Suggestion for ISU Ath Dept marketing team
- Thread starter Pope
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Tell me you're over 60 without telling me you're over 60.
Not a song I'd listen to in isolation, but love it's association with isu and his it pumps the crowd up.
I enjoy "won't back down" but it doesn't hack the crowd up the same way.
It's a catchy tune that's become ISU's anthem and makes everyone in the crowd go nuts. Let the Red Sox and others have Sweet Caroline, Iowa State owns Juicy Wiggle!!
Of course it isn't some objectively good song. But don't you associate it with some really great memories? That's why I love it. I remember cheering in Jack Trice on a cold October night, the team was kicking West Virginia's ass, the lights flashing and thinking how magical it was. I remember the 2020 West Virginia football game with a stadium a third full and Kene taking the ball to the end zone and Juicy Wiggle starting. I remember last year's Iowa basketball game when it started playing and I realized how much I had missed being in Hilton during COVID. It's the same thing with Sweet Caroline---I hear that song and I'm instantly happy because they play it after wins.
It's not about the song---it's about the emotions you feel when the song is played.
I watch the halftime shows and enjoy them. I go take a pee before the game and never eat at games (fb or bb) so I don't leave my seats once I get to them.
Love Juicy Wiggle. And love Sweet Caroline. People don’t understand what makes a “tradition”.
The people that sit in my rows are shocked if I leave in the middle of the game. Also, I can drink a bottle of pop and not have to go to the bathroom in a 2 hour game. Do people have bladders the size of children?
See I wouldn't mind see a lot more locally sponsored stuff like this. It should be about crowd involvement and fun. I mean there are like 2 acts a year that are semi-interesting.
Well I can't say that for the current era as I haven't had season tickets in quite some time.
I get that it is a tradition at this point. Question is really more about what inspired it in the first place. Seems totally random and such an obscure song.
