HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS???
HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS???
Piss on 'em!Originally Posted by Shazam!
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my thoughts exactly!
+1 to both of ya for giving the right response
That shit is hardwired into our brains from day 1 at Tech.+1 to both of ya for giving the right response
Funny little story about that: I marched in the marching band here and one year we were playing at a high school marching band exhibition and some highschool dipshit had the smart idea to yell "How Bout them Dawgs" right before the start of the show. They ended up getting 300 people yelling "Piss on 'em" right back at them.
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Oh, a GA Tech guy, huh? Okay, fine.... Want to talk shit about UGA, go ahead. However, at least we didn't have a Flag Boy...I personally saw his pansy ass at a game back when I was at UGA. Not pretty. Then again, since you only have 10 girls that go to GA Tech, guys sometime have to fill in for the women that the University lacks.
http://www.nique.net/issues/2004-11-12/focus/3
For men on color guard, flags are anything but "girly"
By Kristin Noell Senior Staff Writer
He is out there on the field during the football game, giving the best performance he can. He always gets the right amount of spin and rarely drops; he even catches his own tosses.
No, we're not talking about Reggie Ball. This is Marc Holcomb, a senior Film/Video major at Georgia State and one of only two men on the Georgia Tech Color Guard.
At a school that is predominantly male, being in the minority can draw attention, and sometimes even ridicule. The two men are sometimes openly insulted, particularly at football games.
"The other day at the Virginia Tech/Georgia Tech game," Holcomb said, "I walked out with my flags, getting ready to go out on the field, and somebody screamed 'flag boy' from above my head."
Holcomb tries to take it in stride. "I turned around and waved, because I am a 'flag boy.' I spin flag; I'm a boy."
Holcomb first started guard in the fall of 1998 as a sophomore in high school. After two years, he took a break to do other things within the band program. He returned in the spring of 2004 when he joined Tech's winter guard.
This is Holcomb's second season on Tech's guard, though his first fall season. The fall season differs from the winter one in that the fall guard's primary performances are at football games, adding a visual element to the band's performance, while the winter guard performs at indoor competition in front of judges.
However, he didn't find out that he could be part of Tech's guard until his third year of college.
As a Georgia State student, "I didn't know that I had the opportunity to be in the Georgia Tech band until last year," he said.
According to Holcomb, since his time on Tech's color guard, he hasn't experienced too much discrimination for being a guy.
"That was actually my first comment," he said, "and it didn't bother me, and I don't really care."
Holcomb and his fellow members know that guard is hardly a feminine activity, after all.
"You come out and spin guard, do a band camp, and you'll see it's not a girly thing," he said. "You get injuries. You have as many injuries doing this as playing football, playing baseball."
"You get people that knock their teeth out; you get people [who] break their thumbs, break their wrists, break their ankles [and] smash their noses in. It's definitely not a girly activity," he said.
Holcomb said he participates in guard because he enjoys its artistic quality and the fact that it requires different skills than playing in the band-which he also did during high school.
"It's not more difficult; it's not less difficult; it's just a different kind of difficulty," he said. "It's just more interesting to me. I like doing flag work because it's more intricate and more artistic."
Being on color guard also requires a fair amount of dancing skill, which is perhaps why so many people call it a feminine activity.
Although one might expect otherwise, the color guard's 1:16 male-to-female ratio (32 women and two men, not including the instructor), a far cry from Tech's normal 7:3, does not keep Holcomb and the other male participant together all the time.
"We actually don't talk that much," he said. "He does weapon and I don't, so we don't spend a whole lot of time on the same parts of the field."
"We do have a common bond that we are the only guys on the guard," Holcomb said, "but it's not something that's so completely unifying that we spend all of our time together."
Therefore, it is not surprising that being very much in the minority is not difficult for Holcomb, who said there is "no problem with the ladies."
So what is it like being around so many females for so long?
"It's a lot of estrogen, but it's a lot of fun," he said.
And there are perks. "You get a lot of insight that makes your other guy friends jealous," Holcomb said. "They'll come to you like, 'I don't understand why my girlfriend does this' and I know the answer because I've been around girls, just girls, for so long...so girls will talk around me and I learn these inside things that a lot of guys don't get to hear."
Certain elements of women's conversations have ceased to bother him as well.
"You learn not to flinch when you hear the word 'tampon' or other things about that sort of thing," he joked.
If anything, Holcomb seems to enjoy spending his time being surrounded by women, and guard is a far from feminine pastime for him.
In fact, he said he may continue after college.
"I don't know if it's something that's going to be feasible when I'm in the workforce," he said. "I don't know yet."
By Andrew Saulters / Student Publications
Marc Holcomb is one of two men on the Georgia Tech Color Guard. Though he sometimes receives flak for doing what is popularly viewed as a "feminine" activity, Holcomb says guard is hardly girly.
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