Country Roads vs. Rocky Top

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It was neat for the first verse and chorus. Then it became nails on a chalkboard.
 
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I want to know how they got fans to color coordinate like that. We can't even get ours to wear either orange or white.
 
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Vol4life25 said:
I want to know how they got fans to color coordinate like that. We can't even get ours to wear either orange or white.
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I thought that was pretty cool as well. I remember when UT did it in basketball several years ago. I was very cool.

It would look bada$$ in Neyland.
 
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Vol4life25 said:
I want to know how they got fans to color coordinate like that. We can't even get ours to wear either orange or white.
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WVU's stadium barely gets over 55,000 in it - and most of them are West Virginians who have grown up fans of WVU and live in the immediate area.

The shirt color they needed to wear was printed on their ticket. Would be much harder to get 100k+ coming from all over the country to do something similar at Neyland.
 
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BlueHalo said:
WVU's stadium barely gets over 55,000 in it - and most of them are West Virginians who have grown up fans of WVU and live in the immediate area.

The shirt color they needed to wear was printed on their ticket. Would be much harder to get 100k+ coming from all over the country to do something similar at Neyland.
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That's what I was thinking. Easier to manage smaller crowds.
 
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BlueHalo said:
WVU grad. Been many times as a student. WVU folks are cool mostly. WVians ruin it for me.

Hated living in WV so never really felt any connection.


Also..lyrics are blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah River...John Denver wrote the song while riding through western Virginia.

Rocky Top is 100x the tradition and song that country comodes is.
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lulz
 
#14
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say what you want, but I think that's a pretty special tradition they have going on there.

it moved me watching the video I imagine its much better in real life.
 
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BlueHalo said:
WVU's stadium barely gets over 55,000 in it - and most of them are West Virginians who have grown up fans of WVU and live in the immediate area.

The shirt color they needed to wear was printed on their ticket. Would be much harder to get 100k+ coming from all over the country to do something similar at Neyland.
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It's orange or white...not too difficult.

It would still be hard to pull off. I like how Oregon puts it on the website.
 
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vols4evah said:
say what you want, but I think that's a pretty special tradition they have going on there.

it moved me watching the video I imagine its much better in real life.
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Imagine if Tennessee sang a song about Alabama, or Kentucky....all the time...after their football games. How is that a good tradition?
 
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BlueHalo said:
WVU grad. Been many times as a student. WVU folks are cool mostly. WVians ruin it for me.

Hated living in WV so never really felt any connection.


Also..lyrics are blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah River...John Denver wrote the song while riding through western Virginia.

Rocky Top is 100x the tradition and song that country comodes is.
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That song was not even written about WVA and Denver was not the primary song writer. He did work on the song after it was pitched to him by two other writers, but the original song was inspired by a trip to Maryland. Take Me Home, Country Roads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The song only gets better when played by a Tennessee band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qn87xi8eRM
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
The lyrics are "West Virginia," not "western Virginia."
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Just stop, lol.

There are no mountains or pretty rivers near Morgantown, I assure you of that.

Surely you know where west Tennessee is? West Texas? But not west Virginia? John Denver went along with it because West Virginians attached themselves to it, despite the geographical references to the Blacksburg, Virginia area.


Oh yeah, and there is this....believe it or not my roomate was watching a Tennessee game with me sophomore year - when the band played rocky top he said:
"hey, they're copying the Morgantown WV song!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyw4520E26Q
 
#22
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The Blue Ridge mountains and the Shenandoah River both sneak into West Virginia, but are primarily in western Virginia. That said, Denver had very little to do with the writing, but did change a few lines. It was written for West Virginia despite the mentions of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River.

That said, Country Roads vs Tennessee Waltz is the more appropriate comparison. This isn't WVU's fight song.
 
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BlueHalo said:
Just stop, lol.

There are no mountains or pretty rivers near Morgantown, I assure you of that.
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I would have thought that news of the Monongahela River drying up would have made national news. Interesting. Also didn't realize that all those mountains throughout the entire state had been leveled from coal mining.
 
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Slydell said:
That's what I was thinking. Easier to manage smaller crowds.
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tell that to Penn State fans

penn-state-whiteout.jpg


should be no excuse for our crowds to do something like that, imagine neyland stadium crowd in orange and white checkerboard pattern, would be awesome.
 
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