“We’re gonna beat the hell out of you, and you, and you …”Sound familiar?
Every football game, thousands of Frogs fans, whether they are kids, students or die-hard alumni, are screaming this chant at the opposing team.
It is a part of TCU football.
Students are taught not to point at the other team while screaming this chant because that would be rude, however, that is why our amazing Frog Camp facilitators taught us to use our elbows instead of our fingers.
Growing up in a small Texas town where the stadium lights on Friday nights could be seen from miles away, football was life. I have been cheering for my home team since I could walk and when I came to college, I knew that was not going to stop.
One thing I love about TCU football is that despite the size of our school, we have a lot of energy. Football games have been some of my favorite memories I have had at TCU. Now, painting your whole body purple does get a little old when you are sweating. Tailgating five hours before the game isn’t that much fun, especially when there are other football games on TV to watch.
But one thing that never gets old? Heckling the other teams during the games. This does not mean TCU students are unethical leaders; it just means we’re the typical college sports fans. We’re human.
With any college sport, it is all in good fun when you are yelling at the other team, whether we are winning or losing. Hypothetically, if TCU fumbles and the opposing team snags the ball and runs for a touchdown, I bet there will not be one single fan in the stadium that is just going to sit back and keep his or her mouth shut. If you have any bit of purple running through your veins, there is no reason you should be sitting back with your mouth shut.
Since the beginning of sports, the home-field fans will have the tendency to get loud, proud and sometimes mean. Once again, it is a part of college sports. Is it right that we’re telling No. 24 he is a horrible player? Or that the waterboy is running faster than their players? Maybe not, but even though it might be true at the time, students do not actually mean what they are yelling. The players on the opposing team are obviously not horrible players if they are playing for an NCAA Division I school.
Aaron Walker, a sophomore Spanish major, took the words right out of my mouth when he commented about Christina Durano’s column last week.
“When someone chooses to play college sports, he or she realizes what they are going against with other fans,” Walker said. “Any athlete knows that the negative energy you get from fans makes you work harder and run faster because you are trying to prove them wrong.”
In other words, negative energy can be created into positive energy. Therefore, TCU fans create a lot of positive energy and I will be helping out as much as I can at every single football game.
Jordan Haygood is a junior news-editorial journalism major from White Oak.
