Have seen Script Ohio for Ohio State Michigan 2003, saw/heard hail to the victors at UM vs OSU in 2004, jumped to enter sandman for VaTech Maryland 2008. Never seen Howard's Rock will do so this year or next.

From my list, Enter Sandman is much more intense than Script O
Script O is nice but is kind of hokey. Not sure how anyone could be pumped up from it? Its a band walking in a circle and a dude with a baton touching the feather on it to the ground.

The Script Ohio is ALWAYS performed pre-game at home, so lets just put that to rest now. As far as asking people outside of Ohio what they think about it, go back and watch the pre-game videos for the 2006 and 2007 national championship games (actual games were worthless). You will notice that the ENTIRE stadium for both games was cheering for it and taking picutres, including all Florida and LSU fans.

UncleYoder wrote: And ts1227, it's not just follow the leader, very easy to cause a 6 car pileup at the intersections if you're not on top of it. It takes hours of practice to make it look easy. You want easy, watch Dublin do their block dublin routine, lame just doesn't describe it.
Best of all, it only costs 6 bucks to watch. Can't afford the Horseshoe prices, too old to fit into my old scout uniform.

I never said it doesn't require practice, I just said it is not unique.

My HS used to do Script Ohio too (now the band doesn't have enough people to spell more than OH, but you'll have that), and pretty well. So even though by all means it requires practice, it sure isn't rocket science either.

As mentioned, that doesn't take away from its tradition at all.

teh awsum juan wrote: I like the play like a champion tradition... but i think (and dear god, i can't believe i'm saying this), but from a fans perspective, i have to say script ohio is better.

reason being, that script ohio is performed for the fans, play like a champion today is a sign the irish hit on the way out of their locker room, so while a cool tradition to be a part of for the players, as a fan, it doesn't do much for me.

Not too mention that Notre Dame hasn't played like a champion in nearly 20 years!

bigkahuna wrote:

wildcats20 wrote:

bigkahuna wrote: As a Michigan fan and born and raised in Ohio,

I will say that Script Ohio gives me goosebumps.

Best friend is the same way, he hates everything there is about OSU. We went to a game a few years ago and even he had to admit how great it was to see it in person and how he got chills during it.

Serious question:

Does it make me a traitor of I WANT to put my arms up and do OH-IO during Hang on Sloopy? I see it as showing love to the state of Ohio and NOT Ohio State.

Nah, makes you a closet Ohio State fan!

ts1227 wrote:

Writerbuckeye wrote: Script Ohio.

It's not close.

There's not a more unique tradition, anywhere, in college football that gets a stadium as revved up as much as this.

If you've never experienced it live, in Ohio stadium, you can't understand it. No video can convey the energy that builds to an explosive finale when the i is dotted.

I think all fans of anything would agree that Script Ohio is a great tradition that gets the crowd absolutely pumped, but unique? It's a game of follow the leader.

Unique probably isn't the best way to describe it.

ts1227 wrote:

UncleYoder wrote: And ts1227, it's not just follow the leader, very easy to cause a 6 car pileup at the intersections if you're not on top of it. It takes hours of practice to make it look easy. You want easy, watch Dublin do their block dublin routine, lame just doesn't describe it.
Best of all, it only costs 6 bucks to watch. Can't afford the Horseshoe prices, too old to fit into my old scout uniform.

I never said it doesn't require practice, I just said it is not unique.

My HS used to do Script Ohio too (now the band doesn't have enough people to spell more than OH, but you'll have that), and pretty well. So even though by all means it requires practice, it sure isn't rocket science either.

As mentioned, that doesn't take away from its tradition at all.

Just because other schools try to emulate what TBDBITL does, does not take away from its uniqueness. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

The precision the OSU marching band performs script Ohio is unmatched. It is unigue in that no other school does anything similar to script Ohio with the precision and accuracy as Ohio State.

dwccrew wrote: Just because other schools try to emulate what TBDBITL does, does not take away from its uniqueness. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

The precision the OSU marching band performs script Ohio is unmatched. It is unigue in that no other school does anything similar to script Ohio with the precision and accuracy as Ohio State.

This. Other bands do Block letter formations (Michigan, Tennessee, Florida), other schools have motivational signs that they tap when leaving the locker room, but Ohio State is the only college with a moving script formation. Other high schools may do similar formations, but they are all emulating script Ohio. Notre Dame was not the first to put a motivations sign up to tap on your way out of the locker room.

Notre Dame's updated slogan: "Play like a Champion today, lose a bowl game tomorrow"

LOL

sleeper, usually you piss me off because you are always talking shit(It has validity, I'll give you that)


BUT

That is funny lol

sleeper wrote: Notre Dame's updated slogan: "Play like a Champion today, lose a bowl game tomorrow"

LOL

Instant win! Literally laughed out loud.

Funny and true.

sleeper wrote: Notre Dame's updated slogan: "Play like a Champion today, lose a bowl game tomorrow"

LOL

Or in Cleveland's case, "Play like a champion in the regular season, get outclassed in the playoffs!"

Mr Pat wrote:

sleeper wrote: Notre Dame's updated slogan: "Play like a Champion today, lose a bowl game tomorrow"

LOL

Or in Cleveland's case, "Play like a champion in the regular season, get outclassed in the playoffs!"

This is not a pro sports thread:rolleyes:

Pick6 wrote:

Mr Pat wrote:

sleeper wrote: Notre Dame's updated slogan: "Play like a Champion today, lose a bowl game tomorrow"

LOL

Or in Cleveland's case, "Play like a champion in the regular season, get outclassed in the playoffs!"

This is not a pro sports thread:rolleyes:

His post had nothing to do with the topic either. So yeah!

bigkahuna wrote: Yes, Michigan was the 1st to do Script Ohio, but it looked like shit

Plus it wasn't the same as the Script Ohio OSU has made famous.

There is a tradition in the big ten where each marching band plays the other school's fight song during pre game. Several times I have seen the OSU band include a formation while doing this, such as a block M against Michigan, a block W vs Wisconsin and even a "PSU" against Penn State. My guess is that this "first Script Ohio" was the same type of thing, and nothing more than a floating formation that the UM did while they were playing the OSU fight song.

While UM's band may have been the first to spell Ohio in cursive, the stuff that makes Script Ohio famous today was still invented by OSU
(The "follow-the-leader" line lead by the drum major, the precision in the turns and crossings, Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse as the song, always having a an upperclassmen sousaphone or some famous Ohioan dot the I, the strut during the I-dotting, the I-dotter's solo while everyone else sings the Buckeye Battle Cry)

NOL Fan,

You're pretty much right. Here was the first script Ohio that Michigan performed.



Theirs was simply the word Ohio written in script, but from all indications, it was static. What makes the current Script Ohio so special is the complexity and timing of the moving formation and the dramatic "i" dot at the end.

Bingo. Many schools write something out in script. Clemson Tigerband has been showing scripting Tigers since the 50s. But it is OSU's unreal timing and execution of actually writing the script as if it were being penned. The cross throughs are just amazing. Most schools (like ours) just get into the formation as a band would to any formation.

Script O is a thing of beauty.