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Northwestern football has had a reputation of losing, and has only recently become a winning program. “I do think that when you (don’t consider) the intended audience it is an elitist thing,” Hauser said “That’s what makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.” Weinberg freshman Grace Hauser said that although poor sportsmanship is present among many universities, the jingling makes Northwestern look unprofessional. “There is a cycle where you are just trying to get under the skin of the other team…It is kind of just mutual at this point.” “If you look at all the other schools, they are chanting that we are nerds and we’re chanting that they’re going to work for us one day,” Kaiser said. McCormick freshman Alexandre Kaiser also heard the jingling at his first game, but thought it was inoffensive and funny, he said. Rudolph said he thinks students continue to do it because of tradition and groupthink. Northwestern has not heavily promoted the jingling the keys since the 2011 Wildside 101: Northwestern Football traditions video.

“It is unsportsmanlike and it’s not in the spirit of the game because it takes a step back from football and makes it like ‘we are better than you’ in other aspects,” Rudolph said. Rudolph said he later found out the tradition implies that Northwestern is so academically superior that even if the Wildcats lose, it’s OK - students at the competing university would “valet our cars” in the future. He figured it was a form of distraction, to try and throw the opposition off their game. When Weinberg sophomore Vicente Rudolph went to his first football game during Wildcat Welcome, he watched as fans jingled their keys at kickoff.

University of michigan home football games 2018