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Sorry if it has been posted before, but the added in "WOOO" from the PA on Saturday was awesome and I hope they keep it up
 


It got a laugh from me every time.

Gophers were stylin' and profilin' all day. But as we know, in order to be the man, you've gotta beat the man. Enter Ohio State.
 

I asked this in another thread and it was unanswered. My first game in 5 years was on Saturday, didn't know if that was a new thing or not. I don't recall him doing it on the first touchdown or the second. I assumed it was a mistake where he left the mic on once and then he continued to do it after the fact. Am I accurate in that this was a new addition to the traditional "Rah"?
 

President Kaler and Norwood Teague should contact nature boy Ric Flair.

Jike Spingleton said:
It got a laugh from me every time.

Gophers were stylin' and profilin' all day. But as we know, in order to be the man, you've gotta beat the man. Enter Ohio State.
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May not be popular opinion but Richard Morgan Fliehr graduated high school in Minnesota and he was once even enrolled at the University of Minnesota. I believe he was even listed on the University of Minnesota football roster one season in 1972 or 1973 as an offensive guard and might have even spent a season on the wrestling team. This was prior to training with Verne Gagne for professional wrestling if I am not mistaken.

It is my opinion that we should claim him as an alumn and that the University should bestow one of those honarary degrees because he achieved one of the highest levels of popularity, hatred, as both a villian and face in wrestling and overall achievements in his profession even if it was only Sport entertainment and the fake sports like professional wrestling. To have as long a career as he had, you have to be good at it. The guy sold out arenas across continents and in Japan, as well as the United States and to be World heavyweight champion for as many times as he was you could say he achieved the pinnacle of his profession, even if it was more entertainment related than sports, and he is a hall of fame member both the national one in Iowa and the circuit one WWE in Connecticut. You have to be good at what you do to sell that many tickets, pay per views and bring in that many dollars to the companys you work for.

He is a famous name, world renowned entertainer, and a native son, it would not likely cost the University that much to do the honarary degree thing and it would be worth the publicity alone to do so in my opinion.
 


Aged myself a few weeks ago at a HS Football game when there was a penalty for an unsportsmanlike conduct. When the captain asked what the player did, I said he did a Ric Flair in the face of the opponent. Captain goes "what is that?" Another player says, "I think it's that wrestler." 3rd player, "He does that Woo thing."
 

gopherdudepart2 said:
May not be popular opinion but Richard Morgan Fliehr graduated high school in Minnesota and he was once even enrolled at the University of Minnesota. I believe he was even listed on the University of Minnesota football roster one season in 1972 or 1973 as an offensive guard and might have even spent a season on the wrestling team. This was prior to training with Verne Gagne for professional wrestling if I am not mistaken.

It is my opinion that we should claim him as an alumn and that the University should bestow one of those honarary degrees because he achieved one of the highest levels of popularity, hatred, as both a villian and face in wrestling and overall achievements in his profession even if it was only Sports entertainment and the fake sports like professional wrestling. To have as long a career as he had, you have to be good at it. The guy sold out arenas across continents and in Japan, as well as the United States and to be World heavyweight champion for as many times as he was you could say he achieved the pinnacle of his profession, even if it was more entertainment related than sports, and he is a hall of fame member both the national one in Iowa and the circuit one WWE in Connecticut. He is a famous name, world renowned entertainer and a native son, it would not likely cost the University that much to do the honarary degree thing and it would be worth the publicity to do so in my opinion.
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I don't think wikipedia does a particularly good job with biographies, but I think this is fairly accurate. In those days, of course, freshmen were not eligible and I think he left after his freshman year.

Wikipedia entry:

Richard Fliehr was born on February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee.[4][13] In the opening chapter of his autobiography To Be the Man, he notes that his birth name is given on different documents as Fred. He was adopted by German American parents. At the time of his adoption (arranged by the notorious Tennessee Children's Home Society, later shut down for adoption fraud; the opening chapter of his autobiography is titled "Black Market Baby"), his father was completing a residency in Detroit. Shortly afterward, the family settled in Edina, Minnesota, where the young Richard Fliehr lived throughout his childhood. After grade 9, he attended Wayland Academy, a coeducational boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, for four years (five years total in high school) during which time he participated in interscholastic wrestling, football and track.[14]

As a teen, Flair took a summer job as a lifeguard at a local pool in Minnesota.[citation needed] He received his first exposure to the wrestling business when he met the legendary Vachon brothers.[citation needed] In both 1966 and 1968, Flair won the state private school wrestling championship and was recruited to the University of Minnesota on a football scholarship, where he played alongside Greg Gagne, the son of Verne Gagne.[citation needed] Flair dropped out of college before receiving his degree, and he then worked as a bouncer at a nearby club, where he met Olympic weightlifter Ken Patera, who was preparing for a ring career at Verne Gagne's wrestling school. Patera introduced Flair to Verne Gagne, who agreed to take him on as a member of his training class.[citation needed]

I always laugh because when he first started out as a ham-and-egger in the AWA, he was hardly the Nature Boy.

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The woo is kind of an inside joke from the guys in the PA box including the music guy. It started as a verbal thing they would do just inside the booth after the Case IH red zone promo, but it has developed to something they now say after most big plays, and obviously they've found a way to incorporate it now to the fans during the game.
 



Our section loved the "Whoooo"'s. Need to keep them going. Would be hilarious to see Ric Flair on the big screen giving the "Let's get amped" message in the 4th quarter like MQ and Cobb did on Saturday. WHOOO!
 



Flair is hilarious! He was interviewed in the Charlotte paper about 25 years ago and told a little of his life story. He was apparently not accepted into Gagne's school on his first try and commented that it was more difficult to wrestling school than the University of Minnesota.
 




Our section loved it. All ages echoing the PA.
 


Go4 said:
celebrate his woo hoo thing. smile at his antics, but no need to bestow honorary degrees on a man with a LOT of baggage http://grantland.com/features/the-wrestler-real-life/
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I knew he had some baggage and was a dead beat debtor but not the nature of his domestic disputes and violence. I agree Go4 no need in giving out an honorary degree to Flair, to much crapola and nastiness for that to happen.
 


Sorry I missed it. I'm in favor of keeping it too as long as the young people catch on. Wrestling is an important part of our heritage.

Once was on a flight with him and Lex Lugar in 1987. It was funny because at the time, according to one of my teammates they were supposed to hate each other, but they got in the same limo. Maybe there was a plexiglass divider in there?
 

badgergopher said:
Sorry I missed it. I'm in favor of keeping it too as long as the young people catch on. Wrestling is an important part of our heritage.

Once was on a flight with him and Lex Lugar in 1987. It was funny because at the time, according to one of my teammates they were supposed to hate each other, but they got in the same limo. Maybe there was a plexiglass divider in there?
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Before it was laerned what a sick SOB Buck Zumhofe is, he wrestled in my hometown back in the day. It was quite deflating to see all the wrestlers who supposedly hated each other eating together at aHardees later that evening.
 

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50PoundHead said:
...he met the legendary Vachon brothers.
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On my fourth date with my (now) wife, we were at the "Taste of Minnesota" and Mad Dog was signing autographs. My wife had no idea who he was (I forgave her) and I walked up to his booth, said I don't want an autograph, I just wanted to shake his hand. He obliged. I then turned to my wife, staring at my paw, and said "I'll never masturbate with this hand again". She laughed, and I knew she was the one.
 

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