"It's All Your Fault..." ...except when it isn't...

Rec’d

I’m bugged by this too. Thanks for posting.

I heard it on TV. Watching at home and on the feed you can hear the chant, and you can hear that it’s wrong. Now that is embarrassing.

I think we’re being way too over-critical of this. First the whoop, now taunting goalies. Restarting the count is fine, but isn’t really necessary. I’m fine with the guy doing it however he wants, and at least something’s catching on that isn’t random noise.

For my part, I always start counting with the goal that they first let in (so Salak got “3,4,5,6…”).

But it’d be very difficult to coordinate so there’s probably no point going out of your way to try and organize anything. Just tell yourself they’re taunting the team, or better yet the coach.

Caps fans apparently need work with celebrations involving numbers. This is kind of like the hattrick via the shootout hat toss.

I stand by my original comment. This cheer should be saved for when the Caps are blowing out a team. Hearing it used when the Caps are tied or, god forbid, behind is infuriating. Everyone should have fun at hockey games, but common sense has to prevail.

I don’t really like the chant to begin with. I’ve had several folks ask me (why me? Eh, I guess because I wear a jersey..) “What are they yelling?” – it becomes a hassle to explain and even then their reply is “uh.. ok.”

I guess it bothers me that it’s ripped purely from college fanbases. Sadly, I have no suggestions for an original chant, so I can’t criticize too much.

This doesn’t bother me at all. I went to BU – including one year when we won a championship in the 90s – and we had tons of great, relevant cheers. But pro hockey attracts a different crowd anywhere, many of the fans at Caps games are relative newbies (no problem with that at all, jump right on the bandwagon!) and I just think it’s amusing that the crowd is getting into the game.

As jaded die-hards, I think we need to make an effort to welcome Washington’s emergence as a hockey town, and have some tolerance for the amusing nuances along the way. (I don’t begrudge your right to vent here, among other die-hards, though.)

The hats for a SO hat-trick are kind of annoying, granted. But I’ll live with it and laugh.

The cheers at RIT are a riot! I watched the games last year against Air Force (where they ended up sharing the conference title) and was amused by some of the cheers. “There’s a Tiger in the cage” and “Half-time” were some of my sons favorites!

We argued about this last year on the message boards. If I recall correctly the guy who started the chant said that we were not going to start over.

But if you want to make a “change” to the fan behavior, you should find the guys who kinda run that chant in sec 106? and talk to them about it. I can tell you with 100% accuracy that leaning over and saying something to the fans next to you will have no impact if the guys who started that chant aren’t changing.