pre-race chants

i'm sorry, but all these are pretty small-time compared to what emory university did at the vandy invite about 5 or 6 years back.

all the other teams are getting antsy prior to the start; shakeouts and huddles with a shout or a chant. emory, meanwhile, is huddled up in the middle of the grass, silent. as most teams start to congregate toward the start line, you see that emory's huddle has crouched down closer to the ground. first you hear the choke. then throttle of an engine. and finally the explosion of their number one runner bursting from the center of the huddle with a roaring chainsaw in both hands.

it don't scare you, but that was ri-goddamn-diculously funny.

one, two, three...FOUR!

bathing suit area wrote:

i'm sorry, but all these are pretty small-time compared to what emory university did at the vandy invite about 5 or 6 years back....

Um yeah so thats meant to be better than that video? Oh please.

My schools chant was lame as hell. We sounded like a bunch of cheerleaders. Actually I'm pretty sure a few of our guys went on to be cheerleaders.

we counted to three then yelled our school's name.

R.L. Scribner wrote:

one, two, three...FOUR!

shit. is this one of my high school teammates?

when i was in high school there was a local team, much better than ours, who always sang the hokey pokey before every race. that's right, the hokey pokey. it was annoying! so one day my team drowned them out by singing BABY GOT BACK at the start.

rankler wrote:

My school was always dead silent. Huddled, captains would say a few words about the course, the day, the goals, and we would race. We let our feet do the talking. We always laughed at the schools that had loud chants.

The best was when we were at an invitational where the starter was announcing each team one at a time. As he did, the teams would cheer. He got to us, stone silence. We hadn't even planned it or said anything, everyone was just mentally on the same page. He looked confused, and repeated our name again. More silence, then he moved one. We won the meet.

well arent you a badass...

hahaha what a douche bag, no but really his stoic team sounds impressive

we have a lot of fun with it

we sometimes go 1,2,3,FOOOOOOOOUUUUUUURRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

and other times we have said the other teams name for our chant

Thundercats Hoooooooo!

WU TANG.

davelious wrote:

Um yeah so thats meant to be better than that video? Oh please.

yes. yes it is. it's a goddamn chainsaw.

pre race chants are the worst. you people who do them look ridiculous, and for the most part are slow. IF someone chooses to do something to get attention, it should at least just be funny.

And then people who do these ridiculous chants bitch and moan about how XC isn't taken seriously.

My coach used to always make us say a funny chant before races to calm nerves.

They were all pretty stupid: "Go sportsmanship," or something along those lines.

first we start to clap, getting faster and faster. then we yell 1-2-3 MEAT MEAT MEAT RAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuweeeeeeeeeee LETS GET SOME!

johnshop wrote:

Rice had one of the more ridiculous, funny, and offensive chants at XC nationals in 1999.

Ne one care to fill in those of us who dont know what they did.