[CaptainCrunch]

I don't know why I'm doing a second list so soon, maybe I feel like I'm making people feel a bit better by giving them entertainment or good memories to think about in these gloomy times.


Maybe I actually for the first time in a while had what I define as a decent day. I don't know.


But Sports always electrifies us, we all remember that time as a young child or teen or adult when we jumped out of our seat as our hero's took to the ice or the field or whatever. Sometimes they're spontaneous, sometimes they're highly choreographed, sometimes they're great and sometimes they're just utterly terrible.



I want to cover some of the good and the bad here. Maybe I can generate some good feelings of nostalgia or some laughs. If I do, mission accomplished and I'll consider this my own sports entrance.


1) C of Red 2004.



Of course I'm going to put this here, what are you new? The Flames had missed the playoffs for so long that some fans literally went from elementary school to high school graduation, picked their college, lost their virginity and bought and sold their first cars without seeing a single playoff game in the Saddledome. That's why the 2004 to the Cup was so magical, it was like excising a huge boil of inadequecy when it came to the Flames. I still rank the C of Red above things like the Orange Crush or the White out or other Hockey entrances because honestly, the C of Red didn't need team provided red T-Shirts, and it was pretty much a fan created thing and it looked and sounded amazing and shook the rink and the city.





2) Virgina Tech - Enter Sandman


College Football Entrances are awesome, and there are probably better, but none more of a build of to explosion then this one. The walk from the dressing room builds to an explosion by the fans. I know that when you start playing this you'll be jumping up and down in your office or living room or whatever.





3) All Black Haka


Not as much an entrance as a ritual, but there was nothing more intimidating in the game of Rugby that fired up the fans. People talked about this even when they didn't care about the game itself





4) NFL Stadium flyovers.


The NFL doesn't have all that much pagentry when it comes to pregame stuff, but they have the tradition of flyovers. The roar of Aircraft passing low over full stadiums is always awesome.





5) The Ottawa Senators 300


The Ottawa Senators seem to usually have these tremendous brain farts when it comes to entertaining their fans, but dropping super heavy beach balls from the rafters to imitate the bombing of Germany in WW2 to this one. Someone thought it would be a great idea to rip off the Spartans to pump up the fans in 2008, and it probably could have been a great idea . . . who am I kidding this was doomed to nationally televised embarrassment when it came off of the drawing board. From the badly fitted outfit, to the poor guy trying to look menacing to the Sens openly covering their mouths and laughing through the walk to the ice, this was great for all the wrong reasons.





6) Clemson touching the rock


This is awesome to watch as the team takes a bus from the locker room and it circles the stadium, then the team comes down the hill and touches the iconic Howard's Rock before taking to the stadium





7) Toronto Raptors Finals 2019 pregame player intro


Look I'm not a basketball guy but this gave me fracking chills