Game Dress Code

[PatsFanLisa]

Lucchino was just on WBZ4 news asking everyone who is going to the game Saturday to wear RED in support of the team. He commented on the gimmicks employed by other teams and actually said, "WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' TOWELS"!!!!! :smiley_towel: :smiley_towel: :smiley_towel:

[oldskool138]

It's all about the revenue streams...I bet they'll only be selling red shirts at the game and around the stadium.

Larry forgets the greatest "gimmick" is 3,500 obnoxious, loud and obsessed (not to mention drunk) Red Sox fans. You ever wonder why they don't play music during the game to get people to clap at Fenway? They let the crowd do their own thing. It makes for a much more organic feel to the game.

Although, the Royal Rooters (from the early 1900's) used to bring a band with them to mess with the other team. I'd go for that, if they could pull it off.

[EverettsTheoryOfEvolution]

I've always thought towels were some of the worst rally type accessory out there. The most ridiculous thing in sport is Pittsburgh's "terrible towels". I mean, how can you say the words "terrible towel" without losing 50 IQ points and peeing yourself uncontrollably? A good accessory is something like those thunder sticks the Angels had a few years ago. If the league bans your rally accessory, you know it was effective (unfortunately, they used up the goodwill credit they got from thunder sticks on that stupid rally monkey).

Of course, if you call your fan base the "(name of team) Nation" and charge them money to get a membership card to legitimize their rooting interests, you really don't have a leg to stand on when you belittle other teams' strategies.

[Mikiemo83]

I've always thought towels were some of the worst rally type accessory out there. The most ridiculous thing in sport is Pittsburgh's "terrible towels". I mean, how can you say the words "terrible towel" without losing 50 IQ points and peeing yourself uncontrollably? thus we get the yellow terrible towell

[Patriots4ever]

I also heard somewhere that people bring white "blood stained" socks as well.

[NEM]

Larry forgets the greatest "gimmick" is 3,500 obnoxious, loud and obsessed (not to mention drunk) Red Sox fans. You ever wonder why they don't play music during the game to get people to clap at Fenway? They let the crowd do their own thing. It makes for a much more organic feel to the game.

Although, the Royal Rooters (from the early 1900's) used to bring a band with them to mess with the other team. I'd go for that, if they could pull it off.

Back in the days of the old Brooklyn Dodgers, there was a small bunch of guys that got to be known as the Dodger SymPhony (promounced SimFoney)

Here's an article about them.

In Ebbets Field there might be 5,000 fans in the park, but it would sound like ten times as many. Five fanatical fans that made up the Dodgers Symphony would play and dance on top of the dugout and walk through the stands playing their ragtime music, and when the umps came out before the game, they would play "Three Blind Mice," until the year when the National League added a fourth umpire to the crew, lousing up their little joke. If an opposing pitcher was knocked out, the symphony would razz him by playing "The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out," and they would wait for an opposing batter who made [an] out to return to the dugout and sit down, and just as the player's backside would touch the bench, the cymbal from the symphony would crash, and the Dodger fans would applaud and chuckle at the player's embarrassment.

Of course that was in the days when fans could do those kind of things. Today, it is sad that fans are stopped and prohibited from getting involved, by security, ropes, gates, fences, etc..... THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF BASEBALL, THE KNOT HOLE GANGS, BLEACER BUMS, ETC......
http://www.streetplay.com/events/b2b/1999/images/dodgerband2.jpg
(The Dodger, Symphony, reunited in 1999)

http://thatsbaseball1.tripod.com/id130.htm

BTW, I can proodly say that I have been to Dodger games at Ebbet's Field, and NY Giant games at the Polo Grounds, and the original Yankee Stadium. (I grew up in NYC from age 2 to 18 and then returned to Massachusetts, where I was born)
http://www.idatasports.com/imgs/idph181.jpg
and this one, The Polo Grounds
http://pubpages.unh.edu/%7Emwh4/IMAGES/grounds.jpg
And, I was at the Polo Grounds in 1961 when the BOSTON PATRIOT played the TITANS OF NEW YORK.

There were some great baseball moments at the Polo Grounds. Willie Mays great catch while his back was turned in the World Series against Cleveland Indians batter, Vic Wertz.

And Bobby Tompson's home run (The Shot Heard Round The World or, The Miracle at Coogan's Bluff) in the NL Playoffs to send the Giants to the World Series over the Dodgers.

I remember seeing both of those events as they happened...Some great, great moments I shall never forget.

BTW, The distance down the left field line at the Polo Grounds was somewhere around 250 feet, if I recall, and that is where Tompson hit his home run.

Here's one more great , old, baseball park that I spent many days inside of, and then when the Pats started in 1960, this was their home field, too. BRAVES FIELD (NICKERSON - BOSTONUNIVERSITY IELD)
http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/braves01.jpg

http://www.ballparktour.com/Former_Boston.html

http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/braves04.jpg
BRAVES FIELD
And here is one more great picture from BRAVES FIELD. If you look over on the left side of the billboards, you can see where they were paying a tribute to me....NEM. :icon_supe :icon_supe
http://www.thedeadballera.com/Stadiums/StadiumsBravesField_photo3.jpg

BTW, that section of seats you are looking at was known as "The Jury Box" and it got it's name because someone once looked out at it on the day only 12 fans were sitting in it, and hence, the name,"Jury Box".. And, if I am not mistaken, I believe that is where the END ZONE section was that I sat in, with my friends, for the first couple of seasons Of Patriot's Football. Those were the days. Also where the Boston Breakers of the USFL Played their home games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Breakers


BTW, Braves Field is the place where BABE RUTH played his last game, as he closed out his career as a member of the Braves. I believe, and I may be wrong, but he hit three home runs that day.

Hope I am not boring any of you with all this, but suddenly, I have gotten into a nostalgic mood.