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End The Wave

C'mon now it doesn't take a genius to realize that the wave fosters basic crowd interaction. Perhaps if you weren't already into the game that gets you pumped up. I've never heard of fans doing the wave and not getting into the game.
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1. The wave is the exact opposite of "fostering" interaction. All people do is stare, stare, stare, STAND (possibly making some "ooh" or "woo" sound), and then continue to watch it go around. Then once it fizzles out, people aren't jumping up and down saying Let's go *insert team.* Playing the fight song of a school or the "Na, nanana,HEY!" ... That gets people pumped up.

2. If you aren't already into a game, well either shame on you or if you're just there to be seen/don't care that much about basketball/whatever ... then the wave certainly isn't going to change the way those people act at the games.

3. I've never heard of fans doing the wave AND getting into the game.

I do completely agree with you in the fact that this kind of stuff would garner a lot less discussion if we weren't having as an awfully disappointing season as we've had so far.

But, I do find this thread more interesting than the 23 give Rashad Austin more playing time threads or the Larry Eustachy "updates" threads. :)

Edit: Nice post VroFan, was writing my rebuttal as you must have been writing yours!
 
Lefty, I agree. Don't mind standing at the beginning but once the game gets going I stand when I get excited over what's going on on the court. Otherwise I can sit and cheer with the best of them. Of course I'm first row upper deck, so there's no one directly in front of me. As for bluehairs, someone called the oldtimers, like me, bluehairs a long time ago on this board, so I just have fun with it. LG281, I don't bring the word up until someone gets on the older crowd for not doing enough at the games. Why not everybody do their own thing, enjoy themselves and cheer the Braves on. GO BRAVES.
 
Chico said:
Lefty, I agree. Don't mind standing at the beginning but once the game gets going I stand when I get excited over what's going on on the court. Otherwise I can sit and cheer with the best of them. Of course I'm first row upper deck, so there's no one directly in front of me. As for bluehairs, someone called the oldtimers, like me, bluehairs a long time ago on this board, so I just have fun with it. LG281, I don't bring the word up until someone gets on the older crowd for not doing enough at the games. Why not everybody do their own thing, enjoy themselves and cheer the Braves on. GO BRAVES.
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Therein lies the problem. I was doing my own thing, enjoying the atmosphere, and I was chastised for standing.
 
stardust said:
- This is what happens when you serve beer to students at games
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Sober as a Judge

Hey guys

1) yea it was a lapse in judgement...there was a timeout before SS free throws and i forgot and started to do the wave
halfway through I remembered what was going on.

2) We were down with about 4 or 5 left and the crowd was not cheering. The band, cheerleaders, and the "student section" behind the band was cheering. Other than that the "blue-hairs" (haha like it) were all being boring and not supporting the team.

3) Im going to post a survey of whether to do the wave or not. Vote and I'll do whatever the votes say.

alright?
no more whinning
no more "A wave is the psychological babel of an unwanted household"
no more over analyzing a simple method of getting the crowd going and at least excited about being in Carver Arena

Voting starts once I post it and ends once the next game starts

have a terrific weekend everyone
 
:confused: I didnt know the wave was for games that were boring or not fun. Huh. I guess you learn something every day. I wonder how many others dont know this.
 
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