Taylor University Silent Night

• WebFire

  Hadn't seen this before. Thought it was interesting.
  
  [video=youtube;LNo9x7KQ4ZI][/video]
• reclegend22

  

  I've seen this before. I think it was on ESPN or something a few years ago. This is pretty awesome. This ranks right up there with Utah State's "I believe that we will win" chant as my favorite college basketball cheer.
  
  [video=youtube;ErKkveFruw4][/video]
• Con_Alma

  reclegend22;1339350 wrote:I've seen this before. I think it was on ESPN or something a few years ago. This is pretty awesome. This ranks right up there with Utah State's "I believe that we will win" chant as my favorite college basketball cheer.
  
  ...

  Originated at a Navy Football game.
  
  "...Utah State has been doing this chant for years, so I assumed they invented it. Turns out, that's not the case. According to a Dec. 6, 2003 story in the Washington Post, the chant originated at a Navy football game, when Navy -- in one of their first promising seasons in decades -- was trailing No. 25-ranked Air Force 28-25 in the final minutes:
  [INDENT]In October, the Midshipmen were in the last minutes of a 28-25 win over Air Force, then ranked No. 25. Navy hadn't beaten a ranked opponent in 18 years -- longer than some Mids had been alive. Yet some in the Brigade, which stands throughout every game, began jumping up and down at FedEx Field. "I," they chanted softly, then louder, "I believe . . ."
  
  Sources say a group of Navy lacrosse players started the ruckus, though you can't be sure because urban legends are quickly springing up around Johnson's 7-4 team.
  
  "I believe that," they yelled as more joined in. "I believe that we . . ." Until finally, the whole Brigade, more than 2,000 strong, was bounding up and down, screaming, "I believe that we will. ... I believe that we will win!"[/INDENT]
  Just when you think this chant can't possibly get any cooler, you go and learn something like this. It's been eight years in the making -- maybe longer, but the first T-shirt sale reference at Navy came in 2003, too -- but "I believe that we will win" finally seems to be entering the college basketball mainstream...."
  
  
  http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/tag/_/name/i-believe-that-we-will-win
• reclegend22

  

  Con_Alma;1339378 wrote:Originated at a Navy Football game.
  
  "...Utah State has been doing this chant for years, so I assumed they invented it. Turns out, that's not the case. According to a Dec. 6, 2003 story in the Washington Post, the chant originated at a Navy football game, when Navy -- in one of their first promising seasons in decades -- was trailing No. 25-ranked Air Force 28-25 in the final minutes: [INDENT]In October, the Midshipmen were in the last minutes of a 28-25 win over Air Force, then ranked No. 25. Navy hadn't beaten a ranked opponent in 18 years -- longer than some Mids had been alive. Yet some in the Brigade, which stands throughout every game, began jumping up and down at FedEx Field. "I," they chanted softly, then louder, "I believe . . ."
  
  Sources say a group of Navy lacrosse players started the ruckus, though you can't be sure because urban legends are quickly springing up around Johnson's 7-4 team.
  
  "I believe that," they yelled as more joined in. "I believe that we . . ." Until finally, the whole Brigade, more than 2,000 strong, was bounding up and down, screaming, "I believe that we will. ... I believe that we will win!"[/INDENT]
  Just when you think this chant can't possibly get any cooler, you go and learn something like this. It's been eight years in the making -- maybe longer, but the first T-shirt sale reference at Navy came in 2003, too -- but "I believe that we will win" finally seems to be entering the college basketball mainstream...."
  
  
  http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/tag/_/name/i-believe-that-we-will-win

  Ah, did not know that. Cool history, though. Utah State does it better than anybody I've seen in college basketball. That's probably because I've never seen anyone else do it. But it's awesome. To be candid, it's cooler than anything I've seen from the Cameron Crazies in quite a long time. So is the Taylor thing.
• Laley23

  

  I hate that cheer...cause I now hear it probably 5 times a week at work. Fuck high school copycats.
• Midstate01

  

  WebFire;1339104 wrote:Hadn't seen this before. Thought it was interesting.
  
  [video=youtube;LNo9x7KQ4ZI][/video]

  
  That's pretty sweet. Good find.
• vball10set

  ccrunner609;1339353 wrote:Taylor video is cool.

  This
• reclegend22

  

  Lol.
• reclegend22

  

  Laley23;1339538 wrote:I hate that cheer...cause I now hear it probably 5 times a week at work. **** high school copycats.

  It'd be really sweet to hear either Ottawa-Glandorf or Moeller or Elder or even Poland Seminary fans do it. Those are some of the better groups of fans I've seen over the years on the state tournament trail. I've said this before, but nothing, and I mean nothing, is louder in HS basketball than OG in Anderson Arena.
• vball10set

  Lol.