2005's light-hearted smack down: Round 1

FirefightnRick · September 13, 2005

There was a lot of banter going on between MTSU fans and us all day. All of it was in fun and with that I wanted to point out a couple of them.

One thing that the Murf paper always does is have a colored cartoon of their mascot doing something to Scrappy on the front page of their morning sports page. It's kind of corny but cute just the same. The 2002 version was better than this years in my oppinion.

Another thing that we all noticed was that the First Tennessee Bank sponsored a T Shirt give away. 10,000 MTSU Blue T shirts were given out to give them a chance to have a sea of blue. One thing though that was cool about the shirts. On the front it had MTSU's and NT's logos, including our new one with the "Son of Worm" on there. But the back of the shirt explained that this weekend was MTSU and the Bank's Salute to all "First Responders" including Fire, Police and EMS. This is how it reads:

"Today, we're saluting the bravery of the Fire, Police, EMS and all first responders"

Then just below this it read:

"(By the way, you may want to stick around. The boys from North Texas might need you)".

Here's our F5 with his new sleep shirt on:

Season Opener: September 10, 2005. Go Blue Raiders!

I thought it was a clever idea, a good way to get more Blue into the stadium and a great promotional item as well. The shirts probably cost the bank possibly $4 each or less?

But probably the best smack'um going on was the efforts of our very own Emmitt. Emmitt made two signs before the game and everyone within eye sight got to read them all night long.

One said something about(Emmitt correct me if I'm wrong) ......"GOT RINGS?"

That got a lot of people in Blue wound up real quick but it was pretty funny I must admit.

The second one just said simply: NOW SERVING:.......#26!

Every time someone yelled at us or at Emmitt he would just hold up either of the two at the direction of the yelling. We kept telling him to put the one about #26 down before he freakin jinxed us, but he just kept flashing it all 4 quarters. It was sort of like a crystal ball thing I suppose at the end.

All in all everything was done in fun and as I posted earlier we had a blast.

Rick

FirefightnRick · September 13, 2005

By the way, inside on the second page of The Daily News Journal's Game Day section(the one with the cartoon) is an article by Adam Sparks titled: "Smart Football a must for MTSU...Mistakes have proven costly against Mean Green".

Indeed!

Rick

ntsumgspe · September 13, 2005

Another thing that we all noticed was that the First Tennessee Bank sponsored a T Shirt give away. 10,000 MTSU Blue T shirts were given out to give them a chance to have a sea of blue.
Wouldn't that be great if someone sponsored a similiar give away for this weeks game, or any game ? I guess that is probably wishful thinking.