Here Comes the Band

Sounds plays a very big part in all sporting events, some more than others. Fans making noise can be a distraction to a team or keep a team pumped up.
Sports fans can distinctly tell what type of sporting event is on the tube by just listening to the crowd. Jim, I can name that sport in two seconds.

We all have a specials sounds at the park/stadium/field. Here are few, that are music to my ears.

The most distinct sound to me in any sport is the cow bell. I can flashback to my earliest years watching the Wide World of Sports, in Austria, for the men's downhill skiing. The cowbells are still ringing in my head. I would never watch skiing unless there was plenty of cowbell.


I love to hear a drum at any sporting event. There was a guy at Shea Stadium who always used to bang his drum to get the crowd into the game. Nothing special, just loud enough to get us going. Or Just seeing the band's bass drum players hauling ass around the field during the halftime show. Now that was athletic.


I never listened to the kid across the street practice his trumpet 90 minutes straight. So why would I want to hear 50,000 fan attempt to play while I am watching a soccer match. I have nothing else to say about that.


What sound can be more emotional for an athlete than the ringing of the bell at a boxing bout? Before the first bell they are preparing ,finalizing, motivated, getting psyched up. Ding Ding!!(GRYS Apollo). I Pity the fool who catches the right cross on his chin. He may be thinking to himself "when is the bell ending the round going to ring?". When that bell finally does ring. It a minute of cool down and then a minute to get back into fight mode. The fighters go through this 30 times in 10 rounds. Whew! I'm tired just writing about it.

High school sports fans are different breed. Remember that money was something not all of us had in school. High sports fans are more apt to use the traditional Foot Stomp on the bleachers and their rolled up paper/book for instant megaphones. Simple yet effective.


Girls love to get whistled at. Sports guys don't. Whistles in sports are usually not a good thing. Here are a few situations in which a whistle is heard during game. The whistle in football starts the game. The whistles shining (and they do) moments are the penalties. Whistles like hockey penalties too.
Tennis has whistlers as well. Those laid back tennis fans use it as a way to voice their displeasure when a player questions a call and starts arguing with the chair. Do we think the whistling will make the umpires ears bleed until they change the call?
Lets not make the whistle a totally negative thing. A whistle starts a parade!!!! Who doesn't love a parade!!!

Nowadays we have the most irritating, machine created, noise makers in history.
I am talking about the "Thunder Sticks". Come on America!!! Have we become so lazy that it is just too much work to clap our own hands.
Just sing it with me" clap your hands everybody and everybody just clap your hands"


do re mi fa so la ti do ....it the sportsfreaks time to go.

Five Golden Rings

Olympic fever is coming. Can you feel it? The games are a few weeks away and I can already sense the swelling of my American pride. I feel like wearing red white and blue everday. Shouldn't that be the nationwide mandatory dress code for everyone during the games?

Ok my wish is eveyone to get stoked about the games. I want to walk down the side walk and be high fiving total strangers. Impromptu USA USA USA chants break out at traffic stops or toll booths.

The Ski Jumping is one of my favorite events to watch. Who in their right mind would be skiing 90 meters down hill to jump 100 meeters down onto a 60 degree hill.
Is Eddie the Eagle jumping this year?

Ice skating used to be cool with Hamilton and Boitano, now not so much.
Good Luck Johnny Weir hope you win the Gold Medal for male of female, I not sure which they'll give you. If you do your Lady GaGa routine your golden.
Seriously, you're our best chance for the gold. Go get em!

"OHHNNOO heeeee's back!! Our favorite heartthrob on the ice.. I am sure to see your mug a million or two times before these games are over. Bring home the Gold.

Bodie Miller are you in or are you out? Here is your Olympic agenda.
Have a drink.
Get on the course.
Kick some Swiss or Austrian ass.
Win the gold.
PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR.

I am a sucker for Olympians crying on the medal stand. if you don't cry with them your not human.
Always... I mean ALWAYS stand when the National Anthem is played.
Even if you're Tivo-ing the results.

Why do so many athletes work at Home Depot. Does Lowes have a subpar training facility? Can one of you guys meet me in the paint department when you get from Vancouver.


SHHH don't tell anyone...but I secretly love the cross country skiing competitions.

When the watching the games
Be Proud
Be Loud
Be American



From the sportsfreaks village to the Olympic Village, Good Luck to all the athletes.