Fanataics sing through final preseason game

Saturday night closed the pre-season for the Dallas Stars, and the Stars won with an authorative 5-1 score. But this isn't about the Stars, it's about the Fanatics and their visiting brotheren, the FC Dallas Inferno.

Not only did they visit, but they brought their own spirit, their own chants, and their own singing voices to the stadium. The crew fit well as they quickly introduced themselves with a "Who are we" chant in the opening minute of the game and immediately the Fanatics & Inferno began filling the stadium with the routy chanting of "LEHTS GO STARS", "LETS GO DALLAS LETS GO" and others, including some new ones.

But then something different happened, there was more than just a chant from section 332, instead there was a melody, a song. While they may not have carried into the opposite ends of the arena, the base line from "Seven Nation Army", the theme song from "Dallas", and many other custom chants including "Tampa Bay is full of nothing but Senior Citizens" and "I'm Dallas Till I Die".

While singing is not an ice hockey tradition in America, it was taken well and the Fanatics quickly joined in. But, what was the most successful part of the evening?

Hey Bill, How much time's left
One Minute, One minute remaining in the third period
Thank you!
You're Welcome

RoBorat Luongo

Ronnie "The Hockey Goon", of the Havoc Fanatics worked on a project all day long Saturday, no exaggeration. What project, may ask? Well there's a good chance, at least if you're a local fan, that you've heard RoBorat Luongo thrown around a few times. It's truely uncanny how similar Roberto Luongo looks to Borat. Anyway, the point of this article is to tell you about Ronnie's project, not describe the similarities between Borat and Roberto.

You see, as a joke during the watching party for Game 5, Ronnie, Jeff K and I all joked about how great it would be to have a giant poster of RoBorat, to help raz Roberto during warmups. Come Friday Ronnie and I were passing back and forth an image that we were considering use for this project. Finally, come 11pm Friday night Ronnie stopped by my office (we have a nice color printer) with a pack of cardstock to do some prints. We decided to do something a little different though, instead of a giant poster, how about a few heads-on-sticks?

And thus became Ronnie's all day project, cutting out, taping together, and adding handles, to 30 slightly-larger-than-life RoBorat Luongo heads. And what an effect it had. At one point Robert skated over to the glass laughing and asked if he could have one, of course I, being a dumbass, forgot they didn't go back to their bench but left out the corner, and wasn't able to get it to him.

We were only able to get 30 out for the game, but if you wanted to make your own here's how:

1. Print out this image
• We printed it out to stretch to fit 2 sheets of paper white card stock (80lbs) paper in landscape format, which made the head about 50% bigger than life-size
2. Tape the two sheets of paper together, front and back, so that the image lines up
3. Cut out the image so the excess paper is gone
4. Take a long stick, or as we used a 3rd sheet of cardstock folded up many times, and tape it to the back of the head as a handle, make sure it sticks out 3 or 4 inches to give you something to grasp

Simple, isn't it? Here are a couple shots of the heads in action, including this one from Getty Images (pardon the water mark):