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Originally posted by Daaaaave:
ysa was a fb chant at the beginning because it's always so quiet during a goalkick, plus it actually seemed to throw the keeper off. seattle's keeper preston burpo shanked more than one kick because of that chant (as well as chants about his listed home telephone number).
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Which was why the TA walk out late in the season was a good thing,
IMO. "This is what it sounds like when you keep us out."
Really, that's kind of the point that Bloomberg guy was making (well, Lalas in the piece anyway). That American audiences tend to come to games demanding to be entertained, rather than participating in it through singing, chanting, etc.
IMO, hockey crowds are the closest thing we have to soccer crowds. Whether it's Joe Louis Arena reveberating with "Let's go Red Wings" or how Islander fans used to taunt the Rangers with "Nineteen-forty!"
Every other league here the crowds are waiting around for dot races or sausage races or dance teams or, or, or....Hell, Comerica Park has a carousel in it. (although given the state of the Tigers, it's not surprising people would want to be distracted from the game)
I usually go check out the Junior A hockey team here and the loudest cheering comes during the contest for someone on the loudest side of the arena to win a free pizza. Of course, given the fact there's only 300-500 people on a Wednesday night (with many of them probably parents and such) I don't think there's that critical mass of people to make a lot of noise. (and tbh, I'm not doing much cheering as well. Probably because I'm new here and I haven't taken the team to heart. Probably due to a bit of hockey snobbery given that I'm used to going to major junior level hockey
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the problem was that people latched onto it for the OMG controversy issue and we had double the people doing that chant over every other chant and people started doing it during freekicks, et al and it simply got boring very fast.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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as a joke to battle the soccer moms, we started teaching the kids to chant "your socks have holes" which was good for a laugh.
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So cult.
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