Columnist Ron Kantowski: UNLV’s traditions don’t quite stack up

Friday, Aug. 26, 2005 | 10 a.m.

Ron Kantowski is a Las Vegas Sun sports writer. Reach him at ron@lasvegassun.com or (702) 259-4088.

John Lindsay of the Scripps Howard News Service wrote a piece recently about all the neat traditions that make college football so much better than pro football, at least for guys like him, me and Keith Jackson.

Unfortunately, none of UNLV's time-honored traditions made Lindsay's top 10 list.

For instance, he talks about a trumpet player in the Ohio State marching band named John Brungart, who in 1933 stood at the dot in the "i" as the band formed "Ohio" on the field, thus beginning the notoriety of "Script Ohio."

However, Lindsay failed to mention "Nondescript UNLV," as the size of the Rebels' marching band has shrunk to where it doesn't have enough woodwind players to form the "V" after the U-N-L.

Here are some of college football's other famous traditions that made Lindsay's list -- and their UNLV counterparts that came up a little short on fourth down.