Weird Lincoln Riley Introduction is ... weird ... really weird ...

[GophersInIowa]

I can't stop watching that video.

 

[BilldGopher]

It looks like they’ve been taking notes from their NMSU consultants.

That was in insult to NMSU. Not nice.

 

[MplsGopher]

I laughed much more at how hard the bitter Sooner fan who wrote the Tweet was reaching to try to frame this.

The video is very meh. Doesn't do much for me. It's not really meant for me, so ... makes sense.

 

[SanDiegoGopherFan]

If I was Riley, Id be looking for Ashton Kutchner

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Stinking Lincoln bankrupted SC already; as that was a student production if I’ve ever seen one.

my high school had better pep rallies than that.

 

[GoForGold]

Two thoughts...

First, weed is obviously legal in California.

Second, I need to appreciate the 30x National Champions UM Cheer Squad much better. Yikes.

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The Doobie Brothers would have been a perfect fit for #1.

 

[highwayman]

One theory is that it was the Standford band ....would make more sense that way. .. kinda ....

Who can forget what they did in the Caleforneya game!

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Sounds like a song written by a drummer.

 

[Pompous Elitist]

I don’t know, kind of liked it…

 

[FormerFatOL]

The band was bad, but the cheerleaders were really bad. They cannot be real USC cheerleaders. They were uncoordinated and awkward looking.

I can take a lightly practiced Tusk from a small pep band, but the bad Fly Girl impersonation by the "cheerleaders" was just plain hard to watch and weirdly out of place. In short, IT WAS AWESOME!

 

[Pompous Elitist]

I can take a lightly practiced Tusk from a small pep band, but the bad Fly Girl impersonation by the "cheerleaders" was just plain hard to watch and weirdly out of place. In short, IT WAS AWESOME!

Yep. This is entertainment. Hopefully there is more?

 

[FormerFatOL]

They were going for this:



But they got this instead:

 

[GoForGold]

I don’t know, kind of liked it…

"Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact." Homer Simpson

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

The band was bad, but the cheerleaders were really bad. They cannot be real USC cheerleaders. They were uncoordinated and awkward looking.

I can take a lightly practiced Tusk from a small pep band, but the bad Fly Girl impersonation by the "cheerleaders" was just plain hard to watch and weirdly out of place. In short, IT WAS AWESOME!

Cheerleaders?!? CHEERLEADERS?!? They are the USC Song Girls and they have changed the way that young men have viewed white sweaters for nearly 50 years. Show some damned respect!!

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

Have they had any recent collaborations with current music acts that they could have gone to instead?

I know next to nothing about today's pop music.

Were they forced to go to a musical collaboration that had pop significance for welcoming Lincoln Riley?

If that was the only option, then maybe they should have just played the school song.

 

[GO4INLALALAND]

I can't stop watching that video.

The Internet always wins.

 

[hungan1]

holy god that was awful. nothing coordinated in a failed attempt to try seem cool. wtf was that

They must be all on coke!

What's a Gringe Gina?

 

[Gophergrandpa]

they are still living off a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac from 30+ years ago? Really?

40 years ago. USC wants to return to those days.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

I can take a lightly practiced Tusk from a small pep band, but the bad Fly Girl impersonation by the "cheerleaders" was just plain hard to watch and weirdly out of place. In short, IT WAS AWESOME!

I was worried they had a stroke or something…

Maybe someone should call in a welfare check.

 

[Pompous Elitist]

Sounds like a song written by a drummer.

LOVE that first video with the USC band at Dodger Stadium. Stevie Nicks twirling in her prime. Mick Fleetwood feeling it!. Mick’s inspiration for the video supposedly came after a “drunk” brass band paraded around his hotel in the UK with a crowd in tow.

Cool video/ time capsule! It sort of makes the presser a little more understandable…practice tho…

 

[FormerFatOL]

LOVE that first video with the USC band at Dodger Stadium. Stevie Nicks twirling in her prime. Mick Fleetwood feeling it!. Mick’s inspiration for the video supposedly came after a “drunk” brass band paraded around his hotel in the UK with a crowd in tow.

Cool video/ time capsule! It sort of makes the presser a little more understandable…practice tho…

I always liked the original Fleetwood Tusk video with the marching band and heavy drums; being a young percussionist before going full-on jock. I also always wondered why they filmed the video in a damn baseball stadium and not the Coliseum or Rose Bowl!

 

[Pompous Elitist]

"Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact." Homer Simpson
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The undies

I always liked the original Fleetwood Tusk video with the marching band and heavy drums; being a young percussionist before going full-on jock. I also always wondered why they filmed the video in a damn baseball stadium and not the Coliseum or Rose Bowl!

Yeah, who knows what was going on in Mick’s head. The whole thing is bizarre, and perfect.

 

[HopHead]

Back in my younger days, I ran a number of marathons. Before the races, I had a specific playlist that I would listen to that would get me fired up. Tusk was on that playlist. It still gets my juices flowing. But the undersized pep band version in the Lincoln Riley video was tough to watch and listen to.

 

[FredCoxRocks]

I feel I should delete my web history after watching that.

 

[gopher7]

Did he follow this up by answering questions in a surfer accent?

 

[WorkingMyTailOff]

Mick was so skinny when they filmed that video. Glad this awkward presser came out so i got to see what inspired it.
Wasn’t Mick’s nickname Tusk for his ability to Hoover up large quantities of the white stuff?

 

[STPGopher]

Fight on!...

 

[USAF]

Mick was so skinny when they filmed that video. Glad this awkward presser came out so i got to see what inspired it.
Wasn’t Mick’s nickname Tusk for his ability to Hoover up large quantities of the white stuff?

At the time, conventional wisdom was that "tusk" was Fleetwood's pet name for his, uh, johnson. Fleetwood later denied that.

Also, not for nothing, the song Tusk was written by Lindsay Buckingham, not Fleetwood, and sprang from his developing fascination with less polished rock, particularly punk.

 

[scubacentral]

I think it's so bad, its

I can take a lightly practiced Tusk from a small pep band, but the bad Fly Girl impersonation by the "cheerleaders" was just plain hard to watch and weirdly out of place. In short, IT WAS AWESOME!

Totally agree. It was so bad that it's legendary. Almost cult-like. The Tic-Toc dancing of the cheerleaders was totally perfect for this generation. The cheerleaders were like an SNL synchronized swimming parody video gone wrong.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Well, I’m out of the contest.