So a cheerleader in the 90s first threw up The U

[DeadPoets]

The University of Miami magazine just did a story on this. Pretty cool

 

[UM2020]

Always thought it was Ryan Moore. He was the first I ever saw do it.

 

[SigEp77]

Pics or GTFO!

 

[DapperSlapper]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

 

[Shogungts]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

I dont know when it started, possibly stopped, and then started again, but when I attended Miami (99-03) no one threw up the U. That didn't really start until a few years later.

 

[Photo]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

THIS.

 

[Notsince1985]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

Yup. First time I remember the band playing it, and the fans doing it, was 1992 against FSU to combat the Tomahawk Chop. They played it every single time FSU did the dumb chop.

 

[OMG618]

Just another reason to stop with the U horse****. If I didn't see Jerome Brown or Zo do it, bag it; just fake swag.

 

[RepTheGables]

Pics or GTFO!

*Male cheerleader. You still want those pics?

 

[tcgrad1014]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

Yep. Still remember that catching on during home games in the early 90's.


Still though, it took the 'throwing up the U' awhile to catch on. Ryan Moore doing it in the Peach Bowl vs the Gators only helped. Then, it took the middle part of last decade to iron things out, get everyone on the same page, get the mofos that were doing it wrong (holding up index fingers only) corrected. And now it's all ours. We have a 'thing'.


I had a buddy of mine, a 'newer' Cane fan, ask me what we did before we would 'throw up the U'...I told him that, back then, our 'thing' was to get drunk, throw stuff, and mock everyone else's 'thing'.

When you're sticking your boot up opponents' asses every single week you don't have time to develop sign language. Swag is whupping that ***, and firing off the 6 shooters Thrill Hill style.

 

[canes1977]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

LOL at only true cane fans watching the band play the Imperial March

 

[Soul Cane]

Miami was the first football school to play the Imperial March.

 

[DCH]

Just another reason to stop with the U horse****. If I didn't see Jerome Brown or Zo do it, bag it; just fake swag.

This. I remember the Imperial March thing but lets get real, no one started using it as the gang symbol it has now become until Ryan Moore did it. And it, like Ryan Moore, has become symbolic of the lazy self-entitled underachieving program we have become. Scrap it.

 

[PensacolaCane]

Just another reason to stop with the U horse****. If I didn't see Jerome Brown or Zo do it, bag it; just fake swag.

This. I remember the Imperial March thing but lets get real, no one started using it as the gang symbol it has now become until Ryan Moore did it. And it, like Ryan Moore, has become symbolic of the lazy self-entitled underachieving program we have become. Scrap it.

This

 

[Catskill Cane]

Pics or GTFO!

*Male cheerleader. You still want those pics?

My dorm roommate was a cheerleader. 91 i think. He said his squad started it in response to the FSU Chop.

 

[Southtampacane]

I went to every game at the OB from 1991 until I moved in 1999. I have zero recollection of anyone throwing up the U. I do have a complete recollection of Ryan Moore doing it against the Gators in the Peach Bowl (won't ever use that other name) and to me that is where it became our thing. I could care less what some male cheerleader claims. Like anyone ever paid attention to them.

 

[GoldenShowertheGators]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

I dont know when it started, possibly stopped, and then started again, but when I attended Miami (99-03) no one threw up the U. That didn't really start until a few years later.

Went to school at same time and it happened buddy. Also was happening throughout the 90's. Problem was it was mostly in the student section, and not the whole section at that. At most it would spread a bit towards the next couple sections over but never looked too organized. Buuuuut yeah it was happening.imagine how nice it would have looked in a full OB with everyone doing it like talley and the chop.

 

[TRock305]

Why am I reading this? BTW, I associate that stupid Imperial March BS with the Canes' slide into obscurity. Ryan Moore... Hope I never hear it again.

 

[dudenate]

Ryan Moore... Hope I never hear it again.

+100

 

[bomba]

Any 'Canes fans who went to games in the early 90's should know that history. The Band of the Hour would play the Imperial March, and people would throw up the U, moving their hands up and down.

Ryan Moore??????? It probably started 10 years or so before you ever saw him do it.

This....

But the reason for the band of the hour doing the Imperial march, was because whenever the FSU drums would start for their stupid *** tomahawk chop, the entire student section would start with the "**** you Seminoles, Seminoles **** you!" Of course accompanied by the middle finger extended tomahawk chop. The **** you chant would spread throughout the OB and continue on for well past the end of the FSU drums.

It was so loud and the **** YOU was so clearly annunciated that you could CLEARLY hear it on all the telecasts. Ergo, the Imperial March was played at exactly the same time as the drums.