It's college football season, peeps!
And, this upcoming weekend is the Rocky Mountain Showdown, which pits in-state rivals against each other. My beloved Colorado State University Rams take on the University of Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday. This is a long-standing rivalry between the two schools and gives the winning team bragging rights within the state. CU won last year (boo) and CSU won two years ago (yay!). So, to get everyone pumped for the big game, here's our fight song.
Man, that's a great fight song!
I remember going to my first CSU football game as a freshman. They were giving out free t-shirts to the first 500 or so students, so of course, we had to be there early. Because we were newbies, we showed up WAY too early and ended up hanging out in the empty stadium while everyone else tailgated. Wow, we were nerds. But hey, we got our free shirts!
Another staple of CSU football games is the singing of Fum's Song. Thuman "Fum" McGraw played was a great football player for CSU and became one of its athletic directors after an illustrious football career for the Detroit Lions. His song goes like this:
"I'll sing you a song of college days, and tell you where to go.
Aggies, where your knowledge is, and Boulder to spend your dough.
C.C. for your sissy boys, and Utah for your times,
D.U. for your ministers, and drunkards School of Mines.
Don't send my boy to Wyoming U. a dying mother said.
Don't send him to old Brigham Young, I'd rather see him dead.
But send him to our Aggies, it's better than Cornell.
Before I'd see him in Boulder, I'd see my son in hell!"
It should be noted that when CSU was first founded back in 1870, it was known as the Agricultural College of Colorado (hence the Aggies reference). The name of the university has since been changed to Colorado State University, but in reference to it's agricultural heritage, we've been known to say, "Go Aggies!" The school has also started a big push to remembering the history of CSU and every year, for the Ag Day football game, people wear the old school colors: pumpkin orange and alfalfa gold.
And then, how could anyone forget the famed CSU trombone suicide routine?! The crowd goes absolutely CRAZY when the band busts this out in the middle of their marching routine.
Being part of something bigger and feeling like you are a part of a great community is awesome. CSU taught me this and this week is big for us. The Rams are going into the Showdown 2-0 and the Buffs...well, they're 0-2!! I don't want to jinx anything, so all I'll say is, "Here we go Rams, here we go!"
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