Illinois Fighting Illini football and basketball have been somewhat depressing recently, but as always, most of the fans who still attend will never under any circumstances leave before halftime.
This is because they want to stick around to experience the incomparable Three In One! It starts with the band singing “Pride of the Illini” as a snare keeps time and the crowd claps along with the snare for roughly four bars before inventing 50,000 different tempos and the clapping resembles a bizarre applause.
The band comes in and many thousands of fans re-adjust their clapping, and then the second song begins.