No Oskee Chant last night? - Please fill me in

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
#1

Was at the game last night & I only recall the chant being done once - before the opening kickoff.

Normally when the Cats are getting blown out, the chant still happens from time to time. But only once during a game?

Read some other posts & there was talk of maybe getting rid of the chant. I just got back from overseas, so I don't really know about that story.

If someone can fill me in, that would be great. If the chant is done, then so is my affiliation with the team. I haven't given up on the Cats - just this year's version of the Cats. The team is bad, and some things change, but classic traditions NEVER change.

Thanks.

#2

The chant is not gone...there is just no context to do it in during game action most of the time...

YAY ROUGE!!! << see?

That is how bad it is.

Oski Wee Wee,

#3

Section 7 did a rather rousing rendition of the Oski-wee-wee chant after every safety. Hey, a score is a score. For some reason, Ted Michaels on the Fifth Quarter called this cheering "derisive" ...

FYI, I think you must have read the thread where some folks were complaining about the Tiger-Cat Fight Song, which has part of the chant in it. I doubt anyone wants the chant itself to go away. If you didn't hear the chant itself last night, perhaps that means even Pigskin can't get enthusiastic about this team anymore.

#4

I haven't seen the chant used much lately, not since the Calgary game.

I guess when the team is losing badly there is no point in having the chant.

#5

It's hard to cheer when you're down by 30 or 40 points I guess.

#6

It is hard to get a quorum of volunteers to cheer
when your team only scores ZERO to TWO points

by themselves in any of the last 3 home games

and allows 100 to be scored against them.