Keys

[mteiglan]

What ever happened to shaking your keys at kick off? How did it end?

 

[Rhoadhoused]

uhhh we still do it

 

[SvrWxCy]

What brings on this question??

The game tonight is in Oklahoma, thus there is not an Iowa State student section in attendance...

 

[stvfarmboy]

I normally just shake my keys when we kickoff, since except for the beginning of the halves, we would have just scored. I don't like to shake them after they score, when they would be kicking off.

 

[Psyclone Brian]

It stands for a "key-play" ...that's how it started. A kick-off or punt, or usually a special teams play is the type of "key-play" that could make a drastic swing in the game. Albeit field position, or a botched snap or catch, anything that can totally alter the flow of the game. And yes, only on "key-plays" do we do this. (Not because we don't have a cowbell, or it's a good luck thingy) We didn't invent it either. Other schools around the country have been performing the ritual every game as well.