Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Spectrum

Anyone who has never experienced the awesome-ness that is the inside of the Spectrum on game nights is missing out on the greatest experience of their lives. Utah State basketball games are one of my favorite things to attend. They are magic. The atmosphere inside the spectrum is electric. Half of the Spectrum is filled up just by students every game night. Every student knows all the cheers and are great at doing them in unison. Then there's the fight song and the Scotsman, also crowd-favorites. Everyone in the stadium claps and sings and herds and milks the cows (yeah, we're awesome!) One of my favorite cheers is:

I
I believe
I believe that
I believe that we
I believe that we will win.
We repeat this several times while jumping up and down. and EVERYONE jumps up and down, at the SAME time! It looks so awesome!

then there's the UP BY TWENTY (or thirty) cheer, that one's always fun. And when someone airballs, we like to remind them of their folly by yelling "Airball, airball" every time they touch the ball.

Then there's Wild Bill. If you haven't heard of Wild Bill, just look him up. You've been missing out. He is quite the character, and we love him! He even made ESPN's number one on the "10 top not plays"! Very exciting.

And when we win (notice the WHEN, not if) We like to point out to the team that we are the winning team and that they are the losing team by repeatedly pointing back and forth between our team and theirs and saying "winning team, losing team, winning team, losing team." Just so they don't forget!

Ah. The spectrum is magical. Aggie Basketball, I will miss you. Until next year...

9 comments:

Michelle said...

Glad you are enjoying college life. I could never get into those things because I think half of them are rude (air-ball, left-right as they walk off the court, etc.) but I think I'm the exception.

Megs said...

yeah, you're probably right. There are two cheers that I refuse to do because of how rude they are.

Marcus Morrison said...

so sad that it was the last game last night! and agreed the "you suck" and "stupid" cheers i could do without but everything else is simply amazing! only 7 1/2 months till the next home game!

Amberly said...

I spent the weekend up there and went to the last game, and I have to say, that was the most I've ever been involved in a basketball game I think!! So much fun though!!

Megs said...

Marcus! I love that you knew what ones I was talking about!

Anonymous said...

Man I LOVE Aggie basketball! GO AGGIES!

Jaycey said...

My favorite is the "winning team losing team"

brittany michelle said...

a lot of people are getting excited about the scoreboard cheer. I wish people could see the "I believe" cheer, too.

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