Why was the crowd singing "Sweet Caroline" on Saturday?

[duck92]

What connection does it have to the team or school?

[StevensTechU]

We (white people) love that song. That's why.

Also, Max's has been closing to Sweet Caroline forever. Feels right to me.

[OregonFan4Life]

That’s the first thing I want to go at Autzen.

[gogreen55]

Why not? It is a common song played at many sporting events (most probably associate it with the Red Sox 7th inning stretch). Anything that gets the crowd involved and entertained is a good thing.

[DuckMastaFunk]

Sweet Caroline? That song makes me want to shout!


All kidding aside, I can’t listen to this song the same after I learned that aspiring pedophile Neil Diamond wrote it about 12yr old Caroline Kennedy. Now it just grosses me out.

[StevensTechU]

I don't think it should become a 'tradition,' but have no problem whatsoever with playing random singalongs to keep fans engaged. Adding covid to what was already a trend of lower attendance to games nationwide, I think it's smart to come up with ways to make it so the game day experience is markedly different than watching from home.

[DmoneyDuck]

My only gripe with it (and Shout) was that fans would belt out the lyrics to it but stay quiet as a mouse on 3rd and 4th downs.

[thomas time]

as a Red Sox fan I like to hear it whenever it's on playing

[pezsez1]

I never knew about the song's connection to young Caroline Kennedy, so I looked up some info on that and it isn't nearly as creepy as it sounds without context.

https://www.biography.com/news/sweet-ca ... ne-kennedy

Long story short: He was trying to fit his wife's name into the song, but it just didn't work. He'd written down Caroline Kennedy's name in a lyric notebook years earlier because he liked a photo he'd seen of her as a girl, so he plugged the name "Caroline" into his song and it worked.