.
Popcorn Popping

59-0

So BYU now has a 13 game winning streak. I really enjoyed being at Saturday’s game. I must admit I lost most of my voice singing the fight song (nine times). There were a surprisingly large amount of fans still in the stadium at the end of the college game, just to make sure that UCLA never did score a point. I’ve been at louder games and probably more fun ones, but that game was a great combination of great Defense and superb Offense and both of these combines for some good luck as well. Last week there didn’t seem to be any luck going the Cougars way, until the final minutes. But Saturday showed the nation that blocking kicks wasn’t a fluke and that there was possibly a very good team in the Mountain West. I did get a bit of a sunburn, but it was well worth watching a football game to remember. The image here is from the LA Times prior to the game, I thought it was too funny to pass up posting.

Be True To Your School|The Beach Boys
Pom Pom Play Girl|The Beach Boys
Shut Down|The Beach Boys

BYU Football pics

I was at the BYU game this weekend and I took some pictures and I thought I’d share with anyone who cared to see them. You can click on any of them for a larger view.
It was a fun game, but the second half was quite boring. At the end of the first half it was BYU 40, SDSU 3. The final was 47 to 17.
Click on any picture to view a larger version.





BYU vs. Tulsa

Well I’m off to Provo. I’m going down to the BYU football game tomorrow. I’ve had some great times at the cougar football games over the years and this is always a fun time of year when the leaves start to change and there’s a chill in the air early in the mornings, if i happen to be awake to notice. Well, here’s a few songs to get you going for the games this weekend, whatever team you cheer for.

Cougar Fight Song
Mudfootball – Jack Johnson
Speach from Rudy – Samwise Gamgee