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Syracuse Prefers the Calm of Choreography to "Rah! Football!"

Sep 7, 2007 – 9:15 AM
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Matt Glaude

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Miami has the fire extinguisher smoke of impending destruction.

Clemson sports the classic hill sprint.

Every high school in the history of everything charges through a big sheet of paper with campy slogans like "Slay the Dragons!" or "Pirate Power . . . Aaarrrggghhh!"

Syracuse, always the innovator, has eschewed such tradition of manufactured excitement and has adopted an on-field entrance reminiscent of General Sherman's March to the Sea (except without the accompanying scorched earth and subsequent victory):



Half The Music Man, half "We are the Tiiitans!," Syracuse once again makes a mockery of everything that is holy about amateur football.

(H/T: Brian Harrison)
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