I saw our cheerleaders carrying around signs at the Temple game and one of them said “THANK YOU”. I was hoping it was for the purpose you described, because that’s always been a great stadium tradition.

by the super-slow-mo wave.

I have never been a big fan of the Thank You, Your Welcome. That may be sacrilage…….but it always sounded tacked on to me.

Many of us still said it, but I think the problem was that we entered into an extended “WE ARE… PENN STATE” chant. By the time we got through and were about to say Thank you/Your welcome, kickoff was already underway, so it was cut short. It’s definitely still there and will not go anywhere.

That was recreated on Saturday, though not as greatly as it was in the 90’s

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It very easily could have been my location…

The club seats seem to be where everything good goes to die… I’m glad this will be my last season there and we can move back to the good ol’ regular seats.

I saw quite possibly the most ridiculous thing at any stadium ever on saturday…

Early in the first qtr a guy cheered a play and then continued standing up and cheering. The guy behind him started yelling all kinds shut up and sit down crap at him and was in fact being quite rude. The original cheer guy (OCG for short) then just continued standing for another play just to tick the rude ass guy (RAG) off. Never said anything just stood – it was well deserved and great.

RAG then stands up and grabs OCG and pulls him down to his seat. OCG is steamed but just sits and takes it. Meanwhile Big douche award winner guy (BDAWG), who at this point is just a bystander yells at OCG and leaps over two rows of seats and into the tunnel.

About 10 minutes later BDAWG returns with a couple of Penn States Finest and they jump all over OCG. Now OCG is PISSED. OCG’s buddy restrains him from going crazy at the campus cops and after listening to his side for a few seconds they remove OCG and his girlfriend so they can tell their side of the story somewhere they can hear them.

Girlfriend comes back a few minutes later to tell OCG’s buddy that they are getting moved to better seats and were apologized to by the cops.

OCG came back later in the second half for a bit with no further incidents…

Crazy times…

I did get to sit beside Eric Shrive’s uncle though and he had some great things to say about the kid and his buddy who’se a TE at Illinois…

Throw Marshmallows not hate…

Many of us still said it, but I think the problem was that we entered into an extended "WE ARE… PENN STATE" chant. By the time we got through and were about to say Thank you/Your welcome, kickoff was already underway, so it was cut short. It’s definitely still there and will not go anywhere.

definitely true, the student section still yells it, it’s just hard to coordinate the thank you/welcome at the end of the cheer.

I always try and make it into the stadium for the Phil Collins song which always pumps me up for the game. Our party was stuck in traffic just coming into the stands at the WE gate and the press of people pushes us a little out away from the gate. Apparently having someone stand BRIEFLY in their way at least ten minutes BEFORE game time is too much for this middle-aged couple in club seating. The look of haughty contempt and annoyance on their faces spoke volumes already, but then the lady utters : “just find your seat….find your damn seat” in such a patronizing way that the less even-keeled among us might want to throttle her. Nevermind that the eighteen million people flowing out of the WE tunnel had kind of created a motionless bottleneck that we were powerless to change. One hopes an event like this would bring people together and suspend the petty isscht that troubles everybody’s day-to-day life, but apparently all fans are not created equal.

On a related note, Juggernitt, I agree about Ann Arbor….During the ‘05 heartbreaker, we sat behind the nicest elderly couple I’ve ever had the pleasure to share the stands with. Diehard scUM fans to the bone but beautiful people. The old man even took my dangerous gyrations (and raucous, if ill-timed, statements of : “WE TOOK THIS HOUSE”) in gracious stride when M-Rob punched it in with a minute-whatever on the clock. After the game they thanked us for coming, for the great game PSU played and the old man shook our hands. Nice Folks

It’s not totally absent, but seems to fade out on the extended, stadium-wide exchanges, probably because of length. Fans don’t really know when the We Are is gonna end….it just fades, which doesn’t leave any room for the fully-articulated Thank You.

When navigating crowds (between tailgates or on the ramps) and engaging our neighbors with this holiest of Penn State chants, we stick to three We Are’s and a Thank You for conciseness…

Teams all over are adding fan friendly or family sections. Wouldn’t it be cool if there could be a student section for grown ups? Don’t bring the kids if you want to sit in SJC but be sure to bring marshmallows, jello shots and a helmet to deflect falling cup towers flying chunks of ice.

I’m not sure if the Thank you/You’re Welcome has been scrapped. I think everyone just doesn’t know when the spirited “We Are…Penn State” should end, especially at a game like Illinois. The normal is three We Ares and the TY/YW, but again I think most people just want the effect of the We Are more than the TY/YW. People who yell it from the upper levels while you’re leaving the stadium and the guys along the street always say Thank You. So I don’t know if it’s officially been scrapped or if its just drowned out by the We Ares. I would watch for when the cheerleaders stop waving the We Are…Penn State flags at the beginning, then listen for it, I have to imagine, especially from the students that the tradition will continue.