Ok you go to a stadium where they allow umbrellas. I wish your kids had hit you harder to get the Shite out of your ears. Watch a Metros game, if you want we'll strap you in. You can barely hear the announcers over the din of the horns. If it wasn't your kid, but one two rows behind you who was blowing the horn louder than the Springsteen concert the night before. You might feel different. Oh by the way can you tell me the purpose of these things. Kids and adults blow them most of the time because they aren't into the games. You are such a horses A$$. Go back to your own board schmuck
noise enhances the atmosphere. Taking away this would give you a dull lifeless crowd (kinda like Gillette). How can a League survive with dull fans in the seats? Thats exactly what you people are asking for. First horns, then drums, then singing. 144 signatures is goin to get you no where. Suck it up.
Lame Sound Decisions in GS Lame Sound Decisions in GS 1 - Playing the Empire Strikes Back theme as Metro comes on the field - That was the Bad Guy's theme! 2 - Letting us hear the SSB singer with sooo much reverb, but playing the announcer levels at whisper setting. 3 - Who the F came up with the idea to start playing those Big Ben Bell chimes whenever we take a corner? 4 - And then at the last two games, they follow the chimes death knell with some random bad electric guitar solo. 5 - and spare me the hockey organ chants! So from minds like these come the horns.
We'll put the word out We're going to put the word out regarding the petition on World Soccer Weekly as well as the WSW website and BigSoccer Radio shows and sites.
Yeah I saw almost 50000 people in line for tickets until they saw a bunch of 6 yars old with horns enter the stadium, then they turned around and left. C'mon. I doubt it. The horns definitely suck but this isn't a Jets game where if the guy behind you is cursing or the fat bastard to your left takes up a seat and a half, you can't go anywhere. Is it really that difficult to just move away from them?
Again the horns do suck but they are better than the sound of indifference at most games. If the ESC didn't exist you might hear crickets on most nights....
Somebody obviously had the bright idea to ape the "Close Encounters" chimes the Yankees play when they score a run. I'd like to know how much they pay the clown that comes up with stuff like that. And I hope the only horns at matches are ones that were purchased at the game. I don't think security should let anybody bring them in if the rest of us can't have an umbrella on a lousy day.
I'm with you there. True they are annoying but the kids are doing it because they're bored. If all the stadium was singing Metros songs, there would be no need for the kids to let off their steam by blowing the horns.
Father Ted, You know if you grabbed the horn out of the kid's hand and then handed him the song sheet... and if there were a way for the ESC to cue the rest of the stadium what songs were about to be sung, then you'd likely have a lot more voices. I think a lot of folks would join in, but the only one everyone knows is the," You S##k A##hole!" chant. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a young mind with a horn(obscure Kirk Douglas Movie reference) is an even worse thing to waste. Joking aside, getting the songs and chants out there as an alternative is worth a shot. Have you guys tried that before? Selective hand outs, putting them up on Big Soccer...fans do love to make noise together and I doubt all the English terrace fans just grew up knowing them all or if they did they we, some of us, need to be shown the way. If the voice is mightier than the horn, get more voices
Tried this exact idea in KC and two things happened: 1) Fellow BS posters from other cities (although mainly Chicago) made fun of the fact that we were handing out fliers with our chants on them. 2) No one jumped right in like you said, although most of the fans in the stadium got a sheet with all the chants and songs we do. You couldnt tell a difference, thats for sure.
At the last Metro-Crew game i was at the gift shop trying to buy a Metro scarf for my little sister when some lady showed up with 4 kids that wanted to buy horns for them. The two guys behind the counter were busy helping other customers so i decided to intervene. I told her that there weren't any left and that they would soon be banned because of the hearing problems the horns were causing the little kids who used them... It worked.... there were 4 less horns going off that night.
Thursday night's game was a joy to watch without all the horns going off. Even with only 8,000 in attendance, the atmosphere was much better. I could hear the ESC & SE from the moment I walked in.
If the horns will drown out the "real" fans who were chanting "bull sh it, bull sh it" at Rimando when he stood up and tested out his torn ACL Thursday I'm all for them.
These were the same fans who got so quite after DC went up 1-0 that you could hear a rat piss on cotton.