We would like to invite all the passionate Quakes supporters to join us, as we will be traveling to LA or Vancouver on November 4th. If you'd like to sign up or ask any questions, email us at membership@1906ultras.com
Could you be a little more explicit about "road trip?" LA, I get (I went on an Ultras bus trip) but Vancouver, though lovely this time of year, is a bit of a stretch. Chartered jet? Block of seats in the stadium? Details!
If we end up playing there, most of us will be flying, but there are also people who can't afford buying an expensive, last minute plane ticket, so they will be driving instead. We always have people driving to Seattle, and Vancouver is not much further. We will have a block of tickets in the away section. We will also try to stay at the same hotel. It will be like any other Ultras trip, just a little harder to organize and more expensive due to the very short notice and international requirements.
Be sure to allow two extra hours for the border crossing by car or bus. It's easier - and faster - on the train, but that's too long and too expensive from California. There's no chance I can go. I'd love to, but I've burned almost all of my vacation time, and I've already booked travel plans for next year. Oh well. GO QUAKES!! - Mark
My girlfriend and I will be joining the Ultras for this trip! (if we play LA at least) Looking forward to my first Quakes away game and glad it's with the Ultras in LA! We stood with the Ultras for the LA game at Buck Shaw and had a great time.
What section will the Ultra's be in? Will I be able to move into that section if I have a ticket in another?
Having spent 90+ minute screaming at the tv, I can only imagine what it was like in real life. Can't wait to hear the firsthand accounts.
To butcher Winston Churchill, there's nothing more exhilarating than cheering your team together with a couple hundred fellow rowdies in an opponent's stadium, with result. We were loud and proud from the moment we entered HDC until an hour after game ended, when we were finally allowed to leave as a roving mosh-pit after the rest of the stadium was cleared. The Ultras' capo was magnificent once again in orchestrating the chants. My favorite part was when we shouted the perennial mantra, "Beat L.A.," midway through the second half and a ripple of boos pervaded the stadium, proving that we were heard well beyond our little corner. At the end of the match, Wondo led what seemed like the entire team over to not just to politely clap at our visiting support but to lead the "San . . . . Ho . . . Zey" fist-pump chant. "La la la la la la la, San Jose Earthquakes." After the game there were some impromptu witticisms directed in chorus to the ACB, who were also made to wait in an empty stadium for the rest of the fans to leave. "Chicken Wings," deriding their free trip to Buck Shaw last month sponsored by Buffalo Wild Wings. "You came a long way, just for jail," jesting the same trip. And "you won't be there Wednesday, back in the Bay." Our exhilaration was enhanced by the fact that these were our arch-rivals fielding all their DPs in the playoffs as defending champs. I got misty-eyed thinking of that day back in 2008 when we watched our expansion Quakes inaugurated and easily dispatched from that same corner of HDC; we've come along way back from the dead. I have to mention that we were subjected to ridiculously over-the-top security "for our own protection" headed by the league's security chief flown in from NY and buttressed by the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. and its police helicopter, immortalized in a campy chant, "heli-cop-ter," mocking our reputation as the league's most fearsome hooligans. The security chief (who watched us perform all game from the front of our section with a perpetual frown on his face)reminded me of a youngerish, more preppy version of Dean Wormer in "Animal House." But the ordinary security guards were more awestruck than annoyed. I heard second-hand the comments of one of them, who remarked that he had never seen anything like us. "They don't do this at Lakers games." To butcher Sheryl Crow, "this ain't no Lakers game. We are Ultras!"
Better not kill the horse, or you guys might get put on Double Secret Probation. Then again, that's probably better than getting summarily booted like our friends in the ACB. We got LionHeart...they got ChickenHeart.