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1. Dress Code for the game.
WEAR BLUE! WEAR BLUE.
SDSU's colors are yellow and blue. NDSU's colors are yellow and green. According the NCAA Rule 405.23A(1), "...when a visiting team has one or more of the same colors as the home team, the visiting team is deemed to be wearing the home school's color(s)."* Therefore, anyone wearing yellow will be deemed to be a Jackrabbit fan in Coughlin Alumni Stadium on Saturday. However, it is important that SDSU fans wear blue because some NDSU people (e.g., those chubby guys wearing the hardhats or that one fellow in the Big Bird costume [dare him to show up wearing that west of the river]) will nonetheless claim yellow is their school color while in Brookings.**
2. Rules of Behavior.
All SDSU fans know the usual rules of good fan behavior# but there is one rule I think is worth repeating in this thread for the benefit of those same chubby guys in the hardhats, and their friends, coming from the North: During the National Anthem, we stand at attention, singing the words of the Anthem or in silence, hand over one's heart. We do not yell our team's name in subsitution for "brave", the final word in the Anthem. We do not care that the yelling of something at the end of the National Anthem was something started by teh hockies at UND many years ago and the bright Bison decided to respond by shouting the Best Buy corporation's slogan, Buy Zone, at the end of the Anthem.##
3. Fan sponteniety -- have some fun.
For our Bison fans, some miscellaneous comments:
WEAR BLUE! WEAR BLUE.
SDSU's colors are yellow and blue. NDSU's colors are yellow and green. According the NCAA Rule 405.23A(1), "...when a visiting team has one or more of the same colors as the home team, the visiting team is deemed to be wearing the home school's color(s)."* Therefore, anyone wearing yellow will be deemed to be a Jackrabbit fan in Coughlin Alumni Stadium on Saturday. However, it is important that SDSU fans wear blue because some NDSU people (e.g., those chubby guys wearing the hardhats or that one fellow in the Big Bird costume [dare him to show up wearing that west of the river]) will nonetheless claim yellow is their school color while in Brookings.**
2. Rules of Behavior.
All SDSU fans know the usual rules of good fan behavior# but there is one rule I think is worth repeating in this thread for the benefit of those same chubby guys in the hardhats, and their friends, coming from the North: During the National Anthem, we stand at attention, singing the words of the Anthem or in silence, hand over one's heart. We do not yell our team's name in subsitution for "brave", the final word in the Anthem. We do not care that the yelling of something at the end of the National Anthem was something started by teh hockies at UND many years ago and the bright Bison decided to respond by shouting the Best Buy corporation's slogan, Buy Zone, at the end of the Anthem.##
3. Fan sponteniety -- have some fun.
For our Bison fans, some miscellaneous comments:
- You are free to cheer on your team when you want to. Be spontaneous. The announcer will not tell you when to stand, sit or yell. Have some fun!
- Dome nazis have no jurisdication beyond the border of North Dakota; however, 38-year old fans providing beer to minors may be addressed according to the laws of the State of South Dakota.
- Once again, NDSU fans will be asked to use the porta-potties provided and not just relieve themselves wherever as in past years. When SDSU's new stadium is completed, SDSU fans will use the permanent facilities while NDSU fans will be asked to continue using the porta-potties...so, try to learn to use them.
- When touchdowns occur at Coughlin Alumni Stadium, we do not shoot fireworks. In South Dakota, you should go to a Friday night high school game for that experience (oh, and you can also go to a U of Illinois game although I think they may have exhausted their year's supply of fireworks a few weeks ago
). - It is an accepted fact north of the border that NDSU does not lose football games. Once in a while the refs take a game away from them. Bison fans: get ready, you won't like this referring crew!
*Okay, I made the NCAA rule stuff up.
** Last year the ND State Legislature passed a law requiring all North Dakotans to ignore NCAA Rules...something like that.
# Certified by the Summit League and the Sportsmanship Award.
## I'm trying to have a little fun in this post but I'm real serious about this one. These are serious times and respect for one of our nation's great symbols is in order.
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