Originally Posted by
masrawy
In our (North African) supporter culture, the concept of making a brand new visual display for every game is huge, the da5la (the intro in Arabic) is a major part of every big derby. Groups rank themselves based on how they got their da5la made (club vs. group money), how many times they do a da5la, and of course, how complicated it is. To me, and to a lot of members in our group, it's been about the tifos from day one.
It's spelled tifo, not all caps, it ain't MF DOOM. If the word irks you so much, you can call it a choreography, or choreo for short, or you can call it an action or a visual display, call it what you want. If you think the visual aspect of our support isn't important, well that's a major difference between our groups, I guess. The visual is as important as the sound to us, we've set a target to pass Barra Brava as the best visual group in the MLS. You want to know why they are the best visual group in the MLS? Because they have a new action every game, whether it's an overhead flag, their huge waving flags, or a pyro show.
So it pisses me off when we're on track to doing that, and some dude's friend is "dissapointed" with us for some fucking reason or another. This friend has probably never come out to help paint a banner or make an overhead with us. Rather than getting together with his friend like a bunch of hens and bitching about us, he could come up to the front rows, introduce himself, and be a part of the solution. It's a problem we're having in 127, lack of participation.
And like you said, different methods of support, we're lucky that we have 20 or so people that have the continental mentality of making visual displays for your club. Drinking and singing is no where near enough for me, sorry.
