Dan’s dad is visiting next weekend and he’s a big football fan so we’ve bought tickets to the BC Lions playoff game on Sunday.
I haven’t been to a CFL game since I was a kid. Growing up in Hamilton I saw my fair share of Tiger Cats games, and when I was just 8 or 9 my gymnastics team even got to be part of a Tiger Cats halftime show! It was quite the thrill for me at the time.
Funnily enough, despite not attending a game in over a decade and a half, I still have the Tiger Cats cheer memorized:
Oskee Wee Wee
Whiskey Wa Wa
Holy Mackinaw
Tigers … Eat’em RAW!!
The Oskee Yell even has its own wikipedia entry! Well, sort of. Hamilton actually stole the cheer from somewhere else! It was popularized at Berkeley in 1941, but variations have apparently been around since the turn of the 20th century.
Actually I thought it was
Oskee wee wee
Oskee wa wa
etc etc
and if it has any meaning. In a discussion at the last game we wondered if it had anything to do with the Mackinac straight and if the Eat ‘em raw was promoting cannibalism.
Posted by Murray Cluff | 04. Jul, 2009, 2:36 pm