Man oh man! Is this last game gonna be huge?! Dude, you just know that CC.net is gonna be all over TV that night. I'm sure Bill and Calvin are gonna make several comments about that rowdy bunch upstairs. We all need to make sure to be decked out in our best Rocket garb. We need to be loud, proud, and original! We need to show this city how fans SHOULD act at a Rocket game. Let's all freak out the Greenway suits that always dominate the lower prom. I have a feeling that this site will blow up even more than it has already. Membership will probably explode. If we are lucky, maybe ESPN will even take notice. I can see it now. The Rockets' postseason all rests on this one game. We win, we're in. CC.net will be there to save the day. We will be the ones that give the Rocks that extra boost of energy. We will make that place explode! I can hardly wait. Clutch, you and Jeff must make Les proud. I mean, between this site and SOR you guys have done what their whole marketing team have failed to do. You guys have created a movement of die-hard Rocket freaks and a home for us all to stay. Now you are leading us to the game itself which actually makes lots of money for them. While those seats may have sold anyway, you guys have made a statement about the power of this site and it's followers. You guys rule! Keep it up. ------------------
We all need to make sure to be decked out in our best Rocket garb. We need to be loud, proud, and original! We need to show this city how fans SHOULD act at a Rocket game. Let's all freak out the Greenway suits that always dominate the lower prom. Excellent post, I believe. We DO need to show people how true fans are supposed to act. It is time to go absolutely crazy guys. Lets show the world how to act at an NBA game. ------------------ "We got f*cking smashed every day. And then when we came here to Beverly Hills, we had drugs, we had chicks, we had orgies. I thought I'd died and gone to f*cking Rome" ---Ozzy Osbourne, on the early days of Black Sabbath
"We DO need to show people how true fans are supposed to act." Fans that come to one game a year, where someone else does all the ticket legwork, are true fans? True fans are those of us shouting our lungs without Jeff/Clutch doing the ticket legwork, without a bobble-head promo, in a game without playoff implications. True fans are those of us going to the games last year with a terrible record and no playoff hopes. True fans don't need an excuse to come out to games.
No offense meant. I'm excited to meet my fellow cc.netters and more excited to hear them shouting in the Summit.
lol... Thanks jamcracker.... ------------------ "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain -
Fans that come to one game a year, where someone else does all the ticket legwork, are true fans? Funny. c'mon man. I was just trying to get anyone/everyone psyched up is all. Are you the newest member of the Serious Police or something? ------------------ "We got f*cking smashed every day. And then when we came here to Beverly Hills, we had drugs, we had chicks, we had orgies. I thought I'd died and gone to f*cking Rome" ---Ozzy Osbourne, on the early days of Black Sabbath
...christ ,jamcracker....why don't ya just punch him in the nads!?!......I mean....do you call those that only make the pilgramage to Mecca once "crappy fans"? ------------------ C-son
DAMN! I wish the last game was on a weekend. I'd be there in a heartbeat...but ya know, 5 hour drives to Houston on a schoolnight don't work too well. ------------------ Who's ya daddy?
True fans pay attention. So, would you say that Clutch isn't a true fan because he lives in Austin and can't go to games? If I can't afford tickets, am I not a true fan? Not everyone can go. That doesn't mean we don't care or aren't fans. ------------------ Onions is all I eat!
If we could only have those 2 Clipper games ------------------ President of the Steve Francis, Jamal Crawford,Larry Hughes, and Charles Woodson fan club.
wwwwoooooooo YA'LL SUCK . . . no offense [paraphrasing Jam . . .] and we appreciate you too ;-) Rocket River ------------------
I think this event is a fantastic idea. I am ecstatic about the high turnout. I honestly can't wait to meet you kids and I'm very excited about seeing 300 fellow cc.netters. It irritates me that we can get 300 cc.netters out to a game when Jeff does the legwork, whereas only X come out to a regular game. (X << 300) [the math symbol, not the C operator] "If I can't afford tickets, am I not a true fan?? I'll give complete immunity to non-Houstonians. I really can't afford tickets either. I made sacrifices for my tickets. I am sick of driving my Metro, I skipped a few vacations. Buying tickets had a serious impact on my finances. $13 seats are cheap. A true fan budgets his money all year long, saving for his ticket purchase. A true fan might be the first guy in line when single-game tickets go on sale and buy as many as he can afford. True fans make sacrifices to attend games. If a true fan managed to save an extra $20 a month for ticket purchases, she could buy 9 pairs of $13 seats on the day single-game tickets go on sale.
OK, I need your help here. I work shift work, so I have fewer nights to attend games. Do I sacrifice my job to attend a Rocket game? I have three kids, all of which play youth basketball, baseball, girl scouts, or band. All of these events take up what few evenings off I have. Do I sacrifice my children to attend a Rocket game? Or maybe just one of them...say, the girl scouts, since my wife takes care of that? Do I leave my boys alone to attend a Rocket game? Let's say I leave my daughter to her girl scouts, and take the boys to the game with me. Let's see, $13 x 3 = $39, plus an equal amount for parking, snacks, etc...about $80. Do I sacrifice half of a week's grocery bill to attend a Rocket game? Let me be perfectly clear on this: DEVOTION TO A SPORTS TEAM CANNOT BE MEASURED IN DOLLARS AND CENTS! So what should I sacrifice to be a true fan, jamcracker? My kids, my families dinner, my job, or my spare time? ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
Behad, I don't think that you planned far enough in advance. Your 15 year plan should have accommodated the Rockets by now. ------------------ I'd rather be boinking my wife.
That's part of the problem, Achebe. When I was young and single, I didn't plan. I went to dozen of Rocket games a year, as well as many club outings after games. Then comes marriage, kids, responsibility...so now I plan. I'm in year 7 of a thirty year plan to retire. Maybe then I will see some Rocket games live. ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
I never should have equated "true fan" with "game attending fan". I apologize for that. IMO, someone can be a "true fan" without attending games. I just wish more people would come out every night. No offense, Behad. Game-attending fans make sacrifices to attend games. So what should I sacrifice to be a true fan, jamcracker? My kids, my families dinner, my job, or my spare time? That's my point. Going to games requires sacrifices. I'm lucky, for me, it was only a financial sacrifice. Maybe you could look into taking your children to a game, maybe you could manage to skip one night of work to go to a game. I reckon that with careful planning you could manage to attend one game a year, maybe even two or three. It might require the coordination of multiple different schedules, but perhaps it could be done. Going to games requires sacrifices. If you don't want to go to games, fine, I'll still like you, respect you and consider you a "true fan".
Just for the record, jamcracker, the whole family makes one or two Rockets and Astros games a year. I just resented the implication that I was not a true fan because I do not regularly attend. Apology accepted. ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
I shouldn't have gotten myself into trouble with that "true fan" business. I get irritated with people hiding behind excuses. "I have to work nights" or "I can't afford it". I think everyone can manage to attend a game or three a year.
