Up With the White & Gold

[gt7282c@prism]

I should know the answer to this, but I don't. Don't know why I didn't ask a long time ago. But I've been singing along to the song for years and one line has always bugged me:
"'till our bow-wows rip through the air"

Bow-wows? My initial assumption is that it harkens back to the old white & gold bulldog. But then the song also closes with "the yellow jackets swarmin' 'round". My second assumption is that we had dropped the old white & gold bulldog when we started calling ourselves yellow jackets.

So why keep the line about bow-wows in there? We don't bark like the nadlickers. Maybe it means something completely different. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Does anyone actually know?

 

[kevinw33]

Wondered the same thing...

 

[Rodzilla]

That has always bothered me.

 

[GTfan1985]

I have no clue. Did we have a white and gold bulldog?

 

[RespectTheWreck]

I've always thought of it as a mocking type of bark.

 

[gt7282c@prism]

I have no clue. Did we have a white and gold bulldog?

GT65_UGA89's Avatar:

Granted, this may have been some joke by a warped fan (namely GT65_UGA89), but I have heard unrelated references by other alumni as well.

 

[ramblinwise1]

I think the dawgs are bow wowwing in agony...

 

[mm42]

The song was shamelessly ripped off from Cal, and we had to put in something there to replace whatever taunt they yell at Stanford.

 

[Allen Koholic]

GT65_UGA89's Avatar:

Granted, this may have been some joke by a warped fan (namely GT65_UGA89), but I have heard unrelated references by other alumni as well.

That's an old picture, used to grace the inside of Tech Rec, before they remodeled it 56 times in the last three years and made a dance club, or whatever it is now. Don't know the story but I'd assume it was something like this: Bulldog stolen, Bulldog dressed appropriately, Picture taken, LULZ had.

 

[kevinw33]

That's an old picture, used to grace the inside of Tech Rec, before they remodeled it 56 times in the last three years and made a dance club, or whatever it is now. Don't know the story but I'd assume it was something like this: Bulldog stolen, Bulldog dressed appropriately, Picture taken, LULZ had.

Didnt want that to go unnoticed...