Answer Wednesday! (SG Forum)
More questions from our faithful readers.
Q: You are clearly unwilling to accept anyone other than Tricia Pillsbury as the most famous Song Girl in history, so could we at least award the title of "Most Infamous Song Girl in History"? Would the title of most infamous Song Girl go to Natalie Nelson or Sarah Carmona? Is there a third option for this dubious award?
A: I think we'll have to go with the cheering for Texas moment because it became a youtube sensation. But I'd like others to offer a third option if they have one. And I'd like someone to try and offer a better song girl than Tricia Pillsbury since I admit my bias here.
Q: The 2008 USC Song Girl squad is nearly at the end of its tenure and on The Squad section of their website, the first year Song Girl who already graduated last May and has a torso covered in tattoos still does not have a biography page. Rather telling, no?
A: What about the photoshop team picture? Is that still there? We'd all like to know.
Q: Have you heard anything about the Song Girls from this decade plotting away to see which one of them can become the most notorious internet sensation? Is there a strategy of oneupmanship in play here?
A: Yes, it's a secret code no one knows about except song girls. You must always one up your fellow song girls via the Internet, preferably on Facebook or Youtube.
Q: Isn't calling the SC Song Girls "World Famous" as credible as calling Jerry's Deli "Famous"?
A: Well, Beano Cook might disagree. But yes, it's like the USC band calling itself the greatest marching band in the history of the universe. People in the pressbox Saturday didn't even think they were the best band on the field after watching the Notre Dame perform under direction of former Trojan Ken Dye.
And I've never called Jerry's Deli ``Famous.''
One correction here - the Song Girl cheering for the wrong team on YouTube is not Natalie Nelson and the Texas incident. It's a different Song Girl who cheered for UCLA later in the year. She's the same Song Girl who a month after cheering for UCLA on national television ended up being a subject of controversy yet again when she flashed her buttocks on national television against Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
I know it's hard to keep track of all the scandals but more Song Girls than Natalie Nelson have been caught cheering for the other team. It's clearly a trend.
SW, People in the stands thought the same thing while watching the ND band (they need to lose the creepy guys in the tall hats and kilts...). Let's start lobbying to replace Bartner with Ken Dye...he was great in the band back in the 70's and his ND band sounds bigger and better than the greatest marching band in the universe.
I think Sara's smiling next to a giant beer bong in the shape of a male genital organ (while other Song Girls are cackling in the background) takes the cake, but that's just me. That picture speaks a thousand words with how the Song Girls of the 2000s have been.
All things considered, Sarah Carmona of the "Dong Bong" fame is the most infamous Song Girl in history. When those pictures came out of her engaging in acts of lesbianism with multiple females and also her posing with the beer bong, the entire nature of the Song Girl scandals took on a new and sleazy dimension which forever changed the face of the Song Girls for the worse.
Maggie Miguel (circa mid-1990s) was the greatest Song Girl ever.
Caroline "Caz" Pal, Fabiola Romero, Chyrstal Durnan are my song girl material.