TBDBITL acronym for: The Best Damn Band in the Land. pronounced: ti-bi-dle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-TQcqRWbDA Link to the script Ohio done in the Michigan game last year. The song is a french military march called Le Regiment. Usually, only senior Sousaphone players get to dot the I. Only a few non band members have ever had the honor. Jack Nicklas is the last non sousaphone player to dot the i. Another big song by the band is "Hang on Sloopy" a 60's rock song by The McCoys (I believe a 1 hit wonder), that has been named the state rock song of Ohio. It is usually played in the break between the 3rd and 4th Qtr.
i seen script ohio in person and, lets just say i appreciate the tradition. in fact i went to school with the guy who dotted the i for the Michigan last year
The PA announcer at death valley will give you the weather forecast before the game starts. "Chance of rain NEVER."
I've seen the script Ohio many times on TV, but never in person. It's a cool drill. The LSU Tiger Marching Band, nicknamed "The Golden Band From Tigerland", does a pregame show that starts with the Hold That Tiger "Stadium Salute" (hence my handle) to all four corners of the stadium. This goes right into "Touchdown for LSU" where the band sweeps the field and then forms a large LSU. This is probably all of our normal Pregame show you would see in the Superdome, as what usually happens is the band marches the LSU off the field to "Hey Fighting Tigers". Normally, after forming the LSU, the band plays the Alma Mater and the Star Spangled Banner before flipping the LSU to the other side of the stadium. A couple of cheers, flipping the LSU back to the first side, then back into "Touchdown" as the band forms the tunnel the team runs through. Other traditions: Tiger Bait: LSU fans yell "Tiger Bait" repeatedly and point at opposing fans as they pass. The band plays the same song every first (Geaux Tigers cheer), second and third down (Eye of the Tiger) on offense. I know it's not a specific LSU tradition, but we hold up four fingers at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The band plays Pregame. Other things you won't see at the National Championship, but are traditions: The team walks down "Victory Hill" (the road just north of Tiger Stadium) about 3 hours before each game. The band follows slightly less than 2 hours before each game, running down the hill playing Pregame. Mike the Tiger is in a cage attached to a truck in Tiger Stadium before most games. The cage is parked outside the opposing team's locker room, then circles the field, stopping in front the student section to roar before completing the circle and exiting the stadium. Mike doesn't travel anymore after an accident involving one of the tigers a few years back. These are a few things we do. I'm sure others can fill in some more.
If you come to the game you will be "Tigerbaited" till you hear it a week after the game in your sleep. It aggravates alot of opponent fans, but that's part of it. Don't be like Sooner fans and go home feeling like your life was threatened because you were "Tigerbaited". Jeez that fanbase was a bunch of crybaby pussies.
I got cha!!! No matter what it was a good lesson that we don't own tradition, which I was happy to believe prior!
Im sure you know our stadium is known as 'The Shoe..or Horse Shoe' and when you get 107,000 fans in there, you break the stadium into 1/4s and we begin to chant O-H-I-O around the stadium....it is ear shattering....in fact this year at the UM game, the Bucks traveled so well, you can hear that chant in the 'Big House'!
That's what you were talking about. I've seen bits and pieces of the script Ohio before but not all the way through like that. That is pretty cool. :thumb:
