OK, this is only a semi-serious question, but I'm asking it anyway.
First, I'll say that the "Greenway Experience" is a good one, for home and visiting fans alike. The atmosphere of a crowded Greenway on a Friday night with the horn blowing and the crowd and the band and the pizza and Dave Christopher yelling "hey fumble," well, it's great, absolutely great. As the Hagerstown sportswriter quipped, Greenway is a "venerable home field.....[that]doubles as a football torture chamber."
That being said, anyone who was at the Fort Hill/Sherando game this year in Stephen's City knows that Sherando's atmosphere, to include hours before kickoff, was outstanding, absolutely outstanding, that was as memorable a football game as I've seen. Getting out of the car hours before kickoff, not being able to actually see the Stadium because of the trees but hearing that Indian Drumbeat, I think I even saw smoke rising, man, that was badazz. May have got annoying, and it did, but it was badazz. Then of course came the Indian on the horse riding down off the hill onto the field, man, that was surreal. Everything was great, the fans, the facilities.
So my semi-serious question is, what can we do to amp up the atmosphere at Greenway for the Fort Hill/Sherando game next year? Someone in another thread had mentioned someone riding one of the band 4 wheelers onto the field doing a wheelie, lol, I don't know. Do we blow the train horn continuously for hours prior to kickoff, have Dave Christopher parachute onto the field in his Fort Hill van, fly Coach Appel in on the Medevac and land at the 50 yard line, pipe in the smell of Seasoned Lettuce into the Stadium, have Gino from Coney Island handing out free wieners lined up his arm to his armpit? What can we do. Really looking forward to this game.
In retrospect, that Fort Hill/Sherando game would have been perfect for a High School Football Documentary: Fort Hill the celebrated but small school underdog, Sherando with the big school and the D1 recruit, the atmosphere, the fan bases, the way the game turned out, man, talk about one heck of a story.
First, I'll say that the "Greenway Experience" is a good one, for home and visiting fans alike. The atmosphere of a crowded Greenway on a Friday night with the horn blowing and the crowd and the band and the pizza and Dave Christopher yelling "hey fumble," well, it's great, absolutely great. As the Hagerstown sportswriter quipped, Greenway is a "venerable home field.....[that]doubles as a football torture chamber."
That being said, anyone who was at the Fort Hill/Sherando game this year in Stephen's City knows that Sherando's atmosphere, to include hours before kickoff, was outstanding, absolutely outstanding, that was as memorable a football game as I've seen. Getting out of the car hours before kickoff, not being able to actually see the Stadium because of the trees but hearing that Indian Drumbeat, I think I even saw smoke rising, man, that was badazz. May have got annoying, and it did, but it was badazz. Then of course came the Indian on the horse riding down off the hill onto the field, man, that was surreal. Everything was great, the fans, the facilities.
So my semi-serious question is, what can we do to amp up the atmosphere at Greenway for the Fort Hill/Sherando game next year? Someone in another thread had mentioned someone riding one of the band 4 wheelers onto the field doing a wheelie, lol, I don't know. Do we blow the train horn continuously for hours prior to kickoff, have Dave Christopher parachute onto the field in his Fort Hill van, fly Coach Appel in on the Medevac and land at the 50 yard line, pipe in the smell of Seasoned Lettuce into the Stadium, have Gino from Coney Island handing out free wieners lined up his arm to his armpit? What can we do. Really looking forward to this game.
In retrospect, that Fort Hill/Sherando game would have been perfect for a High School Football Documentary: Fort Hill the celebrated but small school underdog, Sherando with the big school and the D1 recruit, the atmosphere, the fan bases, the way the game turned out, man, talk about one heck of a story.
