Big 10 Tunnel Walk/Entrance Comparison - Who Has the Best?

by UltimaRatioRegum on Feb 22, 2011 7:33 AM CST

OK, All us Husker fans are well versed in the Nebraska Tunnel walk that started in 1994. The chants of "HUSKER!" then "POWER!" across the stadium until Alan Parsons "Sirius" rumbles through the huge stadium speakers. The Huskervision large screen displays very professional videos of glories and chest thumping to get the crowd pumped up. The cut live to the players in the tunnel, touching the horseshoe, the doors being opened by armed forces representatives, and the stadium just going nuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGFU_qkp1MA

Now, if you Google "football tunnel walk" and usually all but maybe one or two of your top 20 results are for the Nebraska tunnel walk. If you Google "college football entrance" you will get mostly the Virginia Tech "Enter Sandman" entrance, and it is cool, but out of conference.

Here are some samples gleaned from a couple hours on Youtube. If you have something more representative post it because in some cases what I found was, well, underwhelming (or poorly shot).

I have heard Iowa walks on to either "Enter Sandman" or "Back in Black". Here's the latter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1X1gT13fw

The Ohio State ramp entrance seems to focus on the band, not the football team. Very cool old school tradition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSr48iBl50

Minnesota: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFSbvlkZnyY

Wisconsin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjNAZPuJiMI&feature=fvst U2, "Where the Streets Have no Name". Decent montage This one from 2007 is cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTJLsLs960

Michigan State: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S41pwmMjIeQ 2007 clip.

Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9gxPckdt4&feature=related Band comes out. Banner goes up. Football team runs out and tags the banner while the band plays some snappy music. There has to be something more.

NorthWestern:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFvY5ot8Ew Wow! Fireworks! And smoke! And Jon, they got an inflatable cat!

Illinois: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx6Vkg_Ltlw The entrance from 2008 looks kind of ho hum, but this is really cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qepC2NdXGJ8&feature=related

Indiana:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9A9HotSeYM&feature=related More smoke and fireworks. My favorite part of this one is the guy saying "Our mascot is not a buffalo, man!"

Penn State: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjxL5IfrFU P! S! U!

Purdue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9S-9buEfk My favorite part is the little engine that could leading them onto the field.

So, who has the best entrance?

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i’ll go ahead and promote this later this evening….. and update the time.

it deserves more traffic than it’s getting.

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by Jon Johnston on Feb 21, 2011 12:20 PM CST reply actions

URR

Thanks for spending the time on this…very interesting.

The one thing that stood out to me, above anything else, was how many empty seats there were in many of these stadiums. It shows how very special our record of 300-plus consecutive sell-outs at Memorial Stadium is.

The Penn State link seemed to have the most crowd energy, but then it was a night game. Like you, I got a kick out of Purdue’s little engine. Wisconsin’s seemed similar to ours, but not as dramatic.

Northwestern coming out of that inflatable purple tunnel…meh. Minnesota spelling out M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A…I don’t know…

Being a former marching band member, I’ve always enjoyed Ohio State’s band, so that was nice. I couldn’t make the connection between the buffalo montage and Indiana, but it was pretty cool.

The comments I jotted down while watching Michigan State, Michigan, and Illinois were, respectively: empty seats, boring, and empty seats.

Since most of these were not professionally-shot videos, perhaps these “tunnel walks” or pre-games are more impressive in person. Thanks again for posting the links!

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by redvalley on Feb 21, 2011 10:51 PM CST reply actions

On Empty seats at Iowa and Wisconsin

What you are seeing with those two schools are the student sections who have a very chronic habit of showing up late. Iowa the student section finally fills up for a regular game about a third of the way into the first quarter. For less interesting games it may not fill up totally (people deciding to stay home and drink more despite already having tickets). Wisconsin takes a bit longer to fill up their student section for similar reasons.

Both have tried to fix that problem but short of giving away beer in the stadium I don’t think that is going away.

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by KC_HAWKEYE on Feb 26, 2011 7:13 AM CST up reply actions

Wisconsin actually takes longer

because the stadium security is pretty strict about getting the kids to their seats in an orderly fashion. You could understand that attitude since this.

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Mar 3, 2011 11:33 AM CST up reply actions

Thanks for the link.

I remember the news coverage of that sad event in ’93, but had forgotten that it happened at Wisconsin.

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by redvalley on Mar 3, 2011 2:30 PM CST up reply actions

It was awful and could have been avoided.

Thank God it only resulted in injuries and not the deaths that occurred in a number of Euro soccer stadiums around that era.

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Mar 3, 2011 3:07 PM CST up reply actions

Gotta Respect...

…Ohio State and Michigan for keeping it old-school. Wisconsin playing “Where The Streets Have No Name,” I think the Green Bay Packers do the same thing. I like when Mich. St. plays the “SPARTANS, WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION!!!” clip from 300 on third down.

So, who’s got the best Tunnel Walk? Who else….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBaqi3t_nM

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by Section 37 on Feb 21, 2011 11:19 PM CST reply actions

Good Clip

I like that one a lot. Thanks for the link.

by UltimaRatioRegum on Feb 22, 2011 12:03 PM CST up reply actions

Who were the fans booing?

There were two portions when they were showing the screen and the fans booed. It looked like a defensive player both times. What am I missing? And since #3 was against Iowa, I thought that was cool even if our player was getting freight trained.

by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 1:21 PM CST up reply actions

That's "Suuuuuuuuuuuuuh," not "boo."

I, on the other hand, was saying, “Boo-urns.”

by Cheeseandcorn on Feb 22, 2011 2:31 PM CST up reply actions

Thanks!

I thought it might but after listening about 3-4 times it sounded like ‘boo’

by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 2:44 PM CST up reply actions

Memories...

We have to put the Husker Prayer back in the Tunnel Walk! The 2-ish years we did that and the “I Play for Nebraska” were some of our best pre-games, IMO.

Also bringing back some old school guys a la Darin Erstad taking a bat to the other teams helmet during the tunnel walk itself was always a good time.

by brutus1382 on Feb 24, 2011 3:08 PM CST up reply actions

This is a much better example of the Hawkeye swarm

Clicky

by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 8:40 AM CST reply actions

Much Better

Thanks for the good link – neat deal with the black and gold towels to make the stadium look striped.

by UltimaRatioRegum on Feb 22, 2011 12:09 PM CST up reply actions

Actually

the people dressed in black or gold depending on their section. Was mortified with the idea when it came out because I didn’t know if we could pull it off, but I was wrong, and it was awesome!!!

This is going to be a tough year for me… I’m an Iowa homer but I’ve also been a fan of Big Red since 1981.

by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 1:12 PM CST up reply actions

Man, Sure Looked Like They Were Waving Towels

I didn’t see any way the colors could be that uniform in the correct sections if everyone just pulled something “gold” or “black” out of the closet. Looking at it I sure thought they were waving towels. That is amazingly impressive that the fans cooperated enough to create that effect – kudos, Hawkeye fans!

by UltimaRatioRegum on Feb 22, 2011 5:07 PM CST up reply actions

Well

the are waving pom-poms/towels/etc but the visual was because the different sections wore black or gold (EVERY Hawkeye has something that is the correct gold or black. Every single one).

I think, after seeing your videos, that Nebraska is a natural fit in the B1G. We’ll have some differences, but the passion of the fan base seems identical. I have a feeling this is going to be the longest off-season ever…

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by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 5:37 PM CST up reply actions

I like this one better

Iowa Entrance from Field View

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by ClaybornSmash on Feb 26, 2011 11:52 AM CST up reply actions

The chants of "USA! USA!" will never cease to make me laugh.

I wonder if no more Stanzi will mean no more unbridled patriotism.

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Mar 3, 2011 11:39 AM CST up reply actions

Since we got Ray Hamiltion

Iowa is still America’s team

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by ClaybornSmash on Mar 3, 2011 12:36 PM CST up reply actions

Iowa walks down the tunnel to back in black

Then they bunch together right outside the tunnel. Then enter sandman comes on. When the song officially starts kicking ass they swarm onto the field. I’m biased because I went there so I think it’s just fantastic. But I’ll be going to Lincoln this fall so I’ll get a taste of your intro as well.

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by mikjones24 on Feb 22, 2011 8:59 AM CST reply actions

PSU will also play the fight song instead of rock and roll sometimes

Wish they’d just go back to that.

by DcS on Feb 22, 2011 9:07 AM CST reply actions

i'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/v/-n2UMxbxha8?fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1

by monsatano on Feb 22, 2011 12:23 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

also

this

by monsatano on Feb 22, 2011 12:35 PM CST up reply actions

Damn

That gave me goosebumps! /rec’d

by Grixxly on Feb 22, 2011 1:26 PM CST up reply actions

tunnel walk vs. OU 2009 - huskervision intro

in the deed the glory

(actual video – not stadium buttcam)

by monsatano on Feb 22, 2011 3:50 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

2009 was a very good year

I prefer the ’09 version of the TW video (including this “In the Deed, the Glory” intro).

The Offseason sucks, these videos sustain me in the dead months of Feb-Aug.

by Wolvie on Feb 22, 2011 4:10 PM CST up reply actions

The Bad Thing About The OU One

Is Huskervision got the “In The Deed The Glory” thing bass-akwards. That’s why I prefer the K-State clip. HV fixed it by then.

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by Section 37 on Feb 22, 2011 11:20 PM CST up reply actions

That video really doesn't make Michigan's entrance look that great.

These will give you a better idea.

First, the band takes the field:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgb5jvLgOHg

Then, the team’s entrance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYz0yPWmktE

One other difference you’ll notice from that video compared to everyone else’s entrance, there are no advertisements in Michigan Stadium on gameday.

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by jeepnut on Feb 23, 2011 11:13 AM CST reply actions

Good Clip - Good Points

I bet it takes about five beefy guys to hold that banner up when those football players are tagging it. Neat point about the lack of advertising. Now that you mention it, it makes for such a clean look that I wish all stadiums would adopt it.

by UltimaRatioRegum on Feb 23, 2011 2:20 PM CST up reply actions

Ohio State Ramp Entrance

Here’s an even better video of the Ramp Entrance preceding the game against USC in 2009. It really catches the intensity of the crowd inside Ohio Stadium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvwABhIm_eE

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by BuckeyeBrett on Feb 25, 2011 1:09 AM CST reply actions