High school football game prank
During a recent football game, Kyle Garchar of Hilliard Davidson High School in Ohio and his pals pulled a great prank on their rivals from Hilliard Darby High School. Before the game started, they placed a black or white card on each seat in three sections of the stadium where the Hilliard Darby fans would be sitting. Attached instructions urged the fans to hold up the cards at the start of the third quarter to collectively spell out the message "Go Darby." In reality, the cards spelled out "We suck." Yay! Garchar and his co-conspirators were rewarded with three days of in-school suspension and were banned from school activities for the semester. Boo! The prank was inspired by a similar trick pulled on Harvard by Yale in 2004.Link to news video (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)
UPDATE: In the Discussion, AFO points out that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961 may have been the forefather of this genre of prank! Link
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You can watch the trickle down from College pranks and actions to High schools. Whether it's roids or pranks ... this is going to far. Time to fall in love with the sport again. Play clean and mean.
I believe this is a prank originated in the Harvard-Yale rivalry a few seasons ago.
http://www.harvardsucks.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale's_%22We_Suck%22_Prank
*ahem*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rose_Bowl_Hoax
Are you trying to say this is bush league or bad sportsmanship, Joe? Its not like they disabled the athletes ability to play the game. Lighten up, and play some more BEZERK!
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Actually, its far older, dating back to the famous CalTech Card Prank of the 1961 Rose Bowl
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html
Successfully pulling off that prank is completely worth three days of ISS. I'm glad to see that some of today's kids have their priorities straight.
Thanks, AFO! I added your link to the Great Rose Bowl Hoax as an update to this post.
Um... yeah, so not only is this a semi-rip off of the Rose Bowl Prank, it's a LITERAL rip-off of a 2004 Rose Bowl rip off prank Yale pulled on Harvard.
http://www.harvardsucks.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale's_%22We_Suck%22_Prank
While the Cal Tech prank may be the forefather of this effort, I think it is more directly related to an identical heist pulled off at a more recent Harvard/Yale football game, an effort that was made more popular with the kiddies via the interwebs:
http://www.harvardsucks.org/
I just created an account to point out the same thing dpan. Oh well, my one chance at knowing something useful has expired.
DPAN, yes, as I said in my post, this prank is directly inspired by the 2004 Harvard/Yale prank. In the video I link to, Garcher refers to it.
Sorry for the redundancy, David!
Oh, no prob at all, DPAN! Thanks!
it looks like CALTECK instead of CALTECH
Kids are forever and will always do things like this.
Look at what Plato had to say about his "fear for the young". Relax.
It's got nothing on the pranking the Super Bowl: http://www.zug.com/pranks/super/
It was originally done on the Simpsons.
Anyone notice the similarity to hacking software in this prank? And then would the fact that the prank seems to be replicating make it a software virus? Methinks the cheerleaders need to take courses in software verification and computer security.