Anyways, especially during a time like now, money is more important than the team. The Rockets management may act concerned about the lack of fans in the lower bowls but as long as money is going in their pockets they could care less. An owner like Cuban can probably afford these kind of cost though.
I'm with him. How much time do you save by leaving a few minutes early? Unless it's around an hour or more, I would be surprised if it made the difference between a good and a bad presentation.
I don't live in Houston so I don't know how this works but... can you move forward after the game has started if the rows are empty?
That is far from the reason dude, it is the corporate seats on the first level on the sideline. A lot of them don't show up or they are at the lounge instead of their seats.
Houston fans are kinda bandwagonish. We like to see it before we believe it. Until this team looks like a serious championship threat, people are just going to be so-so about it. Go look at the 1st title run and maxwell blasted the fans. Its just the way it is.
I sit in the lower bowl, share tickets with my son, embarrass him with my loudness acquired long ago in Cleveland Ohio, and am asked several times this season to sit down, stop jumping around and cheering. I tell all of them that I am a fan, that Houston fans suck if this quiet little polite clapping is all the better they can do. Right after a great play, i got up and was cheering and jumping up & down. The other team called a to and during the timeout there was nothing special going on on the floor, usually one a game where the Power dancers just stand in place and shake it back & forth. - and a guy behind me asked me to sit down so his girlfriend could see. I said "to see what?" I told him how lame Oilers errr I mean Rockets fans are compared to most other cities. Followed it up with stay home, watch it on TV. Later in the game the Rockets drove in the final nail and the entire crowd went crazy and got up and cheered for the final minute. I turned to my new friends behind me and said "it feels good to stand up doesn't it?" When ya come from a town that caused the banning of glass beer bottles in 1973 because they pelted an opposing right fielder with them you have the right breeding for sports. Only this kind a fervor on the part of the coaches players and fans will overcome the extreme cheating and intensity of the hated Utah Jazz and take us to the later rounds. It may feel a little embarassing at first so stay home and do it in the privacy of your own living room. Yell and scream and jump up and down. Say rude things about the opposing players. If it is easier then start by calling Karl Malone and John Stockton dirty losers and cheaters. Refuse to even acknowledge threads about their dead owner and absolutely do not say anything polite about him or his family. Let it build. Call down death upon the opponents by whatever god of war your forebears may have followed thousands of years ago. Scream and vent as loud as you have ever done - it may be best to send your wife and children out for the night to her parents. Warn the neighbors that you are practicing that night to audition for the Red Rowdies so please do not call the police - you are not hurting your wife and kids. Refuse to even consider the possibility that the refs may be fair. Scream every time a ref misses a full body blow by one or more opponents across Yao's arms - this will be easy - occurs 4 or 5 times a game. Ask which casino has bought them for this game? Destroy whatever springs there may be left in your couch by jumping on it violently and repeatedly. Try not to smash your head on the ceiling. Every time the Rockets make a great play praise RA and the player repeatedly as loud as you can. Keep your throat fully lubricated during all of this with your favorite beer or tequila. Plan on calling in sick the next day, win or lose. Do this several more games until you are ready for your public unvealing, and then actually go to a Rockets home game and act just as ridiculously obnoxious for as many minutes as you can until you collapse breathless in your seat. That is why they have a halftime. If you can afford tickets behind the opponents bench for a Spurs game be sure to ask which one is the man in the relationship - Tony Parker or Eva Longoria? A Lakers game please remind Kobe that no means no. A Jazz game take your pick but I always like asking Hatchet Face if he was made by Dr. Frankenstein? If you are lucky enough to start a discussion with a Mavs or Spurs fan make sure you can yell with much spittle spraying loose without it looking like an obvious intentional event. If you should start a major altercation and get arrested, post on clutchfans and see if anyone is willing to contribute to your legal defense fund. Then we will know who the real fans are. Don't post photos here unless you give better than you get with your opponent - no reason to magnify your shame when everyone will be ready to congratulate you for popping Mark Cuban in the schnoz. The NBA - the next hockey! Grow a pair Houston!
While I'm definitely for more fans actually "GETTING LOUD" and cheering and stuff, I'm pretty sure I saw people at the Cavs game cheering..but maybe not as much as the previous game where Brooks made those two clutch 3's. Fans seemed really into that game, standing ovation and all.
The loudest regular season game ive ever been to was when we were playing the Hornets last year and at the end of the 1st half Mcgrady and co were just going off. The second was probably a Laker game about two years ago when we were down by 20 and Kobe had put the ice on the legs and the Rockets like tied the game and Kobe had to come back in and the Lakers barely pulled it out. That was an insane game. Anyone remember that? I believe Novak and Luther Head just went off.
Man, I had such a bad experience with this. My very first playoff game I ever attended was Game 1 of the 2007 playoffs. So my seat was right next to where the Jazz players come in and out of the locker rooms. Our slogan just btw was Get Rowdy I believe at the time. So during the game I am loud and everything, standing up, cheering on my team the whole game. The only thing is, the people around me were all just sitting and were not nearly as excited during the game as I was because it was a damn good game. A couple people kept telling me to sit down just to be nice but then when I got up they got mad, as they were expecting me to sit down the whole game, and I was not about to do that. So as the game continues I feel something small hitting my back, but I ignore it. Then it continues, and as I look behind me this guy is throwing popcorn at me. We exchange words, and I would have done something about it but I didn't want to get kicked out because of some r****ds so I let him continue and be immature (he had really bad aim and started hitting people in front of me and so he finally stopped after maybe a total of 30 seconds lol). So during the 3rd quarter, he goes and tells on me and security comes and talks to me and I tell him "The Rockets organization came up with a slogan which is Get Rowdy, and you are telling me not to? I paid $85 for these seats and you expect me to sit down and not enjoy the game I would like to? No, I am not going to, I'll sit down for a few minutes maybe but I am telling you right now, don't expect me to sit down for the game otherwise you could rearrange our seats giving me better ones, or relocating them." He totally understands where I am coming from so we agree that I would sit down for a couple minutes and continue doing my thing. Man those people pissed me off.
As a self admitted die hard Rox fan it is your place to confront those people. They are bringing down our team first off. They could also hurt our chances of signing players. No one wants to play for weak fans. Especially as one of the few die hards that can afford those seats you have that much more responsibility to do so. Next time you see a usher asking someone to be hush yell, "HEY LEAVE THE GUY ALONE HE'S FREAKIN ENJOYING THE GAME!" Then give the person who told on him the I'ma kick your a** look if you say something again. They will be easy to spot, looking irritated, facebooking on their phone. If you got to turn to the rest of the section and get them involved. Stand up and shout, "Where are the other die hard fans in this section?" If you get two or three guys to help get the rest of the section motivated it will be that much easier. But when you could do something to help your team and you don't cause you say its not your place, then you shouldn't call yourself a die hard no matter how much memorabilia you can afford to hang in your office. You know its a problem sometimes you have to step outside the lines to do something about it. Coaches know they will get fines talking about the refs and stuff like that but sometimes you have to step outside the lines to bring attention to it and have something done about it. Just my opinion...
Amen Thats not the first time i heard of people in the lower bowl telling real fans to sit down. I can honestly say that make me very angry inside to even here that much less be apart of that. Does anyone know if the summit lower bowl was mostly corporate people? i know for sure back in the summit days the lower bowl was off the chain! Wonder why that has changed
Houston's #1 Sports Station (on FM) my ass! That page is amateurish. Sounds like a good interview though...
It's long been a problem at Toyota center that the lower bowl seats are sold to corporate mannequins who know next to nothing about the Rockets, who spend a lot of time in the douchebaggy Lexus Lounge, and are there mostly to impress their clients and/or dates. There might be a handful of real fans down there, but they're outnumbered by the mannequins. Artest was just noticing this, as most of us have been noticing for years. It's true - the lower bowl mannequins are detrimental to the real fans, to the Rockets organization, and to the team itself. Artest also spent time in Sacramento, where actual fans are able to buy the seats in the lower bowl instead of those seats being sold to corporate accounts for people who rarely show up.
As much as the old stadiums did not meet the accomidations that you would expect from the state of the art facilities that you see now (bars, lounges, etc.) they were WAY better home court advantages than any stadium you see now, except for maybe the Cavs arena and the Mavs arena, where the fans are right on top of the court and you dont have to enter through any bars. This is why the Jazz are such an amazing team at home, bc the ESA aka "Delta Center" is an old school stadium where there are more seats and less bar stools. They get such great crowds in there and it helps the team out throughout the season and especially in the playoffs because they actually have the ability to drive their team through low points and get into the heads of opposing players. I am a blue collar worker and get to games but im always either in the upper levels or behind the baskets and those fans are amazing, its just a shame I cant say the same for the areas along the sidelines, where they actually have the ability to get loud and effect play, but they are never in their seats to do so. Seriously cant we just switch it up and put the Lounges in the upper deck since they watch the game on TVs and never make it out to their seats anyway, and let the loud upper level crowds come to the bottom. I am 100% sure it would make the TC a hectic place to play. My rant is done, time to watch win #7 of the streak....
The most pathetic display Houston fans put on was when the Rockets lost to the Celtics after their 22 game winning streak. That team won 22 games in a row, and the crowd was basically empty during the 4th quarter against the Celtics. That was pathetic.
