BMO and Streamers: Official TFC Position on New Policy

[Brooker]

think positive: in 20 years you can tell your kids about how they used to toss streamers at players and how great it was back then in the good old days.

that's the first thing i thought about....

"remember when..."

btw:

THANKS COLUMBUS.

[flatpicker]

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No worries folks... I have the solution to your problems...

We want streamers but we don't want them to interfere with play??

Well how about these?

Who's with me!!

[Smuttynose]

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No worries folks... I have the solution to your problems...

We want streamers but we don't want them to interfere with play??

Well how about these?

Who's with me!!

hahaha i'm totally in!!

[Boris]

^ hahahahahahahahhaahhahahah id pay money to see that

[Kevvv]

^ Coincidentally, that will be the new sobriety test to get on the GO

[Ageroo]

you know, we can use all the streamers that get chucked during corners at the begining of the match after the anthems, and it will look fantastic. we really moved away from that.

well my use behind the net has just been limited....but you are right...just more to throw after the anthems and after goals......

I am cool with that for sure!

[Hooligan69]

^ Coincidentally, that will be the new sobriety test to get on the GO

[Toronto Ruffrider]

and thus starts the coin and battery shower!

Don't forget about the urine bags! Oh wait, that's the Costa Rican supporters. My bad.

[Keystone FC]

Funny how the league clamps down on streamers yet does absolutely nothing about racial abuse.

Totally agree with you there Billy. Out of an investigation into racial abuse comes a ban on streamers?
I guess according to the MLS and Garber STREAMERS = RACISM.
I can see a sign right now:
KICK STREAMERS OUT OF FOOTBALL!

[mighty_torontofc_2008]

we will all have to bring out flags out again...they have not been banned...yet?

[ag futbol]

Throwing the streamers at the players has gotten old real fast anyways especially after every other SG in the league started doing it. In the end the best fans in the league are not defined by the streamers we throw. Its all about the atmosphere that we have generated at BMO. Players love to come here and play because of the true football atmosphere. It is still quite intimidating for an opposing player to take a corner kick in the south end without streamers. Just the sea of red and the rumbling of the stands is enough to make any opposing player shake. And we don't have to resort to verbal or racial abuse to intimidate. Thats for other team's less sophisticated fans to do.

My thoughts exactly.

So we can't throw them to affect play, they'll still be there after the anthem and after every goal. I'm not going to cry about it.

[ThunderBaby]

Throwing the streamers at the players has gotten old real fast anyways especially after every other SG in the league started doing it. In the end the best fans in the league are not defined by the streamers we throw. Its all about the atmosphere that we have generated at BMO. Players love to come here and play because of the true football atmosphere. It is still quite intimidating for an opposing player to take a corner kick in the south end without streamers. Just the sea of red and the rumbling of the stands is enough to make any opposing player shake. And we don't have to resort to verbal or racial abuse to intimidate. Thats for other team's less sophisticated fans to do.

Well said. I agree. I didn't feel that affecting the play on the pitch was in good form anyway. I think we do well to intimidate the opposing teams just from out overwhelming ardour and passion as SG's.

Deliberately hurling them (streamers) at players IMO has a certain level of classlessness to it. It can too easily escilate to more dangerous things, such as water bottles, etc.
The incident in Columbus just proves that something that's intended to be friendly jibing can be taken too far. Those streamers can hurt if hit with one soaking wet with rain at ten yards.

I love the display the streamers provide I just don't agree with them affecting play or using them in a malicious manner to hurt a player, official, or anyone for that matter. I know I wouldn't want something hurled at my head while I was trying to play.

That's just my opinion.

[SilverSamurai]

They said only MLS games...
they didn't say anything about friendlies and Canada games

You KNOW the Impact deserve the streamer shower

[DOMIN8R]

yes. good point.

[TFC_Toon]

If the people up there were going to throw streamers they would have done it by now.

It shouldnt be the RPB or any other SG's responsibility to buy streamers for the prawn sandwich brigade.

Racist Ohioans or not this was coming. Throwing streamers at the players taking a corner will get you thrown out of any stadium in the world and why anyone thinks its their right as a fan is beyond me.

Have to agree with this statement, the writing has been on the wall for some time.

RPB will show our class, we always do.

[mighty_torontofc_2008]

They said only MLS games...
they didn't say anything about friendlies and Canada games

You KNOW the Impact deserve the streamer shower

and the caps...im savinga few for BOB!!!

[AL-MO]

Why not migrate the streamers to the upper sections on the west side? Tons of those coming over the side and draping down to the sections below after a goal or something would be great.

We had an idea of doing a 'streamer shower' but we haven't gone through with the idea as of yet.

[SilverSamurai]

and the caps...im savinga few for BOB!!!

If you're going to lose on the streamer shower, do it during the Canada qualifiers Not an MLS game. Means it's allowed!

[Rossiroo]

BS, how about the league focus on important issues like racial abuse before looking for an excuse to ban streamers during play.

[rocker]

i'd definitely love to still see a streamer shower for the corners during the Canada Cup games. piss off the Limp Act and Whitecaps.

[SilverSamurai]

i'd definitely love to still see a streamer shower for the corners during the Canada Cup games. piss off the Limp Act and Whitecaps.

I don't think we're the only ones...

[Bombonera]

OK with Field turf? Key, skilled players being pulled away week after week for meaningless "friendlies"!? And it seems like MLS's biggest concern is the affect "streamers" are having on the game.

Our rights as fans are being trampled on. We are not mindless fanatics, we love the game. Let's get serious and demand the football experience we as paying fans deserve! ENSCO FOR PRESIDENT!

[werewolf]

see here for streamer discussion - http://www.redpatchboys.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=1891

[Bombonera]

APologies, this is not really about streamers. I think we all know what is going with those...

This thread is about, "What can we do to get these blithering idots to provide us with a satisfying experince" Clearly there are many knowledgeable fans, and we should DEMAND more.

Part of the probelm i think lies in our need to keep our season's tickets or lose them forever... We roar like lions on the boards, but when it comes right down to it, we are at the mercy of medicrrity. Are you OK with that?

[J .]

I hope people dont start becoming rats if someone does throw them

[egoodwin]

at least I won't be literally throwing away my money anymore

[Blazer]

and thus starts the coin and battery shower!

And soon thereafter the mesh netting is erected.

[greatwhitenorf]

Hey, how about organizing a protest against racism? Let's get everyone to draw the league's attention to the matter by chanting 'Racism Sucks' and, what else? - Emphasising our point by WRITING THE MESSAGE on STREAMERS and THROWING THEM!!!

If the league wants to endure a black eye by cracking down on an anti-racism protest, that's their problem.

[werewolf]

^ I agree with those sentiments. The league is so quick to review policies on streamers, which really weren't even an issue, yet where are the press releases condemning the racial abuse. Sure it has been mentioned, but why is it getting so little time in the spotlight by comparison.

[Azerban]

They will still be thrown, because half the people who throw them aren't a part of a supporters group.

So just throw, throw away, and to do anything else would be to succumb to their retarded demands like a pussy, and would be like agreeing that streamers are a much bigger problem than calling players ******s.