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08/05/2010 -
For almost a century, the Kansas fight song has boasted about husking corn and listening to the Cornhuskers' ``wail.''
Come October, the classic standard ``I'm A Jayhawk'' will be revised to account for Nebraska's move to the Big Ten next year and Colorado's move to the Pac-10 next year or in 2012.
It's common for college fight-song lyrics to call out a hated opponent. Harvard and Yale hammer each other in their battle cries. Navy leaves no doubt it wants to sink Army. California's Golden Bear ``growls'' when he ``hears the tread of lowly Stanford red.''
Kansas, on the other hand, mentions six foes from the old Big Eight - all but Iowa State - and is the only school with cause to tweak its fight song after this summer's conference realignment.
Nebraska and Colorado's songs don't reference other schools. The same holds true for Utah, which is going to the Pac-10, and Mountain West-bound Boise State.
Kansas is sending in ``I'm A Jayhawk'' for a second revision of the original written by 1912 graduate George ``Dumpy'' Bowles. The song caught on in 1920 and was first altered in 1958 to remove the ``braves'' of Haskell Indian Nations College and the ``aggies'' of Oklahoma A&M, the precursor to Oklahoma State.
``I'm A Jayhawk'' wasn't changed when the Big Eight became the Big 12 in 1996.
``Now we have a different evolution with the Big 12,'' KU Alumni Association president Kevin Corbett said, ``so it's time to revise and have a lot of fun with it. It's not meant to be belligerent to Nebraska or Colorado for leaving the conference. It's just keeping up with the times.''
Corbett's office is holding a contest for students to come up with new lyrics to replace those mentioning Nebraska and Colorado. The winner will be announced on homecoming Oct. 23, and the new lyrics will be implemented in 2011-12.
Former KU yell leader Bob Hartman, Class of 1970, said the Big 12 South schools give the Jayhawks ample fodder to weave into the new version. Not to be sacrificed, he said, are references to in-state rival Kansas State and the opponent that causes Jayhawks the most angst, Missouri.
``You certainly want to poke the Wildcats and pull a Tiger's tail,'' Hartman said.
He cautioned against meddling with the chorus: ``'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay Jayhawk.''
``That's sacrosanct,'' Hartman said.
David Lawrence, a Jayhawk radio analyst and offensive lineman from 1977-81, said he's been struggling to think of fitting replacements for ``Cornhuskers'' and ``Buffaloes.''
``I'm looking for a three-syllable mascot. Who would that be?'' he said.
How about Red Raiders?
``Somehow,'' Lawrence said after a long pause, ``the geographical relationship and the history with Texas Tech is nowhere close.''
The words to ``I'm A Jayhawk'' are rarely sung at games. Instead, fans clap along with ``I'm A Jayhawk'' and belt out the signature ``Rock Chalk Jayhawk'' chant.
Still, the words of the fight song are near and dear to the hearts of Jayhawks. A number of alumni stung in June by the news of Nebraska's looming departure raised the issue with Corbett.
The Jayhawks and Huskers have played 104 straight years in football, the nation's longest continuous series, and 116 times since 1892.
``If they're not in our conference, they're not in our fight song,'' Corbett said, summarizing the e-mails and letters he received.
Not every school tinkers with tradition when things change, said Brandon German, whose website 1122productions.com/fightsongs features the lyrics of 428 college fight songs.
The computer programmer from Birmingham, Ala., pointed out that his alma mater, Alabama, still refers to Georgia and Georgia Tech in its fight song. That's the case even though Auburn, which gets nary a mention, is the Crimson Tide's chief rival and meetings with the Yellow Jackets are rare nowadays.
``The only time we might play Georgia Tech is in a bowl game,'' German said, ``but the song was written that way and it still is tradition. People are careful about playing around with traditions that go back 100 years in a lot of cases.''
It's a good thing Texas A&M and Texas didn't part ways when conferences realigned. The ``Aggie War Hymn'' is not subtle about A&M's obsession with beating the Longhorns.
Such in-state rivalries hold a special place, even when the schools aren't in the same conference, German said. Consider Georgia Tech's ``White & Gold,'' which cries, ``We'll drop our battle axe on Georgia's head, CHOP.''
``Kind of macabre, isn't it?'' German said.
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Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
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