What are your favorite sports traditions?

[sdkammeyer]

As the Super Bowl nears and I prepare for the traditional party it made me think about some of my other favorite traditions in the sports world. Oddly enough, some of my favorites are centered around teams/people that I sincerely dislike ...... but that's just me and my love of sports I guess.

I HATE the Yankees I think everybody knows that by now .... and Bald Vinny is an idiot .... but the "Roll Call" is a tradition that I hope lasts forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJchfpOhmG0

Another team I sincerely dislike is the Baltimore Ravens, and as a Steelers fan, I doubly dislike Ray Lewis ..... but come on ..... can his entrance ever be beat by a single player?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiMbtlNdIWM

Ray Lewis can only be topped by an entire team..... "The Hive" from my Ohio State Buckeyes is by far the best entrance in all of sports. Such a showing of unity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qku56wtKPk

What are some of your favorite sports traditions?

[freakhappy]

Love the Roll Call...awesome stuff right there!

Hey Steve...Steelers suck

[sdkammeyer]

Originally Posted by freakhappy

Love the Roll Call...awesome stuff right there!

out of all the Yankees .... past or present ... who has your favorite response to the roll call? I always like Granderson's "heart attack" from Sanford & Son.

"THIS IS THE BIG ONE ELIZABETH" good stuff right there.

[sdkammeyer]

Honorable mention: Notre Dame football. STEEPED IN TRADITION.

I'm not really much of a Notre Dame fan (go Buckeyes) but since my daughter will be attending school there I don't have much negative to say.

2 years ago I had the unique experience of getting V.I.P. treatment at the Notre Dame v. Navy game and I was in awe the entire day. From the moment I stepped foot on the campus I had goosebumps. We visited the Gold Dome, got pics with Touchdown Jesus, went to Catholic Mass with the players before the game, followed the band as they marched across campus and into the stadium before the game, and of course cheered like hell at "Shipping up to Boston" while the students threw each other up in the air. Truly a memorable day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpHp-3cTYw

[pgellis]

The Lambeau Leap

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by sdkammeyer

Honorable mention: Notre Dame football. STEEPED IN TRADITION.

I'm not really much of a Notre Dame fan (go Buckeyes) but since my daughter will be attending school there I don't have much negative to say.

2 years ago I had the unique experience of getting V.I.P. treatment at the Notre Dame v. Navy game and I was in awe the entire day. From the moment I stepped foot on the campus I had goosebumps. We visited the Gold Dome, got pics with Touchdown Jesus, went to Catholic Mass with the players before the game, followed the band as they marched across campus and into the stadium before the game, and of course cheered like hell at "Shipping up to Boston" while the students threw each other up in the air. Truly a memorable day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpHp-3cTYw

'We' were told that, besides football, only one other sporting event is allowed to take place on the Notre Dame football field: the annual Sunburst marathon finishes on the field. That was partly why I ran it one year as my Boston qualifier.

[alanu]

Probably obscure unless you are from Nebraska, but when the balloons are released when Nebraska makes it first score.

Lighting of the Olympic torch.

My favorite player celebration was Merten Hanks chicken neck dance

[familytoad]

The winged wheels are my team.
I love the octopus being flung onto the ice!
I also love the crowd singing along with Journey on "Dont' Stop Believin"
..."born and raised in South Detroit!"
I also love the "3 Stars" awards that only hockey does...I wonder why that never caught on for the other sports.

What I don't like:
Sack dances in football.
Human rain delay in the batter's box.
Almost anything about NBA.