phxspurfan
12-08-2009, 01:03 PM
Hey, I'm just another displaced fan (currently living in Tempe and going to school/work here, and about to move to Cali for a job), so I'm no season ticket holder or anything. But I am driving back to SA in a few weeks to visit family and want to say something.
If I do end up going to a game (and probably will), I will be yelling my ass off saying Go Spurs Go, Luck the Fakers, Bonner is your Daddy and the like. What I won't be doing is sitting helplessly on the sidelines watching my favorite sports team slowly get dismantled by a random foe in the fourth quarter. What I won't do is just sit there in self-loathing and pity as my favorite team struggles on the court. I say this because:
1) If I yell my ass off and make some freakin' noise in the ATT, God willing, with good energy, the Spurs will hear it and feel that little extra motivation necessary to keep fighting hard for every loose ball, DUNK (not layup) and bulldoze through every pick.
2) As a dedicated, loyal fan since 2000 (when I moved to SA in my high school days), I have seen the fanbase go from producing little sound in the impenetrable Alamodome with it's seemingly pillow-like walls that absorb all sound (and I even remembering big curtains blocking off the unused half of the dome while they played)...
...to the boom-town era of the new SBC Center around the '03 days, when everyone was on their feet bellowing 5-0 to his ride off into the sunset (and the vanquishing of the Lakers!)...
...to '07 through today, when the fans seem so fat and happy that they are content, like the rest of the league, to wait in silence until SPAM and see their Spurs come marching back into the picture of relevance. Too mad that may not happen if things stay the same next year.
Trust me -- I've lived here in Phoenix, and, while not a fan, I have been to a couple Suns games (one game 4 against the Spurs with a broom as the Suns desperately won that game to avoid the sweep). The Suns and their fans were so devastated when D'Antoni left that the team was not the same, even though they brought in the Shaqtus and Hill. It just wasn't going to happen for them and the whole city knew it. I'm nto saying that that has happened to us, but I am seeing some of the same apathy from Spurs fans already. I don't want to see that happen to the one team I DO love.
I know our team's home has never been a '94 MSG, '01 Arco, or even a '07 Oracle Arena; but that doesn't mean we can't make it rock like none before it and show this team, a team that obviously needs our support to get that magic back, that we can make the place a hellish, Woodsian scene for the visiting team (that's the golf club through-the-window, crashing into the hydrant part, not the deafening silence or snoring sounds afterward).
So if you happen to go to a game, make some g-d noise please :flag::flag::lobt2::lobt::lobt2::convertib:monkey: makemyday:domokun
If I do end up going to a game (and probably will), I will be yelling my ass off saying Go Spurs Go, Luck the Fakers, Bonner is your Daddy and the like. What I won't be doing is sitting helplessly on the sidelines watching my favorite sports team slowly get dismantled by a random foe in the fourth quarter. What I won't do is just sit there in self-loathing and pity as my favorite team struggles on the court. I say this because:
1) If I yell my ass off and make some freakin' noise in the ATT, God willing, with good energy, the Spurs will hear it and feel that little extra motivation necessary to keep fighting hard for every loose ball, DUNK (not layup) and bulldoze through every pick.
2) As a dedicated, loyal fan since 2000 (when I moved to SA in my high school days), I have seen the fanbase go from producing little sound in the impenetrable Alamodome with it's seemingly pillow-like walls that absorb all sound (and I even remembering big curtains blocking off the unused half of the dome while they played)...
...to the boom-town era of the new SBC Center around the '03 days, when everyone was on their feet bellowing 5-0 to his ride off into the sunset (and the vanquishing of the Lakers!)...
...to '07 through today, when the fans seem so fat and happy that they are content, like the rest of the league, to wait in silence until SPAM and see their Spurs come marching back into the picture of relevance. Too mad that may not happen if things stay the same next year.
Trust me -- I've lived here in Phoenix, and, while not a fan, I have been to a couple Suns games (one game 4 against the Spurs with a broom as the Suns desperately won that game to avoid the sweep). The Suns and their fans were so devastated when D'Antoni left that the team was not the same, even though they brought in the Shaqtus and Hill. It just wasn't going to happen for them and the whole city knew it. I'm nto saying that that has happened to us, but I am seeing some of the same apathy from Spurs fans already. I don't want to see that happen to the one team I DO love.
I know our team's home has never been a '94 MSG, '01 Arco, or even a '07 Oracle Arena; but that doesn't mean we can't make it rock like none before it and show this team, a team that obviously needs our support to get that magic back, that we can make the place a hellish, Woodsian scene for the visiting team (that's the golf club through-the-window, crashing into the hydrant part, not the deafening silence or snoring sounds afterward).
So if you happen to go to a game, make some g-d noise please :flag::flag::lobt2::lobt::lobt2::convertib:monkey: makemyday:domokun