Crowd plan for “Punt to DeSean”
(Written by kencraw)
After DeSean’s amazing punt return, we all knew he’d never see the ball again off of a punt. (As a short aside, I thought the punter did a pretty good job of keeping out of his hands without losing huge yardage with the exception of one punt.) It occured to me that we need a chant or a sign or something that we can get the crowd to do as the opponent is getting ready to punt to get inside their heads. It probably won’t have the effect of getting them to punt to DeSean but I bet it’ll get them to shank a few more because they’ll get a little rattled.
I’ll put up a poll on this later in the week after the current poll has been up for a few days, but in the mean time, here are some suggestions/ideas:
- Everyone goes silent and hold up hand with index finger (I was going to say 1 finger, but I didn’t want anything misconstrued) for #1. Thoughts: Would be impressive if the crowd could actually go silent and would have a spooky feel to it.
- Chant De-Sean. Thoughts: Simple, possibly effective… but not to clear that we’re taunting them about punting away from him
- Chant Out-of-Bounds. Thoughts: Better communicates issue, harder to chant.
- Chant Fair-Catch while waiving hands back and forth like a fair catch. Thoughts: A little odd but has a humorous perspective
Please add your thoughts and ideas in the comment box. Once we have a winner, I’ll make sure it gets to the Mic-Men and try to get it broadly distributed.
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
How about we chant; “Fif-teen Yards…”
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:03 am
Wave rubber chickens.
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Two Ideas:
#1: Escalating de-SEAN de-SEAN de-SEAN just like the clapping cheer (the one that starts with a slow clap and builds into incoherent yelling and waving #1 fingers)
#2: De-SEAN from alternating sides of the stadium like the “Go” “Bears” chant … one side says “De” and the other says “Sean”
Also, could pass out Lots and lots of foam fingers with something clever written on them “The 1 To Watch” or something better … to the first X fans or student section as a promotion.
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Reverse psychology: Instead of “Block that punt!”, say “Kick that ball!” (or instead of the detestable “Shoot it like a horse!”, “Kick it like a man!”) Maybe it’ll embolden him to kick to Desean, or he’ll be so rattled by the chant that he’ll kick it backwards.
I just say we treat the punt like a defensive play and yell and jump at the top of our lungs. It’s easy enough for most people to do; I never know why we go silent on 4th down. We’ve allowed what, two fake punts for first downs in the last year?
My other alternative would be for everyone in the stadium to start running in place, but that might cause too many injuries.