Example:


For some reason, it's caught on the last few years, and I hate it. Anybody else?

I don't hate anything Huskie related.

Look at all that disgusting huskies pride!

It's a pet peeve when people do the longhorn not the huskie. Shouldn't bother you, people have been doing it for awhile, just more recognition for a few years. Players have done it quite a few times.

I remember a male cheerleader doing that more than a decade ago. I found it annoying too.

I am excited about it, anything that catches new fans excites me. Kids came home from the Orange Bowl doing it. Come on man, everyone is doing it.... we all are, all the cool kids. 7, time to be a cool kid and do the Huskie thing with your hand. What to call it? Hang Loose? No, how about Hang Huskie?

heres a solution: don't look at it

(04-15-2013 09:54 PM)MileHighHuskie Wrote:  I am excited about it, anything that catches new fans excites me. Kids came home from the Orange Bowl doing it. Come on man, everyone is doing it.... we all are, all the cool kids. 7, time to be a cool kid and do the Huskie thing with your hand. What to call it? Hang Loose? No, how about Hang Huskie?

Exactly!

Nope. Do it all the time... But I'll give you the bird instead if you prefer.

(04-15-2013 09:02 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  It's a pet peeve when people do the longhorn not the huskie. Shouldn't bother you, people have been doing it for awhile, just more recognition for a few years. Players have done it quite a few times.

Doeren did it most of the times I saw him.

LOL the first time I saw him do it he still didn't seem to get it. He just moved his hand like he was using a sock puppet.

7, I agree this is pretty tacky...am I correct when I assume you are a disciple of the Boers and Bernstein mentatility with sports?

It brings to mind something that has bothered me and I am probably going to get destroyed for this, but I'm willing to take the risk: I feel uncomfortable with the 5 fingers salute as it pertains to the Feb. 14th, 2008 shootings. Maybe for that year or 2 following the deaths, but at this point you have a bunch of people with no connection to the situation out there doing it at a sporting event, it just comes off as phony. Half the crowd is drunk, probably 10 people at the game actually knew the parties lost, and it's a football game, not a mass or vigil, it just seems inappropriate....has just always bothered me

Wow! 7, I TOTALLY disagree with you. What NIU needs are any symbols, traditions, etc. that can rally the fans, bring enthusiasm, recognition, etc. This symbol actually started around the Cal Bowl in 1983. I'm thrilled to see this resurface and hope it sticks. Let's get behind whatever the younger fans want and not tear down every initiative. We need to seize the post-OB period and this symbol is more than fine with me.

(04-16-2013 08:45 AM)NIU8484 Wrote:  7, I agree this is pretty tacky...am I correct when I assume you are a disciple of the Boers and Bernstein mentatility with sports?

It brings to mind something that has bothered me and I am probably going to get destroyed for this, but I'm willing to take the risk: I feel uncomfortable with the 5 fingers salute as it pertains to the Feb. 14th, 2008 shootings. Maybe for that year or 2 following the deaths, but at this point you have a bunch of people with no connection to the situation out there doing it at a sporting event, it just comes off as phony. Half the crowd is drunk, probably 10 people at the game actually knew the parties lost, and it's a football game, not a mass or vigil, it just seems inappropriate....has just always bothered me

People there may not know the ones lost, but they are connected to it. The entire university and anyone who represents the university will always be connected to it. My friends who knew about it passed it down to our friends as we graduate. Also, the team knows about it. That's how they choose to honor them. They play the 4th quarter for them. Not phony, I can see your issue, but as I said if you're connected to NIU you're connected to the shooting and honoring those lost.

(04-16-2013 08:57 AM)bigredmachine Wrote:  Wow! 7, I TOTALLY disagree with you. What NIU needs are any symbols, traditions, etc. that can rally the fans, bring enthusiasm, recognition, etc. This symbol actually started around the Cal Bowl in 1983. I'm thrilled to see this resurface and hope it sticks. Let's get behind whatever the younger fans want and not tear down every initiative. We need to seize the post-OB period and this symbol is more than fine with me.

The issue is not the symbol its people using the wrong symbol.

The gentleman in the pic is doing the hand gesture which is known at "hook em horns" by Texas fans....not the "Go Huskies" (as athletics calls it) which the girl is doing properly.


It seems like something that athletics maybe could do a fun PSA on the new jumbotron some time during a game.

The older I get, the less I identify with slogans and gestures at NIU. I used to eat it all up, now it's more....... meh /

YMMV.

(04-16-2013 09:57 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-16-2013 08:57 AM)bigredmachine Wrote:  Wow! 7, I TOTALLY disagree with you. What NIU needs are any symbols, traditions, etc. that can rally the fans, bring enthusiasm, recognition, etc. This symbol actually started around the Cal Bowl in 1983. I'm thrilled to see this resurface and hope it sticks. Let's get behind whatever the younger fans want and not tear down every initiative. We need to seize the post-OB period and this symbol is more than fine with me.

The issue is not the symbol its people using the wrong symbol.

The gentleman in the pic is doing the hand gesture which is known at "hook em horns" by Texas fans....not the "Go Huskies" (as athletics calls it) which the girl is doing properly.


It seems like something that athletics maybe could do a fun PSA on the new jumbotron some time during a game.

Right after they teach the fight song.

Although a small part of me finds our collective inability to sing the fight song or get hand gestures right sort of endearing in a "that's so NIU" kind of way.

(04-16-2013 11:11 AM)DogTracks Wrote:  

(04-16-2013 09:57 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-16-2013 08:57 AM)bigredmachine Wrote:  Wow! 7, I TOTALLY disagree with you. What NIU needs are any symbols, traditions, etc. that can rally the fans, bring enthusiasm, recognition, etc. This symbol actually started around the Cal Bowl in 1983. I'm thrilled to see this resurface and hope it sticks. Let's get behind whatever the younger fans want and not tear down every initiative. We need to seize the post-OB period and this symbol is more than fine with me.

The issue is not the symbol its people using the wrong symbol.

The gentleman in the pic is doing the hand gesture which is known at "hook em horns" by Texas fans....not the "Go Huskies" (as athletics calls it) which the girl is doing properly.


It seems like something that athletics maybe could do a fun PSA on the new jumbotron some time during a game.

Right after they teach the fight song.

Although a small part of me finds our collective inability to sing the fight song or get hand gestures right sort of endearing in a "that's so NIU" kind of way.

so true

I love doing it. But I only do it at the end of the fight song.

(04-16-2013 08:45 AM)NIU8484 Wrote:  7, I agree this is pretty tacky...am I correct when I assume you are a disciple of the Boers and Bernstein mentatility with sports?

It brings to mind something that has bothered me and I am probably going to get destroyed for this, but I'm willing to take the risk: I feel uncomfortable with the 5 fingers salute as it pertains to the Feb. 14th, 2008 shootings. Maybe for that year or 2 following the deaths, but at this point you have a bunch of people with no connection to the situation out there doing it at a sporting event, it just comes off as phony. Half the crowd is drunk, probably 10 people at the game actually knew the parties lost, and it's a football game, not a mass or vigil, it just seems inappropriate....has just always bothered me

Disagree about the huskie gesture. I do it often, in fact it's instinctively the first thing I do when I see other Huskies on the road. It beats mouthing "go huskies" or fumbling around for something with the logo to wave IMHO.

Agree about five fingers. It's felt more awkward to me every year since the first one or two. I pretty much stopped doing it last year.

This is just stupid. Makes it look like we are rooting for the Longhorns. Especially those watching on TV would have to wonder why our fans are rooting for another school.