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Kipper : Kipper : Woooing Them With Let's Go Bucs

By Kipper @pghsportsforum
The Woooooooo at PNC Park has become a local topic of discussion recently. Sports announcers, fans.. They hate it. Players? They're being very PR about it but nobody says that they really like it.
How could they?
It's fairly obnoxious and adds nothing to the game, and experience at the ball park. But then again listening to some random joe blurt out something during the game has the same obnoxious feel to others too. Ironically it's those same people that gripe the most about the Wooooooo!
Sadly the Wooooooo wasn't created by some young kids being cute and adorable at PNC Park at a time when the Pirates field product was as interesting as watching flies fornicate. It was created by teenage boys, doing what teenage boys do; Being goofy, being obnoxious and getting a rise out of angering that guy who keeps turning around telling them to shut up.
It also makes PNC Park sound like a memorial for Rick Flair fans as much as Heinz Field can sound like a memorial for a band like Styx, every time Renegade is played.
....and there's no solution either. Those teens will keep doing it and the more that people get angered by it, the more they will continue doing it.. Unfortunately they're putting so much effort into something that doesn't help the team on the field. The players don't want to be "woooo'd". The opposing team has to think our crowd is mental. There's no true gain to it except to be goofy and annoy the guy who keeps turning around.
But what about...
How about...
Chanting - Let's Go Bucs instead?
It doesn't get old. It's the rally cry. It's our Tomahawk Chop, our North Shore "Here We Go.." That's chanted next door in the Fall and Winter. It starts a chain reaction that gets the entire Ball park going! Instead of some angry guy reacting, you can get a reaction of 30k plus. It fires up the team, gets to the opponent and makes PNC Park rockin' and loud.
Why don't we Wooooo the crowd with a Let's Go Bucs chant instead?
Be that teenager that's responsible for getting an entire stadium singing in unison.
Be that teenager that's responsible for affecting the opposing team the same way the Cueeeee-tooooo chants did 2 years ago to Johnny Cueto.
Be that teenager that fires up a dugout that could use it during a 3 hour game.
Make a positive contribution to the team on the field by chanting - Let's Go Bucs instead!!
...and if you want to annoy some grumpy-no-fun fan at the park... You can always start the wave!

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