Pep Rallys ?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Pinguthegreek" 
<pinguthegreek at p...> wrote:
> Hi everyone....
> 
> I'm just watching the start of Varsity Blues.  I just wondered, are
> pep rallies for real or do people really get enthusiatic ?

Someone younger will have to speak for nowdays, but in the 1970s, 
pep rallies were for real, but the enthusiasm was mostly faked. The 
only pep rally I attended in high school was one that was compulsory. 
It was at lunch time, in the Quad. The band played, the cheerleaders 
shouted, the principal (headmaster) shouted through a Public Adress 
system that turned everything he said into "rumble ... screech!" I 
was fairly far back and couldn't see anything except endless backs of 
heads. People closer to the front, where the principal could see 
them, shouted upon command ... one of the cheers was something about 
"stylin' in their funky powder blue and white" ...

I went to university where no one except SOME of the players cared 
about sports. But one autumn evening we had a pep rally -- someone 
had posted announcements all over campus, so I went. There was a 
bonfire and a lot of people standing around it in the dark saying "We 
ought to be cheering. Does anyone knows any cheers? By the way, what 
is the name of our team? I think we're the Owls. No, we're the 
Quakers. No, the Quakers are whom we're playing. No, that's the Owls." 
 Some wise person brought a 40-gallon insulated beverage pot and 
unecological styrofoam cups and sold hot apple "cider" for 25 cents a 
cup.