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Oculus Spirit [97704]
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Next thing you know they'll kill the circus.
Jul 27, 2018, 10:31 PM
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Oh wait. They did.
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Oculus Spirit [83073]
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Who cares? Balloons are kind of ghey.***
Jul 27, 2018, 10:51 PM
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CU Medallion [50635]
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not if they loaded them with plastic straws***
Jul 28, 2018, 1:21 PM
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All-In [25721]
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Re: Beat me to the punch***
Jul 28, 2018, 1:51 PM
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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I don't get it. It's just some freaking balloons
Jul 27, 2018, 10:59 PM
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Seems like a waste of time and money to me
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Legend [18018]
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It is, but while not as irrational as Tig, I will miss them
Jul 27, 2018, 11:12 PM
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they were a BIG part of the atmosphere that I grew up experiencing and why I love the team. But, like most of the city itself, most of what I grew up in is gone now so I'll learn to live with this change too when I visit for games or to visit family.
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Heisman Winner [135824]
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Going back to the nearly ballon free days of the early 80s
Jul 27, 2018, 11:12 PM
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We broke the record for most balloons launched at one game and had them maybe 2 other times in the 5 years I was there and the games were still pretty dang exciting.
I personally filled a couple of hundred of those record breaking balloons. Was at the stadium at 7 am hangover and all. Guy to girl ratio at the filling party was excellent- went out with my “tank partner” a few times. Fun stuff being new and different made it special. Doing it for every game has kind of knocked the shine off of it.
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All-In [49031]
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Really?
Jul 27, 2018, 11:16 PM
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It's not what it used to be anyway. They sued to give them out to everyone in the stands and release hundreds more in bulk. The sky used to be darkened by balloons. Early man would have worshipped the people who made the sun disappear.
Lately it's been pretty anemic. Hardly worth killing turtles.
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Oculus Spirit [97704]
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More turtles have been killed
Jul 27, 2018, 11:29 PM
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Run over by cars transporting 80,000 people to and from the games,than by the balloons.
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All-In [49031]
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Yeah, was joking about the turtles
Jul 27, 2018, 11:32 PM
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still don't care about the balloons
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Re: #### the #### #### ##### sons of ####### who banned the***
Jul 27, 2018, 11:47 PM
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All-TigerNet [12098]
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There’s a helium shortage
Jul 28, 2018, 7:21 AM
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The turtles are a smokescreen to prevent a worldwide panic.
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Commissioner [941]
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Re: #### the #### #### ##### sons of ####### who banned the
Jul 28, 2018, 7:59 AM
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Line the bottom of the hill (field side) with maybe 100 large, vinyl re-usable helium-filled balloons; tether them at various heights up to 100 feet; let them go up when the cannon booms … and then bring them back down and deflate. I'm sure they could find 50-100 volunteers to do this quickly.
AND/OR ... get about 20 24-foot "air dancers" made to look like tigers, and turn the fans on super-high speed when the cannon goes off. Surely they can come up with something like this to replace the balloons … albethey less exciting options. Think, people think!
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CU Medallion [60216]
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in all honesty, it had gotten really lame in recent years
Jul 28, 2018, 8:11 AM
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balloons had been reduced to such an insignificant amount, they seem to never release then on time, or one side would do it before the other......something to wack it up.
It had seen its best days and was a shell of the tradition it used to be.
I'm not that tore up about it.
But I must say this was one of the coolest spectacles I ever witnessed.....
https://youtu.be/iDjuRuNxjoU
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Oculus Spirit [93658]
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I disagree.
Jul 28, 2018, 8:51 AM
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A red hot poker would be better for them to #### themselves with.
Message was edited by: ClemsonTiger1988®
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Heisman Winner [119687]
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Oculus Spirit [97704]
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I UDP. Don't Ifone***
Jul 28, 2018, 12:15 PM
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All-TigerNet [10938]
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All-In [40344]
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Pyrotechnics is the only suitable replacement***
Jul 28, 2018, 3:49 PM
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