5/10/2010: The Orange Legion Weekly- Chants, Fliers, Banner Making, Other News

**Our banner session will likely be this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the same place on 4123 N. Linda Drive in Bellbrook, Ohio. MAPQUEST IT! We have some supplies left over from last week, so it shouldn't be too expensive. This week we may put our two banners together and adhere them to make a crowd banner, this is where the crowd actually holds it up and waves it back and forth. Plus we'll also make the two sticks this week. I wanted to last week but I got swamped with finals and etc.

**Chants need to get going, if we have enough people next week which we hopefully will I would like to do a version of the first two chants in this video:


DALE CAVESE DAYTON (first song in above video)
LA LA LA LA LA LAH LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LAH LA!
DAYTON!
LA LA LA LA LA LAH LA LA LAH!
LA LAH LA LAH!
DAYTON!
OHH-OH-OH-OH-OH!!
DAYTON!
OHH-OH-OH-OH-OH!!
DAYTON!
OHH-OH-OH-OH-OH!!
OH-OH-O-O

Repeat

Owe Owe Owe we Owa! Let's Go Dayton! (Second Song in above video)

Owe Owe Owe Owe owey owa owah
Owe Owe Owe Owe owey owa owah
OHHHHHHHH!! Let's Go Dayton!
Our town, our hearts!
We give it all for you!
Owe Owe Owe Owe owey owa owah
Owe Owe Owe Owe owey owa owah
Let's Go FC Dayton!
La lah la lah!!
La lah la lah!!

Repeat

As well as the chant in this video:


One side pointing at the others: "Ohh oh oh oh Ohh... ...oh oh oh Ohh oh oh oh Ohh o o o Day-ton"!

The other side pointing back: "Ohh oh oh oh Ohh oh oh oh Ohh oh oh oh Ohh o o o Day-ton"!

Just keep going back and forth until the two sides tire.

We need at least 50 enthusastic people next week willing to give this a go to make it work. I'll try hard this week without finals to market the section more to get the people in there.

**We will try to get some fliers printed out to hand out this week. I'm just going to make some simple fliers with details on us and then send them out to a few of our members who go to University and have free access to printers. If we print out 50 with 5 to 10 of us and then place them in strategic places like bars where young people hang, Soccer Plus, billboards in Paneras and Borders, University billboards, etc. it may help our membership. Hell, even if it gets us 10-20 more it's worth it.

**We need to get more organized.. We didn't really do much in the way of chants this week because all the people we had the first week were either scared away because of the weather or decided to head to the Crew game in Columbus, Ohio (at the same time) instead.

**I'll likely be able to do much more marketing and trying a lot harder to get more people out this next Saturday. I had three finals last week and car trouble so it was a bad week for me. I want everything to be way more organized.

**We should also look into getting a megaphone for chants.

**We will do MacIntosh's next week definitely, I'm going to go there when my car gets fixed this week to talk to them about deals for Orange Legion supporters.

**Anyways, next week counts for real for the U.S. Open Cup and I want us to show up for real next week. This week was sort of a mulligan for the team and I guess us as well. Hopefully the weather will be with us next week too. Cheers and I'll have more details in a weekly Orange Legion Mailing List tomorrow, if you want to be on that it's theorangelegionnaire@live.com.

5/2/2010: Orange Legion News- Join Us, Drink With Us, Chant With Us

** Were moving up the banner making session this weekend to Tuesday, May 4th at 6:30 p.m. since I can't do it Wednesday night or Thursday night because of finals.

** Our goal is to make at least two banners a week, so eventually we have the whole visitors stand covered with banners. We'll likely make 2 banners Tuesday night, as well as four two sticks. The cost this week will be extremely low since we have one more large sheet left over from last weekend and tons of paint. So, all we need to buy is two queen size sheets, for a second large banner plus some two sticks, this will only cost 28 bucks total this week.. Which means with 10 to 15 of us in attendance to paint, the most each of us will need to chip in is like 2 or 3 bucks a person. The address is the same 4123 N. Linda Dr. in Bellbrook, Ohio. MAPQUEST IT!

** Some people questioned the location of our section since were still a relatively small group and if the sun is shining it can be annoying to sit there, etc. There are a couple of reasons why we are over where we are at.

~First off, were supposed to be Ultras (hardcore soccer support) so if your complaining about a little sun your in the wrong section anyways.

~Secondly, the stands directly behind goal do not have room for even the two banners we already made.

~Third, there is much more freedom being in an isolated corner farther away from the main stands then closer to the main group of fans, where there are mainly families. This make swearing and etc. less of an issue. Let's just keep it enjoyable for us and them by staying where we are at.

~Fourth, I heard that the Bellbrook officials won't allow us behind the one goal anyways.

~Fifth, I and many others in the section really liked the vibe we had going on the last week. Moving may ruin it, similiar to how moving the Nordecke would do it in Columbus. I like the freedom and that basically the whole visiting stands our are's. They were barely filled, except for us, during the Global United game. And, I would be happily surprised if we get more then 3,000 against the Cincinnati Kings.

So, overall, were staying where we are at. I have confidence our numbers are going to grow by the week and I want the whole visiting stands filled with our banners by week three or four. We want to make it a party that Amsterdam could be proud of over there. :-)



** Dayton Dutch Lions ruggedly handsome, defensive midfielder Yohan Wigger requested that we stick around longer the next game so that the team can come over and give us a clap or bow (similiar to how the Crew do it in Columbus). So, we need to stick around for 5-10 minutes and continue chanting next Saturday.

** We got about 3 or 4 chants going last weekend. Not bad considering the Nordecke has been around for two more years and probably only has 4 or 5 more chants then that. While were doing the banners Tuesday night we need to work on thinking up more- I already have some ideas that I didn't bother to try last Friday because it was just an exhibition and we weren't as concerned with chanting as we would be for our regular season.

** When or if I get a chance, busy week for me with three finals, I'll go to MacIntosh's down the road and see if we can get any beer deals before games for supporters. Either way, some of us will meet there a few hours before the Cincinnati game to have a few beers, probably likely around 4:30. I'll probably have to have a beer, leave and set up a few things at the stadium, and come back. We'll see.

**I'll email this same thing out to everyone on the mailing list either tonight or earlier tomorrow. Want on The Orange Legion's mailing list, email us at theorangelegionnaire@live.com

That's it for now cheers and I hope to see you Tuesday night for banners and Saturday night at the game. Duey (Goodbye)!