Reply With Quoteeww i cant agree with orange making a comeback. get rid of it... and give away blue ones instead. blue with orange wouldnt be bad maybe.
One other consideration: orange give away t-shirts.
I know they're probably more expensive. However, a lot of teams are establishing a single color for all fans to wear during important games (ie playoffs). We're in a unique position to establish orange as our color.
Wearing orange could help create solidarity and unity amongst fans, plus add to the experience of attending a game. It's the kind of little tradition that helps people with marginal interest in the game normally (house wives, children, etc.) get more into the game.
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eww i cant agree with orange making a comeback. get rid of it... and give away blue ones instead. blue with orange wouldnt be bad maybe.
Mustachio, I tend to hate wearing orange and 95% of all my shirts are blue or are based on some blue based pattern.Originally Posted by Mustachio
That being said, orange is what would separate us best from other teams. Plus, a giant coliseum of orange would energize the team more than a giant wash of dark blue. Even though I wouldn't normally wear the color orange, I would definitely do it if we had a big game and that became the thing to do.
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I agree, 'Orange-outs' would be awesome.
1 - I'm really happy and excited that the team got the TV situation solved, good job to everybody who was involved in doing that it's just too bad that we kept the team away from millions of people for 4 seasons but the bright side is they'll start seeing us right when we're gonna be getting good.
2 - I have a problem with in-game atmosphere. I believe that the PA announcer is WAY TOO LOUD. There is no reason for him to be screaming like that and sometimes he's just way too hyper and excited. I understand that's his job, to pump up the crowd but to be honest the crowd gets more pumped up when free shirts are thrown into the stands than any time the PA screams something. It's uncomfortable to listen to and just sort of gaudy. I'm also of the opinion that the reason why you come to basketball games is to see the basketball because after all that's the show that you paid the money for; saying that, I'm not a big fan of all the extra stuff going on before, during and after games. To me, a lot of that stuff is very corny and actually brings the whole experience down but I definitely see the purpose of it and I doubt it will ever leave. I mean I don't know this but do they have clowns walking around on stilts and random people singing in the concourse at say Knicks/Lakers/Bulls/Celtics games because for some reason that seems unlikely to me.
3 - I was critical of the website at first but now I love it, it's a tremendous improvement and I love all the videos, the more of them the better.
wasn't there a study that brighter colors have a larger psychological effect on people? i think that's the reason the heat have the whole white tshirt thing going, i think a sea of bright orange would effect the opposing team more than dark blue... plus i mean white isn't a staple of the heat uniforms...so i mean if we have orange in the crowd that doesn't mean our uni's have to be orange
"Color"-outs only look good if it's a sell-out and if everyone in the arena puts the shirt on.
Yeah, I don't think we should try for a color-out every game. However, if the free t-shirts they gave away were orange instead of gray or white, more people would have orange shirts for the bigger games.
However, if it did become the norm to wear orange during games, the color-out would take care of itself.
On Alex's point about the random stuff going on at games: that kind of stuff is pretty crucial for the folks who come to games that aren't big fans of the game/team. My wife hates sports but really enjoyed the games she went to because of things like the camera views on the jumbo-tron, the dramatic entrance, the games during time-outs. I think it's corny too, but it's undeniable that it generates interest for the casual fan or the folks who are just along for the ride with a real fan. I don't mind it as long as it doesn't take away from the game, like last night's fire ring debacle in New Orleans!
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I try to wear my (cheap!) orange Bobcats tee shirt to games as often as I can. I take a lot of pride in it.
I agree with Dnbman. The external "festival" atmosphere is important for the casual fan, so the music, clowns, dancers and all is very nice.
But as Alex mentioned there are two components of this that remain....one which I'm sure won't change....but the other definitely should.
First, the blatant commercialism of the events.....is kind of embarrassing after a while, but hell if you took that away you might have to decrease players salaries or worse yet increase ticket prices. At least we're not the "Lowe's Tee Shirt Give Away Charlotte Bobcats" and Emeka Okafor isn't our "Harris Teeter Starting Center!" DON'T USE THAT IDEA!
Second though, as has been often mentioned...the volume of the PA is outrageous. I'm not sure why you guys don't see this. It goes on virtually non-stop all game. Its so loud that you can not carry on any form of conversation with the person next to you unless you yell directly into their ear. That plus for season tickets holders that DO go to a lot of games, YOU are damaging our hearing. You've got to deal with this, you're killing games out there.
When there's only 10,000 or 12,000 people in the stands....TURN THE DAMN THING DOWN!
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rather than turn the PA guy down. Just get a guy who does a better job than the current PA. Id like someone a little smoother. this current PA sounds like its his first time doing this kind of gig
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