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Walk-On [124]
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The Myth of SCar "traditions"
Mar 17, 2015, 11:15 AM
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This post > http://www.tigernet.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1448457&tstart=0 prompted me to think of all of South Carolina's so called traditions.
All of the below "traditions" were actually used and made popular by someone else.
Oops
So let's begin: ------------- SC "Tradition": 2001 Entrance music played before sporting events
Actual Origin: 1. 2001 Space Odyssey: 1960s Scifi Movie > http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2388329497
2. Wrestler Ric Flair: Entrance music > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exIorKS1ZBc
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SC "Tradition": Smoke entrance during football games
Actual Origin: Miami Hurricanes > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pZ607SmKs Go to 0:40 -------------
SC "Tradition": Waving white flags at football games (also that usually means "we surrender")
Actual Origin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Power
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SC "Tradition": Calling themselves USC
Actual Origin: The University of Southern Cal > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/usc_vs_usc.php
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SC "Tradition": Hand gesture "Showing spurs"
Actual origin: It means "Hang loose" in Hawaii > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign -------------
In fact there is only one tradition they did not beg, borrow, or steal from somewhere else... That is the chicken as a mascot. That is having a flightless bird as their mascot that is synonymously used to describe someone as being a coward. They did this and then chose to name that bird a name that would eventually become more well known as a male body part... to which they design cheers around yelling that word aloud.. thousands of people at a time.
So... yeah. Ill step off my soapbox now.
- TP
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All-TigerNet [14233]
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Good work.
Mar 17, 2015, 2:58 PM
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Solid evidence.
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Well done!***
Mar 17, 2015, 3:24 PM
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Best thing is
Mar 17, 2015, 3:32 PM
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they took their chicken mascot and put it in a dress. Now San Francisco isn't the only place in this country where men cheer wildly for a #### in a dress.
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Orange Blooded [3507]
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Haha! Well done!***
Mar 17, 2015, 3:36 PM
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Re: The Myth of SCar "traditions"
Mar 17, 2015, 3:38 PM
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Too much wiki use, B-
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Re: The Myth of SCar "traditions"
Mar 17, 2015, 5:29 PM
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Actually the use of wiki is appropriate for scar since they just make chit up all the time and claim its true
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Walk-On [124]
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Re: The Myth of SCar "traditions"
Mar 17, 2015, 3:39 PM
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Don't forget the so called "tradition" of their mascot appearing from behind a shower curtain inside a cage like some bad magic trick.
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Cage? I thought it was a jail cell, symbolic of who they are.***
Mar 17, 2015, 3:59 PM
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Orange Blooded [3507]
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Re: Cage? I thought it was a jail cell symbolic of who they are.***
Mar 17, 2015, 4:02 PM
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lol. Symbolic of who they are, as well as a foreshadowing effect of what to look forward to after(if) graduation.
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Actually....
Mar 17, 2015, 3:48 PM
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$CU's "tradition" of playing the song "2001 a Space Oduyssey" as the entrance music before sporting events was proposed by that idiot Tommy Suggs after he heard it played at the beginning of an Elvis Pressley concert he attended.
True story.
That said, the point of your post is entirely accurate. Nothing they do is original, but rather stolen for some other source.
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All-TigerNet [14921]
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"2001" was actually like quadruple stolen:
Mar 17, 2015, 3:53 PM
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Also Sprach Zarathustra:
Strauss composition, based on a Nietzsche work, used in a 60s Sci-Fi movie, co-opted by fat-era Elvis, stolen by USuCk.
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Their mascot is named after the racist criminal Thomas Sumter.
Mar 17, 2015, 4:06 PM
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This excerpt below, from Wikipedia, gives evidence that they chose the correct mascot and still, to this day, exhibit those same unacceptable behaviors much like their namesake Thomas "Carolina Gamecock" Sumter.
"Upon returning to the colonies, Sumter became stranded in South Carolina due to financial difficulties. He petitioned the colony for reimbursement of his travel expenses, but was denied. He was subsequently imprisoned for debt in Virginia. When his friend and fellow soldier Joseph Martin arrived in Staunton, Martin asked to spend the night with Sumter in jail. Martin gave Sumter 10 guineas and a tomahawk. Sumter used the money to buy his way out of jail in 1766.[17] When Martin and Sumter were reunited some 30 years later, Sumter repaid the money.
Sumter settled in Stateburg in the High Hills of Santee in the Claremont (later Sumter) District. He married Mary Jameson in 1767, and together they opened several small businesses and became successful plantation owners. "
We all know what plantation owners kept onsite. Slaves !
Change your mascot now SCAR ! ! !
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That's a "racist criminal"?
Mar 17, 2015, 4:12 PM
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If Usuc had had any sense their mascot would be a soldier on horseback. Then, every few years when they don;t suck and they play on TV, it's an opportunity to teach a little history about the State of SC's Rev War heroes.
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Legend [18708]
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They're happy with shower curtains, fire extinguishers and a chicken.
Mar 17, 2015, 4:13 PM
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and don't forget.............
Mar 17, 2015, 4:21 PM
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"Asphalt Lovin'"
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Hey "Popp"...that was good, real good & shows them as Birds!
Mar 17, 2015, 4:30 PM
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GoTiGERS..keep RoCKing & wearing that beautiful ORANGE which the Coots hate!
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Brilliant.***
Mar 19, 2015, 11:59 AM
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Is USC the only University with a Queer mascot
Mar 19, 2015, 4:18 PM
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a rooster in a dress coming out of the tent/closet each Saturday
something everyone wants to see and have their children see at all the games.
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Re: You're wrong on #1.
Mar 19, 2015, 5:30 PM
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I will agree with this as well. "Also Sprach Zarathrusta" is a piece by Richard Strauss! But stolen none the less.
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Re: The Myth of SCar "traditions"
Mar 19, 2015, 5:27 PM
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CORRECTION!!!!
The "Fighting Gamecock(s)"
The nickname was given to Gen. Thomas Sumter, name sake of the city and county Sumter AND founder of the township, Stateburg; a place that was one vote shy of being the state's capital after Charleston....So the Sumter High School Gamecocks actually own the namesake of the Gamecock. Not the school in the city of Columbia.....
So in theory, the University of South Carolina stole, beg, and borrowed all their "traditions!"
You're welcome!
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