Let's Start A Chant

Start the bus would be amazing. I don’t think we could pull it off though, because most fans are just screaming nonsense if the Caps are about to win. The end of the game would be the hardest time to start a chant, but the coolest.

And a new “Ref you suck” chant is needed. I can’t think of anything, but ref you suck is too boring.

Plenty of people read this blog. An attack against a particular opposing player could easily be organized ahead of time. I don’t know, like everybody crying “Waah Waah Waah” at Sidney Crosby, or shouting “Bozo!” at Scottie Hartnell.

Sample post:

Hey everybody, the word of the night is “Troll!”. Make sure you let Jon Sim hear it tonight!

This doesn’t have to be limited to players. Is Hitch’s girth out of bounds? Or McCreary’s porn-stache?

Maybe there’s a poll beforehand so that a general consensus can be reached.

I dunno! “Hex-staaaaaal” works for me in almost all situations. It’s kind of the all-purpose, anti-any-goalie, you’re-a-chump whoever you are, just as Hextall was. (Reminds me of a time, back in the Dark Days, when the Pen-Gweens were in town and the arena was full of all manner of frightful Appalachian hillbillies. And here was this one female specimen with bleach-blonde hair and inch-wide black roots, in a LeMeow Gweens’ jersey, with an IQ of (and I an rounding upward here) 12. They had just scored a goal against us (it was probably against Olie) and she gleefully began the “Hex-staaaaaal” chant. It was surreal in it’s inappropriateness. Kind of defined the archetypal Gween Fan for me, forever: blockhead.)

I like the “start the bus” and “you cant do that – – – - -” chants.

But i’m also a fan of soccer style chants that dont necessarily have words requiring enunciation or endings to the chant (ala "ole, ole ole ole, ole, ole – (hard to actually type)). A few years back I was at a non hockey game and they did the “mortal combat” / “i like to move it” tune over and over and over. No words, just fun. Then again, hard to start up and sustain if it’s not an already established tradition.

Last minute of a game, if we’re up by more than one goal, or after an empty-net goal that ices the game, pull out your keys and shout “Start the bus! Start the bus!” while shaking them.

I do like this one, but if you’re going for an original chant I’ve heard a bunch of colleges use the “warm up the bus” chant. Not that we shouldn’t use it, just sayin’ is all.

Sports broadcasts are very good at picking up MVP chants. I have to think that should become a lock for AO goals.

Beyond that, something easily picked up by the masses, yet unique, would rock. Duke’s crowd-monotone-jumping-chant comes to mind as an excellent example.

Something about starting English Football type chants at the games? And I’ve seen this same sentiment in other boards and sites I used to visit. Hell, I even started a couple threads on this exact topic.

There always seems to be plenty of enthusiasm and then no execution.

Why? Probably b/c no one here wants to come up with something and have it either not go anywhere or outright derided. It’s clear to see that not everyone here likes some of the chants that already are at the VC, so why would someone even try to start a new one?

If this is going to actually happen – everyone first needs to take the stick out of their ass and step off of their pillar and stop judging others outbursts of enthusiasm. Don’t like a chant, stop whining and come up with something better. Have an idea for one? Be brave and yell it loud and proud at the next game. If it is good, pretty soon folks around you will join in, then your section, then the arena.

Or organize beforehand, either with your friends or if you really want to try something – see if you can get the in game entertainment folks to help out.

Let’s make VC the loudest, most hostile arena in the NHL.

I still think this chant could work:

Goal scored by his excellency, Alex Ovechkin!
Calder!
Hart!
Pearson!
Richard!
Ross!
Hart!
Pearson!
Richard!

When they are called for roughing or something we could say, oh no you didn’t!

I think ironic cheers are the most memorable – though it’s tough to get all 18000 on board for them.

I will never forget this one – at BU, we were in Hockey East with UMass-Lowell in the early 90s. Lowell’s jersey was basically the Rangers’ blue road jersey, except it said “Lowell” diagonally (or something like that). At that time, Lowell was a bottom-feeding team, and the games when they visited were often one-sided blowouts for BU. At one, the bored crowd began chanting “Nineteen forty! bum-bum-bum-bum-bum Nineteen forty!” It was hilarious.

Not sure what a similar angle for the Caps would be, but wanted to share that memory.