I wish we had a short chant of some kind that is easy! WAs at new Orleans game and they chant kind of to a tune, We are coming to get you! Their stadium is so loud and the whole place is chanting that!
That song is "Krunk," by the Ying Yang Twins. I dont like rap, but I love the feeling when Krunk cranks out in the Superdome.
We play it after a Touchdown, and actually it always follows "Second Line," a Jazz song you would associate with Mardi Gras. Louisianians traditionally wave tissues or even towels and do a free-style jazzy dance when Second Line plays, and usually parade in a line. All tradition.
Its easy for us now, because of years of tradition, even during the years of suckage. (Who Dat actually became the big thing during an 8-8 season.)
We can basically make any brassy Jazz song into a fight song.
I
think you guys should play up the Tex-Mex thing. I would be Kickers and Mexicans. (Yes, I know some of you are really yuppie transplants from out of state. Hey, we're not all Cajuns and Black People, either. Im actually a Mexican.)
But seriously, I would crank up the Tex Mex theme. I saw a Texans fan at the Superdome in a Battle Red and Steel Blue mariachi outfit, and said, "Wow, thats outstanding." Sombreros and Cowboy hats could become your "cheesehead."
I would play something country like "Hicktown" and alternate it with something fthat sounds like Emilio/"Como La Hare." What if you got somebody to redo those songs with Texans lyrics, like they did with "Krunk?"
You gotta do something with ZZ Top too! You should use ZZ Top like MNF used Hank Williams. And I'd play something that sounds like Kiss/ "Rock & Roll All Night," especially during critical parts of the game.
These might not be what you have in your personal collection, but the point is, to get a THEME. The Fleur de Lis was a symbol of France, and French influence hundreds of years ago, but now, what do you think of when you see it?
You think of the Saints. Just like when if you saw Mardi Gras stuff and heard Jazz or Zydeco at a sportsbar, you'd expect to see us.
You gotta get a THEME. It gets people more into it. You want "Bob from Seattle" who moved here for his accounting job, and got tickets from the office... (sorry, I know, I know, thats a bad stereotype, and I was wrong.) hahaha.) ... you want Bob to show up in face-paint, dressed as a Battle Red and Steel Blue Pancho Villa, with cowboy boots, ready to hoe-down to "Big Balls in Cowtown." (google it, young'uns.) Throw in a Columbia blue rabbits foot-- as an homage to Houston history. huh??? how bout that? Now! Bob knows hes not there to "network" or talk stocks and bonds. He's there to BANG THE WALL, go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!, and RAISE HOLY HELL!
Our OWNER parties and dances with a blingy gold umbrella. I swear he looks drunk sometimes. If HE's that crazy, what do you think its like in our Terrace secion? (our nosebleeds are like Cleveland's Dogpound.)
anyway, just my suggestion. You guys could totally do this, and it would raise
Reliant's electric factor even more. (the next best thing to moving back into the Astrodome)
