Cringiest crowd chants?

[thaman8765678]

The Islanders "yes" chant is the best one.

 

[Wanderson]

"We don't need you"

Are you still offended? I hope you will be able to move on and forget soon.

 

[Wanderson]

In Sweden we have "Full fart framåt, håll tätt bakåt!". Which basically translated to: "full steam ahead, don't get scored on".

They use it in hockey and in football (soccer) matches.

Do they? I’ve watched football weekly for at least 25 years and never heard that chant.

 

[Dietpepsi]

Ranger fans..
When the Philadelphia Flyers come to town with Ron Hextall in goal (his predecessor, Pelle Lindbergh, was killed in 1986 in a sports car crash), the chant rings down: “Buy a Porsche, Hextall, buy a Porsche!”

 

[Dr Beinfest]

Dunno if they still do it, but rather than the typical “let’s go team_name” chant, forever scarring my mind is the Boston Bruins arena having a “‘here we go’ Bruins” sound byte in the voice of Smokey the bear.

 

[Stammertime91]

The Islanders "yes" chant is the best one.

Idk.

I thought "We want Tampa!" was hilarious.

As a lightning fan, I loved that one.

 

[Thierry]

I don't mind the "ole" chant. It pisses so many people off that it's obviously working.

What I hate, though, is when Habs fan sings it when the game is super close. It's so arrogant and I love when the opposing team scores to tie the game. The crowd looks so dumb.

Or when they start to chant it when there is 20 minutes left to the game... Eh boy...

Ok, I guess I mind "ole" a little

 

[Fig]

I'll never understand why the "refs, you suck" chant displaced the classic "buuuuullllshiiiiiit."

I wonder if it was displaced to be more kids friendly in that it technically doesn't have profanity?

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

When the sharks had the “Beat LA” chant going in the 2014 playoffs. And then they got reverse swept.

That still hurts my soul to this day

 

[Ratsreign]

For me it's not even an impromptu chant... but when when our announce is like

"It time for an NV Energy..." "POWERPLAY" just screams casual to me, because anyone who has watched our powerplay for the last three years knows it's nothing to get excited about, like I can understand our annoucer gets paid to hype it up.... that doesn't mean anyone who isn't getting paid to should join in lol

It’s annoying when it takes them half of the power play to finish the announcement that they are “on the power play”. Nashville is even worse

 

[Eye of Ra]

eh oh canada go

 

[Sol]

Don’t think this counts but the San Jose weird jaw arm movements are extremely cringy

 

[daver]

Go Leafs Go!

 

[5cotland]

North Americans have never been good at chants. Even in football (soccer) the singing areas in stadiums for the MLS are ridiculed heavily for their chants.

Chanting has never really been a strong point in American sports.

FIGHT AND WIN!

 

[McFlyingV]

The "It's all your fault" chant is pretty cringe. This is the type of chant you see at University hockey games where 90% of the crowd is wasted University students.

 

[byrath]

Not a fan of the fog horn if overused

The horn that most teams blare at ear-splitting volumes for like ten seconds straight after a home goal? I hate that shit too. Spare our eardrums and let us hear the fan noise.

 

[tunnelvision]

Chili chant in Columbus is still quite annoying, although I have learned to ignore it over the years. It's also a great way to kill all the excitement after a goal.

 

[scoopscj]

For me it's not even an impromptu chant... but when when our announce is like

"It time for an NV Energy..." "POWERPLAY" just screams casual to me, because anyone who has watched our powerplay for the last three years knows it's nothing to get excited about, like I can understand our annoucer gets paid to hype it up.... that doesn't mean anyone who isn't getting paid to should join in lol

NJ Devil's powerplay has entered the chat.


(replace" NV Energy with PSE & G"

 

[Manc Cat]

Teams that do the Ric Flair "wooo" call and response after every goal, and add one on for each goal scored. Was at the panthers @ devils come back game and was super obnoxious when devils were going up 6-2, safe to say when OT ended a fellow panthers fan in the next section gave them a taste of their own medicine with 7 back in their faces.

 

[DieSendungmitderMaus]

I strongly disagree. Rivals hate it and everyone knows it's a Habs chant (in the NHL).

Yeah I agree as a Bruins fan. I dunno why opposing fans get mad at it (maybe because it seems hockey fans view French as girly and having the only chant in the nhl with something approaching a melody reinforces that), but they do. Now it does make everyone want to shut you up, but what good chant doesn't?

NHL chants in general are weird because North Americans aren't up for it generally speaking, so you need something simple to get people on board. Maybe this is why the refs you suck chants got off the ground- the only time NHL crowds manage to create a hostile atmosphere for refs and opponents organically is in the playoffs.

(Not that fan songs in Europe are very sophisticated, but people are prepared to sing along and give it to the bad guys on their own accord. Allows for more variety than you see in North American crowds. Pricing is probably part of why)

 

[JimmyApples]

Toronto fans “Sooo”ing for Campbell is the most cringey and biggest reach. Trying to take Vancouver’s “Louuu” or Colorado when they would “Gruuu” but it actually made sense.

“Let’s go Blue Jays” (but Jets fans doing it was the ultimate troll)
“Ole ole ole”

 

[Legionnaire11]

They did that to Matt Murray in game 6 of the 2017 finals as he shut them out for the second time in a row to win the cup. I remember thinking WTF. Now, they may have been prescient, but at the time pure cringe.

That didn't happen.

 

[cowboy82nd]

It comes from basketball doesn't it?

Yes, it comes from the Lakers and Celtics rivalry. The Celtics were playing the 76er's to see who would play the Lakers in the final. Near the end of the 76er's game (when Boston realized that they couldn't win), the fans started chanting "Beat LA," to the 76er's players, letting them know their distaste for LA.

 

[Transplanted Caper]

eh oh canada go

This was so, so, weird. From start to finish, just an utterly bizarre promotion.

 

[ps241]

I find fans obsession with free shitty T shirts coming out of a gun embarrassing for them unless they are under 14 years old.

When it comes to chants this probably doesn’t count but the fake noise meter to get crowds to cheer loud?