Beating A Five Loss Team Makes The Red Raiders Jump Around

I think it’s a mini tradition that they do in every 4th quarter in Lubbock. Of course, nobody does it quite like they do in Madison, and everyone else is just doing a bad job of copying:

From City Dictionary:

“Jump Around” is not only the party smash hit by House of Pain, but is also a student section tradition at the Wisconsin Badger football games. Every home game, right before the start of the 4th quarter, the speakers sound “daaaaah, dah, dah, duuuuuuuh.” And then the entire student section—including the marching band behind the north end zone—starts to literally jump around and shake the entire stadium. To start off the 2003 season the Wisconsin Athletic Department actually banned the Jump Around ritual due to concerns of the compromised structural integrity of Camp Randall Stadium as a result. After widespread student outcry, Jump Around was brought back and has been going strong ever since.

Some enterprising young UW-Madison Geophysical students looked at seismograph readings, and realized that the jumping produces a frequency of about 2 hertz:

Being born a Badger, I’ve got to stick up for home state tradition ;)

If you don’t like other teams pissing on your grave in the 4th quarter of an absolute blowout (and #22 and #2 in your defensive secondary should be HUMILIATED for their “effort” in the game" then don’t rub it in on teams when they come to town and you blow them out.

OU is now 15-16 in games outside of the State of Oklahoma since the USC drubbing in the Orange Bowl.

Give me a break. This whole post is a joke. Don’t play the victim and take on the holier than thou attitude AFTER the fact. And in 2007, when Tech beat OU and could’ve ruined their Big12 championship hopes (before UT shit the bed against aTm), Tech wasn’t playing “Jump Around” and rubbing it in. This started in Norman after they apparently copied someone else.

All they are is a five loss team whose greatest opportunity right now is possibly an opportunity to go to El Paso to play in the Sun Bowl.

That is not all OU is. They started out the season at #3 and have dominated the conference for many years now. You’ve had a difficult season, but that happens to teams occasionally. Tech has had a very up-and-down season also, dealing with injuries and other things. Hell, they lost to aTm at home. Finishing the year at home with a dominating performance over a traditional power was very satisfying, for the seniors especially.

Obviously the main motivation was to provide that, “in your face” moment against a team that did the same thing while taking away the Red Raiders first legitimate shot at a Big 12 Championship and possibly a BCS title game birth.

You think so? That game left a very bitter taste in the mouth of the Red Raiders. I’m pretty sure it felt good to get a monkey off their back by beating the team that knocked them down a peg last year.

It doesn’t matter if you’re having a “down” year. If you do something like blare “Jump Around” while on your way to a 40 point win, I think it’s fair to say that the players were a little pissed off. Just like the1austin said, what goes around, comes around.

I don’t care what you do to celebrate, personally. But if you are going to dish it out while you’re on top, be prepared to take it in while you’re getting your ass handed to you. Pretty soon, when you rise to the top again, you can very deservedly dish it out again.

This was obviously payback for last year. Nothing more, nothing less. Don’t act like you are above this due to your conference drubbing this year. Poor sportsmanship……