I'm partial to the Spanish myself, but it never hurts to be original, either. Then again, this coming from someone who wants to get the Tetris dance going in the Supporter End...
yes! rip off someone else's signature song! that's much better. The Mob stopped doing YSA after about 3 games in our first year when we nearly had a riot with the ********ing plastic badge cops and some poseur in an Italy shirt. It just wasn't worth it. And just because literally everyone was doing it at one time, doesn't mean its an imaginative or useful chant. It isn't. Good riddance to it.
The only time our supporters have had issues with the wannabe riot squad is when some poseur standing with the ILF threw things other than streamers. Honestly, do any of us, referring to Florida's supporters' groups, really do much of anything original? Most of everything we do is based on things that have already been done.
I'm not suggesting any of us are super original, but YSA is just a stupid and completely useless chant that only draws unwanted attention to the SG. Mostly from soccer mommies with delicate ears and plastic badge wearing neanderthals. Why would we want to do a chant that only makes it harder to do what we do during games?
Orlando City says they're going to post signs warning guests that they may be exposed to bad language if they choose to sit in the Supporters End. The problem is (and it seems to be everywhere)...The right hand (ushers, ticket-takers and other part-time city employees) doesn't know what the left hand (team FO staff) is doing. 'Nothing worse than a man with a plastic badge going all rogue on your ass!
That's cool. We still swear plenty in our chants and songs, but because we don't do the YSA chant we don't draw nearly the same amount of attention. Everyone knows YSA and yells it as loud as possible if their SG does it. So the "Asshole" part ends up being far more audible and noticeable. Then its like a domino effect. Once a few debbie downers get pissy over YSA they begin listening more closely and start hearing all the other fun stuff that they most likely wouldn't have otherwise. We stopped doing YSA and get away with far more adult language then we would have otherwise.
