Rose Bowl fans will be jumping and shouting

After 97 football games played over more than a century, the Rose Bowl has seen many things over the decades. But it’s probably never had the sounds of Otis Day and the Knights blaring over its sound system.

Get ready to SHOUT, to throw your hands back and SHOUT, throw your head back and SHOUT, kick your heels up and SHOUT at the Granddaddy of Them All, Duck fans.

That’s right, that relatively new Autzen Stadium tradition that happens between the third and fourth quarters of UO home games, the playing of that famous scene and song from the 1978 comedy “Animal House,” filmed right here in Eugene, will play during Monday’s game, UO officials confirmed Saturday.

At least the sound part, anyway, if not the actual film clip that goes with it.

But before Duck fans get the chance to jump around to “Shout,” the 1959 Isley Brothers song that the fictional band Otis Day and the Knights made famous in that toga party scene, Wisconsin fans will get the chance to jump around to “Jump Around.” That 1992 pop hit, by the hip-hop group House of Pain, is a long-standing end-of-third-quarter tradition at Wisconsin Badger home games.

It’s an issue of fairness, said Craig Pintens, UO senior associate athletic director for marketing, speaking from Los Angeles Saturday.

Badger fans apparently wanted to dance to “Jump Around” last year at the Rose Bowl, when Wisconsin played TCU, Pintens said, but were told no-go, possibly because the 89-year-old Rose Bowl Stadium is undergoing a major renovation that continues and “they weren’t sure the stands would be able to withhold that” sort of commotion in the remodel’s early stages, Pintens said.

One thing’s for sure, you can expect quite a lengthy break between the third and fourth quarters of Monday’s game. When the UO plays “Shout” at Autzen, complete with that crazy toga party scene that was shot in the basement of the Sigma Nu House on East 11th Avenue, it goes on so long players from opposing teams have been known to stand and watch, sometimes even dance to it (Heck, everyone else does).

So how long will two songs take at the Rose Bowl for this nationally televised dance off? “I’m sure Wisconsin fans will start booing once ‘Jump Around’ ends,” Pintens said.

But don’t expect “Shout” to play second fiddle to “Jump Around,” he said. The advantage of having your song second is Duck fans can then “upstage” Badger fans, Pintens said.

Just as LaMichael James and company intend to dance all over those Badgers on the field.