If I asked you to name some gameday traditions for Syracuse Football, you probably couldn't name any, let alone one. That's changed thanks to Ernie Davis.
Pre-game traditions are as much a part of the college football experience as the game itself.
Syracuse Orange football, for whatever reason, has never really been a place where pre-game traditions, or gameday traditions of any kind, have held sway. That all apparently changed when the school made the wise decision to put the Ernie Davis Statue just steps from the Carrier Dome.
Jesse Dougherty explains the pre-game tradition that's already become an institution for SU football players.