 I've been here for a long time but it hasn't been here forever I would say the Elephant Stomp has been a tradition for maybe 20 years. The Elephant Stomp is at Gorgas Library. It's the steps and the guard stands on the two pillars. It comes next on the ground with big owl and the band is on the stairs and we just play cheer tunes and sometimes show tunes or what they're doing in the show and we do cheers and it's a fun little pep rally before parade march to the stadium. It's great because the community comes and watches the students and parents and I think it definitely builds a sense of communion and gets everyone excited for the game and then afterwards we all line up and then parade into the stadium so. I can still remember the first time I conducted it freaking out because of how many fans truly show up to it. And people are gathered around and we play some cheers and you know we're dancing and everyone gets really involved and it just gets the energy up before we march into the stadium. Because I remember the band just showing up at the stadium and going in but somehow we started meeting at Gorgas and somehow it turned into a pep rally and somehow we became in charge and now it's this big thing if we stopped doing it you know people would be disappointed. In fact I got an email about one time don't ever stop doing the Elephant Stomp because my granddaddy went to it. I'm like I don't think your granddaddy went to it's only been around for 15 years but it's it's one of the traditions that people seem to really enjoy now.