Tom Bloody Hark..!

[Fiery Blade]

TOM HARK TOM HARK TOM HARK TOM HARK TOM HARK TOM HARK
THE MORE i HEAR IT THE BETTER IT BECOMES!
Lets Hear Tom Hark Tonight Four Times

 

[dkc Blade]

The US franchise system also does not allow promotion and relegation. It makes a certain sense. From a business point of view, knowing your club will never be relegated means guaranteed TV rights and makes financial predictions a lot easier.

We almost go that when the Premier League was formed. And we already have it in Rugby League, don't we? Which means the Steelers can't get promoted (could be wrong about this)

 

[FlyingFjortoft]

Sorry for all you Tom Hark haters but it appears it’s not just the youngsters that like it.
I saw a very elderly lady (easily 80) doing her own (slightly slowed) version of the dance after our goal tonight
It was sort of funny yet endearing at the same time

 

[H. Metal Blade]

Ted Danson:
Sorry but the Steelers are now the most succesful Hockey Franchise in the British Ice Hockey league and the reason for their move is so they can become the first BHL team to actually own their own stadium and thus become more financially stable. They will therefore not have to pay the crippling rent of the Sheffield "Hallam FM" Arena...

Ice Hockey doesn't get the right promotion in this country (great sport! Fast , Exciting, Violent!) and so crowds and teams are thin...but it will get better!

Back to Tom hark - Can't say i minded last night - didn't look like 22,000 blades did either...

 

[Jon Bon]

Back to Tom hark - Can't say i minded last night - didn't look like 22,000 blades did either...

So are you saying that if it wasn't played after we'd scored, everyone would just be stood looking around, twiddling their thumbs..?

Even the Leicester fans were dancing around and taking the piss - THAT'S HOW NAFF IT IS..!!! :thumbdown:

HMB, I've always suspected that you are really GS, so if you are, please do the right thing and knock it on the bloody head...

 

[matth]

The Leicester fans, who did that childish 'aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh - YOU'RE SHIT' whenever Bunn took a goal kick

 

[dkc Blade]

Will people please stop saying that everyone MUST like it as they sing along to it after we score?

People tend to be elated after we score, and would dance to "Agadoo" if it was blasted out over the tannoy after we score. It doesn't mean that it isn't totally naff, embarrasing and small time.

It's basically saying "Ner ner ne ner ner. We scored and you didn't". No wonder the opposition fans mock us.

 

[Jon Bon]

The Leicester fans, who did that childish 'aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh - YOU'RE SHIT' whenever Bunn took a goal kick

That chant has always amused me I must confess.

I would love to see a football fans version of The Weakest Link, where instead of Anne Robinson saying "....you are the weakest link - goodbye!", she just screams "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH - YOU'RE SHIT - AAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH...!!!"

Could be compulsive viewing..?

 

[matth]

Not as compulsive as a version of the show where the winner gets to hoof her in the works as hard as they can.

 

[H. Metal Blade]

Jon Bon - i can assure you i'm not and as i've stated - i can't stand Der Der Derr...but can see it's usefulness to the club and to the atmosphere...if i was Gary...i'd be pimping my Facebook on here like at the lane (how embarassing!)

i did used to like it when the quick little instrumental bit was played after goals though!

 

[dkc Blade]

? Which means the Steelers can't get promoted (could be wrong about this)

Meant the Eagles of course

 

[moDtheGod]

I quite liked the theme tune to "The Professionals". I'd rather have that back than Tom Hark, assuming we had to have some music played.

 

[Benito Blanco]

Oh! Me Sir! Me! I Know Sir!

Man, Americans and American sports come up in a thread and I miss it. Damn it.
We could have started with the brilliant "Americans don't have any attention span" from Mr Danson (Brilliant). "American sports are boring" and so on and so on. Can we start again so I can get my teeth into them.
Things that have been wrong so far in this thread. One. American don't have the attention span to watch sports without distraction. At the moment, one of the biggest selling points of "soccer" over here is that it's over in under two hours. Because, erm, American sports last much longer than English ones, cricket aside.
It's uniquely American to move a franchise and they are "fine with it". You should run that past Wimbledon fans, and also supporters of the Brooklyn Dodgers or the Cleveland Browns. The Dodgers moved to LA, to complete outrage when NY can clearly hold another baseball team. Cleveland moved to Baltimore yet magically the new Browns haven't collapsed either.
People will make a fat pile of cash for themselves wherever they can do, it's not a uniquely American trait, and it's moronic to think so.
Listing the worst things about American sports and then panicking about them is as daft as Americans worrying that with the invasion of one British sport (football, which is really taking off) their sports will become full of effeminate divers, thugs who get their mates to kick the hell out some random and get away with it, blood capsules concealed in socks to fake injuries, match fixing, racist crowds or teams with more money putting other teams out of business.

PHEW. That felt GOOD.

 

[Jon Bon]

So Benito... are you Jets or Giants..?

 

[Benito Blanco]

Strangely...

...for reasons that would take too long to explain (suffice to say they involve beer and a beautiful woman, like all good stories) I am a Cincinnati Bengals fan. Fortunately a lifetime of following the Blades has prepared me well for this. I actually write and podcast on them for a website - sort of an Englishman's whimsical POV type thing...no idea if I can add the link on here!

However, out of the two I prefer the Giants. Being in NYC when they won the Superbowl against the "Invincible" Pats was just incredible, especially the way they took down Green Bay and then the Pats themselves. Jacobs is one of my all time fave players, "Eli is adopted" (bless him) one of my all time fave headlines and come on, how many other teams would self destruct by having their star player accidentally shoot himself in the thigh the night before a game?

That said, Mark Sanchez might make the Jets a bit more interesting....yourself JBB?

 

[Revolution]

Not daft for the sake of it. Maybe being a little extreme, but we've had one instance of it with Wimbledon/ MK Dons and I can see another attempt with a larger club in the near future.

Never say never, of course, but I don't think another MK Dons type move is very likely in English football, for one simple reason. Milton Keynes was an "untapped market" in the sense that it's a very big town with no professional winter sports team based there, or even close by. I'm not sure there's another English town which fits the same criteria. In short, if you want to move another team, who would want them?

 

[Fiery Blade]

TOM HARK was very, very welcome on Tuesday night - didn't think I would be hearing it the way we were playing

 

[dkc Blade]

A goal was welcome, I'm sure.

Tom Hark is not the same thing as a goal.