So many threads attacking plastic horns and not 1 thread to defend them! Here it is folks! Finally a thread for all the fans of plastic horns! Let us start the first ever plastic horn appreciation thread for plastic horn fans with the official song of the mls plastic horn club! Plastic horns, plastic horns we love them plastic horns if it wasnt for them plastic horns the home depot atmosphere would be like the crews plastic horns, plastic horns we love them plastic horns they keep mls ratings up those plastic horns people stay awake and don't turn off the tv because of those plastic horns plastic horns, plastic horns we love them plastic horns! *more lines will be added to the song in the next BSPHC meeting (Big Soccer Plastic Horn Club) Now for all you plastic horn haters YOU SHALL NEVER DEFEAT US! FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS WILL YOU TAKE OUR PLASTIC HORNS!
I don't understand why people would be against fans paying money and showing up to the park to actively support their team. This sort of thing should be encouraged. Actually, I do like the plastic horns. When my friends and I went to Sting games, we would bring a couple. We would sit right by the 'Honey Bees' (or whatever the cheerleaders were called) and during their routines we accompanied them with the horns. They loved us.
I'm sure true appreciators of the plastic horn have noticed that they sound different in each stadium. For instance, in L.A., the horns sound like a plague of locusts just beginning to invade ripening fields. In New York, ironically, they sound like car horns in stalled expressway traffic. Or maybe that's what they were: I first noticed that fact at last years US Open Cup final where 5000 people showed up... so maybe it was traffic. By the way, CUS, they were in fact the Honey Bees.
my fantasy: i extend my fingers, exposing the flat of my palm, turn to the nearest hornblower, and push that horn w/ all my might, down that hornblower's throat.
I bought a plastic horn once. It sounded great in the cavernous Rose Bowl, though I must admit I really don't have the "pucker" for it, and the Hispanics around me were razzing me for not being able "to play it" right. I put it away for a few years but last fall it served a new purpose: it became my puppy's new chew toy for about 6 weeks, until he'd ripped it into such shreds that you couldn't even call it a bugle. I intend to buy another one for my puppy the first chance I get.