It's a part of the game. We all get drunk at yell shit. If you don't agree with it take your family/kids to the other end of the stadium. Part of being a ultra/supporter is letting the other team know they aren't welcome. The supporter zone is safe but isn't about family friendly language.... This is a rant from the Coopers Facebook post today. What do you guys and gals have to say say about it?
Posted Aug 23, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC
Not taking sides here but that rant was based on the fact that the "you suck asshole" chant is loud enough to hear throughout the stadium so there is no escaping it. Less about kids in the SS an moreover the whole stadium
It's just a stupid, pedantic, uncreative and cliched chant. We should do something better.
So what if it is. Are kids hearing the word asshole yelled gonna take away their innocence? I think it's a part of the game.
If we want the team to succeed, we want everyone who goes to a game come away from it thinking it was amazing. If YSA makes some parents uncomfortable and less likely to come back, then that's detrimental to the team itself.
It's much less likely that someone in the supporter section will stop going because they can't yell asshole in unison.
Individuals swearing on their own is fine.
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Always felt it was a rubbish chant, just as happy to see the back of it. I'll go to the wall for the ability to use profanity in the supporters' section on a personal basis, mind, but the sooner this one is put to bed the better.
It's ridiculous that a sassy few take offense to the asshole shit. Stay home and watch it on YouTube if a WORD is gonna ruin your night out.
So what your saying is its more important for you to be able to yell asshole than it is for us to have a full stadium? Maybe instead you should stay home and watch on YouTube if the inability to say a word is going to ruin your night?
There's a reason so many supporters groups have banned the YSA chant, its unoriginal and uncreative and yea there are some uptight asswads that think the word asshole is satans creation.
It's not a chant. It's yelled, one time, during goal kicks. If 20 people are gonna whine about it then I'm fine with having 7,820 vs. 7,850. Asshole isn't gonna make or break the game. It's gonna happen; deal with it.
I agree with your stance, but your math sucks.
20 people who need to get a grip and their 10 children were busy having a good time.
Yes. Yes it does.
What gets me is the people complaining are the ones sitting at midfield who don't even cheer for the damn team. I sat there on July 4 and I'm pretty sure people were falling asleep. If they cared enough to be part the noise they probably wouldn't even hear the YSA chant.
Meanwhile management seems to view them as the Holy Grail of target demos and are happy to shush the rabid fans to get them. I'd rather they level out the pricing a bit and target people who might give a damn.
Yea hopefully they don't follow the Earthquakes or FC Dallas model.
Not familiar, how did the ruin those cultures?
Dallas put their sss out in the suburbs to get that soccer mom $. And their cost of season tickets went up $200ish. And where their supporters tailgate is is being turned into a parking lot so they can charge for parking. Earthquakes new stadium doesn't even have a 100 level b/c they put lame ass suites around the field so people can sleep during games. And all their fans are in the 200 level which you can't even see during games.
I bet there are plenty of sales people who wouldn't see that as such a challenge…
In other news: There are "buy ticket" buttons on the website that simply don't work -- maybe he should be meeting with the web team instead of dicking around on facebook.
Its a bad chant not because its vulgar but because its uninspired, not creative and not clever.
The best chants are either supportive (we love the City, we do), clever and unique to us (Cancer Research) or spontaneous (calling out their keeper for a crappy kick or something)...and that chant is none of those.
Come on guy. These games should be something that parents can take their kids to without being worried that their child will come away from it thinking that it's okay to scream "asshole" at someone.
While I am understanding in principle here, my son Liam (4) has been to almost every game this season and we've sat in the supporters' section from day one. I have had ZERO problems with him repeating any blue language he is exposed to at the games. Not only that, but about halfway through the season I started bringing the rest of the kiddos, including my 2-year old twins and 3-month old daughter.
Obviously your mileage may vary and I don't believe I am the uber-parent of all, but I do think the "litmus test" of child exposure may be at times oversold.
I don't go to games to babysit your kid. Raise them yourself.
I was offended by the language policing but I've come around on the 'shit chant' argument.
We need better chants.
However, nobody should feel the need to censor themselves in SS (or anywhere aside from the family section).
I'm with you. The YSA chant is unoriginal and uninteresting, even if the player in question does suck and is, in fact, an asshole.