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I hate "Boomer Sooner."
Our high school speech coach actually took it and turned it into a song to sing about opposing teams: "Overrated, mediocre. Mediocre, overrated. Overrated, mediocre. (Team's name), kiss our butts!"
Really repetitive, right? That's because "Boomer Sooner" is the most repetitive, un-musical song in existence. It's one of two songs that the Oklahoma band plays during football games (the other being the much nicer "Oklahoma!" [where the wind comes sweeping down the plains]), and by far the more frequent. So they use it as a celebration song, as a rallying-the-troops song, as a cheering-the-other-team's-mistakes song, as a disrupting-the-other-team's-momentum song, as a waiting-for-the-timeout-to-end song, and you end up hearing it like 100 TIMES in one game. After Oklahoma makes a good play. BOOMER SOONER! After Oklahoma makes a bad play. BOOMER SOONER! While teams are in a time-out. BOOMER SOONER! After Oklahoma loses: BOOMER FUCKING SOONER.* I have actually refused to watch Oklahoma play because of "Boomer Sooner."
Seriously, imagine listening to that 100 TIMES. Every time Oklahoma plays. Every year. I have probably heard it like 1,000,000 times in my entire life. Talk about an incentive to use a nail gun.
* Florida State has a similar issue with their "Seminole War Chant." It's less annoying musically, but it's ridiculously racist. People actually do a "tomahawk chop" motion to it. Yeah.
Our high school speech coach actually took it and turned it into a song to sing about opposing teams: "Overrated, mediocre. Mediocre, overrated. Overrated, mediocre. (Team's name), kiss our butts!"
Really repetitive, right? That's because "Boomer Sooner" is the most repetitive, un-musical song in existence. It's one of two songs that the Oklahoma band plays during football games (the other being the much nicer "Oklahoma!" [where the wind comes sweeping down the plains]), and by far the more frequent. So they use it as a celebration song, as a rallying-the-troops song, as a cheering-the-other-team's-mistakes song, as a disrupting-the-other-team's-momentum song, as a waiting-for-the-timeout-to-end song, and you end up hearing it like 100 TIMES in one game. After Oklahoma makes a good play. BOOMER SOONER! After Oklahoma makes a bad play. BOOMER SOONER! While teams are in a time-out. BOOMER SOONER! After Oklahoma loses: BOOMER FUCKING SOONER.* I have actually refused to watch Oklahoma play because of "Boomer Sooner."
Seriously, imagine listening to that 100 TIMES. Every time Oklahoma plays. Every year. I have probably heard it like 1,000,000 times in my entire life. Talk about an incentive to use a nail gun.
* Florida State has a similar issue with their "Seminole War Chant." It's less annoying musically, but it's ridiculously racist. People actually do a "tomahawk chop" motion to it. Yeah.
