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There was something that always blew me away as a sportswriter … every town and city where I went for games, there was always some sort of interesting tradition or chant or custom that everybody else knew about. Some of these have become pretty well-known nationally — the Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant at Kansas or the Howard’s Rock thing at Clemson or dottin…