Varsity football game themes need to be more creative and less predictable. ASB students need to put more effort into configuring unique themes to better represent the student body.
For the past two-to-four years, common themes such as pink-out, white-out, neon-out, black-out, gold-out, hawaiian/beach theme, surf and turf (surfers vs. bikers) have been used repeatedly. Themes such as red, white and blue (USA), camouflage, fright night (halloween themed), sports jerseys, college fraternity/sorority themed or colored-themes upgraded (like how we added Minion-out to the gold-out theme during the poly game) would all be great new themes for ASB to add for next football season.
“Administration never decides the theme, it’s 100% the ASB students voting for the student body,” says Grant Robinson, Millikan’s ASB Director. This is why ASB needs to take their
creative freedom and create more unique themes instead of reusing the same old themes each year.
Students are tired of the football themes and want there to be a change made. Zoe Johnson is a sophomore in QUEST who attended almost all of the football games this season and agrees that the themes are constantly repetitive. “I think ASB should 100% make new themes because we do the same themes every year and it’s getting boring, why can’t we come up with something creative?” says Johnson. “We need to think outside the box and do something that makes the theme fun.”
The Rams Varsity Football team won the Moore League this season and went into the first round of CIF, when we had a home game against Crean Lutheran on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. ASB decided to collaborate with the Corydon to create an Instagram poll, alongside a Google Form on the global Canvas announcements for students to vote on the game theme.
According to Robinson, ASB brainstormed possible new themes for the game, narrowing it down to: black out/camo; red, white and blue; or sports jersey attire. The two polls were between black out/camo and red, white and blue, and the result was 50/50 on the Instgram polls, and a 6
0/40 favor to black out on the canvas form.
The game was also the week of the Presidential Election, so ASB students were concerned that the red, white and blue theme would cause students to get controversial and political. But in a different environment or time, red, white and blue would be an amazing theme. It is important to be mindful of themes which may be culturally insensitive to students, and although these repeated themes are the themes proven to be the least insensitive, ASB can still collaborate to create new, fun and student-safe themes for next football season.
The only new or extended theme added this year was for the Poly game on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, which was updated from gold-out to Minion-out. This was a very successful theme (watch our Minion-out TikTok here) and ASB needs to add more themes like this for next year’s football season.
Frida Santiestaban is a senior in QUEST and a member of ASB who agrees that ASB should be making better themes. “I think that every year the themes are always repetitive and something with colors,” says Santiestaban, referring to the different color themes used throughout the season. “I wish we could add more new and fun themes.” ASB needs to take action and keep pushing, creating and brainstorming themes that keep it fun and fresh.
ASB does a very good job with working with the unvaried themes that they’re given, they always make the games more lively and go all out with the themes with decorations and outfits. They always make sure to hype up the student section with chants, music during time-outs, in between quarters, and especially at halftime to bring energy into the crowd. Thanks to ASB, our Millikan Mob won the student section of the season from LA Student Sections! Regardless, ASB needs to make better themes in the first place which would also elevate the student section even more during games.
ASB needs to create exciting, new and improved football themes each year instead of using the same boring and repetitive ones.
