You have NO class NC State

[Bud Lee]

By the way, my daughter really likes your tiger picture. So I guess the SEC has some redeemable qualities, although you probably didn't take the picture yourself. You probably copied it from Oregon or something. Anyway, cool picture.

Glad she likes it. It is a picture of Mike swimming in his habitat. In case she is interested, she can find more here: http://www.mikethetiger.com/pictures.php

I personally find this one to be fricking adorable.

[Bud Lee]

To further my point, members of their fan base seems to take issue with it.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=178&f=25 ... 746270&p=2

[greenyellow]

Guess I was wrong with the mounting data. With that the case, NC State has no class.

[AutzenMember]

LOL. My guess, having a broadcast background, is that both schools purchased a boiler-plate script from a production company, then made minor tweaks to fit their own theme. Hard to believe NC State would've followed the LSU version so closely, cuz this is blatantly the same. I guess it is possible, though.

Thing I noticed in the LSU version..."Chance of rain...never" sounds an awful lot like "It never rains at Autzen Stadium".

[USUaggieDuck]

LOL. My guess, having a broadcast background, is that both schools purchased a boiler-plate script from a production company, then made minor tweaks to fit their own theme. Hard to believe NC State would've followed the LSU version so closely, cuz this is blatantly the same. I guess it is possible, though.

Thing I noticed in the LSU version..."Chance of rain...never" sounds an awful lot like "It never rains at Autzen Stadium".

The guy wrote it as a poem specifically for LSU.


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[Bud Lee]

LOL. My guess, having a broadcast background, is that both schools purchased a boiler-plate script from a production company, then made minor tweaks to fit their own theme. Hard to believe NC State would've followed the LSU version so closely, cuz this is blatantly the same. I guess it is possible, though.

Thing I noticed in the LSU version..."Chance of rain...never" sounds an awful lot like "It never rains at Autzen Stadium".

The guy wrote it as a poem specifically for LSU.


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Exactly! A guy that has been our announcer since I was a child and that has never missed a home game in 50 years wrote that poem for our program. However I did found out that the company that did the video part for us is the same that did theirs so I'm sure there is something to that.

To put this in perspective, imagine for a moment that Uncle Phil wrote a poem about Autzen stadium and the powers to be at Oregon loved it so much they decided to make a intro video for it to be played at the start of each football game. Then two years later...BOOM...Ohio State steals it, changes 8 words in it, and use it as their own.

[Bud Lee]

It's an ongoing thing with LSU and Oregon, both sides claim they started the "It never rains..." quote first.

I have no freakin' idea.

We started doing "chance of rain....Never!" in the early 80's I think. I never even knew y'all did it until this year. I have no clue who did it first but I'm willing to bet we are not even close to being the only ones

Here is a article on Dan Borne, the gentleman that wrote the poem and the guy that started "Chance of rain....NEVER"

http://digbatonrouge.com/article/the-st ... oice-2895/

Here is what he said about the phrase...

Dig: “Chance of rain – never.” Where did you come up with the phrase?

Dan Borné: Growing up in Thibodaux, we always heard, “It never rains in Tiger Stadium on a Saturday Night.” It was just this phrase we always heard. I don’t even know where it came from. Well, I would always do the weather forecasts before the game, and I would just say what the actual report said. But one night, I just said, “Chance of rain – never.” It just came out. I had never heard the words put together that way. I’d heard, “It never rains in Tiger Stadium,” and no one can find out where it came from, but it just kind of caught on. Now, it’s expected, and people answer back to me. I say “Chance of rain,” and they say, “never.”

and here is is talking about the poem...

Dig: Now, the phrase is so ubiquitous that it’s become a poem. What made you put pen to paper?

DB: Before football season last year, the guys who run the promotions department at LSU wanted to an introductory video before the team came out, sort of to set the stage. They told me they were going to write something and send it to me to take a look at it. I looked at it, and I said, “Guys, you know, I think we just need to take somewhat of a different approach.” So I said, “Why don’t you just let me throw some thoughts down that come to mind after having sat in the stadium for 55 years?” So I put these words together, and honestly I just kind of threw them together. I sat at my desk, and I just thought about all of those things that are meaningful about the stadium; all of those things that give it the character that it has – the awesome nature of it.

They got to work with Doug Aucoin, who does the Tiger films for the players to watch before the game. He put the video to the words, and then they hired Tom Kane, a professional voiceover guy who does all kinds of commercials all over the world. He’s got that real kind of NFL voice. They gave him the poem, and he did the voiceover, and then they played it, I think, for the first time at the McNeese State game last season. It turned out really great. All I did was provide the words. Those guys provided the video, the aura, the voice. Now, it’s kind of taken on a life of its own. The video has blown up on YouTube, the poem is on the cover of the media guide and the poster and the t-shirts in the LSU sports shop. But, you know, it’s just my reminiscing of all those years in that stadium.