I was embarrassed to be a fan during the wave. C'mon Portland!!!!! Small thinking is why you only have one pro sports team and are looking to add soccer instead of one of the other major sports.
Have a little fun once in a while. It's attitudes like that, that make sports events boring and make you look small. "Sit down, I can't see" or "quiet, I paid good money for my seats" or "that's small town thinking". It's supposed to be a fun place to go, where people are loud, and cheer. There was a wave at a Chargers game this year. Is San Diego "small town" ?
I liked the wave at that point. Normally I hate the wave, but when you are so utterly and completely dominating another team, breaking out the wave is a slap right across the face of the other team. Good form. -Pop
It IS a slap in the face of the other team, and that's the problem. If we get to the playoffs and have San Antonio in the first round, do you think they won't remember that? I'm just pissed about the wave because it totally and completely distracts from the game. I don't care if it's a 20-point blowout. The guy who started the wave was two sections to my right, and every 30 seconds or so, you had my section trying to help him start the wave. It was annoying and took away from the game.
The wave may be out of fashion, but I still think it looks great if executed well. The one in the Blazers game was apparently executed flawlessly (didn't see it, but according to printed descriptions).
Yeah, I'm sure Poppovich will write "The Wave" on the grease board before the game to try to motivate his team to come out and beat us. Please. You're really reaching there. I get it if you don't like it - that's a personal preference - but the whole "bulletin board material" take on the wave is ridiculous. -Pop
I don't see anything wrong with the wave, and I don't understand how it's small town. I always got a kick out of it. And you really think that's going to get a rise out of the Spurs? From what I can tell, San Antonio has feelings or emotions.
Agreed. It was great! Loved every minute of it. Better than just seeing people sit on their hands for the fourth quarter, waiting for the game to end. And bulletin board material? Oh please... then I'm sure the Spurs will write 'chalupa' on their board too. It was just in good fun, even some of the Blazers were doing it.
as i mentioned in another thread, we were doing the wave in the playoffs for the dodgers last year. not small time. its kind of lame though. but when its a diss, quite funny.
Duncan's take on it was that the fans were bored. That's a commentary on his own play. You really think the Spurs took offense?
Exactly. That's why I laughed. I'm sure it was very entertaining. The Spurs sure thought as much. Good stuff all the way around. Geez, why do fans here have to freakin' over-analyze stuff so much?!
I'm not a big wave fan, to put it mildly, because at least at baseball it seems to have no connection with what's going on in the game. But I'd still rather see a spontaneous wave then a sign reading "NOISE" and everyone starts to scream. Give people something to make noise about and you don't need a sign.
That's exactly what my 9-year old called it - Old School! It was fun, it was spontaneous, and gave the fans something to do during a timeout in the 4th quarter of a game that was (surprising) decided before the end of the 1st quarter. It really was the most boring game I've been to this season - and that includes the 42-point stomping of Miami. It was basically one great quarter followed by 3 quarters of garbage time. And, it was more than 5 complete rounds - I counted it going around at least 8 times. This is one of the things I love about going to Blazers games - the crowd is great. They get into the game and always seem to find ways to energize the team. There's a reason the Blazers have one of the best home records in the league. If you want to call it small town, or small minded, go ahead, but it's hard to argue with the results: Home: 26 - 5 Away: 13 - 17 BNM
BTW, I don't think any of my kids were even born the last time I saw a wave exectuted at a sporting event. So, it was kind of a fun experience for them. They are at that phase where anything "retro" is cool. So, they got to experience a little bit of the 80s/early 90s first hand. BNM
Old school Rip City is back and in honor of our making the play offs for the first time in years (yes, I'm counting my chickens before they're hatched - sue me) I think we should take it up a notch and make the wave reverse directions... BAM!
We had a camera on the Spurs bench last night. When that was going on, Parker and Finley were cracking up!
