How The Grinch Stole Homecoming

How the Grinch Stole Homecoming A Clemson Holiday Special by Lori Blankenship 🎄 Narrator Every tiger in Tigertown liked Homecoming alot! But the Grinch who lived just north of Tigertown, did NOT! The Grinch hated Homecoming! The whole football season. Now please don’t ask why- No’one quite knows the reason. It COULD be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be perhaps that his pants were too tight. But I think that the Grinch was from Duke, afrter all! But.. What ever the reason His head of his attire, He stood there on Homecoming Eve, hating them with a fire. Staring out from his cave with a sour, grinchy frown, At the warm lighted windows a glow in their town For he new every Tiger by annual rote, Was busy pomping a Homecoming float. 🟠 The Grinch And they’re wearing their orange… 🟠 The Grinch Tomorrow is HOMECOMING! It’s practically here! 🎄 Narrator Then he growled with his Grinch fingers nevously drumming. 🟠 The Grinch I MUST find someway to stop Homecoming from coming! 🎄 Narrator For, tomorrow he knew….. All the Tiger Band feet would wake bright and early and they’d march down the street. And then they’d start playing and the drumbs they would beat. They’d play Tiger Rag, oh what a neat treat! Then the students would rise and they’d put on their best- Dresses and sweaters and suits with a vest. Let it never be said Clemson students can’t dress!! And then not long after in cars and in vans Comes a myriad of devoted football day fans. Dressed in orange completely with flags in their hands, They’d arrive here in Clemson, and park near the stands. Then the Tigers young and old, would sit down to a feast. They’d tailgate together, and they’d Feast! Feast! Feast! They’d fest on potatoe salad, and on Tiger fried chicken. They’d eat lots of sandwhiches, while fingers they’re lickin’ They’d gulp down strange liquids, and bright orange drink. Which was something the Grinch doesn’t like much, I think. And THEN… ❄ 🎄 Narrator They’d do some thing he liked least of all! Every Tiger in Tigertown, the tall and the small Would stand close together, as game time is nearing, They’d stand side by side, and the Tigers would start cheering! They’d cheer, and they’d cheer! And they’d cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer! And the more the Grinch thought of this Homecomming Roar, The more the Grinch thought. 🟠 The Grinch I must stop this whole bore!! Why for too many years I’ve put up with it now! I must stop this Homecoming from coming!…But HOW!?! 🎄 Narrator Then he got an idea! An aweful idea! The Grinch got a wonedrful awful idea!! 🟠 The Grinch I know just what to do! 🎄 Narrator And he made a quick Danny Ford hat and a coat. And he chuckled and clucked… 🟠 The Grinch They all will be floored! With this coat and this hat, I look like Coach Danny Ford!! All I need is a Tiger… 🎄 Narrator The Grinch looked around but since Tigers are scarce, there was none to be found. Did that stop the old Grinch…? No! The Grinch simply said… 🟠 The Grinch If I can’t find a Tiger, I’ll make one instead! 🎄 Narrator So he called his dog, Max. And before he could hide… He tied a bid tail on the back of his side! Then he loaded some bags, I guess about five, On a rusty old pickup then told Max to drive. 🟠 The Grinch Let’s Go !!!!!! 🎄 Narrator And the truck started down, toward the dorms where the Tigers lay a-snoozing in there town. All the students were sleeping, all snug in their beds. While visions of Harcombe danced in their heads. He came to the first little dorm in the town. 🟠 The Grinch This dorm must be Mauldin! 🎄 Narrator Said the Grinch with a frown. 🟠 The Grinch I’ll steal from the players, since they’re not around!! ❄ 🎄 Narrator Then he crept in the front door and down the halls, He stole all the Fridge posters off all their walls. Then he saw all the uniforms hung in a row… and said, 🟠 The Grinch These orange britches are the first things to go!!! 🎄 Narrator Then he slithered and slunk, with the smile of a king, around the whole campus, and he took every thing. Orange pants, t-shirts, pom poms, and caps. Band uniforms, shakers, stuffed tigers, and TAPS. He took orange shoes, orange socks for their feet, He even Scraped all the orange paws off the streets. From Tillman to Johnstone to Manning to Bowen, He cleaned out their campus without anyone knowin’!!! Then he Slithered to Harcomb to finish his deed. He broke in and started to steal all their feed. He cleaned our that mess hall as quick as a flash. Why that Grinch even took their last can of MYSTERY hash! Then he stuffed all the things in the truck in large loads, 🟠 The Grinch And now… 🎄 Narrator Grined the grinch. 🟠 The Grinch I’ll wreck all the floats!!!! 🎄 Narrator And the Grinch grabbed a float and started to tear it. When he heard a small sound like the burp of a ferret!! He turned around fast, and he saw a small specimen… Little Suzy Q Floozy, who was only a freshman. The Grinch had been caught by this small Tiger tot, Who’d gone for a walk as her dorm was quite hot. She stared at the Grinch, and said, 🌿 Little Suzy Q Floozy Danny Ford, Why? Why are you wrecking our pretty floats? y? 🎄 Narrator But you know that old Grinch was so smart and so quick! He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick! 🟠 The Grinch Why my sweet little tot! 🎄 Narrator The fake Danny Ford lied… 🟠 The Grinch There’s a flaw in the float it’s all wrong on one side! So I’m taking it apart and re-building it dear. I’ll start over from scratch, and fix it right here! 🎄 Narrator And his fib fooled the freshman, which is not saying much, Freshmen are ignorant, but happy as such. So he sent her away, and got back to his doins, And in a short while, all the floats were in ruins. ❄ 🎄 Narrator It was quarter past dawn… All the Tigers out of luck, The students still a-snooze, When he packed up the truck. To Lake Hartwell he went, through the road did it bump, He drove with poor Max to the shore to dump it! 🟠 The Grinch POOH! POOH! To the Tigers! 🎄 Narrator he went grinchishly humming… 🟠 The Grinch They’re finding out now that no Homecoming is coming! They’re just waking up! I know just what they’ll do! Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Tigers in Tiger town will all cry Boo-Hoo!!! That’s a noise.. 🎄 Narrator Grinned the Grinch 🟠 The Grinch That I simply must hear!!! 🎄 Narrator So he paused, and the Grinch put a hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the Lake. He pinched to see was he really awake. For this sound sounded merry! It couldn’t be so! But it was merry! Very ! As he stared down at Tigertown, the Grinch popped his eyes! Then he shook, what he saw was a shocking Suprise! Every Tiger down in tigertown, the tall and the small, Was cheering without any orange at all!! He hadn’t stopped Homecoming from coming! It came! Some how or other, it came just the same! And the Grinch with his Grinch-feet all wet in the lake, Stood puzzling and thought, 🟠 The Grinch Now this I can’t take! It came without orange! It came without floats! It came without uniforms, tiger paws, and coats! 🎄 Narrator And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! 🟠 The Grinch Maybe Homecoming… ❄ 🟠 The Grinch Doesn’t come from a store… Maybe Homecoming.. perhaps… means a little bit more!!! !!!!!  STAGE RED  !!!!! 🎄 Narrator And what happened then?… Well in Tigertown they say.. That the Grinch’s blue heart changed its color that day Now his blood runneth orange ’til the day that he die.. He brought back the things with a tear in his eye. And the very next day, And I tell you no lie… Twas the Grinch, during pre-game, that dotted the i !!! 🎄 The End — Go Tigers! 🎄