Ravens fight song...Big YAWN!

[TL24x7]

With multi-million dollar high-def scoreboards and sound systems, why try to breathe life into a fight song that is so yesteryear? There are so many new and innovative ways to entertain and excite the 70,000 at M&T who bleed purple.

Does anyone still churn their own butter?

Anybody still listen to an 8 Track?

Feel like investing in a pay phone company?

LINK (http://ravens24x7.blogspot.com/2010/08/ravens-fight-songs-doesnt-have-fighting.html)

[Mista T]

why try to breathe life into a fight song that is so yesteryear?


Simple answer: Because that song is a significant link to our NFL Heritage. :ref:

You are way off-base with this one, Tony. :thumbdown: You just don't abandon tradition because of modern technology and new fans who are oblivious to our long & proud NFL history. Following your logic, let's relocate the Unitas statue to a the Sports Legends Museum, take the Colts names & numbers off the Ring of Honor, and remove the pseudo Memorial Stadium wall from the baseball stadium. Take all the football history off the walls in the club section, too.

On the other hand, I would agree with anyone who criticizes the production and timing of the fight song. It's way too zippy and the new lyrics are really bad: tongue twisters that few will remember and fewer will sing, except for the key phrases of "fight-fight-fight" and "for Baltimore, and Maryland.... etc". And play the song only at pregame and halftime, and post-game as we file of the stadium. It's not a "touchdown song" - save the TD celebrations for pick me up music that already works: like "Shout" and "I Love Rock & Roll".

As to the new video board in HDTV -- it looks pretty much like the old one in the daylight, and the new graphics suck, day or night. Hopefully, they'll fine tune this stuff to get it right, just like they should fine tune the band's production of the fight song.

I'm not against progress, but let's not toss out our history at the same time.

[mojorob]

Once again,no disrespect to John Ziemann,but he missed the mark on the re-write of of the old song. I was there at the game Saturday night and it was almost kind of sad when Bruce Cunningham asked the fans to open their hymnals,AKA gameday programs to page 24 and join in by singing the new song. The response was as flat as Twiggy.

I would just as soon someone write a song imploring the selection committee to induct Art Modell in to the HOF.

[Galen Sevinne]

I think we need to be realistic with a team fight song. Did anyone really like, care, give two craps for the original Ravens song? I don't know a one who did. I wasn't at the game last weekend so I have no idea how they unfurled this thing but I automatically think it was poor planning to do it during a preseason game. I think they should have waited for a real game released it slowly like maybe during a t.v. break after a big moment like a touchdown.

I, for one, am looking forward to hearing it but will probably rank it as pretty low on the excitment scale of that day's game. Its a team fight song...let's not lose perspective here. There is a reason why in high school there are the football players and then there are the band guys. Not short changing the Marchiing Ravens as I support the band and the connection to the Baltimore football past that I grew up with along side of important people in my life but it is still the band.

Being one of the vocal supporters here about the change in the song, I will listen to it, reminisce about Sunday afternoons of my youth at Memorial watching Jones hit Carr for the 80 yard bomb, and then look forward to guy with the day-glo orange and green mitts on the get the hell of the field and the band to sit back down and the game to begin once again.

Those criticizing the new (old) song, do you really miss the old one?

[Flipping Birdie]

The new fight song is guaranteed to flop. I'm sure it sounded dated when it was introduced in 50's. Now it sounds downright prehistoric. Yes, I get that it is a link to the old Colts, but no significant percentage of fans under 35 are going to care about that and sing some old grandpa cheer that is evocative of a 1920's ideal complete with BMOCs, lettered cardigans and fur coats.

[TL24x7]

You are way off-base with this one, Tony. You just don't abandon tradition because of modern technology and new fans who are oblivious to our long & proud NFL history. Following your logic, let's relocate the Unitas statue to a the Sports Legends Museum, take the Colts names & numbers off the Ring of Honor, and remove the pseudo Memorial Stadium wall from the baseball stadium. Take all the football history off the walls in the club section, too.


Quite honestly I fail to follow your logic T.

Clearly you are entitled to your opinion and I appreciate hearing it. But for me a fight song is intended to stir emotion in the present. This rendition is completely nostalgic and after hearing it for the 3rd or 4th time it grew rather boring.

I admire and LOVE the Unitas statue and the youth have taken to it by rubbing the boot...therefore it's relevant.

Museums are museums...and I appreciate those as well.

I don't see why not appreciating the song in the present means that I can't admire all of the other things you mention. Although that said, I'm not a fan of having the Colts in the ring of honor.


As to the new video board in HDTV -- it looks pretty much like the old one in the daylight, and the new graphics suck, day or night. Hopefully, they'll fine tune this stuff to get it right, just like they should fine tune the band's production of the fight song.

I'm not against progress, but let's not toss out our history at the same time.


I would also like to remind you that ColtsHeritage.com was my idea.

[Ravcolt]

Yesteryear..all my feelings swelled into a cheer,
but now some fans turn it into a fear,
oh how I long for yesteryear.

:patriot:

[Mista T]

Clearly you are entitled to your opinion and I appreciate hearing it. But for me a fight song is intended to stir emotion in the present. This rendition is completely nostalgic and after hearing it for the 3rd or 4th time it grew rather boring.

I admire and LOVE the Unitas statue and the youth have taken to it by rubbing the boot...therefore it's relevant.

Our brains must be wired differently, because I can't follow your knocking of the former Colts tune but rubbing Unitas toe is OK because "the youth" do it???? Huh? :229031_confused2:

Whatever ... agree to disagree. However, there was one part of your article with which I am in full agreement:


I clearly recognize that this might be an unpopular opinion but count me among the minority that isn’t too keen on the updated model of the Colts (now Ravens) fight song.

:laugh:

[Dave Lap]

First of all, I don't remember anyone singing the Colts fight song, except for the part that went "fight, fight, fight.

I also don't recall anyone in the Colt's era urging fans to sing it. That's a bad idea.

It was simply something the band played.

Secondly, fight songs, school songs, etc. all sound dated. That's just the nature of the beast. It's hard to have tradition without some historical context. Maybe we should put it to a hip-hop beat? Lol.

Thirdly, you can't expect a song to catch on instantly. It takes repeated listenings-like any song.

So...give it a season or two then revisit. My 02.

[UKRavenGordon]

I'm not overly fussed on the lyrics, but the tune of the song is so damn catchy - find myself humming away randomly throughout the day.

[Stealthbirds80]

I personally like the song and was not around yet for the old one. I didn't know that there was an original Ravens fight song either so this is my first exposure to having this real football town kind of nostalgia. Makes me feel like I'm back at college in some ways and with a bit of aging can be heard by a generation long past mine. The words are a bit underwhelming I'd have to admit, but aren't all fight songs until like 50 yrs have past? If they can give this song a cult following with just a few chaps then it may stick. This song however is for a different era, but sort of timeless in the tune portion.

[Ravcolt]

Its also the best damn ringtone for your cellphone..everyone will want to know what it is..and the next thing you know the whole city will be humming the tune.:patriot:

[Mista T]

Its also the best damn ringtone for your cellphone..

OK, so drop the other shoe: where can I get the new Ravens fight song as a ring tone?

[Galen Sevinne]

OK, so drop the other shoe: where can I get the new Ravens fight song as a ring tone?

http://www.mytinyphone.com/ringtone/668249

Haven't tried it and I claim no responsibility if it bricks your phone.

[ravensfan1996]

I was thinking the same thing about "no one sung the colts song either". No one sung all the words, just its fun to chant fight fight fight and baltimore, maryland.......I wasnt there saturday so i dont know how the whole thing went off or how it sounded.

The miami dophins (aka houston oilers) fight song isnt a song that gets you fired up either, but guess what, its easy to sing and gets stuck in your head. The fans love it...so give it sometime, if the fans dont like it, it wont be around.