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Originally Posted by polak
One word.
Beer.
But honestly most of the crowd at those games are hardcore. You don't have corporate stiffs occupying most of the stands.
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Nah. Many countries they don't serve alcohol at the stadiums at all. In fact following the testimonies in this group, it sounds like drinking is as big or even bigger part of sports culture over there as it is in here.
The chants as they are today are created and upheld by organized fan groups that actively come up with them, practice them if needed and actively try to get other fans involved. (Shameless stealing helps a lot in coming up with them.)
In US colleges you probably have some of the same dynamic. College kids spend a lot of time together outside of the games, which gives them time to come up with stuff and practice it.
And yes, you can totally bring them to countries that have no such culture. "European style" fan culture really only arrived in Finland somewhere around late 90's early 2000's, but it's going pretty strong now. Especially in national team soccer games, as they have a fairly big and apparently well organized fan club.
So essentially, CP could totally start making this happen. You'd need to create some kind of a club for the purpose that anybody can join. You could probably start with a dozen or two dozen people. Enough to make yourselves heard. Other people who regurarly go to games will pick them up quick and will start helping you out eventually, even though at first they will probably be mostly shocked by your unusual behaviour
There's a couple of things that would need to be organized with the Flames though.
1) You need to get an organized fanclub section so you can all sit (or preferably stand) next to each other. I guess there are ways of doing this on your own, but the Flames might be interested in helping you getting this done. After all, you're really doing something for them, mostly for free.
2) You can't have music blaring all time. Since the organizations already have some sort of a DJ present at the games, this again is mostly a matter of communication. In fact any half decent DJ will react to your existence on his/her own.
The music isn't totally a bad thing though, as it takes a lot of pressure of from you to keep up the chants.
