Sun Belt is prepping for Marshall

[greengeezer]

C'mon Geez, you're better than this...

View embedded media

I forgot about that one. Decent song, but I believe the original lyrics had “West Virginia.” 😀

 

[goherd73]

Here's one for all you oldies out there.

I liked the William Tell Overture ( Lone Ranger Theme) the Band used to do.

It got the students and crowd fired up.

Anyone remember this?

,

 

[greengeezer]

I liked the William Tell Overture ( Lone Ranger Theme) the Band used to do.

I once read that the definition of class was being able to listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

 

[bbneutralfan]

Here’s what has stood out this year:

-Video board calls for the We Are chant, DJ Herd that is blaring

-Band is playing, DJ Herd that on the video board

-3rd down——fans on their ass instead of cheering

As has been the past several years there seems to be zero communication between the band, the press box announcer, and now DJ Herdthat! Often times even the referee cannot be heard as music is blasting while they are trying to explain something to us. But hey no one in the athletic department sees any problems.

 

[i am herdman]

There once was a man from Nantucket
If you ain't for the Herd You Can Suck It

 

[W-S HerdFan]

There once was a man from Nantucket
If you ain't for the Herd You Can Suck It

Aye, yi, yi aye, in China…..
iam - stop teasing the millennials. They have no clue what you are referring to…

 

[Jartard]

Almost heaven, Nova Scotia….

 

[Herd1972]

Thunderstruck. Yes, it is played out. The song came out in 1990. The band has faded into that nether land that old acts go to where they tell you its the same band, except all of the members have changed. There are plenty of other song with thunder, buffalo, wild west or other appropriate themes out there.

Country Roads. 10000 times no. The song was written about Massachusetts and the drug addict writer and the drug addict singer decided to "southernize" it picking West Virginia because of the number of syllables and picking geographic features out of a dictionary, none of which are really in WV. It is a perfect song for WVU. None of the New Jersites students know any better, nor do their non-alumni knuckle dragging fans.

We are too smart for it. We are their betters.

Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. Danoff was raised in Massachusetts and used to receive postcards from a good friend living in West Virginia and he also listened to Saturday Night Jamboree from a Wheeling radio station. He developed a friendship with Chris Sarandan, actor from Beckley. He had numerous inspirations to make the song reference WV. The song is not about Massachusetts. The song is well received by a majority of West Virginians. Most of the song's symbolism accurately depicts our state.

 

[oldeherd]

Yeah, put it up the board and let those who want to participate do it. You aren’t forced to do anything.

View embedded media

Hey, if you can figure out an economic and feasible way to import 5,000 to 10,000 Icelanders to Huntington for every HERD home game, and get the Athletic Director and others to buy it, then GO FOR IT!!

 

[19MU88]

Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. Danoff was raised in Massachusetts and used to receive postcards from a good friend living in West Virginia and he also listened to Saturday Night Jamboree from a Wheeling radio station. He developed a friendship with Chris Sarandan, actor from Beckley. He had numerous inspirations to make the song reference WV. The song is not about Massachusetts. The song is well received by a majority of West Virginians. Most of the song's symbolism accurately depicts our state.

exactly. it's not about Massachusetts. It's about Virginia. It's about western Virginia.

 

[The Real SamC]

Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. Danoff was raised in Massachusetts and used to receive postcards from a good friend living in West Virginia and he also listened to Saturday Night Jamboree from a Wheeling radio station. He developed a friendship with Chris Sarandan, actor from Beckley. He had numerous inspirations to make the song reference WV. The song is not about Massachusetts. The song is well received by a majority of West Virginians. Most of the song's symbolism accurately depicts our state.

WWVA is not receivable in Boston. That is another apocryphal story that has been generated to cover for the fact that the song is about Massachusetts.

 

[greengeezer]

WWVA is not receivable in Boston.

A Clear Channel 50,000 watt AM radio station can travel hundreds of miles at night. It is 623 miles from Wheeling to Boston. It could be possible.
When I was a kid, I remember times I could pull in WLS in Chicago on an old AM radio.

 

[Herd1972]

exactly. it's not about Massachusetts. It's about Virginia. It's about western Virginia.

Actually, the inspiration for the name came while driving through Gaitersburg, MD.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

WWVA is not receivable in Boston.

Funny, I just found a citation of WWVA being listened to in Maine back in the day.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8...page&q=wwva can it be heard in boston&f=false

A Clear Channel 50,000 watt AM radio station can travel hundreds of miles at night. It is 623 miles from Wheeling to Boston. It could be possible.
When I was a kid, I remember times I could pull in WLS in Chicago on an old AM radio.

I used to listen to the Yankees on WCBS when I lived up on the mountain.