On monday of last week my brother called me to invite me on a road trip to go watch his team (the sounders) play in a cup match against sporting KC. It was already all paid for and I had no obligations so I went along. I am still hoarse from cheering. The amount of devoted following for the sounders was nuts. They had a cannon of fight songs (about 10-12 of them, including woody guthrie's "roll on Columbia") that everyone knew. It was so neat so see so much civic pride transplanted to another place. Watching the cultural dynamic between well behaved polite and friendly Kansans compaired to west coast seattlites was too funny. My conclusion from the whole thing is this: we need a pro sports team. Really. Going to see the drillers or the oilers is nice. It's relaxing. It's relatively cheap. But there will never be the kind of hard-core fans without them being pro.
We incorporated a couple of Sounders chants on Sunday afternoon...
Favorite Tulsa Ultras chants overheard this weekend...
1. "Go back to club level... clap, clap, clap-clap-clap"
2. "Better call Walgreens" (after opposing team shoots ball over outfield wall and it made its way through a hole in the netting)
3. The tune of the Chicago Fire song done to a pow-wow drumbeat... amusing.
4. Chants of "magic spray" when the opposing team's medic came out... (not the classiest move on our part after the player obviously twisted something, but still pretty funny)
5. "He's big! He's Welsh! He knows nothing else!" (ironic considering Wayne's a pretty cerebral guy)
http://www.tulsahurricane.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/farmer_wayne00.html6. "Men take goal kicks" as a bronx cheer to the opposing keeper.
7. The ever popular, "Ziggy-zaggy-ziggy-zaggy... OI! OI! OI!"
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=1902918. Our take on a Sounders chant...
boom-boom T boom-boom U boom-boom L boom-boom S boom-boom A....9. Take 'em all, take 'em all
Put 'em up against a wall and shoot 'em
Short and tall, watch 'em fall
Come on boys take 'em all
Take 'em all, watch 'em fall, take 'em all, watch 'em fall...
And finally, #10.
Bury me in Tulsa
Bury me in Tulsa
Bury me in Tulsa
So I can die an A
Bury me in green and yellow
Bury me in green and yellow
Bury me in green and yellow
So I can die an A
Take me back to Tulsa
Take me bake to Tulsa
Take me back to Tulsa
If I should die away
NPSL SOUTH REGION POINTS LEADERS JUNE 3:1. TULSA ATHLETICS (5-0-0): 15*2. LIVERPOOL WARRIORS (2-2-1): 8
3. RVA FC (2-1-0): 7*
4. CHATTANOOGA FC (2-1-1): 7*
5. GULF COAST TEXANS (2-0-1): 6
* DIVISION LEADERSNPSL SOUTH REGION TOP GOALSCORERS JUNE 3:1. COLEMAN, LEVI (TULSA ATHLETICS): 6
2. CHAVEZ, JOHNNY (TULSA ATHLETICS): 5T3. JACKSON, DANIEL (D.C. UNITED U23 NPSL): 3
T3. GLEN, JON (JACKSONVILLE UNITED): 3
T3. ELIGWE, VCMOR (LIVERPOOL WARRIORS): 3
T3. GONSALVEZ, BLAINE (TULSA ATHLETICS): 3
T3. SCHMOKER, ADAM (TULSA ATHLETICS): 3