The Origins of Bros Icing Bros
Posted Sunday, July 25, 2010 by Bogota Staff
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(New Haven, CT) Where did the game of bros icing bros originate? What is the symbolism behind “Icing your bros” and why do they do it? All worthy questions that demand some well researched answers.
Being iced has strong fraternal roots of servitude to your fraternal leader. You drop to one knee to acknowledge that you have been bested and offer your servitude. Then to show your loyalty you raise your head back and consume something you normally would find revolting. In this case, the vile fruity nasty beverage of Smirnoff Ice.
This tradition started back in the ancient Greek and Romans times in the fraternal orders of warriors. The king or leader of the order would call his Roman brothers before him after they had failed him. They could have failed their leader or king in various ways. If their tributes from their estates were light, if they had failed to broker a treaty for their leader, if they lost a key battle, or even if they had just spoken badly of the leader in public. Regardless of the reason, they were called before their king where their loyalty would be judged. Once before the king, they would bow and kneel before the king and tilt back their head to expose their neck. If the king had felt their failure was intentional or so grievous that their relationship was beyond repair, the king would draw his sword or dagger. With a few choice words to let his brother know he had failed him for the last time, the king would cut his bro’s neck which would send a message to other bros to not fail their leader. Now if the leader felt that his bro could be forgiven, he would pull aside his robe and deposit his testicles or penis into his bro’s mouth. As a show of loyalty and subservience, the bro would perform the ancient art of the bro-job until his king iced his face.
Not much is recorded on the tradition of icing your bro as the church rose to power and the dark ages set upon the known world. The next written record of bros icing bros comes from the journals of 19th century fraternity members.
These journals reveal the rules of “icing your bro” in the elaborate game that took place behind the fraternal doors of universities. In several cases the game of icing is described as a test of loyalty and trust to your fellow brothers. Much like the modern icings, the goal of the game was for your bro to happen across an unexpected sight. In this case, the fraternal participants would wait in hiding around corners and doors with their genitalia exposed. When his bro would come around the corner and see his junk, his bro was then honor bound to drop to one knee, open his mouth, and drop back his head. The bro with the exposed genitalia would then get to immerse his manhood in his bro’s, the Icee, mouth for ten seconds. Some of the bros were known as Icers, they would keep themselves self-gratified as they waited for their prey. They then would use the ten seconds allotted to them in the game to finish their manly deed and ice their bro’s face. Each fraternity varied, but generally the game was limited to the boundaries of the upstairs dorm rooms as a secret right of passage. Icing remained a secret ritual for almost another 200 years.
In the 1990’s as society became less homophobic and more accepting of bromances, the game of icing your bros took on a more public aspect. If you passed out at a party, your bros would take a photo of you with their tool in your mouth. Also public displays such as turkey slapping their bros in public, or penis sword fights in the streets after the bars became increasingly common among bros. However society at large was not very accepting of these new found expressions of bro-ness. After a series of high profile court cases, the showing of your flesh on flesh bro-itude retreated back behind closed doors.
While a step backwards for showing loyalty for your bros, a more symbolic and less graphic version of bro-dom appeared. Finding a way to keep their junk encased in their shorts, yet paying tribute to the ancient roman icings and the 19th century fraternity games of icings… the modern game of Bros Icing Bros came into existence. Instead of laying in wait with their genitalia exposed as their 19th century brethren, a bottle of Smirnoff Ice would be set in an unsuspecting place. Upon finding this vile treat, a fellow bro is then honor bound to drop to one knee and consume the Smirnoff Ice just as his ancient Roman brothers did for their kings. So the next time you see a bro getting iced, just remember it could be worse… better you see him drink an Ice than give his bro a brotastic bro-job like in the days of old.
