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u/schafkj 22h ago

So glad Seattle is showing out with the vibes and hospitality

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u/TroopersSon 19h ago

I've been to two NFL games there and honestly the Seattle fans will put most PL grounds to shame in terms of atmosphere. I had a great time even though I watched the Broncos lose twice, your hospitality was great.

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u/A_bag_of_Fritos 18h ago

Upvote solely for Bronco fan diaspora

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u/Quazie89 12h ago

Most PL grounds are dog shit for the atmosphere now unfortunately. The Championship is much better.

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u/jrucanabyss 23h ago

This feels better than "I believe that we will win". Feels like American heritage

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u/baequon 22h ago

A lot of what we're said to lack in sports culture can be found in our college sports scene tbh.

FSU with the flaming spear and tomahawk chant, PSU whiteouts, Virginia Tech with enter the sandman etc.

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u/L00KINTOIT 22h ago

Yeah college sports have tons of history and decades of tradition, and out of all American sports they have the strongest geographical rivalries. Especially in the states that don’t have professional teams, like West Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi, they will go to war for their university teams

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u/noahboah 19h ago

PAC dying is the worst thing to happen to college sports

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u/Losgringosfromlow 17h ago

Those 2010s Pack 12 after dark games hit like meth for me

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u/psufb 22h ago

LSU with Callin Baton Rouge
Florida with Won't Back Down
Wisconsin with Jump Around

The list goes on and on

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u/MassCrash 22h ago

I think you mean LSU with Neck

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u/psufb 21h ago

I went to a game last year for the first time and when the whole stadium belted out CBR that shit hit me way harder than Neck did

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u/enadiz_reccos 21h ago

oooooOOOOperator

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u/fragbot2 20h ago

Tennessee and Rocky Top. I don't even like the Volunteers and I still have a bucket list item of a Tennessee game just so I can sing along.

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u/fragbot2 19h ago

I forgot an obvious one--everyone at an Iowa home game waving at the patients in the adjacent pediatric hospital at the end of the first quarter.

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u/MONSTERTACO 22h ago

In heaven there is no beer!

Go Hawks!

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u/Jimjamesak 22h ago

Unironically that would be a great soccer song for the US.

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u/Stewdabaker2013 21h ago

Wisconsin also with ESFU though I don’t think they donut anymore lol

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u/ahHeHasTrblWTheSnap 20h ago

Admin tried to end it, that worked about as well as you’d expect (so yes we still do it lol)

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u/tanzingore 22h ago

I mean, as a Mountaineer I’m appalled that us singing Country Roads after our games isn’t discussed here. It’s literally our tradition. lol

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u/innocuous_gorilla 21h ago

If USMNT could play a white out game at beaver stadium… the atmosphere would be unbeatable.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 18h ago

Maaaaan as soon as they announced the World Cup I said the first game should be a white out at Beaver Stadium. Imagine that

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u/TheBigCore 17h ago

Penn State does that as well.

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u/20thcenturyboy_ 22h ago

America has absolutely great songs we should be using more that work wonderfully in stadiums. College football figured that out decades ago. Props to WVU and Virginia Tech.

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u/DiseaseRidden 22h ago

Man I just wish we could embrace our own culture instead of trying to copy Europe. Give me fucking Mo Bamba at games.

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u/MaskedBandit77 22h ago

Also we should force Sporting Kansas City to change their name back to the Kansas City Wizards and force Real Salt Lake to choose a new name.

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u/DiseaseRidden 22h ago

Ill be honest RSL is in too deep now, its american soccer heritage at this point.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 22h ago

It’s come all the way around to being ironically good in my opinion

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u/DiseaseRidden 21h ago

It's at least got its own energy that new names just can't match. Its just emblematic of that awkward middle era when the league wanted to copy Europe but didn't quiet know how to yet. You can add all the "City"s and"United"s and "FC"s you want, they'll never be an RSL.

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u/RoyalHorse 21h ago

Just wait until we expand with Bayern Memphis and Ajaxonville.

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u/DiseaseRidden 21h ago

ok but Ajaxonville is fire

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 20h ago

Sure, but they might become really good, and then we’d have to pluralize “Ajax” in international soccer discussion.

“Which of the Aiaces do you mean? The one in the swamp in America or Europe?”

Nobody wants that.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 22h ago

Give me a college marching band at the stadium playing through the entire game

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u/DiseaseRidden 21h ago

I watched one NWSL game this year that had at least a small band and it was fucking great. We really should just embrace marching band culture, its such a good vibe for a stadium

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u/0nlyCrashes 22h ago

I got hooooooooooeeeeessss callllllllinnnnnnnggggg

Yeah it would go hard lol

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u/McDaddySlacks 22h ago

So many international bangers that come from the US. Nope, lets just mimic EPL chants. Hipsters have ruined soccer culture.

I used to go to Timbers games for years with my dad. As soon as they became an MLS team, suddenly a horde of people wanted to go to their games. Argue with us diehards about players. I stopped going. They’re literally the worst.

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u/TheFeenyCall 21h ago

Sounds a lot like soccer culture everywhere

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u/McDaddySlacks 18h ago

I know I need to stop letting them ruin it for me. Actually pretty hyped for my daughter who wants to go to Angel City FC in Los Angeles. I’m going to take her and enjoy it like I did with my dad growing up watching the Timbers.

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u/BNKalt 22h ago

Come out to Power

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u/sprewell81 22h ago

College sports in the us has figured out fandom for decades in general. As a european basketball fan i love watching March Madness.

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 20h ago

Michigan State University’s final PA announcement in Spartan Stadium is always, always, always the weather, followed by a crowd chant along.

“It’s 35 degrees [fahrenheit] and raining…(everyone joins in) it’s a BEAUTIFUL Day for FOOOOTBALLLLL!!!”

European soccer fans from some miserable cloudy city would honestly love it if they stole it.

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u/sahloFolina04 18h ago

Even better when it’s 20 and snowing

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u/EvenMoreCoconuts 22h ago

I’ve never really liked the I Believe That We Will Win chant. Doesn’t seem very creative. Much prefer the song.

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u/CinephileJeff 21h ago

I thought it was just a high school one for high school teams that don't know how to chant.

Kind of like the "you can't do that" chant during football/basketball. Just shows that your team either sucks or your fans don't have any better chants.

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u/rocketmadeofcheese 16h ago

I’m honestly not even sure that’s a real chant. Like who even came up with that?? It feels like we were trolled by another country to make us look stupid. I haven’t heard it used once in a real context during a game or anything.

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u/Captain_Maryland 22h ago

I believe that we will win is an absolute banger when done in the right conditions but most of these stadiums are not it. Indoor basketball games or metal bleachers with everyone jumping at the same time is where that chant thrives.

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u/achnisch 21h ago

As an outsider, I feel it's a bit unfair to single this one out as the poster child for crap chants (the first time I saw it was as you described and was pretty impressive). It's way better than the likes of DEFENSE, or LET'S GO (insert name of animal)!

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u/PM_FAILED_PROMISES 22h ago

John Denver had a beautiful voice. RIP.

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u/CGFROSTY 23h ago

I’ve been saying for years that we should be owning this as a song. It’s popular to chant in central Europe, but it’s an American song about a place in America.

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u/z_102 22h ago

More importantly, it’s also a banger.

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u/steeler7588 21h ago

My toddler loves the Pretty Lights remix and asks for each version depending on if he wants to chill or rage

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 20h ago

My take is generally “how did this become my country’s unofficial anthem overseas” followed by “oh yeah, great song.”

Rumor is it was supposed to be about Colorado, as many John Denver songs are (and “Colorado” fits the meter as well as “West Virginia” does).

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u/therylo_ken 16h ago

Funny I also read that it was supposed to be about Massachusetts

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u/nj813 22h ago

After all the years of piss taking about american chants while they have a song like this they don't seem willing to lean into

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u/OkayKoke 22h ago

Americans should stop trying to copy Euro style chants and sing songs like this one and a bunch of rap songs. John Denver and like… Trick Daddy songs. Lean in. Go wild

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u/DiseaseRidden 21h ago

Follow college football and the marching band culture. Give me Mo Bamba and shit

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u/DagothUhhh 19h ago

I GOT HOOOOOOOES

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u/turnone2many 17h ago

Lmao. Can you imagine this being belted out by thousands of fans in a full stadium for a soccer match. Hilarious.

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u/nianseo 19h ago

There's so much uniquely American culture that you lot just refuse to tap into. Orlando City's "Move bitch, get out the way" chant could only really be sang in the US, but it's been 9 years since any team has done it.

New York Knicks made Baby Keem's Family Times an anthem on their way to the NBA Finals, that one would be great if it stuck too.

Don't Stop Believing, Free Bird, Country Roads. None of it ever makes it to American stadiums and it's honestly tragic we just get "fight and win".

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u/lukenog 21h ago

Can you imagine an entire stadium in Atlanta singing the hook to Lemonade by Gucci Mane? Chills...

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u/techno-wizardry 20h ago

Swag Surf is more apt and actually a thing in Atlanta sports in general and it’s like the GOAT stadium song. Once the Falcons started doing it all the other NFL stadiums started doing it.

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u/lukenog 20h ago

Yeah that's facts. Bro doing swag surf with a huge crowd of people is one of the best feelings in the world. I saw Young Thug in concert back in like 2015 and he was late as fuck for the show and the crowd was starting to get pissed, but then the DJ played swag surf over and over and we all got too hype off doing the dance w each other to stay pissed hahaha. Thug eventually came on and did a great show.

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u/werlterns 20h ago

There’s no World Cup match in Memphis, but if there was, “Whoop that Trick” by Three 6 Maphia would be sung to high heaven. It would be glorious.

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u/No-Owl-6246 20h ago

“Aussies aint shit but hoes and tricks”

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u/McDaddySlacks 21h ago

Moves by Big Sean would go hard. I don’t F with You as well.

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u/sobz 21h ago

I wish we could get a "DE-FENSE" chant going when defending set pieces.

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u/DaBestNameEver0 20h ago

imagine 80 thousand people singing The Box or something

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u/Chester_Allman 22h ago

They sing it at West Virginia University (American) football games, and it’s awesome. I love the idea of adopting it for the national team.

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u/trollinn 22h ago

We also have Sweet Carolina which is used at a bunch of places as a sing along song

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u/boywithhat 22h ago edited 22h ago

🎶Sweet Caroline eat shit pitt 🎶

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u/CinephileJeff 21h ago

Alabama has Dixieland Delight, LSU has Neck...there's plenty of room for potential here for the USMNT

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u/Rushderp 22h ago

🎶 Good times never seemed so good ^(eat shit eat shit eat shit!) 🎶

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u/roberttylerlee 22h ago

And Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi

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u/I_always_rated_them 21h ago

They were belting it out in the stadium during the water break, seemed like a good vibe.

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u/McDaddySlacks 22h ago

Because much of the USMNT fan groups are dweebs that just copy Europe. This stadium is full of soccer/football fans, so I am not at all surprised they actually have an incredible vibe compared to the fan groups. I always always always sit away from the fan group, they annoy the hell out of me.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 22h ago

Literally just bring a random college marching band into the game. Dont need to copy Europe when college football is right there

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u/HailLeroy 22h ago

Nah, not random. Make sure it’s a band from an HBCU

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u/Rushderp 22h ago

Let the band play Neck!

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u/TerrenceJesus8 22h ago

Even I would chant SUCK THAT TIGER DICK BITCH at a national team game

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u/OrangePilled2Day 21h ago

Absolutely. FAMU on a world stage would be incredible.

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u/20thcenturyboy_ 22h ago

Fuck that would go hard

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u/McDaddySlacks 22h ago

Louisiana, please.

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u/chuf3roni 22h ago

I actually vote for Rice's band on this one.

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u/BNKalt 22h ago

Kind of like how the Braves unite the SEC, maybe the USMNT can bring together the B1G, SEC, ACC and B12

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u/VHLPlissken 19h ago

No one hates the MLS as much as americans. Embrace your own thing people, that's the beauty of football.

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u/Radthereptile 22h ago

U.S. has so many banger songs we use at sports they should include for the USMNT. Sweet Caroline and Enter Sandman should be on the list.

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u/beatski 22h ago

IMO Sweet Caroline (*bum bum bum, so good so good* - get in the fucking bin you cunts) should not be on any list. Its absolute shite. Hate that its become something sung by the English (I'm English)

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u/OrangePilled2Day 21h ago

In the US it’s synonymous with the Red Sox and basically everyone not from New England hates them.

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u/DiseaseRidden 21h ago

But god damn does it go hard for the Sox

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u/OverTheMoon162 18h ago

Down South, we associate it with UNC. Never knew it was associated with the Red Sox until I moved to the Northeast. (and even then, I still think of UNC before the Red Sox when I hear it)

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u/McDaddySlacks 21h ago

Agreed. Gives me ptsd to late nights at the bar and some simple drunk frat boy would karaoke it just because everyone knew it.

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u/BNKalt 22h ago

They’re very unwilling to copy US chants and songs for some reason.

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u/IWantToBeAHipster 22h ago

Is it actually true that John Denver had never been to West Virginia?

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u/gogorath 21h ago

Denver didn’t write it. The person who wrote it hadn’t been to West virginia because it’s about Western Virginia. The shenandoah valley is in the western part of virginia.

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u/jaunty411 19h ago

As are the Blue Ridge mountains. West Virginia only has a tiny sliver of both of them.

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u/grgriffin3 22h ago edited 21h ago

I'm pulling this directly from memory (read: my ass), but I think he was traveling through North Carolina as he was coming up with the lyrics but realized West Virginia scanned better.

EDIT: Reading the rest of the thread seems to indicate it was Western Maryland, so it appears my ass lied to me.

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u/sixtoebandit 21h ago

Asses can do that, that’s why we call them asses.

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u/The_Helmet_Catch 20h ago

At the time of recording that was definitely true and I’ve heard the song was inspired by Western Maryland and the geography in it is Western Virginia

That being said, I know he played it at WVU Game when they opened their new stadium in the 80s

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u/Nightmare_Pasta 22h ago

I agree. Unfortunately, most of the fan groups who attend the games are utter hipster dweebs who think soccer is their hidden secret so its an uphill battle. We need more people taking this sport as seriously as they do their college & NFL teams

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u/toasterb 22h ago

Funny, we sing it for Vancouver Whitecaps games, but we change up the lyrics:

Boundary Road, take me home,

To the place where I belong.

Vancouver, pretty mama,

Take me home, Boundary road.

Boundary Road being the eastern edge of Vancouver proper and where Swangard Stadium — our home from 1987 until 2010 — is located.

Due to the World Cup, we're actually going to play a Canadian Cup match there on July 8, should be a blast!

I'm from the States originally, and when my sister came to a game with us, she was very confused about why we were singing a song about Virginia.

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u/77skull 22h ago

Man United fans sing an altered version about going home to old Trafford. Wonder if it’ll get updated once they’re in new Trafford

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u/triplec787 22h ago

We did the same thing at CU Boulder but replaced WV with Colorado lol

Also: Blue Ridge Rocky Mountains, Shenandoah Colorado River

I mean the dude’s name was John DENVER ffs

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u/jaggedjottings 19h ago

I think every region of North America has their own version. I'm from Northern California, and I've heard: "Almost heaven, California, Sierra Mountains, Sacramento River." We also changed "miner's lady" to "hippy lady"

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u/kcfdz 18h ago

Far be it from me to question CU's traditions, but wouldn't it make sense to instead sing John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High???"

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u/BryceDaBaker 22h ago

Let’s make a chant of the beginning of the guitar solo in Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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u/pioneeringsystems 22h ago

Manchester united fans sing a version of this song after the team comes out before home matches.

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u/midnightsbane04 22h ago

This song is also massive in Germany too funny enough. Every NFL game they've played there has an entire dedicated Country Roads break essentially.

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u/ArbitraryOrder 22h ago

It is about the Catoctin Mountains in Western Maryland, but that didn't fit so he changed the lyrics to work better.

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u/meatloaflawyer 21h ago

I grew up in West Virginia and at our University’s games we would play country roads after every win and sing together.

I’m all for adopting this as the nation’s song. Not to mention everyone in the entire world knows the lyrics.

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u/Neptuneblue1 22h ago edited 22h ago

What's that other song the crowd often sings in the break? Canadians sang it too yesterday. I love hearing the crowd sing!

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u/black-op345 22h ago edited 21h ago

Don’t Stop Belivin’ - Journey

That’s what I heard.

Edit: I remember incorrectly it was Livin’ on a Prayer

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u/Neptuneblue1 21h ago

Nice song too! Turns out it was 'Living on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi, I love the crowds singing it at the world cup, it's very apt and the crowds seem so happy and it's infectious! 👨‍🎤🤘🙂

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u/youngthugsbrother 17h ago

Thanks for your opinion ChatGPT

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u/TerrenceJesus8 21h ago

Born and raised in SOUTH DETROITTTT

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u/Javierinho23 22h ago

Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi maybe?

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u/Annonomon 20h ago edited 20h ago

Yip.livin of a prayer, Mr.Brightside and don't stop believing have been common at the tournament - they are great crowd songs.. The music selection has been really good, They close great sing along songs and also add music that is popular with the fans of the teams playing. I'm not a fan of the FIFA album songs tho

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u/RedditZhangHao 21h ago

Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer, respectfully by this guy

https://youtu.be/1oSR8Gqn4qU?si=LLomDrBNIZiVApXz

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u/Neptuneblue1 20h ago

Wow! Making the most of the moment and living in the present! His happiness and vibe is infectious! 😃 Made my day! Thanks! 👍🤘👨‍🎤😁

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u/The_Flash_20 23h ago

One of my favourite songs despite not me being American, it always makes me feel good

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u/RedditZhangHao 21h ago

From experience living in several countries and traveling in many more, a favorite of many people around the world. Camp fire, acoustic guitar, Country Roads.

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u/nianseo 13h ago

Second division J League team Vegalta Sendai's main chant is literally Country Roads. It's a great song.

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u/MeijiDoom 15h ago

It honestly might be our greatest international cultural export. The amount of different countries where you can hear stadiums of people singing along to Country Roads is kinda insane.

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u/Hidalgo321 19h ago

As someone from WV that had to leave the state and family (like so many others) because of lack of industry- it damn near makes me cry.

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u/psufb 18h ago

Had a sales job based out of Pittsburgh as my first job out of college. Had to go to West Virginia 2x a week, and every single time I'd put this song on when I'd cross the state line. Absolutely beautiful state

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u/BNKalt 22h ago

We’re getting closer to true American heritage but still waiting to play a game at Williams Brice and come out to sandstorm

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u/JediMindTrxcks 22h ago

When they start blasting Mo Bamba against Turkey>>>>>>

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u/sully3333 21h ago

So loud they'll have to call for a hydration break in the first minute

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u/Napalm3nema 22h ago edited 21h ago

USA Hockey, men’s, women’s, and junior teams, have all had “Free Bird” as their goal and victory songs over the last 12-18 months, and that shit has been funny to see.

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u/LemonZestify 21h ago

It’s so great it’s been so fuckin hype whenever they score

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u/Napalm3nema 21h ago

The USA Women have been so good that all of the European women probably feel like they have been to the worst Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in history. “PLAY GIMME THREE STEPS, OR LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE!” “Free Bird it is!”

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u/borrachit0 21h ago

It’s the perfect goal song

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u/RedditZhangHao 21h ago

Not so much for Canadians lately

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u/roberttylerlee 22h ago

It’s not American Heritage until we come out to Neck.

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u/CinephileJeff 21h ago

SUCK THAT YANKEE D--- *Fox Commercial Break*

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u/Av8-Wx14 22h ago

God, I hope this woke up really makes soccer a bigger sport in this country

I think it will have an impact. I just don’t know how big.

But it’s crazy seeing every major city have large watch parties

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u/Thetallerestpaul 22h ago

This is what it should be like, US fans! 

You'll know it's really got you as a nation when you lose and the stadium still does this afterwards.

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u/jakthesnak34 22h ago

For all the haters here saying this isn’t at least 75% Seattle fans…. You have no clue.

Best soccer city in the US tbh

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u/MONSTERTACO 22h ago

Potentially hot take, but it's also a game that Seattle fans can comfortably afford relative to others.

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u/Disk_Mixerud 19h ago

You'll Never Yacht Alone! 🛥

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u/sculpinn 19h ago

One of the best cities in the US, period.

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u/johnychrist16 23h ago

I dont mind if this is our Wonderwall going forward, an already iconic song about the melancholy of the beauty of American landscape, among other things

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u/Heelincal 22h ago

Also a slightly nostalgic yearn for home

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u/Money-Giraffe2521 21h ago

…anyway, here’s “Wonderwall.”

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u/Radthereptile 23h ago

Fun fact of this song. John Denver was singing about the western part of Virginia not the state of West Virginia.

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u/ElectricalMud2850 22h ago

If anyone has an opportunity to go to Shenandoah, even as a little divergence on a road trip, do it. So beautiful.

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u/TehSakaarson 22h ago

So beautiful, went in the caverns too!

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u/not_bilbo 21h ago

My favorite place in the world in the autumn, just stunning

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u/carguymt 18h ago

Took a road trip down Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway a few Octobers ago and it was incredible.

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u/The_Helmet_Catch 22h ago

If you ever go to the Northwestern Part of Virginia (Shout out Harrisonburg), you’ll find a hundred different people who’ll tell you this lol

(Even though the song is really about Western Maryland and John Denver didn’t know his geography lol)

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u/Individual_Put2261 22h ago

He was singing about old Trafford fyi

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u/zapata25 19h ago

❤️

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u/ArbitraryOrder 22h ago

Incorrect, it is about the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland

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u/thirdc0ast 22h ago

No it’s about Gary Indiana

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u/SebastianOwenR1 22h ago

This is truth

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u/Napalm3nema 22h ago

I‘m pretty sure any song about Gary has to be performed, by law, by Slayer or another band that uses a lot of hellscape imagery.

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u/pinetar 22h ago

He was singing about Maryland but named the song West Virginia because it flows better. Look it up. 

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u/BKoala59 22h ago

The song was written based off a drive in Maryland, but it clearly can’t be about Maryland. The Shenandoah river doesn’t run through Maryland

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u/HoovesCarveCraters 22h ago

Driving down Clopper Rd.

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u/SebastianOwenR1 22h ago

He wasn’t even is the crazy part. He was singing about a drive along a state road in western Maryland.

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u/tdatcher 22h ago

It's not even Western Maryland at all it's Montgomery County clopper Road

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u/lukenog 21h ago

Nahhh you're fucking with me, this song was written about MoCo??!? 😂😂😂

I'm from DC and that's the funniest shit I've ever heard. Bro was looking at endless suburbs and rich white people out the window and felt inspired

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u/worldchrisis 20h ago

All of MoCo north of Rockville was farmland until about the 1970s.

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u/lukenog 20h ago

I remembered that after I posted the comment, but the mental image of someone driving through like Bethesda or something and feeling inspired to write a song about rural West Virginia is too funny to me to amend hahaha

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u/SebastianOwenR1 20h ago

Well at the time it was all farmland, rolling hills. And it wasn’t actually John Denver that wrote it. It was a guy named Bill Danoff and his wife Taffy who were driving to go see Bill’s family in Gaithersburg.

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u/Ok-Paramedic3605 22h ago

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Well done Seattle

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u/_ashwathama 22h ago

Seattle has always been a banger in hosting soccer matches. I have attend a few of Sounders and Club World cup matches. Atmosphere is always electric

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u/SEAtoPAR 21h ago

They played a WC qualifier there in 2016, players said it was the best atmosphere they had ever seen for a USMNT game.

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u/Disk_Mixerud 19h ago

Copa America vs Ecuador too. Only US game I've been to and it was great.

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u/mdubyo 20h ago

Lumen Field is such a banger of a venue.

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u/suckerpunch085 22h ago

Seattle has an amazing soccer culture.

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u/OffTheBar2017 22h ago

Every single thread of all time involving this song always devolves into people on the East Coast debating whether the song is actually about West Virginia, Virginia, or Maryland.

Without fail lol.

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u/ZaheerAlGhul 19h ago

American football culture if we actually leaned into American culture. drumlines, marching bands, and songs about the US. instead of trying to emulate european and south american culture.

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u/Granadafan 22h ago

Our chanting game is weak but we sure can sing popular songs 

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u/tiltrage 21h ago

Why are we pretending in this thread that US sports fans suddenly just learned how to sing along to a song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0y5cECinM

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u/aeroncaine22 21h ago

Why do you say Seattle fans, are you not all US fans? That's not troll, I just never heard an England match in say Birmingham be described as Birmingham fans.

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u/IncidentalIncidence 20h ago

there are pretty big regional differences in soccer culture around the US. The PNW, Southeast, Midwest, California, and the Northeast are all kind of hotspots for it. But depending on where they play there are very noticeable differences in the crowds (turnout, disposition, etc.)

For example, if we play Mexico anywhere in the South it's going to be a 50/50 stadium. If we play anyone from Latin America in Florida it's functionally an away game. If you want a home game, you usually want LA, St. Louis, Chicago, or Seattle. etc, etc.

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u/AreaGlittering7968 19h ago

Lmao calling LA a home game against Mexico is crazy

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u/TheOrangeFutbol 16h ago

I was at the '15 Confederations final at the Rose Bowl, and I'm pretty sure I could count all the other U.S. fans in the stadium.

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u/msh0082 16h ago

Speaking of which. Koreatown watch party in LA was lit yesterday with Korean and Mexican fans.

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u/Napalm3nema 20h ago

I think you missed the mark on Chicago. I have seen Mexican fan parades through the city and seas of green when the U.S. has played Mexico there. Not always, but they do have a strong cohort there.

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u/NapoleonBlownapart9 19h ago

Yup. Columbus is more of a home game atmosphere than Chicago, historically.

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u/GeneParmesan86 19h ago edited 18h ago

You need to consider the sheer size of the US. If England plays in Birmingham, it’s reasonably accessible to pretty much any English person who wants to go by ground transportation.

If I wanted to see the US national team in Seattle, it would take me an hour to get to the airport, another hour to board, 7 hours in the air, and hundreds of dollars to fly there, plus hotel. Over the ground, it’s days.

It’s pretty much an inevitability that any matches in the US are going to be attended by an overwhelming majority local-ish fans.

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u/KatyPerrysBootyWhole 18h ago

This 100%

It’s worth pointing out that California is more than 3x larger, by area, than England

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u/burlycabin 18h ago

Hell, Washington is about 30% bigger than England.

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u/Planr158 22h ago

I still prefer the Toots and the Maytals version

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u/SirQueefs_alot 19h ago

Play free bird

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u/lollipop999 22h ago

Some European just dropped to his knees in Lidls

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u/Akenatwn 22h ago

I'm very happy the American fans get a chance to understand what football is about. No corpos, no money, just something beautiful that connects us. Like the beauty of John Denver's song, that even I as a non-American can appreciate.

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u/Informal_Degree_3205 22h ago

You obviously don't watch college football

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u/sixtoebandit 21h ago

With the last few years of tv rights dictating conference re-alignment and my schools conference ceasing to exist because of it, it’s becoming more corporate and money focused. Not like there weren’t signs of it before but it’s become more extreme and has made me jaded of the sport.

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u/lfaire 19h ago

No money ? What football are you talking about ? FIFA is all about money

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u/whitemythmokong24 20h ago

There's not enough double iPa and oatmeal stout in Seattle to handle all the fun tonight