team cheers
 

Hey, guys! I'm from the Pascack Pi-oneers team 1676, and my coach and I have decided that our team needs some cheers for regionals and competitions of sorts. (Our team's got an advantage, I'm a cheerleader :D )
So, does anybody have any cheers that are enjoyed by their team? I'd love to know, not to copy, but to get some ideas from everyone. Thanks for the help :)

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I'll think of some, and i'll get back to you...
;) :cool:

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pioneers, represent!!
thanx eric :)

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our main cheer is

We've got ice
We've got snow
857
go go go

and chanting your team number is always good

857
857
857....

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In the past we have had...
Feel the Emotion,
Metal in Motion!

I know, it's a stretch:p

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A TON of people have used this one from out team, i guess it just fits nicely

"What time is it!?!? KRUNCH TIME!!!"

And the other ones are usually

"K-R-U-N-C-H KRUNCH!!!"

or

"Hey, Watch out! you totally freak me out! I mean right on *clap* *clap* Krunch is sure Number 1!!!"

That one has a dance... really enjoyable to see everyone doing

Good luck with a cheer for your team!

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Our team sometimes chants
M! D! Triple C! X! VI! *clap clap*
We do that usually three times and then cheer. It's our team number in Roman Numerals in case you haven't guessed.

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We have:

X-Cats Rock tha House!
Say X-Cats Rock tha House!
(SAY WHAT!?!)


(Repeat numerous times til the team voices break)

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Here are our standard ones.

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Want to hear a case of irony?

All last year our team could not come up with one team cheer. Now after reading this post I think I have a good one. Maybe it will inspire you too. :)

W-A-R-L-O-C-K
We're gonna go
All the way!

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I don't get it? Why "A"?

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Our team, at Championship started doing a pre-match cheer in the pits that we borrowed from our friends on 1126.

(Yell as loud as you possibly can)
GO GRR ON 3! GO GRR ON 3!
1!
2!
3! GO GRR!

or in your case :)

GO Pioneers ON 3! GO Pioneers ON 3!
1!
2!
3! GO Pioneers!

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Well, We're the robolions, and our team number is 1261. So...

WHAT TIME IS IT?!?!?!
1261!!!
It's excellence because that doesn't abide by any standard, and if you do that with 1676, it'll be even more excellent. :D

ROBO --
LIONS --

And the most fun thing that I've found to be, is the, "We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit how about you?" To make this go a little bit faster, you send like half of your team to the other side of the stands, and then go back and forth. It is AMAZING when all 500-1000 people in the stands are yelling back and forth. :D

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PI - O...
...NEERS
<clap clap clapclapclap>

(Like Fink-a-Saurus)


Maybe "3.14159... 26536" or is that too nerdy?

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1. 16! 7 6! (repetitively)

2. P I O N E E R S! *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* Pi-o-neers!

Ive got that so far.

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1. one person- PIO

2. everyone- NEERS

for full effect, repeat steps 1 & 2 until before you get yelled at by everyone else to be quiet before proceeding to step 3

3. everyone screams

all i got good luck

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Once more, the Fighting Gamecocks lead the way. (It's especially fun to do at Palmetto, held at archrival Clemson University.)

It seemed to work pretty well for us, though be prepared to do it for nine or ten matches in quick succession. Once we were eliminated in the semis after six cardiac-inducing elimination rounds at Bayou, I had to sit down for a while to recover. Remember us old people when you formulate*. :)

*I'd punctuate this with a "GET OFF MY LAWN!", but I know I'm inviting a few similar demands by even suggesting that I'm remotely old.

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YEAAAAAH!!!!!!!! seems to work pretty well for us. :) By Saturday, I'm too tired for any coherent cheers anyways. :D

-vivek

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My team has a fairly groan inducing, yet still fun cheer, created by the great Tyler Olds years ago at Wisconsin.

"What's better than robotics? More Robotics!"

The thing that makes sense to me is that people use this cheer who've never heard of More Robotics before. I'll tell people about my team at college and they'll be like "Heh, like the cheer right?"

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How about something like....

F-I-R-S-T
We're rocking out scientifically.
F-I-R-S-T
F to the I to the R to the S to the T
The Kings and Queens of the Laboratory

I'm sure that would be a huge hit if you sang it between 80-200 times at the Boston Regional.

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1189 cheer = all hands in + someone saying "We're all..." = Massive shout of "GEARHEADS!"
Good fun, especially in enclosed areas!

Though in our case that's really not reserved for comps. We do it almost everywhere.

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I got to sit with MOE at IRI and learn how to clap. It rocked.

One of the things I've asked our spirit lead to do is come up with a one-line or two-line cheer this year. An idea that I suggested was to have a contest within the team for the cheer. Winner wins a gift certificate to Frys. Don't know what she will decide but, hopefully, we'll have an awesome team cheer by 2010.

A classic West Coast cheer
 

The classic cheer out on the West Coast for many years was the Gila Dance (Team 64, Gila Monsters, now split into at least two teams).

Leader: AAAWWAAAWWAA!! (pounding chest--think Tarzan yell/chest pound)
(repeat from group)
Leader: AAAWWAAAWWAA!! (pounding chest)
(repeat from group)
Leader: Gila!*jump* Gila! *jump: Gila-Gila-Gila! (while jumping in a circle)
(repeat from group)
Leader: Gila!*jump* Gila! *jump: Gila-Gila-Gila! (while jumping in a circle)
(repeat from group)
(Repeat whole thing)

The last performance was at the 2008 Arizona regional, after a key mentor passed on.

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We use a cheer from our school, it is done with one or two people leading and the remainder following:

Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"
Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"
Leader: "Raider!"
Group: "Oi!"
Leader: "Raider!"
Group: "Oi!"
Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"

It is like a town watchman announcing that raiders are coming. It gets pretty loud most of the time and we avoid doing it in the pits because you can't hear anything else. :D

P.S. Having a cheer lead by one person requires them to be loud enough to catch everyone's attention and get things started. We do it before every match and after most of them. I suggest having a rotation of leaders or one person who can last the event. Bonus points if a person on your drive team can lead a cheer from the floor :yikes:

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Lol i'm not quite feeling this one Sam. After going to Einstein i think we should have an incredibly epic chant.

And imo, the MOE chant is the best. With all the clap, clap, clapclapclap, clapclapclapclap, go MOE! and whatnot. Epic.

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I will yell at the team "sure you bot can score"

Then the team yells " but can it dance?!"

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Leader; "WHO'S COLD?"
Team; "I'M COLD!"
L: "WHO'S TIRED?"
T: "I'M TIRED"
All: "AAAAYYYYYYY!"

or

(Sung to "The Farmer and The Dell")
"1675, 1675, The Ulitmate Protection Squad, 1675!"

or

Rick-a-rick-a-ree! Kick em in their knee!
Rick-a-rick-a-rass! Kick em in their other knee!

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Well our team has many cheers,

2-4-5(slower)
and faster and faster until
2-4-5(fastest)
when your team can't possibly say it any faster everyone screams,

then there's also blue/red alliance,

and repeating screaming your name with energy helps.

Our team is just naturally energetic i don't know where it comes from.
Well thats not true i do know just have someone who was on the team before be there.
For some reason the college student just explodes i an array of excitement.

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We could do the same thing, except saying "Pi" each time...

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I'll have to agree that the "We've got spirit, yes we do.." has to be one of the most awesome chants I ever heard in FIRST. I actually heard it for the first time when I was at my first time in the Georgia Dome, saving some seats for the team for the opening ceremony of Friday. I was just seating there with another team member, in the seats overlooking Galileo, our division. There were a few other team representitives also saving seats for thier team, not alot though. All of a sudden, this group of students from some team below us stand up, turn back to the other teams above them screaming "We've got spirit, yes we do!...". At first I had no idea what they were saying, and then one student from one of the other teams, i think, replied to them, and those who started repeated again, untill more and more joined in, including me. :D
I just had no clue how these guys, at 7:45 in the morning, had such will power to chant like that!

I've just never experienced this kind of team spirit before, so it was just pure fun for me and that moment is one of my most memerable moments in Atlanta.
The spirit that was going on in the crowd throught all of these 3 days was just soo amazing and made my trip to Atlanta soo much fun.

You guys rock in the USA. :cool:

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As for fun team spirit moves (I don't know of any as I was in the stands for approximately 4 of my team's matches this year), one of my favorites has to be in Minnesota 10,000 Lakes. We'd been talking with one of Wave Robotics's mentors (I believe he was the son of one of ours, if I remember correctly) after Wisconsin about plans for 10,000 lakes. Basically, he said that he thought his team had a real shot at the Spirit Award, and that they were going to cheer twice as hard as at Wisconsin. So we decided in the happy spirit of coopetition to sit with them in the stands and cheer with them... to win the spirit award ourselves, hopefully :P

Then we got to the event, did the usual bounce back cheering "We've got spirit" louder than I've ever heard it :D, and had a great time relaxing and maxin' all cool with Wave. We even incorporated them into the "What's better than robotics?" cheer, with "What's better than a shark? A land shark!" (their robot's name for the year). It was a lot of fun chanting and screaming "17!" "14!" "28!" "26!" (later with the addition of "24!" "70!").

Then they picked us and we won the regional. :D Can't say I've ever cheered louder than that. Neither of us won the Spirit Award, but we didn't care; having fun was the reward. The funny thing is that with all of this cross cheering, a few people came up to me in the pits and asked if our teams collaborated (we haven't... yet?) or agreed to pick each other pre-event or something like that. (nope, though 2826 was personally #1 on my list of robots I've seen before) We just collaborated with cheering, and it seemed to work out in the end.

It's too bad I'll never get to coach with them again. But at least I'll get to cheer. :3

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Heh, best cheer we've ever used was Palmetto 06

"MORT, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY!"

11+1251+247= awesome alliance

M-O-R-T MORT MORT MORT! is common. (we're not the most creative bunch):o Plus we like to steal from the Jets

Our cheers are weak, but having 80+ people in the stands kinda makes up for it. The only competition we get at nearby regionals in terms of loudness is MOE and team 75 haha. Can't beat MOE. Ever.;)

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11+1251+247=1509 This team needs to restart and be their own alliance.

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2265, come on <driver's name>, you can drive!
2265, <driver's name> knows how to drive!

<in a very loud and somewhat intimidating voice> B....X! (To stand for the Bronx)

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You might be able to adapt the classic RPI cheer (that's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for those of you who don't know). I would change the disintegrate line though - maybe suitable for hockey but not GP.

(although RPI does have a team and may use it themselves)


E to the X – DY -DX
E to the X – DX
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – point – 1 – 4 – 1 – 5 – 9
square root, cube root, log of pi,
DISINTEGRATE THEM, RPI!

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cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – point – 1 – 4 – 1 – 5 – 9
square root, cube root, log of y,
16 - 7 - 6, *clap* *clap* pi!

*likes*

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RPI has a team? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Anyone got a nerdy endline that's less destruction based? If I ever find out how to join these RPI teams I might want to adapt this... :D

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(somewhat on topic)

Some friends of mine went to GMI (now Kettering). GMI was never known to have highly competitive sports teams, or so they told me. At hockey and basketball games, when their team was getting beaten, they would give out this cheer:

That's alright
That's ok
You'll all work for us someday!

Now... I don't condone this for FIRST use, as it's not the nicest thing to say to another FIRST team. But, for that place and time, it seemed to work for them.

Andy B.

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I may be wrong and assumed too much. My nephew, who is a student there, said something about how one of the classes functions as mentors for a local team. It may be the Albany team.

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I checked today. RPI sponsors teams, there's just no RPI FIRST mentoring club or whatever. A class in the spring mentors one team, I think, and that's it. Sucks for me :(

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good ideas, dad. you couldve just told me in person, our computers are across the room from one another o.O
and i like the number chant. we discussed this before, and aside from the fact that i dont even know the numbers that far is the only problem i see

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thank you everyone! your ideas are great :) i appreciate it, and i'm sure my team will too!

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I believe that team 20 Rocketeers are sponsored by RPI. Partly because the buttons that they hand out say RPI on them.

Jeez, reading all of these cheers just keeps reminding me of how unenthusiastic our team is... oh well.:rolleyes:

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I like that one too

.
I think that's a Calculus thing, it's the opposite of integration. Nothing to do with damage or disassembling things molecularly.
Maybe if we get the WWF in the arena, can we use it then?
Ingrate.

Our computers may be within sight of each other, but your listening skills are, how shall I say it*? - sub-optimal.

Dad

*I should probably say it LOUDLY.

[/end using CD to BeRATe my kids]

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Years ago, someone on the team determined that "AAAA" was the last sound you can make before you completely lose your voice.

Now here are the other "reasons":

- Most of the time no one can hear what a team is chanting, so we just go for noise.
- We were going to go through the alphabet, but we get lost after A
- The mentors have a lot to remember, so we limited the team to one letter.
- Spelling L-I-G-H-T-N-I-N-G R-O-B-O-T-I-C-S is hard. So we made the variable A = Lightning Robotics. (I made that one up right here, right now... have to use that one on the team on Wed.)

For the record... we are adding more cheers into our style guide this year.

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I kept waiting for one of the students to pipe in for Exploding Bacon, but here goes....

One person yells Oink Oink
Everyone else yells BOOM!
repeat until you've lost your voice....

another...

one person yells "Whos got more bacon than the pan can handle?"
team..."We got more bacon than the pan can handle!"
first person..."Whos got more bacon than the pan can handle?"
team..."We got more bacon than the pan can handle!"
first person..."Oink"
team... "Oink"
first person "Oink"
team..."Oink"
all together..."Oink Oink BOOM!"

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This is more of an Aussie cheer, but we plan on using it:

First person (FP)-Aussie, aussie, aussie
Team-Oi, oi, oi
FP-Aussi, aussie, aussie
Team-Oi, oi, oi
FP-Aussie
Team-Oi
FP-Aussie
Team-Oi
FP-Aussie, aussie, aussie
Team-Oi, oi, oi!

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Our robotics team doesn't have any cheers, but here are some that our school uses that you can try to adapt:

J-U-D-G-E (Start slow and gradually increase speed)

C-r-u *clap clap clap* s-a-d *clap clap clap* e *clap* r *clap* s Crusaders!

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We used to borrow a chant that the fans use at the football games when we are on defense in the red zone:


*starts REALLY slow and each time it gets a little bit faster and faster*

"Na-Na-Na Nobody messes with the Astro-Machine"



But after much "debate" some of the team parents said the chant was un-GP, so we retired it (to my reluctant and sad agreement)

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One of Team RUSH's standard cheers is:

1! We are Team RUSH!
2! A little bit louder!
3! I still can't hear you!
4 more more more

repeat 3 times, then end on yelling one the 4th cycle.

I'm not sure if this is a RUSH original or borrowed, but it's a fun one.

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I'm expecting to hear some 'Super Nerd' cheers. If I don't, I'm going to be mighty disappointed.

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It's actually a really standard cheer for cheerleaders all over. I remember when I had planned on trying out for cheer in 8th grade (*twitch*), that was one of the ones we were supposed to memorize, but with "the panthers" instead of "Team RUSH".

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MARS goes "MEGA!!!!!..."

"AWESOME!!!!"

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We are Team 4 Element, so our cheer goes:

E-L
E-L-E
E-L-E-M-E-N-T
ELEMENT, *Clap* *Clap* TEAM 4.
(Hoo Rah)

And to tell you the truth, it's pretty addicting.

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We'll do our best, but no guarantees. ;)


1) 1 6 7 6! 1 6 7 6! *crescendoing oooooo* PIONEERS! *crescendoing oooooo* PIONEERS!

2) Whos got pi? WE GOT PI!

3) Pumpkin PI! Apple PI! Cherry PI! Blueberry PI! *keep continuing with different kinds of pie*
(Italicized words are solo words)

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You beat me to it!

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This is quite similar to our Math Team cheer:
Sine! Sine! Cosine! Sine!
3-point-1-4-1-5-9!

I don't know if it was inspiration for the Math Team cheer or something, but I think I prefer RPI's "cosine, secant, tangent, sine." In any case, 3-point-1-4-1-5-9 makes a good rhythm for a cheer, especially when you add more math terms. I think the Pi-oneers can build off of that.

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Heh. We got yelled at for having a bullhorn at KKX this year... Our cheers are often related to the members of our drive team.

For instance:
Lets go Carso! (Carson)
Yay! Pei! All the Way! (our 2009 Human Player, Pei)
We love Lara *clap**clap**clapclapclap* (Lara)

We've also done the 1-0-7-5 accelerating and crescendoing chant.

I think we got into a "We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit, how about you?" battle with 781 (or was it 772 or 1547, or all of the above?) at GTR 2009, and with 51 (the merged 47/65) at KKX.

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Killer Bee Cheer

Mentor: Who are we!
Team: 33!
Mentor: What are we!
Team: Killer Bees!

(repeat until tired, followed by incoherent yelling)

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Our team has basicly two cheers

1) (half of the team): MV!
(other half): RT!
*repeat as many times as desired.*

2) (loudest person on team): "MVRT how do you FEEL?!"
(rest of team): "We feel good!" *foot-stomp + clap* "-oh we feel so good,
oh!" *foot-stomp + arm pump*
*repeat once more but with more feeling.*

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Well, out of lack of a cheer at our off season competition, Terminal Velocity came up with

"twenty seven ninty one come on team getter done."

followed by "RYAN RYAN RYAN" or "DANNY DANNY DANNY" as those are our drivers. =]

~Alyi

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Im having a dilema in team cheers as well. I honestly have drawn a blank. And its my jorb to find these things out!!!!:eek:

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My team came up w/ something extremely similar!

Cosine, secant, tangent, sine
3 point 1 4 1 5 9
square root, cube root, long of pi
go tear up that track, 2-3-3-5!

One of our members said they heard it somewhere, and know I know where!

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How does the chant go...that's along the lines of

"HEY *INSERT TEAM*"
"HEY WHAT"
"HEY *INSERT TEAM*"
"HEY WHAT"
"SHOW US HOW YOU SHAKE YOUR THING"
"THIS IS HOW WE SHAKE OUR THING"

What is the noises they make as they dance? How does that go?

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While I was reffing at GTR Central 4001 gave a cheer that made me and some of the other field crew laugh pretty hard. Luckily it was between matches. It went something like:

Gimme a 4!
4!
Gimme a 0!
0!
Gimme another 0!
0!
Gimme a 1!
1!
What does that equal?!
FIVE!!!

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Glad you and the field crew liked it Andrea!

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P-I-O-N-E-E-R-S S-O-N-G song!

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My team has used "What Time Is It? KRUNCH TIME!!!" for many years but I've also heard an extension of that ("What Time Is It? KRUNCH TIME!!! What Team Is It? SEVENTY NINE!!!"). Also, just chanting "DRIVE TEAM" and a cheer usually used by my school's football team's student cheerleaders:
"Are You Rowdie?"
"Yes We're Rowdie!"
"Are You Rowdie?"
"Yes We're Rowdie!"
"R-O-W-D-I-E, that's the way you spell rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie, get rowdie!"