Boston College Class of 2015 Superfan Shirts Revealed
by A.J Black on Aug 18, 2011 3:59 PM EDT
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PrintGetting your first Superfan shirt is a rite of passage for every BC student. At your orientation you are initiated into the brotherhood and sisterhood of BC fans. One of my favorite parts of the fall is seeing what the new shirt slogan will be. As your resident fashionista, it is time to unveil the new BC logan. Drum roll please.
No that isn't me, but thanks to whatever student put that up on Tumblr so I could share it with you all.
I gotta say I really like the slogan. After years of slogan misses like "Ignite the Heights with Spirit and Truth," BC knocks this one out of the park. It incorporates the Jesuit values of the school, and combines it with the goals of the athletic program. Pretty much a perfect slogan for what BC Athletics values right? I'm sure it will encourage a lot of snark and sarcasm though from opposing fans. I can hear it now "What championships have you won?"
Now let's compare it to years past:
Class of 2002: Whatever it Takes!
Class of 2003: Go Eagles!
Class of 2004: Eagles on the Warpath
Class of 2005: Always Believe in BC
Class of 2006: Fly Like an Eagle
Class of 2007: Take it to the Heights
Class of 2008: Soaring to Glory
Class of 2009: Talons of Fury...Get Ready
Class of 2010: Eagles Take Action
Class of 2011: For Here All Are One
Class of 2012: On the Hunt for Excellence
Class of 2013: Honoring the Legacy, Pursuing Greatness -- the Sesquicentennial Class of 2013
Class of 2014: Ignite the Heights with Spirit and Truth
For me the years 2002 through 2008 are just classics -- ones that I think BC should contemplate reusing in the future. It's the years after that lose it for me.
For 2009, I don't like the "Get Ready" part of the slogan which really doesn't make any sense. 2010-2012 I like, again taking some of the classic BC slogans and adding a new twist to them. I thought last year's slogan was terrible, it sounded like something I would have heard in a theology class, not something that inspires you to root for a football team.
So where does this year's slogan stand amongst the previous years?
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I especially like the 2008 one
But the ‘15 version is better than what they’ve come up with lately.
Soaring to Glory: BC's voice of insanity
My suggestion..
…was to move to five permanent slogans, and then rotate them so that reunion years lined up under the same slogan. Had the pattern stayed as planned, it would have been:
Class of 2002, 07, 12: Whatever it Takes!
Class of 2003, 08, 13: Go Eagles!
Class of 2004, 09, 14: Eagles on the Warpath
Class of 2005, 10, 15: Always Believe in BC
Class of 2006, 11, 16: Fly Like an Eagle
No two classes ever on campus together, repurpose stock and start branding alumni gear and a little rivalry among the shirts.
Love it
Also would instill camaraderie in alum across Classes …
Class of 2004 alum: What was your Superfan shirt slogan? (reads like a bad pickup line, I know)
Class of 2009 alum: “Eagles on the Warpath!”
Class of 2004 alum: “Nice! Mine too. Did they also teach you that dumb cheer? … Ooo! Ahh!”
Class of 2009 alum: [whispers] “Eagles on the Warpath!”
Class of 2004 alum: [whispers] “Ooo! Ahh!”
Class of 2009 alum: [whispers] “Eagles on the Warpath!”
[whispers] “Great White Buffalo.”
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I thought the same thing! They are classic and well known BC sayings, why not reuse them? Always have an active class with one of the sayings, and one that takes a year off.
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Motion to replace “Always Believe in BC” with “Take it to the Heights” in the 5-year rotation.
Seniority doesn’t always imply awesomeness.
While we are at it, “Fly Like an Eagle” should also be replaced with the original lyrics of the fight song.
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Slow your roll.
Thou shalt not touch Fly Like an Eagle.
Go Eagles, due to simplicity, can be replaced with the original lyrics.
(i.e., “For Here Men Are Men”)
Go Eagles!
Go Eagles! is a classic. Respect your elders, bcheights.
Fly Like an Eagle is generic and nothing more than the name of a Steve Miller Band song.
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Cmon Brian
Go Eagles is way too generic. Let’s add “Go BC!” to the list.
“Take it to The Heights” or “Soaring to Glory” are much better.
Go Eagles! is classic. One of the original four.
Take it to the Heights? Take what to the heights? Needs specificity.
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by Brian Favat on Aug 18, 2011 10:18 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Agree to disagree. Just think we have more creative slogans out there than “Go Eagles!”.
Either way, BC should start a 5-year rotation. They’re bound to start running into some horrible slogans (see:2013, 2014).
Go Eagles! was the class ahead of me. It paid to suck up to them back in the day.
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Put Soaring to Glory in the rotation
It’s called “free advertising.”
Soaring to Glory: BC's voice of insanity
by SoaringtoGlory on Aug 18, 2011 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Nothing strikes fear in opposing team’s fans more than an ellipses …
Poor Class of 2009.
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A+
I do like the re-using idea, which you could still do at say 15 or 20 year intervals. Of course, they should phase out 09, 10, 13 and 14 with newer, better options.
I like the 10-year rotation too. You’d clearly axe the last three years worth of slogans.
Class of 2012: On the Hunt for Excellence
Class of 2013: Honoring the Legacy, Pursuing Greatness
Class of 2014: Ignite the Heights with Spirit and Truth
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OK
So who is manufacturing the “Better Chicks” Superfan shirt knockoffs this year?
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Same guys that create those Superdrunk shirts?
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Favorite unused t-shirt ideas
1)FIRST DOWN…. EAGLE SCREECH
2) EAGLES BROUGHT TO YOU BY BMW Peabody
3) EAGLES SING TOGETHER….CA CAW
“This shirt brought to you by Eastern Clothing of Watertown”
[Picture of Skinner on the back]
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Don't forget
BC – Who do you call when your windshield’s busted? Call… Giant… Glass!!
2014
When I first saw the 2014 shirts, I thought they should’ve just stopped at “Ignite the Heights”. That would have been a nice, concise phrase like the earlier years, but somebody got a bit overzealous. The last few years have just been too long.
Agreed
“Ignite the Heights” had to the potential to be right up there with “Take it to the Heights” as one of the coolest Superfan slogans. I’m okay with these years but I don’t know if I can get used to under armour being all over it.
Agreed!
The UA logo on the front looks tacky and the shirts are a different shade of yellow. More of a bright yellow than a gold. I’m not a fan.
2013
Doesn’t the complete 2013 slogan include some nonsense about the Sesquicentennial Class of 2013? BCH — please confirm.
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Indeed it is, got this picture from the BC website, the only way I could find the darn slogan up close. (and this isn’t even that close)
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As a member of the "On the Hunt for Excellence" class
I’d take nearly anything else (except for the one that labels you as the “sesquicentennial class” which is just painful to read on a shirt"
I’m sorry
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by Brian Favat on Aug 18, 2011 10:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
My Rankings
Class of 2007: Take it to the Heights
Class of 2008: Soaring to Glory
Class of 2011: For Here All Are One
Class of 2015: Building Character, Becoming Champions
Class of 2003: Go Eagles!
Class of 2006: Fly Like an Eagle
Class of 2005: Always Believe in BC
Class of 2010: Eagles Take Action
Class of 2004: Eagles on the Warpath
Class of 2002: Whatever it Takes!
Class of 2012: On the Hunt for Excellence
Class of 2013: Honoring the Legacy, Pursuing Greatness — the Sesquicentennial Class of 2013
Class of 2014: Ignite the Heights with Spirit and Truth
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Classes of 2016-2108…
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Class of 2009: Talons of Fury…Get Ready
by bc2208 on Aug 18, 2011 4:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Mine
Fly Like an Eagle <—-biased
Eagles on the Warpath
Go Eagles <—-Catching a theme here that works?
Soaring to Glory
Take it to the Heights
Whatever It Takes
Always Believe in BC
Eagles Take Action <——exception to the rule
Talons of Fury…Get Ready
On the Hunt for Excellence
Ignite the Heights With Spirit and Truth
For Here All Are One <——would have been number one had it used the original lyrics
Honoring the Legacy, Pursuing Greatness, the Sesquicentennial Class of 2013
For Here All Are One
Really glad that I got a good slogan…
Eagles Take Action
I’m biased because it’s my year, and I by no means think that it’s the best or even in the top 5. At orientation, however, they rationalized the slogan about “taking action” on the field, but also in helping others. I liked that – real Jesuit ideals meshed together with athletic achievement. It’s also simple, has a nice ring to it, isn’t displayed in some odd script (it’s simple,capital block letters), and can easily be transformed into the infamous “Eagles Get Action”
Font is important
I believe us “Warpathers” got Comic Sans or some such nonsense.
Bonus points for block letters.
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Biased as well…the simple font did make it much better. Short and sweet.
2013 is an absolute disgrace for a class phrase.
The tragedy of 2013 is that for every other class, you had to know the Superfan slogan lineage to determine what class someone was in.
This year, they went and slapped it on the shirt. No thanks.
Part of the fun of this is in the guesswork.
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by Brian Favat on Aug 18, 2011 10:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The issue with the more recent slogans...
is they attempt to combine two seemingly useful slogans into one messy mouthful of trash. E.g., Talons of Fury… Get Ready… could easily be “Talons of Fury” and “Get Ready” — two separate t-shirt slogans. The same can be said for “Honoring the Legacy, Pursuing Greatness.” What’s wrong with simply “Honoring the Legacy” and “Pursuing Greatness” as two separate slogans for different years? Finally, “Ignite the Heights with Spirit and Truth” — or “Ignite the Heights” and “Spirit and Truth.”
KISS
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
That should be BC Athletics motto for creating Superfan shirts going forward.
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Total ripoff of the outsiders
but i feel that “Stay Gold” or “Stay Golden” would be nice. Short and sweet.
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