With the football season upon us, we’re taking a break from the winding journey through Tech history to examine a couple crucial ornaments of gameday that have been iconic tenants of the Southern, even national, football landscape since before their words first escaped Frank Roman’s pen and blotted a paper now lost to the shifting sands of time. And ever since they were first transcribed, let alone before their international fame and cultural integrity were cemented, they have become an integral part of what it means to see football on the Flats and cheer on the Yellow Jackets.