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Spurs fans are loyal and diehard.....theyre just too lazy to show it....
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 ish, 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
Spurs fans are loyal and diehard.....theyre just too lazy to show it....
Amen to that
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That's what I'm upset about. I watch so many games and see fans that don't realize the moment they're a part of. This is it for this team, now. Not later! Stop waiting for the next game, or the 'games that count' to get loud! Do it now! You're a part of something special that won't ever happen again.
I really dont understand the atmosphere in the att center at all. If any of you need an announcer screaming GO SPURS... to get you to chant. or DEEEE... then you should not be at the game. Every time the team makes a basket or a defensive stop you should be chearing. They put it on the line for us, the least we can do is make some noise.
...Also cut out the music during games. I dont need jaws music or charge or w/e. Shutup and let me hear the game.
not me! i yell my ass off even if people don't care to hear me.
I agree about the music part. It is quite awkward (and I imagine so for the players) to hear clips like this playing when they are dribbling up court surveying the zone or whatever. But I'm sure they learn to block it out. Either way it doesn't seem to add much to the game. Maybe just during timeouts and freshen it up a little bit. Maybe get Dre to do some beats.
i've been to 6 games so far this year (helps when you have 3 season ticket holder friends that can't go to all the games) and i'm usually one of the loudest ones in the section (221), however you become self-conscious when everyone else around you acts like they just got shot by a harpoon gun.
now the big games i like, people get up for the Celtics etc. it's the games against the Bobcats, Kings, etc that people don't give two squirts of piss about.
yeah, we dont even sell-out. The home fans are def. lacking support to the team.
The music I don't mind....I'm just glad they got rid of Stan "Still hasn't hit puberty" Kelly. Hated hearing that dude on the PA with his cracking voice...
"It's only (insert month)" Hey, I wonder where I got that from.
Besides the ATT crowd is to busy on their cell phones, don't disturb them. Shheeeesh!
What? Most if not all games have been sell-outs this year. Every game I have been to this season has been a sell-out (maybe I've missed 2-3 games). I've been a season ticket holder for more than a decade.
The ATT center could actually be part of a study in society. The lower income passionate fans screaming their brains out to no avail in the cheap seats while the pompus pukes with their noses in the air sit on their hands only to ocaasional grab a polite sip of an imported light beer. Too good to cheer? I say their not good enough.
As far as noise from the fans is concerned, Yes, they are lacking. I'm always screaming my ass off as is my spouse and some people around me. But I am sure I drive the people in front of me crazy with all my screaming.
But, I don't get how so many fans can't stand up and cheer? Too busy enjoying their nachos, I guess
I guess that's the difference. At Oracle, ticket prices were probably so expensive that everyone who got a ticket became poor anyway and cheered like lower income people...at Arco, the Kings were only good for a couple seasons so the fans were probably cheering on a high from cow fumes, and in Madison Square Garden the Knicks fans were rowdy, because, well, they were New Yorkers.
I've been fortunate to receive 10th row tickets to two games this season. While I was blown away by how amazing the seats were, I was just as blown away by how lame the fans down there were.
It's just a social event to them. Go watch the game, chat with friends, leave before it's over. You know something is wrong when you actually feel bad standing up to cheer.
In contrast I sat up in 224 also this season. It was much louder, but I was still disappointed. I think that everyone is holding everyone else back. Nobody wants to step on anyone else's toes, but at the same time they all wanna cheer. It was sad.
Our team really does thrive off of the noise in the crowd.
Its time to throw the gaunlet. Lower seat fan is challenged to save the Spurs season. It is time to cheer. It is time to stand up and prove that you still have a drop of real human blood left. It is time to let go of the statue state and party like its Fiesta.
You are asking one of the most overweight cities in the country to stand up and cheer?
If you can stand in line for the nachos you can stand up and cheer.
Holt! Drop some Taco Cabana coupons from the ceiling and end this losing streak!
I no longer have an ass but will still yell.
Thank you. Ive been saying this for a while. The place is pretty dead now
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