Chip Bayers
Professor
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Loc: New York
Reg: 11-21-04
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05-19-18 12:48 AM - Post#257027
In response to UPIA1968
Please don't start a move to change Penn's nickname. I'm proud of the dumbest nickname in major college sports. "Fight on Quakers, Fight Fight!"
And yet “Quakers†appears nowhere in the lyrics of “Fight On, Pennsylvania.†(As we know, it’s “fight, fight, fight Penn-syl-vane-Eye-Ah, fight on, for Penn.â€)
Which hasn’t stopped the Penn Band from introducing itself for decades as (in part) “The Oxymoronic Fighting Quaker Marching Band.â€
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