They printed White Out game reminders on the season tickets. There was no White Out game in 2006 due to the way the home slate was scheduled, but it was back in 2007. It remains to be just a little blip in the history of the Penn State White Out game. There is no evidence to suggest that code blue ever worked. Students went to each dorm building leading up to the game and reminded everyone attending the game to wear blue and be on time. The Penn State students tried another tactic in 2004 as well code blue. After the game he praised the Penn State students, calling them, “the best student section in the country…they’re crazy.” Code blue? This event is when Ohio State alum and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit‘s alleged Penn State love affair started. Downing told the Collegian, the Penn State newspaper, that he could not hear fellow offensive line member Nick Mangold from two feet away. The student section was rocking, so much so that Ohio State center Doug Datish still remembered in 2006 how his ears rang when the Buckeyes approached the student section decked out in white. Penn State would beat the number six Buckeyes 17-10 that year, in large part due to the noise level inside Beaver Stadium. The football marketing team resorted to signs around campus, students handing out reminders, and standing on street corners to try to get the word out. Facebook was still in the early stages of development. There was no Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat. Being 2004, social media was not what it is today. There were two weeks to plan the student section White Out before the October 9th match-up with Purdue. The problem in 2004 was that there was only one home game left before late October when it starts to get very cold in Happy Valley. He thought white would be a good idea because the students undoubtedly had a white shirt lying around. He wondered what it would be like if the entire student section, that takes up approximately twelve sections of Beaver Stadium, wore white. The Penn State White Out game started in 2004 when the former director of Penn State football’s communication and branding had an idea. The history of the Penn State White Out game is an interesting one that started in the student section in 2004. There will be over 100,000 people in Beaver Stadium all dressed in white, screaming at the top of their lungs so they will not be able to talk at work on Monday. A holiday in Happy Valley as Penn State fans look forward to this game every year. Nittany Lions fans made white work for them that season, and have continued ever since.This week marks the 13th Penn State White Out. During the Nittany Lions' games with Purdue and Iowa, the Penn State student section responded to the initial "White Out," with 99 percent wearing white and raising the decibel level that made it difficult for the Boilermakers and Hawkeyes to change plays at the line of scrimmage. More than 20,000 students dressed in white spearheaded raucous crowds that disrupted Purdue and Iowa at Penn State home games earlier this season. Student volunteers called "room raiders" are expected to go door-to-door in an effort to make sure students remember the noon start and to wear Blue. Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images It wasn’t always white, either.īack in 2004, when the tradition really began to take off, Penn State students tried out what they referred to as “code blue,” in addition to a white-out that season. It’s nothing that the team goes out of its way to do. It certainly helps that Penn State has a dominant color like white, because all fans have gear in that color, but fans have to actually put in effort to create an imposing atmosphere. If you want the White Out shirt, you have to buy it. Penn State doesn’t do t-shirts layouts, either.
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