(02-22-2022 01:02 PM)Grungy Wrote:  The MOB currently plays the "Fight Song", followed by "Louie", for touchdowns.
We play "Bonnet" after field goals.
We don't have anything planned for the points added to our score by safeties by the opponent or returning a try.

"Louie Louie" has been in The MOB's book for over 40 years.
At first, the students in attendance were delirious when we played it, and wanted to hear it over and over.
Those of us with more than four years in the band got pretty tired of it.
We even wrote somewhat insulting walk-off line, announced while we played it off the field at the end of our half time show, to express our exhaustion with it.
Now I'm numb to it, and there really aren't many students coming to games to revel in it.
The students in The MOB enjoy playing it, and we still end every rehearsal with it.

As to a cannon - even staring at them firing it it still startles the crap out of me. Please, no.

An owl screech would be good.
Can the stadium PA make it as nerve-jangling as fingernails on a chalkboard?

Yeah... no cannon. While I have no specific issue with them per se, cannons are/should be a tradition... and you shouldn't start a new tradition with something other schools have been doing for literally 50+ years.

The current sound system probably can't do the screech justice, but we could/should have some sound engineers give it the Disney/Universal Studios treatment and place some special speakers strategically and solely to make that sound. DESIGN the sound AND the system for that sound at HRS. Laser sounds, maybe footsteps/a running rumble as the team enters... flapping wings up to the opening kick-off... Think of it as a Foley editor for the MOB shows

Maybe get a composer from Shep to make various new arrangements of Louie, including one for strings and kazoo, a brass trio, electric guitar and bass, synth/keyboards... barbershop quartet... hip hop/rap/classical... 3/4, 6/8, 12/4... variations on a theme... to bring those people/instruments back to the MOB (or BOB or even a quartet at baseball) in addition to the 'classic'.

We're a clever school. Let's act that way. Why do all of our athletic ideas seem to simply be poorly funded or applied derivatives of what every other school does?