That's the most ridiculous excuse ever. That Chant was started at the Naval Academy by a midshipman whose class assignment was to come up with a motivational chant. The fact that US soccer supporters co-opted it doesn't give them ownership.
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1) perfectly reasonable argument on your part
2) A norm of club teams not using this chant is long-established. Think about how it looks to be the first to break this norm.
3) don't do it
ETA: Unless mix is announced as part of the copa squad and McCarty/klejstan retaliates with a red card worthy foul. At that point it would become a sick meta burn worthy of the ages.
Can you at least tell us if we need to bring umbrellas/ or gloves as not to freeze
? According to my Fios widget is 50% rain.
As Meek Mill once said: "There's levels to this shit."
A good portion of songs/chants are coopted from other sources. Whether it's taking a famous song and applying new lyrics (e.g. "Que Sera, Sera") or adopting another person's/club's song for your own (e.g. Tottenham adopting Sheffield United's "Everywhere We Go*"), there's a rich tradition of taking things you've heard somewhere else and making it your own.
But that becomes difficult when you're dealing with a song that's SO notable and SO associated with a particular team. For instance, even though it's a popular broadway song that exists and is enjoyed in all sorts of other contexts, could you imagine anyone trying to sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" outside of a Liverpool match?
I'd say the same thing goes for the "I Believe" chant. We can't adopt that, because it so clearly belongs to the USMNT, even if USMNT supporters didn't create it themselves.
*I've heard this coming out of our supporters section over the past couple months and it upsets me greatly.
Yes.
Anyway, the "I believe" chant is so cheesy. Let it stay with the national team. I cringe whenever I hear people try and get that going at other events. I would actually prefer the 18th rendition of Hey Baby before hearing that!
Shows my ignorance! Have Celtic ever gotten any shit for using it?
Edit: Wikipedia sleuthing suggests Celtic adopted it around the same time Liverpool did, after a match against Liverpool.
No question songs and chants are co-opted to clubs and teams, I'm not disputing that, but the hypocracry is that's exactly what the American outlaws (or whichever group it was) did to the Naval Academy chant. So there should be zero animosity towards a club for taking the premise of it and altering the lyrics, as was suggested above with the : I Believe in NYC.
I'm onboard with the Liverpool owning you never walk alone, because it wasn't a sporting chant to begin with, and they developed it into their theme song, but I Believe was an institutional chant at the Academy. So national team supporters stole a chant from another sporting institution - that's hypocracry to the Nth degree....
But whatever.... We have Hey Baby....
Fck it.... Our chant should be (as call and repeat):
I.... I....
I wanna.... I wanna....
I wanna eat..... I wanna eat....
I wanna eat a.... I wanna eat a......
I wanna eat a chicken bucket!!!! I wanna eat a chicken bucket!!!! I wanna eat a chicken bucket!!!!
I'm disappointed in myself for not seeing where this was going. Well done.
Can you at least tell us if we need to bring umbrellas/ or gloves as not to freeze
You are a life saver! I'll bring my gloves
and slicker, I doubt security would allow umbrellas
It could be raining cats and pink cows tomorrow as long as we win. Of course it goes without saying and I am sure you agree.
SKC SG uses this chant somewhwre around the 75th minute.
Borussia Dortmund supporters also sing YNWA, and it was consciously adopted from Liverpool in 1996. This worked out to cool effect when BVB and Liverpool met in the Europa League earlier this year.
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