Alternate to Gameday Whiteout Idea

by jimbo2psu on Sep 23, 2009 7:02 PM EDT

Probably way too late for this, but I see a couple problems with the Gameday Whiteout. First of all, there's no way this idea will get out to EVERYONE showing up at Gameday, especially Iowa fans who would never want to go along with it anyway. So people will show up with their own signs and it would be tough to convince them not to attempt to show the country their creativity. People would likely be pissed at someone telling them they "can't" show their signs for the entire show, creating kind of a conflicted atmosphere amongst PSU fans. The other bad thing about the Whiteout is that it will make any signs against PSU way more visible since these guys would not comply. Not sure if I have a complete solution to this, and maybe the Whiteout would look really cool anyway, but here's my thought. Convince people to flip their signs around to the blank side at the BEGINNING of Gameday and keep it like that until the first commercial break or so. That way, we can get the initial shock of white at the beginning of the show while everyone's watching, AND let everyone show their wordsmanship the rest of the way through. Thoughts???

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I guess my main motivation for this is

wanting to see all of the Terrelle Pryor slams waiting to be unveiled. You know there would be some hilarious TP signs and I’d hate to see them stifled throughout the whole show.

by jimbo2psu on Sep 23, 2009 7:05 PM EDT reply actions

I really hope there are no Terelle Pryor slams this weekend

We’re playing Iowa, not Ohio State. Lets take things one game at a time.

Let's Go State

by rmcmillen50 on Sep 23, 2009 8:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Seriously

I don’t get the Pryor obsession to being with, but why would you detract from a huge game for PSU — and revenge for last year — by having a sign pertaining to another team. Just silly.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 23, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't get it?

I agree that we need to avoid the Pryor signs until November when Gameday (fingers crossed) comes back to Happy Valley.

But you don’t get our anger at TP?

He considered PSU but then chose tOSU instead and said pretty much that Penn State is too rural and we don’t really care about our football team. Then later this year he said something to the effect of “I’m not worried about playing in Beaver Stadium, it’s not that loud anyway.”

"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.

by Rogue Nine on Sep 23, 2009 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm not angry at him

Hell, I think it’s all turned out pretty well for us.

But, Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzz, don’t mistake our laughing at Pryor as “obsession”.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Sep 23, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions

don’t mistake our laughing at Pryor as "obsession".

Oh, it’s an obsession. His name comes up constantly, even on topics that have nothing to do with him, even tangentially. Like this one, about College Gameday. On this Saturday. Against Iowa. Huh?

I will admit though that the vitriol and preoccupation with Pryor is at least somewhat more understandable that the bizarre fascination with talking about Pitt. At least we play Ohio State and have a competitive rivalry with them and they are a program of similar stature.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 23, 2009 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Do me a favor and provide me with links that contain obsessive talk about Pitt.

I guess some people may have an “obsession” with Pryor, but I haven’t seen many. In this thread, it was one person posting about Pryor “slam pictures” who was then told off by two people. Doesn’t seem very obsessive to me.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Sep 23, 2009 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I’ve been browsing through the search results for “pryor”. So far, it doesn’t seem that obsessive to me.

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by ReadingRambler on Sep 23, 2009 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions

lol, Pryor "Obsession"

it’s not our fault he’s a punchline for us. The obsession is how much we love to laugh. Why do you hate laughter Laaaaaaaaaaaazzzzz?

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 24, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

AMEN

These are the jacknuts who not only beat PSU last year and prevented them from playing for a MNC, but they also lost to Pitt. For those of us in the Pittsburgh area we now have to hear how “Pitt beat Iowa, and then Iowa beat PSU, so you know what that means.”

Pryor is a 19 yo student athlete who doesn’t look to be as great as advertised. I am all too happy to boo and taunt him, WHEN HE PLAYS PSU.

If you need some hate: http://www.iowahawkeyes.net/hawks/blog/post.cfm?p=psu-schedules-white-out-for-the-hawkeye-game . “Similar to the Hawkeyes with the ‘Black Out’ (or, even more popular last year…the ‘Green Out’), Penn State has the phenomenon known as the White Out.” See, we are just like Iowa.

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by Captain Hairdo on Sep 23, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I wonder if they realize that they get the White HOUSE

not necessarily because they are Iowa, but because they’re really the only somewhat competitive team we play during conditions optimal for a White House: a night game during reasonably warm weather.

I’m sure the OSU game will be a White Out, though, just not a White House, since older alumni aren’t gonna just wear shirts, and not too many people own white winter coats.

by The JuggerNitt on Sep 23, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions

I never understood why we only get one "White House" a year

We have currently have two HUGE home games this year, why not make them as intimidating to the other team as possible. Is it really that tough to communicate to everyone leaving the stadium the last home game before tOSU to wear all white against them to make it as intimidating an atmosphere to play in?

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 24, 2009 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Too much of a good thing...

is still too much. If you overdo it, you dilute the experience, make it not as special anymore, and end up just looking silly. IMO, Guido and his greatest gameday show in a college student section sponsored by our corporate sponsors squad have already gone well past this point.

I think the current white out “ratio” (one white house and one student section white out per year) is just right. And I’d also be perfectly happy if they canned all the canned music and sound effects other than Zombie Nation and the lion growl, but that’s another story…

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions

But while it may be Guido's doing

I don’t see it as a marketing ploy. They’re not making any more money by having more than one white-house game. How is it silly to make the in stadium atmosphere more intimidating? It’s not like we’re going to white out Temple or anything, but we’ve got two high profile, very important home games this year. If it were us doing the We Are chant for twenty minutes straight during every opponent offensive drive, THATS diluting the experience, and screwing up a tradition. Having everyone in the stadium wear white to two important games doesn’t dilute the “intimidation factor” of the White out.

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 24, 2009 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree with The Dawson

we should use it for all games that are really important

by PSUisMyHeart on Sep 24, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Well if you want to talk about tradition

The student white out goes back to 2004, and the game that immortalized it – OSU 2005 – was a student only white out. The “white house” started in 2007. White houses are cool, but there’s something cool about it being exclusive to the student section too.

Also, wimpy cold alumni that don’t have a white jacket wouldn’t participate in a white house in November. I’d rather have a successful student white out than a failed white house attempt.

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 25, 2009 12:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Definitely Better For Us

That he didn’t come here. I think the bigger part is how he sort of insulted us in his decision making process. Not caring about our football? Not very loud? I find that insulting as I stand in the student section with 110,000 other people screaming their lungs out. If he had just gone and shut his face I don’t think there would be much talk about him.

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by Rogue Nine on Sep 24, 2009 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Actually, no, I really don’t get it. He chose another school, one he thought was better for him and that he felt more comfortable at. That’s his choice. As it turns out, he was starting as a true freshman, so it’s hard to say that he made a poor choice.

And he said dumb things about PSU? So? He says dumb things, it’s called being young and stupid.

Look, I understand that folks are bitter that he didn’t choose PSU and how he handled it. But it’s not like he pulled an asshole Kevin Jones stunt and he never really gave an indication (in my impression) that we were in the lead for getting him. And last year we beat him and his team in their home stadium. So, at this point, no, I really don’t get it. Making fun of Pryor got old like 8 months ago.

I mean, if we were playing tOSU this weekend and there was a lot of talk about Pryor, I’d get it, but that game is in November and yet he still gets mentioned in a ton of threads right now. Why?

But, to each their own, just offering my opinion.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 23, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t recall seeing very many people bitter or angry about Pryor (which would be ridiculous, Mark Rubin and all). If anything, there have been angry posts directed towards the foolish media coverage of Pryor.

I mean, if we were playing tOSU this weekend and there was a lot of talk about Pryor, I’d get it, but that game is in November and yet he still gets mentioned in a ton of threads right now. Why?

Maybe because he plays for our archrival, and gets tons of media coverage leading to posts about said media coverage, leading to posts about Pryor (which can contain either serious or non-serious critiques (“arm punter” is damned accurate))?

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by ReadingRambler on Sep 23, 2009 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions

it is like you don't understand the internets

I don’t think anyone here honestly cares about Pryor at this point (other than when we were hearing how great he was going to be, and being the pre-season B10 player of the year, despite having competition for the returning B10 1st team QB), but it is funny to make fun of popular targets, and how most internet memes come about. We also make fun of Tebow, and yet Florida isn’t even on our schedule.

by The JuggerNitt on Sep 23, 2009 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions

It's sort of like why we hate Tebow

He’s just to beloved and overexposed by sports media. It helps that he sounds like a lobotomy patient whenever he opens his mouth, but it’s not necessarily him that we hate. Personally I don’t like his attitude or his maturity level, but it just adds to why it’s so funny to joke about him and poke fun.

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 24, 2009 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm assuming you are talking about Pryor in your comment

and not Tebow, right?

by The JuggerNitt on Sep 24, 2009 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Yes, you're correct, I should have switched the 'he's' to Pryor

If I were making fun of Tebow there probably would have been a circumcision of a third world child joke in there somewhere.

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 24, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Too late

Save it for next time.

No need to start confusing the plans that have already been set forth and spread.

by PennStateBasketball on Sep 23, 2009 8:03 PM EDT reply actions

+1

There’s no way this could gain enough steam to overpower the current whiteout plans. It’d just confuse people.

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 23, 2009 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions

That said

I do think this is a good idea. Just too late.

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 23, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Fair enough

Just a thought.

by jimbo2psu on Sep 24, 2009 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions

Look

If the white out does get screwed up, who out there is gonna remember it other than us?

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by Adam Bittner on Sep 23, 2009 9:07 PM EDT reply actions

If you idiots are in your dorm room watching tv

you need your head examined. Why not go out and tailgate with the best crowd in America?

by Tailgate Shogun on Sep 23, 2009 9:29 PM EDT reply actions

Er, idiots was harsh.

I retract that misstatement.

by Tailgate Shogun on Sep 23, 2009 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Knuckleheads works!

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by PaJoe on Sep 23, 2009 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Um

how about all of the above?

I’ll be at the GameDay set while they’re filming, then tailgating afterwards. And then I’ll watch the show later on my DVR.

It’s not that hard.

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 23, 2009 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Throw in tailgate before

and I’m sold.

by Tailgate Shogun on Sep 23, 2009 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Good idea

But word has SPREAD rather quickly through facebook and the Penn State blogs and I think it was in the Collegian earlier this week. I don’t think the number of Iowa fans appearing at Gameday will ever detract from the number of Penn State fans.

"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.

by Rogue Nine on Sep 23, 2009 9:37 PM EDT reply actions