Best Tradition in College Football: There is a Children's Hospital that overlooks the field for the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the first quarter of every home game, everyone in the stadium turns around and waves at the kids that can see the game from the top floors of the hospital.
It really is awesome watching all the families in the hospital sitting at the windows watching the game. When those kids start smiling and waving back tears me up every time.
You have to understand in other countries college sport means nothing, even in a big match you'd be lucky if a handful of people would show up and it would never be broadcast.
@@LumberjackMC our population is much bigger than the UK, few cities in the United States have professional teams. The NFL was formed in 1920 and has only 32 teams in 30 cities so this isn't like how a lot of UK towns have some level of a professional team that has a opportunity to promote to the EPL, every state in the USA has major colleges that started playing amateur football in the 1800s before the NFL existed so in the areas that aren't those 30 NFL cities college football has continued to completely take over. It actually took the NFL decades to play catch up to college footballs popularity when the league first started. People didn't start taking the NFL seriously until the 1950s and obviously now it's grown to be our biggest professional league but since college football is older, is more geographically wide spread and built up all that tradition before the NFL even existed that's one reason it's so popular and how id probably explain how college vs professional football got to this point to someone not American trying to understand it. It helps we give College Football Saturdays and NFL Sundays as our days to watch also so there is no major conflicting schedule to major college and NFL games.
The Irish have green jerseys, but they only wear them on special occasions. Their helmets are plain gold because they are meant to mirror the golden dome that tops the administration building on the Notre Dame campus. The song they’re playing when the team runs on the field is the Notre Dame fight song. They play a song called, “Here Come the Irish” just before kickoff, which is followed by the Dropkick Murphy’s, “Shipping off the Boston”. The Irish are my team! Glad you watched this one.
The Notre Dame fight song is actually called "The Victory March" and like all Notre Dame fans I love the Dropkick Murphys song before kickoff. I live 30 minutes north of South bend and had a blast going to the spring game back in April.
The band used to line up at the top of the tunnel, with the drum line and Irish Guard (over 8-feet tall with their hats) at the top of the ramp. When the Irish team came up the ramp after warm-ups, we would play the Notre Dame Victory March in the tunnel. When the other team came up, we stood deathly quiet at full attention staring them down. Too bad my drum line days were during the Willingham era…
In most of the American states, the single highest-paid state employee is the head football coach at the largest public university. THAT is how seriously Americans treat college football.
I'm glad you're so impressed with Ralphie. Yes, she's a girl. They couldn't handle a bull buffalo. The University of Colorado team is called the Buffaloes, hence the live bison/buffalo. I'm so happy that one of these team entrance UA-cams has finally included Ralphie. She's thrilling to see in person.
The reason that collegiate-level sports are so popular in the United States is because (other than baseball), that's where sport really got started here. They were centered on educational institutions rather than individual sport clubs. The players are all students, so the roster is in flux annually as they age out and graduate. This also had (and continues to have) the advantage of instantly including fellow students and alumni into the fan base. Many of these universities are enormous, with thousands of students. School pride is a remarkable thing and continues beyond just what town or city you live in later in life.
He hasn't even touched on the military academies that have sky divers landing on the 50 yard line with the game ball, cannons going off, helicopters, and fighter jets flying over the stadium, cadets doing push-ups after touch downs in the stands and sideline.
Not an entrance, but the peregrines they'd bring out at halftime at Air Force Academy games were impressive. Swooping over your head close enough you feel like you can almost touch them... it is an experience.
LSU is Louisiana State, people have ties to their universities and whole family traditions to them. They have different uniforms for home and away games. This is so fun. If you come to my state in February (Fur Rendezvous time) you can run the street with reindeer. Yeah America is weird.
I would recommend anyone wanting to experience a fun and the best food on the planet, go to LSU and tailgate with other fans. On GameDay, there can be around 300,000 people on campus.
One unique thing they didn't show in the LSU section was Mike the Tiger, the live tiger mascot. They park his cage by the entrance to the field the visiting team uses.
Well not always. They started with males, but eventually they get too big, strong, and temperamental, to fast. Then they changed to female buffaloes but kept the name.
We are compared to everyone and hated by everyone yet the world breaks down our doors to live here, then they want to change it all to match the crap they fled from. Explain that.
I have to disagree with wanting to change us to be like the places they fled from. Most immigrants embrace our culture, and add to the existing culture, which makes us very different from everyone else in the world. One of the reasons why our food kicks arse is because of the immigrants adding to it, same with our pop culture (music, film, etc). You add that all together in the melting pot that is the USA, and you get some great results. So as we say at USC, Fight On! ✌🏻🇺🇸🇮🇪
The history of animal mascots in CFB are nuts. Baylor used to have a real life bear, LSU’s Mike the Tiger chooses whether or not to come to canes, and the Louisiana Tech are the bulldogs because of a heroic dog that gave its life saving undergrads from a boarding house fire in 1899.
I am a Florida Gator fan and before the team runs out on the field there are gigantic screens at both ends of the stadium that has a video of alligators in the swamp that start surfacing while the music to Jaws is playing. When the team runs out the noise level is unbelievable. FYI the current punter is Jeremy Crawshaw from New South Wales, Australia. A lot of the college football teams have Australian kickers for punters.
America is an idea. It can't care about anything, or take any actions. People would do well to learn as individuals, (the only way to learn) collectivism is imaginary. Even the wisest sounding statements about any collective, are stories. To quote my old friend John, "What we? You got a turd in your pocket?"
Also in Texas our High school stadiums are huge too for just HS. In Montgomery County north of Houston. We have Woodforest Stadium for one of the top school districts in the nation called CISD. First game for football is usually on TV against Mexicos only team Monterey Tech 😂 and we kick there ass
Yes, there are some good ones. But you are correct that Ralphie 's entrance is in its own class. And she may be a bison, but the team is the Buffaloes. :-)
Camp Randall Stadium in Wisconsin was so loud during "Jump Around" in the first game back after it was shut down for 2 years because of the virus that it registered as an earthquake on the richter scale.
That was a great reaction. Ralphie is getting ready, makes an appearance, our man is like "What... the.. f'fffffff... " then realized he needed to cut himself off.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video especially your surprise at seeing the bison. Pure gold. There’s also a great college rivalry called The Army-Navy game. The two teams are the United States Military Academy (West Point) (Army) and the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) (Navy). This rivalry has been played out since 1890. Also, these teams play other college teams including the United States Air Force Academy. When you get a chance I’d love to see your reaction to “The Flyover: America’s Greatest Pregame Tradition”.
Every college has a fight song/alma mater. It is very traditional for college football teams to enter the field to the school fight song. That’s why you didn’t hear a typical Irish folk song for Notre Dame.
A couple of students from ND came up the the Irish's fight song having been influenced by Michigan's "Hail to the Victors Valiant." I think they actually out did Michigan.
The origin of the nickname 'Fighting Irish' is not specifically known, by my favorite explanation is, 'Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates - who happened to have names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan - “What’s the matter with you guys? You’re all Irish and you’re not fighting worth a lick.”
6:55 You are absolutely correct. Gatorade was the commercial product developed from the electrolyte solution used to support the Florida Gator's football team. (I only know this from what I've read online.)
Florida as much of the south east is very humid and players were cramping up. So scientists at the school came up with an electrolyte solution we all know today as Gatorade. NFL has fans College Football is pure passion.
As for other live mascots, Auburn University is the Tigers, but the cry is "War Eagle!", and before home games they release a golden eagle which circles the stadium and returns to the handler on the field.
Im from Iowa and attended the UofI for 2 years before I was drafted. I agree with newgirl that the salute to the children's hospital is one of the most touching traditions in college football. The hospital wasn't built yet when I was there.
Penn state university has the single greatest experience you'll ever have especially if you go to their "whiteout" game...if you ever do go just make sure you wear white🤣
lol yeah the CU Buffs. (Buffaloes) hence bringing out the bison/American buffalo. The seating changes because a lot of the time in stadiums you will get bench seating instead of individual seats so it's subjective to interpretation on how full they are.
Even as an FSU fan, what Iowa does to lift the spirits of the children at the Children's Hospital gets me every time. It's something so damn awesome seeing the entire stadium turn on the lights on their phones and wave to the hospital.
If you were shocked by a bison on the field, you might be interested to know that LSU has a live tiger as its mascot. Mike the tiger would be in a cage on a wagon by the visiting locker room until the mid 2000s, now Mike stays in his multi-million dollar habitat.
If Colorado's buffalo blows your mind, LSU keeps a live tiger on campus as a mascot. They even used to put in front the visiting team's locker room during home games.
The Florida Gators first football game was in 1906. The Buffalo Bills first football game was in 1960. The Bills look like the Gators... not the other way around :):) College football is much much older than pro football.
A lot of NFL teams took their colors from Colleges like the Green Bay Packers got their colors from Notre Dame. Chicago Bears colors are after University of Illinois. Lambeau and Halas went to those 2 colleges so they stole their colors when they made the teams.
College football is hugely popular…..as is high school football. In Austin,Texas there’s a has HS team that is sponsored by Lexus and a few HS Texas stadiums have a capacity near 50,000.
@Patrol Nation Notre Dame has Golden Helmets as an Homage to the Golden Dome on their Cathedral (Notre Dame is a Religious 'Catholic' Institution) of Higher Learning.
the largest NFL stadium seats around 82,000 people(NY Giants and Jets), the largest college stadium seats over 107,000(University of Michigan) with 7 others also seating over 100k
True, but NFL stadiums use a ton more of individual seating where as College stadiums use much more bleacher seating which allows higher capacity. The individual seating in pro stadiums take up much more room than bleacher seating which does not have armrests.
Utah has a smallish stadium at just over 51,000 but it's one of the loudest. We love our Aussie players that have come over to play for our team the last dozen years!
1. University of Washington, Husky Stadium, Alaska Airlines Field (I will no longer include corporate names for stadiums or fields, it's offensive), Seattle, Washington. The team is known as the Huskies. Capacity 70k. 2. Louisiana State University, Tiger Stadium, no Field name, Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Also known as "Death Valley" like Clemson, who are also Tigers for some reason. Likely the loudest stadium on earth (especially at night), with the seismic lab on campus backing it up with measurements. I've attended 3 games here and can attest, bring hearing protection. There is a fierce competition to be the drunkest in the stadium. Seats 102k drunk cajuns and their friends (whom they have corrupted). 4. The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Beaver Stadium, Beaver Field (these terms are used interchangeably, referring to the same place), State College, Pennsylvania. This game is one of their hooks called a "White-out" where all the fans wear white. The team is known as the Nittany Lions. Capacity 106k and change. 5. Yes, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Stadium, no one cares Field. The team is known as the Fighting Irish and the most consistently overrated team in college football. They tap on the sign to remember to win. Famous for arguing that Alabama is not better and failing. Capacity 77k. They'd love 77,777 I'm sure. 6. THE Ohio State University, Ohio Stadium, Corporate Name Field, Columbus, Ohio. Seats 102k worth of arrogant fans. Just ask them, they'll tell you. Don't forget the THE. They do a thing with their marching band called "dotting the I". 7. University of Colorado, Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado. The team is known as the Buffaloes or just Buffs. That is a real female bison and her name is Ralphie. The people you see running are part of the 15 people who turn in 20 hours a week caring for her. Capacity 50k. 8. University of Texas, Darrel K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium, Campbell-Williams Field, Austin, Texas. The team is known as the Longhorns, because they like cattle. They have a live longhorn steer they bring to games, which tried to attack the University of Georgia's live mascot, Uga, a bulldog. Capacity 100k, but they'll cram 105k in for teams like the Tide. Ask them how they liked that day. 9. University of Florida, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Steve Spurrier-Florida Field Gainesville, Florida. Yeah, too long a name for Floridians, so it's univerally called "The Swamp" since that's what Coach Spurrier named it. Team is known as the Gators. Dr. Robert Cade invented gatorade here in 1965. Capacity 91k Florida Mans.
College football is huge. Way more entertaining than the pros. Rivalries go back over one hundred years. Michigan vs. Notre Dame, Michigan vs. Ohio State, etc...
3:52 the notre dame fight song is playing, my math teacher was a ND fan and taught us the quadratic formula to the tune of the song and its still stuck with me. " X equals negative b, plus or minus squarrre root, b squared minus 4 a c, all of that over, 2, a"
The bison (aka "buffalo") for Colorado was one of many animals that used to be in attendance for games. I know the Gators had a gator in a cage on the sideline up into the 1970's. And yes, Dr. Cade developed Gatorade along with hydration fluids for hospitalized patients with kidney failure and similar issues. I'm pretty sure LSU (in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans) had a tiger in residence back in the day as well.
Notre Dame pulls out the green jerseys only for the most important & special games. They enter to their fight song, Notre Dame Victory March written by brothers who graduated from UND, one became a priest. Song was written around 1908. My grandad was class of 1923. Very loyal, generational fan base.
Notre Dame alum here! ND has green alternate uniforms but they are blue and gold for the colors of the Virgin Mary (catholic school). Additionally the gold helmets match the golden dome of the main building on campus. The school was actually founded by French priests but got the nickname/mascot later on. The origin of the name isn’t totally known, some say it was an insult in some papers that they played like a bunch of fighting Irishman and they embraced it, some say it’s from some Irish students who made up some brigades in the civil war, some say it’s from the football team (a lot of Irish Catholics there) back in the day breaking up a KKK rally and beating up and chasing the members out of town. There are a lot of Irish things about the university, but the fight song isn’t one. Great school, very storied program, and a good game day!
I am a born and raised Ohian… GO BUCKS!!! I will say- My 2nd favorite College Football Entrance is Florida State University with Chief Osceola and Renegade… I am part Cherokee Indian; so hearing the War Chant with Osceola and Renegade really gets me fired up and smiling.
I'm a Big USC Trojan Fan! they didn't have their entrance in the 2 videos you watched but, I'm just as hyped when they do come out of the tunnel!!! Also a few year ago I started watching Footie!!! AFL. I picked my team because I liked their look and the next year they had won the Grand Final! GO CATTERS!!! We are GEELONG!!! One day I will be at Kardinia Park if I can finish my bucket list!!!
1:20 LSU is in Louisiana,Baton Rouge the state Capital hence Louisiana State University. Also a fun fact LSU was origanally In Alexandria as Louisiana Military Academy. It's First University President was William Tecumsah Sherman. The same guy who burned Atlanta during the Civil War. Oh Also LSU has a live animal mascot as do most Schools Mike the Tiger.
Yes Sir, Ralphie is a Bison. The one in the clip was V, VI is taking the field nowadays. If you can, try and find a clip of Alan Cass announcing her entrance (his voice is second only to Bob Sheppard in the "God Voice" category). We have females because 1600 pounds is hard enough to control. It has been more than 40 years since one broke loose and went to the crowd, usually they just finish their run and go in to the trailer on the own. The students who Handle her earn athletic letters at the end of the year. They leave a chute behind the east corner of the north end zone, trailer is parked in a similar location on the other side. When they are grown they can hit the 10 yard line, I remember seeing a couple of 5 yard line runs in my youth. ~200 yards, in 30 seconds. They also go out in the pasture and "chase" her on motorcycles for a couple of hours to wear her out before they trailer her to the stadium (yes, that is a tired Buffalo dragging those 5 Handlers around the stadium). She is frequently ranked the #1 Live Mascot in College Football. I haven't met this one (yet), but her personality is starting to emerge and I believe she will be great. Soft heart human interest BS: She, as all have been, is an orphan. Born on a ranch, and mom walked away leaving her for the predators and death itself. She is very well taken care of.
It is actually the Buffalo Bill's that took their color scheme from the University of Florida. UF football dates back to 1906, the Bills were founded in 1959. That is actually the case with most NFL teams. College football predates the NFL or any professional league.
I am a proud Miami Hurricane. if you want to look at a great band. The Texas A and M band is the best hands down in the country. Funny story I was a high school football official. Before a state championship game we had a team that had a ram for a mascot. When they came out the ram ran in front of them and I asked how they trained the ram to do that. They told me they had a female ram at the other end zone in a pen and he was running to try and get to her.
It's May in Georgia, and I am starving for college football. Your reactions to the utter spectacle of the best game on Earth brings me joy and makes me smile. Thank you! Cannot wait until the next one you post. Have a fab weekend and Go Dawgs!! xo
Yep - it's an actual bison ("Ralphie"), which has been our mascot (University of Colorado Golden Buffaloes) forever. She charges onto the field with the players behind her. IMHO, it's the best scene in college football. Love you videos!!!
Notre Dame was actually founded by French Catholics and they chose gold for the church and blue for Mary. The association with the Irish (green) came later, originally as an insult, but was adopted as a badge of honor. Today Notre Dame incorporates green into their identity regularly.
5:08 as a CU student this is ralphie, our beloved Buffalo. She runs twice every home game, once at the very start and a second time after halftime. The crowd is often more excited for her than touchdowns. Ralphie herself is halfway domesticated, she’s comfortable around humans especially ones she’s around a lot, handlers and runners. However I would not advice trying to pet her, she’s fluffy but deadly 1000% should’ve been in part one
There is a lot of money tied up in College Football. First getting to a BOWL game..the school gets big money..over a couple of million..2. the NFL recruits players from Colleges 3. Bands get big money too and ALUMNI donates big money to make their schools better-Sports and Academics. There are alot more ways the schools make money from sports. But heck, if you have ever been to one of college games..it is exciting.
Notre Dame's traditional colors are blue jersey with the golden dome helmet. Back in the day teams' names were acquired. Usually some sports reporter would come up with a nickname and it would catch on. ND was playing football before they acquired the name Fighting Irish. Notre Dame has an alternate green jersey. ND pretty much invented the alternate jersey, which every team has nowadays.
At 5:02, That is "Ralphie" the Buffalo. University of Colorado (known as CU) Buffaloes. I believe that they are on Ralphie V at the moment. Runs around the stadium than right into a pen. The handlers hats fly everywhere and it gets fairly chaotic.
Need to watch the Alabama Crimson Tide entrance. 103,000 in the stadium, the Million Dollar Band, ROLL TIDE spelled out on the field, coach flanked by two buff state troopers, team comes rolling out to AC/DC. Nighttime games are even more magical…
I think it’s worth noting the significance of some of the songs the bands are playing. A lot of these schools have “fight songs” so they’re often entering to a song that’s an cultural icon of their school’s history like the Notre Dame victory march
The college football community is top tier! Love the atmospheres, and even when you're the visitor, with some fun ribbing, you're still invited to partake in the tailgate (at least I've been that lucky).
seeing Penn State enter to the "We Are" chant brought me to tears. being in that stadium, especially during a White Out when we're all wearing white...is indescribable. I'll never forget my first game as a student and each game since whether as a student or alumni. I will remember Penn State Football until the day I die. NITTANY LION PRIDE!!!!!
You could do a whole other series on each bands fight songs and halftime performances ... dozens of unique songs and some of the bands will blow you away. The rivalries, rankings and history go very deep. There is alot here, definitely a US culture.
The live buffalo for Colorado is impressive, but there a lot of other colleges with live mascots; Oklahoma University are the Sooners, so they have a covered wagon with a woman and man (sometimes dressed up like Sooner pioneers) being pulled by two horses; University of Georgia has a real bulldog at the games, and University of Washington has a real Husky that attends the games; Temple University has a live Owl that is brought to the games, and the Air Force Academy has a live Falcon that is trained to perform pre-game and at half-time. He is let go and swoops down over the crowd for a few minutes until his handler signals for it to come back. Those are just a few that I know of.
For reference, Death Valley Stadium at LSU (Louisiana State University) has been unanimously recognized as the most hostile (loudest) environment to play in American sports.
Haha I’m always impressed by Ralphie the buffalo! Actually idk how many people actually know but Ralphie is a female a bull or male bison is wayyy too strong is much harder to control/condition to adjust the crowd noise. Not to mention their muscles are raw power
The North Carolina State University’s basketball stadium is used by North Carolina’s National Hockey League as their home stadium. That stadium seats 18,700 for hockey games, 19,500 for basketball games, and 21,000 for concerts. Their football stadium seats 56,919. College sports are taken very seriously here. The University of North Carolina have the nickname, The Tarheels, but their team mascot is Ramses (a ram).
Check out some college football animal mascots getting into it videos. Georgia bulldog bit an Auburn player and got into with the Texas Longhorn mascot in 2 different incidents.
As a Penn State grad, I can attest to the electricity in the air at those games. I still love going back and will be there for my first white out game this year against Washington.
Football is the biggest sport in America. They only play once a week when in season. So bc there are so few games, generally 13 in college football and 17 in the NFL regular season, the stadiums have to be big. High demand, more limited opportunities. Also, games are on the weekend which makes it accessible to more people.
Notre Dame was founded by a French religious order. Back in the 1890's, a newspaper headline, writing about the game said, the team "fought like a bunch of Irishmen". Hence the team name.
One of the schools you covered in your part 1 video was Florida State University (massive rival to the Gators), which is in the state capital, Tallahassee. The population of the city when I lived there was about 200K people. The stadium for FSU football held over 85K people. You’d often see Burt Reynolds being escorted through town to go to the games (he played for FSU before he was injured and became an actor). I lived over 2 miles from the stadium through many roads and hills and trees. We could hear the game noise from my house when it was teams like the UF Gators or Miami Hurricanes.
The official colors of The University of Notre Dame are Blue & Gold. They sometime wear a green jersey. Notre Dame first wore a green jersey in the late 1920s, to avoid confusion with the Navy's blue uniforms. The green jersey is usually worn in rivalry games.
Gotta look at the Army vs Navy football game intro with all the helicopter and plane fly overs. Also just Army home games they have people jumping out of planes and parachuting onto the field
Teams in video as listed (if it helps any): 1. Washington Huskies 2. LSU Tigers 3. Penn State Nittony Lions 4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish 5. Ohio State Buckeyes 6. Colorado Buffaloes 7. Texas Longhorns 8. Florida Gators
FYI, there are about 765 college football programs across the US (out of 3000 total colleges), though most are much smaller in terms of crowds and money. These big crowds are from the 130 members of the top-division, called Division I FBS. There is also a lesser Division I FCS, and a Division II, Division III, and a small division called NAIA.
My son officiates D1 🏈 and I've seen many, many entrances in- person. (Not to mention 100s on 📺) The best, most 🇺🇸 tingling are Army and Navy games. Don't even get me started when it's the Army v Navy game! USA does modern day spectacle pretty darn good!
Several of those stadiums are bigger than your Melbourne Cricket Ground...capacity wise. As far as the bison goes, that's Ralphie. He gets all excited before the game and they take him for a lap around the field. Texas has a longhorn steer, which is a breed of cow that they have on their sidelines. I'm pretty confident it's a steer, since UT Athletics doesn't have any balls. Georgia has an English Bulldog on their sidelines...he looks pretty chill.
The passion for football in America is incredible. So many stadiums that hold more that 90,000 people. But more amazing to me is that there are 20+ high school stadiums in the U.S. that hold 15,000 people or more. And, very few of those are in large cities.
@@BillPresson Sorry Bill. I was being overwhelmed by 8 grandchildren while trying to make this comment and totally got it wrong. Wasn't intentional. I do apologize if I offended anyone. Notre Dame please forgive me. 😢
You’re blown away by the buffalo. LSU used to bring a live tiger 🐅 into the stadium. Albeit in a cage, but he was left right next to the visiting team’s locker room.
Bro, make it to a rivalry game one day! They’re insane. Even the rivalry amongst small schools is awesome! I’m a Fresno state fan and when we play Boise every year, the atmosphere is insane! And that’s only with 40-50k people in the stands
LSU has a live tiger on campus named Mike the Tiger and he used to be wheeled out into the middle of the stadium before home games and then he would sit on the sideline during it but then we found out that doing that gave Mike anxiety so we stopped it.
Best Tradition in College Football: There is a Children's Hospital that overlooks the field for the Iowa Hawkeyes. At the end of the first quarter of every home game, everyone in the stadium turns around and waves at the kids that can see the game from the top floors of the hospital.
Agree. It’s not near the oldest or the one with the most tradition but for what it is makes it more special than any other
I cry every time.
Don't forget the kind of hospital. 👍
It really is awesome watching all the families in the hospital sitting at the windows watching the game. When those kids start smiling and waving back tears me up every time.
That is first class.
If I had a nickel for every time a non-American said, "I can't believe this is college," I'd be very wealthy. 😊
A bunch of 18-24 year old men playing football in front of an atmosphere that is rivaled to the English Premier League
You have to understand in other countries college sport means nothing, even in a big match you'd be lucky if a handful of people would show up and it would never be broadcast.
@@LumberjackMCThis atmosphere beats the hell out of the PL. A better comparison would be the Bundesliga.
@@LumberjackMC our population is much bigger than the UK, few cities in the United States have professional teams. The NFL was formed in 1920 and has only 32 teams in 30 cities so this isn't like how a lot of UK towns have some level of a professional team that has a opportunity to promote to the EPL, every state in the USA has major colleges that started playing amateur football in the 1800s before the NFL existed so in the areas that aren't those 30 NFL cities college football has continued to completely take over. It actually took the NFL decades to play catch up to college footballs popularity when the league first started. People didn't start taking the NFL seriously until the 1950s and obviously now it's grown to be our biggest professional league but since college football is older, is more geographically wide spread and built up all that tradition before the NFL even existed that's one reason it's so popular and how id probably explain how college vs professional football got to this point to someone not American trying to understand it. It helps we give College Football Saturdays and NFL Sundays as our days to watch also so there is no major conflicting schedule to major college and NFL games.
Even inflation hits the comments section. I remember when people would say, "If I had a penny".
The Irish have green jerseys, but they only wear them on special occasions. Their helmets are plain gold because they are meant to mirror the golden dome that tops the administration building on the Notre Dame campus. The song they’re playing when the team runs on the field is the Notre Dame fight song. They play a song called, “Here Come the Irish” just before kickoff, which is followed by the Dropkick Murphy’s, “Shipping off the Boston”. The Irish are my team! Glad you watched this one.
The Notre Dame fight song is actually called "The Victory March" and like all Notre Dame fans I love the Dropkick Murphys song before kickoff. I live 30 minutes north of South bend and had a blast going to the spring game back in April.
@@blumax961 Nice! We went to the Stanford/ND game a couple of years ago. The stadium was about 3/4 full of Irish fans. 😀
As an USC Alum, when we play our number 1 rival (sorry FUCLA), it’s the only time I’m not Irish, lol! 🇮🇪🍀Fight On!
They use real gold flakes is the helmet paint as well. That's why they're so shiny 🙂
The band used to line up at the top of the tunnel, with the drum line and Irish Guard (over 8-feet tall with their hats) at the top of the ramp. When the Irish team came up the ramp after warm-ups, we would play the Notre Dame Victory March in the tunnel. When the other team came up, we stood deathly quiet at full attention staring them down.
Too bad my drum line days were during the Willingham era…
In most of the American states, the single highest-paid state employee is the head football coach at the largest public university. THAT is how seriously Americans treat college football.
I'm glad you're so impressed with Ralphie. Yes, she's a girl. They couldn't handle a bull buffalo. The University of Colorado team is called the Buffaloes, hence the live bison/buffalo. I'm so happy that one of these team entrance UA-cams has finally included Ralphie. She's thrilling to see in person.
It's amazing how few of these have the Ralphie run.
You call it unbelievable- we call it "Saturday"!😂😂😂
Lol
The tailgating traditions are just as fun. Especially the rivalry games. Iron Bowl is my time of year! Roll Tide!!
So true!
Texas once tried chasing a bull the way Colorado has the bison. There’s a reason it only happened once.
True, but Bevo (the Longhorn mascot) still resides on the sideline of games. Usually in a corner of the stadium at field level.
And UGA the bulldog once tried chasing Bevo. Bad idea.
@@Chris-zg7ty Uga had more success against Mike the Tiger, many years ago. :)
@@Chris-zg7ty Bevo attacked Uga completely unprovoked. better believe payback is coming this fall
@@Chris-zg7ty wrong way round partner
The reason that collegiate-level sports are so popular in the United States is because (other than baseball), that's where sport really got started here. They were centered on educational institutions rather than individual sport clubs. The players are all students, so the roster is in flux annually as they age out and graduate. This also had (and continues to have) the advantage of instantly including fellow students and alumni into the fan base. Many of these universities are enormous, with thousands of students. School pride is a remarkable thing and continues beyond just what town or city you live in later in life.
He hasn't even touched on the military academies that have sky divers landing on the 50 yard line with the game ball, cannons going off, helicopters, and fighter jets flying over the stadium, cadets doing push-ups after touch downs in the stands and sideline.
Naval academy has a goat
Not an entrance, but the peregrines they'd bring out at halftime at Air Force Academy games were impressive. Swooping over your head close enough you feel like you can almost touch them... it is an experience.
LSU is Louisiana State, people have ties to their universities and whole family traditions to them. They have different uniforms for home and away games. This is so fun. If you come to my state in February (Fur Rendezvous time) you can run the street with reindeer. Yeah America is weird.
I would recommend anyone wanting to experience a fun and the best food on the planet, go to LSU and tailgate with other fans. On GameDay, there can be around 300,000 people on campus.
One unique thing they didn't show in the LSU section was Mike the Tiger, the live tiger mascot. They park his cage by the entrance to the field the visiting team uses.
@@Chipper6811and we make sure that you drink really good too. Well if you want to drink some alcohol
LSU is a crazy intimidating place to play. Like, “ya’all are terrifying before you bring out the live tiger” terrifying.
GO TIGERS!
Colorado Buffaloes... It's always a girl and her name is always Ralphie. Go Buffs!!
Well not always. They started with males, but eventually they get too big, strong, and temperamental, to fast. Then they changed to female buffaloes but kept the name.
The rest of the world will never understand the culture of America. We are unique!
We are compared to everyone and hated by everyone yet the world breaks down our doors to live here, then they want to change it all to match the crap they fled from. Explain that.
I have to disagree with wanting to change us to be like the places they fled from. Most immigrants embrace our culture, and add to the existing culture, which makes us very different from everyone else in the world. One of the reasons why our food kicks arse is because of the immigrants adding to it, same with our pop culture (music, film, etc). You add that all together in the melting pot that is the USA, and you get some great results. So as we say at USC, Fight On! ✌🏻🇺🇸🇮🇪
The history of animal mascots in CFB are nuts. Baylor used to have a real life bear, LSU’s Mike the Tiger chooses whether or not to come to canes, and the Louisiana Tech are the bulldogs because of a heroic dog that gave its life saving undergrads from a boarding house fire in 1899.
I am a Florida Gator fan and before the team runs out on the field there are gigantic screens at both ends of the stadium that has a video of alligators in the swamp that start surfacing while the music to Jaws is playing. When the team runs out the noise level is unbelievable. FYI the current punter is Jeremy Crawshaw from New South Wales, Australia. A lot of the college football teams have Australian kickers for punters.
Nothing like it. Go Gators!
Only gators get out alive !!
I literally cry every time. I tear up when I walk into the stadium and see the field, and again when they play the intro video
Go Gators!! 🐊
Yeah, Go Gators!
IN MY VIEW
America doesn't care about impressing anyone......We just care about Being Ourselves because we have that Freedom!
Partially true. We are also monumentally ignorant about the rest of the world--a bit too inward looking, maybe.
I disagree. We are unique because we want to be and fought many times to be this way. Stop comparing and stop hating.
America is an idea. It can't care about anything, or take any actions. People would do well to learn as individuals, (the only way to learn) collectivism is imaginary. Even the wisest sounding statements about any collective, are stories.
To quote my old friend John, "What we? You got a turd in your pocket?"
@@gregcable3250Apparently the rest of the world is pretty ignorant about America as well since so many are so unaware and amazed of American customs .
Lol we? @@gregcable3250
College football is been around for over 150 years. 50 years older than the NFL🎉 That's alot of tradition🎉❤🎉
About a hundred years older than the NFL. The NFL wasn't created until the 1960s, from the joining the AFC and NFC.
I'm sitting here on a tuseday night in October watching an aussie enjoy college football. Man, the world has deffinetly gotten smaller.
Also in Texas our High school stadiums are huge too for just HS. In Montgomery County north of Houston. We have Woodforest Stadium for one of the top school districts in the nation called CISD. First game for football is usually on TV against Mexicos only team Monterey Tech 😂 and we kick there ass
Southlake Dragons 🐉
Baylor used to have live bears on the field. Now they have a beautiful habittat on campus
Finally! You have CU Buffs with Ralphie!! We live in Denver Colorado and love watching her run! Yes, Ralphie is a female Buffalo 🦬
Ralphie is not a Buffalo. She's an American Bison.
Ralphie is a female because the males are too large and dangerous to run in the stadium.
Yes, there are some good ones. But you are correct that Ralphie 's entrance is in its own class. And she may be a bison, but the team is the Buffaloes. :-)
That stadium had A LOT of empty seats. But this was 2018 -- I imagine it's not that way now with Coach Prime in running the show.
@@gdo3510which we also call a buffalo in America
Camp Randall Stadium in Wisconsin was so loud during "Jump Around" in the first game back after it was shut down for 2 years because of the virus that it registered as an earthquake on the richter scale.
I’m a Hawkeye, and I was emotional watching the Badgers do Jump Around for the first time after lockdown! So freaking cool!
Being from Colorado and having gone to college in Colorado, ur reaction to CU's buffalo entrance has me dying
That was a great reaction. Ralphie is getting ready, makes an appearance, our man is like "What... the.. f'fffffff... " then realized he needed to cut himself off.
It’s funny because Ralphie is actually a bison not a buffalo.
@@atlhoe564 technically ya. But American bison have always colloquially been called buffalo
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video especially your surprise at seeing the bison. Pure gold. There’s also a great college rivalry called The Army-Navy game. The two teams are the United States Military Academy (West Point) (Army) and the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) (Navy). This rivalry has been played out since 1890. Also, these teams play other college teams including the United States Air Force Academy. When you get a chance I’d love to see your reaction to “The Flyover: America’s Greatest Pregame Tradition”.
This would be nice
Every college has a fight song/alma mater. It is very traditional for college football teams to enter the field to the school fight song.
That’s why you didn’t hear a typical Irish folk song for Notre Dame.
A couple of students from ND came up the the Irish's fight song having been influenced by Michigan's "Hail to the Victors Valiant." I think they actually out did Michigan.
The origin of the nickname 'Fighting Irish' is not specifically known, by my favorite explanation is, 'Another tale has the nickname originating at halftime of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. With his team trailing, one Notre Dame player yelled to his teammates - who happened to have names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn, Duffy and Ryan - “What’s the matter with you guys? You’re all Irish and you’re not fighting worth a lick.”
I thought it may relate to the 35th Irish infantry of Indiana in the civil war.
Love your reactions!
I live in South Bend, Indiana, home of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Your reaction to seeing the Bison had me crying laughing! 😂
6:55 You are absolutely correct. Gatorade was the commercial product developed from the electrolyte solution used to support the Florida Gator's football team. (I only know this from what I've read online.)
Florida as much of the south east is very humid and players were cramping up. So scientists at the school came up with an electrolyte solution we all know today as Gatorade.
NFL has fans
College Football is pure passion.
As for other live mascots, Auburn University is the Tigers, but the cry is "War Eagle!", and before home games they release a golden eagle which circles the stadium and returns to the handler on the field.
Im from Iowa and attended the UofI for 2 years before I was drafted. I agree with newgirl that the salute to the children's hospital is one of the most touching traditions in college football. The hospital wasn't built yet when I was there.
What’s crazy is that there are hundreds of games like this EVERY week during the season.
BTW, that is the state of Washington, not D.C. (they play different games in D.C.)
Go Dawgs!
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Penn state university has the single greatest experience you'll ever have especially if you go to their "whiteout" game...if you ever do go just make sure you wear white🤣
lol yeah the CU Buffs. (Buffaloes) hence bringing out the bison/American buffalo. The seating changes because a lot of the time in stadiums you will get bench seating instead of individual seats so it's subjective to interpretation on how full they are.
Even as an FSU fan, what Iowa does to lift the spirits of the children at the Children's Hospital gets me every time. It's something so damn awesome seeing the entire stadium turn on the lights on their phones and wave to the hospital.
If you were shocked by a bison on the field, you might be interested to know that LSU has a live tiger as its mascot. Mike the tiger would be in a cage on a wagon by the visiting locker room until the mid 2000s, now Mike stays in his multi-million dollar habitat.
Don't forget Texas and Bevo
Many years ago Baylor had a live bear on the field.
@@bluedogok not as cool kid
Wisconsin's Jump Around is one of my favorites.
I think its the best one!
If Colorado's buffalo blows your mind, LSU keeps a live tiger on campus as a mascot. They even used to put in front the visiting team's locker room during home games.
The Florida Gators first football game was in 1906. The Buffalo Bills first football game was in 1960. The Bills look like the Gators... not the other way around :):) College football is much much older than pro football.
A lot of NFL teams took their colors from Colleges like the Green Bay Packers got their colors from Notre Dame. Chicago Bears colors are after University of Illinois. Lambeau and Halas went to those 2 colleges so they stole their colors when they made the teams.
The Gators are blue and orange, the Bills are blue and red.
@@GlamorganManor Fair enough. They do have somewhat similar uniforms though.
College football is hugely popular…..as is high school football. In Austin,Texas there’s a has HS team that is sponsored by Lexus and a few HS Texas stadiums have a capacity near 50,000.
Notre Dame wears Madonna Blue to signify the respect for the Virgin Mary.
To further explain, that’s where the University gets its name; France for Our Lady.
Not a virgin tho
Also they sometimes wear green.
@Patrol Nation Notre Dame has Golden Helmets as an Homage to the Golden Dome on their Cathedral (Notre Dame is a Religious 'Catholic' Institution) of Higher Learning.
Also because they aren't Irish. It's in America, named after the French.
the largest NFL stadium seats around 82,000 people(NY Giants and Jets), the largest college stadium seats over 107,000(University of Michigan) with 7 others also seating over 100k
True, but NFL stadiums use a ton more of individual seating where as College stadiums use much more bleacher seating which allows higher capacity. The individual seating in pro stadiums take up much more room than bleacher seating which does not have armrests.
@@jamesmarciel5237...so college still holds more people
I think Michigan hit 110k now....I think they're like 3rd biggest attendance wise...in the world
Utah has a smallish stadium at just over 51,000 but it's one of the loudest. We love our Aussie players that have come over to play for our team the last dozen years!
1. University of Washington, Husky Stadium, Alaska Airlines Field (I will no longer include corporate names for stadiums or fields, it's offensive), Seattle, Washington. The team is known as the Huskies. Capacity 70k.
2. Louisiana State University, Tiger Stadium, no Field name, Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Also known as "Death Valley" like Clemson, who are also Tigers for some reason. Likely the loudest stadium on earth (especially at night), with the seismic lab on campus backing it up with measurements. I've attended 3 games here and can attest, bring hearing protection. There is a fierce competition to be the drunkest in the stadium. Seats 102k drunk cajuns and their friends (whom they have corrupted).
4. The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Beaver Stadium, Beaver Field (these terms are used interchangeably, referring to the same place), State College, Pennsylvania. This game is one of their hooks called a "White-out" where all the fans wear white. The team is known as the Nittany Lions. Capacity 106k and change.
5. Yes, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Stadium, no one cares Field. The team is known as the Fighting Irish and the most consistently overrated team in college football. They tap on the sign to remember to win. Famous for arguing that Alabama is not better and failing. Capacity 77k. They'd love 77,777 I'm sure.
6. THE Ohio State University, Ohio Stadium, Corporate Name Field, Columbus, Ohio. Seats 102k worth of arrogant fans. Just ask them, they'll tell you. Don't forget the THE. They do a thing with their marching band called "dotting the I".
7. University of Colorado, Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado. The team is known as the Buffaloes or just Buffs. That is a real female bison and her name is Ralphie. The people you see running are part of the 15 people who turn in 20 hours a week caring for her. Capacity 50k.
8. University of Texas, Darrel K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium, Campbell-Williams Field, Austin, Texas. The team is known as the Longhorns, because they like cattle. They have a live longhorn steer they bring to games, which tried to attack the University of Georgia's live mascot, Uga, a bulldog. Capacity 100k, but they'll cram 105k in for teams like the Tide. Ask them how they liked that day.
9. University of Florida, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Steve Spurrier-Florida Field Gainesville, Florida. Yeah, too long a name for Floridians, so it's univerally called "The Swamp" since that's what Coach Spurrier named it. Team is known as the Gators. Dr. Robert Cade invented gatorade here in 1965. Capacity 91k Florida Mans.
Win or lose, LSU will feed you the best food you've ever had. Geaux Tighas!!
@@TM-xr5ue This is true, the tailgate is best I've ever been to, gotta pace yourself for the night games though.
I was just going to point out that is indeed where Gatorade was invented, but damn man, you ran down 9 stadiums. Well done!
College football is huge. Way more entertaining than the pros. Rivalries go back over one hundred years. Michigan vs. Notre Dame, Michigan vs. Ohio State, etc...
The bison was crazy. You should see LSU. They used to wheel out a tiger in a cage with their cheerleaders sitting on top of the cage.
3:52 the notre dame fight song is playing, my math teacher was a ND fan and taught us the quadratic formula to the tune of the song and its still stuck with me. " X equals negative b, plus or minus squarrre root, b squared minus 4 a c, all of that over, 2, a"
The bison (aka "buffalo") for Colorado was one of many animals that used to be in attendance for games. I know the Gators had a gator in a cage on the sideline up into the 1970's. And yes, Dr. Cade developed Gatorade along with hydration fluids for hospitalized patients with kidney failure and similar issues. I'm pretty sure LSU (in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans) had a tiger in residence back in the day as well.
The "Bison" or Buffalo is their team mascot.
his name is Raphie
Ralphie
DUDE WE HAVE AN ACTUAL TIGER NAMED MIKE AT LSU!! LOOK IT UP WE USE TO BRING HIM OUT IN A CAGE PULLED BY A TRUCK AROUND THE STADIUM BEFORE THE GAME!💛💜🤣
Notre Dame pulls out the green jerseys only for the most important & special games. They enter to their fight song, Notre Dame Victory March written by brothers who graduated from UND, one became a priest. Song was written around 1908.
My grandad was class of 1923. Very loyal, generational fan base.
The Buffalo at Colorado State is iconic but so is the Tiger at LSU... The War Eagle at Auburn... The Gator at Florida, the list goes on 😊
Notre Dame alum here! ND has green alternate uniforms but they are blue and gold for the colors of the Virgin Mary (catholic school). Additionally the gold helmets match the golden dome of the main building on campus. The school was actually founded by French priests but got the nickname/mascot later on. The origin of the name isn’t totally known, some say it was an insult in some papers that they played like a bunch of fighting Irishman and they embraced it, some say it’s from some Irish students who made up some brigades in the civil war, some say it’s from the football team (a lot of Irish Catholics there) back in the day breaking up a KKK rally and beating up and chasing the members out of town. There are a lot of Irish things about the university, but the fight song isn’t one. Great school, very storied program, and a good game day!
I am a born and raised Ohian… GO BUCKS!!! I will say- My 2nd favorite College Football Entrance is Florida State University with Chief Osceola and Renegade… I am part Cherokee Indian; so hearing the War Chant with Osceola and Renegade really gets me fired up and smiling.
And Texas University has a longhorn for a mascot
His name is Bevo and he weighs 1,800 pounds (820 kg), 5'8" tall (1.7 m), horns are 72 inches long (183cm)
@@williamclark6555is that for the current Bevo or the last one?
Pretty sure its University of Texas or UT.
@@DrChili44not to us ags
And the Automatic Teller Machines worship a dog.
I'm a Big USC Trojan Fan! they didn't have their entrance in the 2 videos you watched but, I'm just as hyped when they do come out of the tunnel!!! Also a few year ago I started watching Footie!!! AFL. I picked my team because I liked their look and the next year they had won the Grand Final! GO CATTERS!!! We are GEELONG!!! One day I will be at Kardinia Park if I can finish my bucket list!!!
1:20 LSU is in Louisiana,Baton Rouge the state Capital hence Louisiana State University. Also a fun fact LSU was origanally In Alexandria as Louisiana Military Academy. It's First University President was William Tecumsah Sherman. The same guy who burned Atlanta during the Civil War.
Oh Also LSU has a live animal mascot as do most Schools
Mike the Tiger.
Yes Sir, Ralphie is a Bison. The one in the clip was V, VI is taking the field nowadays. If you can, try and find a clip of Alan Cass announcing her entrance (his voice is second only to Bob Sheppard in the "God Voice" category).
We have females because 1600 pounds is hard enough to control. It has been more than 40 years since one broke loose and went to the crowd, usually they just finish their run and go in to the trailer on the own.
The students who Handle her earn athletic letters at the end of the year. They leave a chute behind the east corner of the north end zone, trailer is parked in a similar location on the other side. When they are grown they can hit the 10 yard line, I remember seeing a couple of 5 yard line runs in my youth. ~200 yards, in 30 seconds. They also go out in the pasture and "chase" her on motorcycles for a couple of hours to wear her out before they trailer her to the stadium (yes, that is a tired Buffalo dragging those 5 Handlers around the stadium).
She is frequently ranked the #1 Live Mascot in College Football.
I haven't met this one (yet), but her personality is starting to emerge and I believe she will be great.
Soft heart human interest BS: She, as all have been, is an orphan. Born on a ranch, and mom walked away leaving her for the predators and death itself. She is very well taken care of.
It is actually the Buffalo Bill's that took their color scheme from the University of Florida. UF football dates back to 1906, the Bills were founded in 1959.
That is actually the case with most NFL teams. College football predates the NFL or any professional league.
The Bills are red and blue, Florida is blue and orange. Nobody copied.
I am a proud Miami Hurricane. if you want to look at a great band. The Texas A and M band is the best hands down in the country. Funny story I was a high school football official. Before a state championship game we had a team that had a ram for a mascot. When they came out the ram ran in front of them and I asked how they trained the ram to do that. They told me they had a female ram at the other end zone in a pen and he was running to try and get to her.
It's May in Georgia, and I am starving for college football. Your reactions to the utter spectacle of the best game on Earth brings me joy and makes me smile. Thank you! Cannot wait until the next one you post. Have a fab weekend and Go Dawgs!! xo
Notre Dame has a "Golden Dome" on one of their signature buildings hence why theyre called the "Golden Domers"
Yep - it's an actual bison ("Ralphie"), which has been our mascot (University of Colorado Golden Buffaloes) forever. She charges onto the field with the players behind her. IMHO, it's the best scene in college football. Love you videos!!!
Notre Dame was actually founded by French Catholics and they chose gold for the church and blue for Mary. The association with the Irish (green) came later, originally as an insult, but was adopted as a badge of honor. Today Notre Dame incorporates green into their identity regularly.
In 1991, at the University of Washington, the crowd set a then worlds record for crowd noise. It was an amazing experience to feel all that energy!!
5:08 as a CU student this is ralphie, our beloved Buffalo. She runs twice every home game, once at the very start and a second time after halftime. The crowd is often more excited for her than touchdowns. Ralphie herself is halfway domesticated, she’s comfortable around humans especially ones she’s around a lot, handlers and runners. However I would not advice trying to pet her, she’s fluffy but deadly
1000% should’ve been in part one
There is a lot of money tied up in College Football. First getting to a BOWL game..the school gets big money..over a couple of million..2. the NFL recruits players from Colleges 3. Bands get big money too and ALUMNI donates big money to make their schools better-Sports and Academics. There are alot more ways the schools make money from sports. But heck, if you have ever been to one of college games..it is exciting.
Notre Dame's traditional colors are blue jersey with the golden dome helmet. Back in the day teams' names were acquired. Usually some sports reporter would come up with a nickname and it would catch on. ND was playing football before they acquired the name Fighting Irish. Notre Dame has an alternate green jersey. ND pretty much invented the alternate jersey, which every team has nowadays.
At 5:02, That is "Ralphie" the Buffalo. University of Colorado (known as CU) Buffaloes. I believe that they are on Ralphie V at the moment. Runs around the stadium than right into a pen. The handlers hats fly everywhere and it gets fairly chaotic.
Need to watch the Alabama Crimson Tide entrance. 103,000 in the stadium, the Million Dollar Band, ROLL TIDE spelled out on the field, coach flanked by two buff state troopers, team comes rolling out to AC/DC. Nighttime games are even more magical…
I think it’s worth noting the significance of some of the songs the bands are playing. A lot of these schools have “fight songs” so they’re often entering to a song that’s an cultural icon of their school’s history like the Notre Dame victory march
The college football community is top tier! Love the atmospheres, and even when you're the visitor, with some fun ribbing, you're still invited to partake in the tailgate (at least I've been that lucky).
seeing Penn State enter to the "We Are" chant brought me to tears. being in that stadium, especially during a White Out when we're all wearing white...is indescribable. I'll never forget my first game as a student and each game since whether as a student or alumni. I will remember Penn State Football until the day I die. NITTANY LION PRIDE!!!!!
You could do a whole other series on each bands fight songs and halftime performances ... dozens of unique songs and some of the bands will blow you away. The rivalries, rankings and history go very deep. There is alot here, definitely a US culture.
The live buffalo for Colorado is impressive, but there a lot of other colleges with live mascots; Oklahoma University are the Sooners, so they have a covered wagon with a woman and man (sometimes dressed up like Sooner pioneers) being pulled by two horses; University of Georgia has a real bulldog at the games, and University of Washington has a real Husky that attends the games; Temple University has a live Owl that is brought to the games, and the Air Force Academy has a live Falcon that is trained to perform pre-game and at half-time. He is let go and swoops down over the crowd for a few minutes until his handler signals for it to come back. Those are just a few that I know of.
I live across the street from Folsom Field and have been to almost every home game since 1991. I have seen Ralphie run a whole bunch of times.
For reference, Death Valley Stadium at LSU (Louisiana State University) has been unanimously recognized as the most hostile (loudest) environment to play in American sports.
Haha I’m always impressed by Ralphie the buffalo! Actually idk how many people actually know but Ralphie is a female a bull or male bison is wayyy too strong is much harder to control/condition to adjust the crowd noise. Not to mention their muscles are raw power
The North Carolina State University’s basketball stadium is used by North Carolina’s National Hockey League as their home stadium. That stadium seats 18,700 for hockey games, 19,500 for basketball games, and 21,000 for concerts. Their football stadium seats 56,919. College sports are taken very seriously here. The University of North Carolina have the nickname, The Tarheels, but their team mascot is Ramses (a ram).
Check out some college football animal mascots getting into it videos. Georgia bulldog bit an Auburn player and got into with the Texas Longhorn mascot in 2 different incidents.
As a Penn State grad, I can attest to the electricity in the air at those games. I still love going back and will be there for my first white out game this year against Washington.
Football is the biggest sport in America. They only play once a week when in season. So bc there are so few games, generally 13 in college football and 17 in the NFL regular season, the stadiums have to be big. High demand, more limited opportunities. Also, games are on the weekend which makes it accessible to more people.
Notre Dame was founded by a French religious order. Back in the 1890's, a newspaper headline, writing about the game said, the team "fought like a bunch of Irishmen". Hence the team name.
One of the schools you covered in your part 1 video was Florida State University (massive rival to the Gators), which is in the state capital, Tallahassee. The population of the city when I lived there was about 200K people. The stadium for FSU football held over 85K people. You’d often see Burt Reynolds being escorted through town to go to the games (he played for FSU before he was injured and became an actor). I lived over 2 miles from the stadium through many roads and hills and trees. We could hear the game noise from my house when it was teams like the UF Gators or Miami Hurricanes.
The official colors of The University of Notre Dame are Blue & Gold. They sometime wear a green jersey. Notre Dame first wore a green jersey in the late 1920s, to avoid confusion with the Navy's blue uniforms. The green jersey is usually worn in rivalry games.
Gotta look at the Army vs Navy football game intro with all the helicopter and plane fly overs. Also just Army home games they have people jumping out of planes and parachuting onto the field
need to check out halftime shows. start with Texas A&M
Teams in video as listed (if it helps any):
1. Washington Huskies
2. LSU Tigers
3. Penn State Nittony Lions
4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
5. Ohio State Buckeyes
6. Colorado Buffaloes
7. Texas Longhorns
8. Florida Gators
FYI, there are about 765 college football programs across the US (out of 3000 total colleges), though most are much smaller in terms of crowds and money. These big crowds are from the 130 members of the top-division, called Division I FBS. There is also a lesser Division I FCS, and a Division II, Division III, and a small division called NAIA.
All college teams have multiple Jersey colors and helmets. Their traditional is gold for Notre Dame but they also have all green outfits also.
My son officiates D1 🏈 and I've seen many, many entrances in- person. (Not to mention 100s on 📺) The best, most 🇺🇸 tingling are Army and Navy games. Don't even get me started when it's the Army v Navy game! USA does modern day spectacle pretty darn good!
There have to be at least 10 schools that have 100,000+ stadiums and they are usually full, some are perpetual sell outs.
Lyle you have to react to
*Best Traditions in College Football*
and
*10 BIGGEST College Football Stadiums*
Several of those stadiums are bigger than your Melbourne Cricket Ground...capacity wise. As far as the bison goes, that's Ralphie. He gets all excited before the game and they take him for a lap around the field. Texas has a longhorn steer, which is a breed of cow that they have on their sidelines. I'm pretty confident it's a steer, since UT Athletics doesn't have any balls. Georgia has an English Bulldog on their sidelines...he looks pretty chill.
Colorado's Ralphie is one of the most energizing pregame traditions, Went to Co as a Iowa fan years ago it was awesome.
Y'all need to do a video on Texas High School football.
The passion for football in America is incredible. So many stadiums that hold more that 90,000 people. But more amazing to me is that there are 20+ high school stadiums in the U.S. that hold 15,000 people or more. And, very few of those are in large cities.
Different color uniform indicates whether it's a away game or a home game.
ND wears blue at home and only wears green on rare occasions.
@@BillPresson
Sorry Bill. I was being overwhelmed by 8 grandchildren while trying to make this comment and totally got it wrong. Wasn't intentional. I do apologize if I offended anyone. Notre Dame please forgive me. 😢
@@mimiv3088 no worries ma’am. Generally your comment was correct. And I’m no ND fan so no offense taken.
You’re blown away by the buffalo. LSU used to bring a live tiger 🐅 into the stadium. Albeit in a cage, but he was left right next to the visiting team’s locker room.
Bro, make it to a rivalry game one day! They’re insane. Even the rivalry amongst small schools is awesome! I’m a Fresno state fan and when we play Boise every year, the atmosphere is insane! And that’s only with 40-50k people in the stands
LSU has a live tiger on campus named Mike the Tiger and he used to be wheeled out into the middle of the stadium before home games and then he would sit on the sideline during it but then we found out that doing that gave Mike anxiety so we stopped it.