Party like it’s 1959

NC State’s loss to East Carolina was the Wolfpack’s seventh in a row. That’s a level of awfulness that hasn’t happened in Raleigh since 1959. There’s only one way to mark this momentous occasion, folks. We gotta do it in song form. Hit it, Coach!

(Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s) 1959
By Chucked Amato

I was dreamin’ I could coach here
Forgive me if we go astray
But when I woke up this mornin’
Could have sworn it was judgment day

The crowd was all purple
There were goobers drinkin’ everywhere
Tryin’ to see the Pack destruction
You’d think I didn’t even care

It was
Two thousand zero, zero, when I started —
Whoops! Out of time!
So tonight I’m gonna party
Like it’s 1959!

I was dreamin’ I could coach here
So sue me if we just don’t win
But it’s just a game of inches
And we played our fannies off like men

Breaks are all against us
My mind says we came to fight
So now I gotta go
Can’t you gimme one more break tonight

It was
Two thousand zero, zero, when I started —
Whoops! Out of time!
So tonight I’m gonna party
Like it’s 1959!
1959!

If you must come to fire me
Don’t bother knockin’ on my door
I heard the line on the broadcast
Eleven quarters, no TD scored

Yeah, that Marc Trestman is a bomb
Scoring drives were as rare as gold
But look at him, he wears glasses
He’s a genius, or so I’m told

It was
Two thousand zero, zero, when I started —
Whoops! Out of time!
(I’m running out of time!)
So tonight I’m gonna party
Like it’s 1959!

It was
Two thousand zero, zero, when I started —
Whoops! Out of time!
So tonight I’m gonna party
Like it’s 1959!

Just like it’s 1959!

You say it, 1959!

1959!

1959! Not since, not since
Say it one more time!
1959!

'06 Football Chuck Amato General Stat of the Day

42 Responses to Party like it’s 1959

  1. for2n8son 11/26/2006 at 9:47 AM #

    I went to the game last night and had to endure being surrounded by ECU trailer trash that made insulting comments all night to taunt us. They even chanted during the playing of our alma mater. These are the cordial, sympathetic folks that NC State “fans” gave or sold their tickets to. I NEVER would have believed that I would go to a home game at NC State where the crowd factor was in favor of the opposition! Chuck Amato has a lot of short-comings, but I believe he loves NC State and he would never be disloyal. He will exit with a lot more class than was shown by many of the season ticket holders last night.

    SFN: Blame Lee Fowler for being so hellbent on scheduling them. He would listen to nobody when people tried to advise him on this mistake five/six years ago.

  2. justaguy 11/26/2006 at 10:15 AM #

    The ‘season of inches’ stuff is crap. Amato came up short by roughly half the length of the field. The phrase, ‘it’s a game of inches’ has been around since the late 19th century. That Amato would invoke this cliche to describe the season means he can’t come to grips with the problem, much less fix it. Yes, inches matter, and the two conference wins for the pack could be characterized as wins by inches, especially BC. State never took control of a game this season, never. Games may have been lost by inches, but those inches add up and state’s program is nowhere near where the players and fans expect it to be.

  3. GoldenChain 11/26/2006 at 10:19 AM #

    One simple answer to that: win.
    Winning solves so many problems. Its makes fans not want to give their tickets away, it shuts up the taunters, it silences your critics.
    I gave my tickets to two guys from another board, one State and one ECU. Loser has to pay me $25 for two tickets and a parking pass.
    Guess that negates 28 years of giving to the WPC and other support for the university.
    And believe me I know, I’ve been at CF for 3 of the loses we’ve had against ECU.

  4. beowolf 11/26/2006 at 10:40 AM #

    I endured the “season of inches” crap a lot easier when we were 3 scores away from being undefeated.

  5. codsack 11/26/2006 at 10:45 AM #

    As much as I hate to say this, I don’t think Amato will be terminated. I think the ‘powers to be’ will give him one more season to show improvement. I say this because he is either the biggest liar known to man, or hasn’t been informed of a pending dismissal. He steadfastly said last night that he fully expected to be here next year. It didn’t sound like a man already informed of his termination.
    I think the buyout for Amato and the cost to land a top notch coach will out weigh the reasons for firing him. I’m not convinced the University is willing to buyout Amato and his assistants in addition to hiring a completely new staff. This process would be very expensive for NCSU.

  6. for2n8son 11/26/2006 at 10:46 AM #

    ^”Guess that negates 28 years of giving to the WPC and other support for the university.”

    No, it doesn’t, but maybe those who did it out of spite should have thought about how that act could impact the program in the long run. How many times has a recruit said they wanted to come to State to play for the fans? We didn’t do our reputation as fans any good.

  7. justaguy 11/26/2006 at 11:15 AM #

    “This process would be very expensive for NCSU.”

    What is the cost of not doing it? Wouldn’t that be saying to the supporters, ‘reduce your expectations, Chuck’s good enough’? Wouldn’t that be saying to the contributors, ‘thanks for the new facilities, here’s you 6-6 season’?

  8. NCSUownzJoo 11/26/2006 at 11:36 AM #

    What’s the matter can’t handle a little criticism? You sure as hell can dish it out enough.

  9. dsd27205 11/26/2006 at 11:37 AM #

    As some have pointed out, the season of inches could have ended 1-10.

  10. highstick 11/26/2006 at 12:18 PM #

    Solution is to replace coach and AD, and lynch anyone who ever suggests that we should play ECU again! It’s a freakin’ no win situation and if they have a problem with it, go play the Tarholes!

  11. highstick 11/26/2006 at 12:20 PM #

    Forgot to mention, do you think someone can write new lyrics to “Little Red Corvette” as Chuck makes his exit????

  12. BLUE SUCKS 11/26/2006 at 12:22 PM #

    RAWFS,

    We are on the same wavelength!

    “Once in a Lifetime” by The Talking Heads (with a few small liberties taken)

    And you may find yourself losing to a team from AKRON
    And you may find yourself trailing BAYLOR in another part of the world
    And you may find the wheels have come off your team bus
    And you may find yourself in CARTER-FINLEY, with our beautiful team
    And you may ask yourself – Well … How did I get here?

    Letting the WINS go by/letting AMATO hold us down
    Letting the WINS go by/FANS complaining underground
    Beaten by BLUE again/BOOSTERS’ money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime/want a COACH and not a CLOWN

    And you may say to yourself
    “We work our FANNIES off!”
    And you may ask yourself
    Where is that large ACC TROPHY?
    And you may tell yourself
    “We’re only losing by INCHES!”
    And you may tell yourself
    This is not my highly OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR!
    This is not my competent ATHLETIC DIRECTOR!

    Letting the WINS go by/letting AMATO hold us down
    Letting the WINS go by/FANS complaining underground
    Beaten by BLUE again/BOOSTERS’ money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime/want a COACH and not a CLOWN

    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …
    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …
    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …

    Season dissolving … and AMATO removing
    There with DOOK at the bottom of the CONFERENCE
    Give us HOPE at the bottom of the CONFERENCE
    Remove the COACH and the AD at the bottom of the CONFERENCE!

    Letting the WINS go by/letting AMATO hold us down
    Letting the WINS go by/FANS complaining underground
    Beaten by BLUE again/BOOSTERS’ money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime/want a COACH and not a CLOWN

    And you may ask yourself
    How do we WIN in our beautiful house?
    And you may ask yourself
    Where did that good QB go?
    And you may say to yourself
    “This program is in good shape!”
    And then you may WAKE UP and say to yourself
    MY GOD! … WHAT HAVE I DONE?

    Letting the WINS go by/letting AMATO hold us down
    Letting the WINS go by/FANS complaining underground
    Beaten by BLUE again/BOOSTERS’ money’s gone
    Once in a lifetime/want a COACH and not a CLOWN

    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …
    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …
    Same as it ever was … Same as it ever was …

  13. wolfpacker55 11/26/2006 at 7:06 PM #

    if App St played their freshman QB against NC State then the game of inches woulda put CTC at 0-12, don’t discount them ‘Neers!

  14. Wolfpack4ever 11/28/2006 at 3:11 AM #

    MatSci94 Says: “I was going to post this in in the other thread, but the comment box disappeared.

    I noticed that when they introduced Roman Gabrial and teammates at the game, the shaking of hands was done by an assistant AD. Hmmm….”

    FYI the “assistant AD” was Senior Associate AD David Horning who is accountable for among other things the upgrading of Carter-Finley stadium and the football program. Hmmm….. David was an outstanding linebacker here at NC State during his playing days. Hmmm….

    The whole bringing Gabe here to be introduced was a carefully orchestrated coup by the “assistant AD.” Hmmmm…. Gabriel was estranged from the University after some shoddy and shameful treatment. Gabe told Horning that what he would like would be to have his teammates from ’61 here with him as his condition of satisfaction for coming to a game to be introduced.

    Horning personally hosted Gabriel, his guests, his team mates from the ’61 team and their guests and made all the arrangements for Friday night and Saturday. Friday night after Horning spoke of Gabriel and his accomplishments (Gabe needed no introduction obviously) Gabriel fully introduced Horning to the gathered team mates and guests, saying that Horning “was one of them, a football player.”

    It would IMNSHO have been absolutely inappropriate for anyone other than Horning to represent the University and may even have been another of Gabe’s conditions of satisfaction that Horning be the one.

    So maybe something got read into “an assistant AD” doing the hand shaking. Hmmm….

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