My Idea for a New Sabres Tradition

[Stoner]

NIck Bakay. He should be the producer.

[LGR4GM]

You know I wish the Sabres and the Arena experience all embraced the idea that we are the bastard sibling of Toronto. Full on 0 f### given, rebels, badasses.

[darksabre]

This is absolutely dead on. Leave the entertainment presentation to an entertainment presentation professional.

 

Dear Teddy,

 

Please go to Hollywood or NY and hire a real live producer for the in-game presentation.

 

Sincerely,

 

Everyone.

 

Who wants to start the petition? I like this.

[Stoner]

Change the arena atmosphere? I'll throw out a couple more ideas no one will like: turn off the video on the scoreboard when play is going on and severely limit anything that puts eyes there during the game. Make people look where they're supposed to be looking. Kill the horn, at least in its current ear-blasting, spleen-shaking incarnation.

[X. Benedict]

NIck Bakay. He should be the producer.

 

We'd be living the dream.

[SwampD]

Change the arena atmosphere? I'll throw out a couple more ideas no one will like: turn off the video on the scoreboard when play is going on and severely limit anything that puts eyes there during the game. Make people look where they're supposed to be looking. Kill the horn, at least in its current ear-blasting, spleen-shaking incarnation.

Exactly, at their iphones.

[X. Benedict]

Change the arena atmosphere? I'll throw out a couple more ideas no one will like: turn off the video on the scoreboard when play is going on and severely limit anything that puts eyes there during the game. Make people look where they're supposed to be looking. Kill the horn, at least in its current ear-blasting, spleen-shaking incarnation.

 

I really think it is a matter of less is more.

[darksabre]

Exactly, at their iphones.

 

:w00t:

[Eleven]

Careful, he's going to have to clarify his previous comment.

 

I think he knows I'm just screwing around.

 

NIck Bakay. He should be the producer.

 

Now that's some seriously smart thinking.

[darksabre]

Can John Valby do the song?

[Claude_Verret]

Exactly, at their iphones.

 

At the Canes-Sabres game last week during a break in the action they were showing people, mostly kids, dancing to the music blaring over the sound system. They cut to four or five different shots of people dancing their ###### off and having a great time, then they cut to a group of six twenty somethings in a row, all of them staring at their iphones and typing away. Good stuff.

[Stoner]

Now that's some seriously smart thinking.

 

Thanks! Unless my sarcasm meter is broken.

 

Maybe I'm on a roll... let's pick up on your nautical theme and change the horn to something nautical in nature, instead of what sounds like a train horn. Make it historically accurate. What sound did boats on the Erie Canal make to announce their presence?

[LGR4GM]

This isn't the erie canal but it is a boat in a lock

[darksabre]

Thanks! Unless my sarcasm meter is broken.

 

Maybe I'm on a roll... let's pick up on your nautical theme and change the horn to something nautical in nature, instead of what sounds like a train horn. Make it historically accurate. What sound did boats on the Erie Canal make to announce their presence?

 

How about an old Great Lakes style freighter?

 

 

Also, I just stumbled across this:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=zlY48eTMIq2I.kVykUtK_cQas

 

It's an interactive google-map of Sunken Ships on the Great Lakes. COOL!

[darksabre]

More freighter horns.

 

[MattPie]

Let's get more local. the 1912 Pierce Arrow horn.

http://www.horseless.com/h12pierce.wav

[darksabre]

Let's get more local. the 1912 Pierce Arrow horn.

http://www.horseless.com/h12pierce.wav

 

:clapping:

 

Okay, how about

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmln5aChX0s

[...]

Just say "no" to the Goo's and Springsteen.

[Stoner]

More freighter horns.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsu2SmNMX7c

 

Those are great. So much more character than the current horn.

[That Aud Smell]

Is this thread veering off into this thread?

 

http://forums.sabrespace.com/topic/21547-all-about-in-game-experience-at-first-niagara-center/page__hl__%2Bgabriel+%2Bchet+%2Bmuffy

 

That one looks like it's archived. Could we get it resurrected maybe?

 

Anyway, I recall there being a period of time during Quinn's oversight where the in-game experience was fairly fun -- less emphasis on blaring songs and promotions, more focus on in-house video productions (those dramatic black and white ones of someone driving to the arena come to mind). The Warrener Corner type stuff came before that run of material, but that was good stuff as well.

[SwampD]

At the Canes-Sabres game last week during a break in the action they were showing people, mostly kids, dancing to the music blaring over the sound system. They cut to four or five different shots of people dancing their ###### off and having a great time, then they cut to a group of six twenty somethings in a row, all of them staring at their iphones and typing away. Good stuff.

Anyone who spends that much money to go to a game, only to spend their time looking at their Iphone is an idiot. If that remark resembles you, I apologize for offending you, but you are an idiot.

[I am Defecting]

I partly disagree. The canal song should be one break, but Buffalo Gals should be another break.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S92bWBB0ymo

Edited October 17, 2014 by Yuri Olesha

[LabattBlue]

My point about cookie cutter in-game presentations is being reinforced right now, as I listen to the player introductions for Calgary vs. Vancouver being announced by "Monster Truck" PA announcer. Between music being played at ear splitting levels, and the PA announcers "yelling" at me all game, they should include a couple of tylenol with every ticket.

 

Edited October 9, 2014 by LabattBlue

[X. Benedict]

My point about cookie cutter in-game presentations is being reinforced right now, as I listen to the player introductions for Calgary vs. Vancouver being announced by "Monster Truck" PA announcer. Between music being played at ear splitting levels, and the PA announcers "yelling" at me all game, they should include a couple of tylenol with every ticket.

 

 

Yes. Just annoying.

[Eleven]

My point about cookie cutter in-game presentations is being reinforced right now, as I listen to the player introductions for Calgary vs. Vancouver being announced by "Monster Truck" PA announcer. Between music being played at ear splitting levels, and the PA announcers "yelling" at me all game, they should include a couple of tylenol with every ticket.

 

Yes. Just annoying.

 

Number 57, Ty LER MY errrrrrrrs!!!!!

 

Hate that stuff too.