D’Elia bringing fun to Penn St.:
“…Excepting the Nebraska debacle of two years ago, foreign fans generally give their counterparts here high marks. Central Pennsylvanians are nice, they say. The land is gorgeous.
“As for volume, though, you’d never confuse the Beav with Camp Randall in Madison or the Shoe in Columbus. And there simply is nothing here to remotely compare to the electric, stadium-shaking ‘Jump Around’ at the third/fourth-quarter break at Wisconsin or Script Ohio and Hang On Sloopy at Ohio State.
“But you may have noticed the pregame music this year that gave Beaver Stadium a little juice it didn’t have before. It’s not over the top like the infamous deafening rap that blared over the loudspeakers before the ’92 Miami game — once and only once before the plug was pulled. This is more subtle. D’Elia is responsible. “