In Reply to: Those are silly examples of "props". posted by mh on September 28, 2025 at 08:36:56
The cowbell tradition at Mississippi State University football games has been around for decades, with cowbells gradually introduced to the scene in the late 1930s and early 1940s and becoming a symbol of tradition by the 1960s. While the precise origin is unclear, fans embraced the cowbell as a good luck charm. The tradition faced a ban in 1974 when the SEC outlawed artificial noisemakers but was reinstated in 2010 with restrictions on when fans could ring them.