Let's Go Red chant

[jhib]

Ok, first of all, forgive me if this has been covered lately.  Since having season tickets as a student, I've only been able to get to about one game a year.  This year, it was the Vermont game.
Whatever happened to the sustained "let's go Red" chant?  It is the most frustrating thing to hear the chant start up (usually in section B) and die before it even gets going around the rest of the rink.
Why?  Because people start going too fast.  It starts as "Let's go Red!" pause. "Let's go Red!"  pause.... but quickly turns into "Let's go Red!Let's go Red!Let'sgoRed!" and then dies.
I don't think I heard it go more than 7 Let's go Reds at one time (and the only reason it went that long was because it was during a break in action, when the band's drums could keep the pace a bit slower).  
I remember how stirring it could be when the whole rink was shouting the same thing at the same time over and over and the only thing that would cause it to die was something happening on the ice.

There's got to be a way to get back to that.  The only way I can think of is for those in section B who start it up in the first place to keep the slow pace no matter what happens in the rest of the rink.  Eventually, maybe everybody else will catch on.  But it will take a big group to be able to do it.

Any suggestions?  Anybody else care? :-/

[jtwcornell91]

You could ask the band to adopt the Clarkson/Colgate/Harvard attitude that drums don't count and keep beating the cadence during play.

[The Rancor]

too maany white people, not enough rhythm.
BTW the band was quiet at the Union game... they need to get with the program as well!

[Beeeej]

IMHO, continuing to beat the cadence is part of the problem, not a potential solution.  The pep band drummer always starts the cadence very slow, and it's the most natural and sensible thing in the world for the chant to pick up a little speed when it gets going.  The drummer, IMHO, then needs to get the hell out of the way and let the chant do what it's going to do.  When it picks up and then mantains speed in section B, while the drummer and section A are staying slower, it sounds awful.

From the Things That Really Don't Matter Unless We Freakin' Win Some Games Department,

Beeeej



Post Edited (01-25-04 12:33)

[Josh '99]

The Rancor wrote:
BTW the band was quiet at the Union game... they need to get with the program as well!

Early in the semester = new conductors.  Don't worry, they'll be fine.

[jhib]

Jeffrey "Beeeej" Anbinder '94 wrote:

From the Things That Really Don't Matter Unless We Freakin' Win Some Games Department

Well, with the team apparently needing all the help it can get at home this year, I figure a little better cheering by the fans couldn't hurt!

[Keith K \'93]

FWIW, this is not a remotely new phenomenon. I was complaining about the speed of LGR when I last had season tickets, six years ago.

[Greg Berge]

Take Keith's comment and copy adding, "16 years ago."

There were several very obvious and lengthy "holes" in the crowd cheering last night, over i2.  It wasn't possible to tell whether the crowd was sitting on its hands or the i2 mics are just not spaced well enough to truly capture what's going on.

[Bio \'04]

I was at the game and did notice that there were definitely some periods of time that it was pretty quiet.

I would have liked to hear more cheering, but I don't want to blame others for not cheering more.  I know I can only shout loud enough for the person next to me to hear me, let alone other people in the section.  :-}

What really bothered me was that all around me, people complained about the large amount of chanting of "Let's Go Red" or "Dartmouth Sucks".  However, I can't really remember any of them starting cheers themselves.

How can we remedy that?

[Will]

Bio '04 wrote:

What really bothered me was that all around me, people complained about the large amount of chanting of "Let's Go Red" or "Dartmouth Sucks".  However, I can't really remember any of them starting cheers themselves.

How can we remedy that?

People just need to be a little braver in starting cheers up.  I can understand their fears, though--once this year, I screwed up "You're not a goalie, you're a sieve...".  To compensate, I usually try to have a little conversation with the visiting goalie in the second period (I sit in section G). ;-)

[Bio \'04]

I agree about the braveness... :-)

I just wish those brave (and loud) enough to come up with new cheers weren't shot down either in the stands or on the forum.

[Molly]

Maimed?  Lynched?  Beheaded?  

who would ever do a thing like that?  :-P

[Josh '99]

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:
To compensate, I usually try to have a little conversation with the visiting goalie in the second period (I sit in section G). ;-)

That's always fun.  More people should do that.  :-D

[Section A Banshee]

To be fair to the people who are doing the shooting down, there was one idiot in section A during Saturday night's Dartmouth game who wouldn't shut up, no matter what moronic drivel poured from his mouth.  In the third period, after the Cornell goal, he went so far as to yell "Are you familiar with the words 'disappointing loss'?"

Ah, irony.

[Will]

Section A Banshee wrote:

To be fair to the people who are doing the shooting down, there was one idiot in section A during Saturday night's Dartmouth game who wouldn't shut up, no matter what moronic drivel poured from his mouth.  In the third period, after the Cornell goal, he went so far as to yell "Are you familiar with the words 'disappointing loss'?"

Ah, irony.

What exactly was this guy talking about during the game?  Hockey-related stuff or totally irrelevant crap?