The chant started at one end of Memorial Stadium and soon it filled the whole stadium.
“ROD-ney! ROD-ney! ROD-ney!”
The scoreboard above the west end zone stands even got into the act.
“It sounded a lot better this time,” Clemson quarterback Rodney Williams said after his Tigers beat rival South Carolina, 29-10, on November 19, 1988.
The year before Williams was greeted with a similar chant at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia. Except on that night, it had a negative connotation to it. His last pass—which was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by safety Brad Edwards—lifted the Gamecocks to a 20-7 victory, which got the 77,000 fans in Columbia, S.