It’s a curious thing why people like to make homemade signs to hold up at a sporting event. The World Series is going on now and there are many Red Sox fans at Fenway Park holding signs hoping for that brief two-second moment to be on tv. But why do they really hold up those signs?
ïÝTo have a very brief moment of fame on tv?
ïÝSpreading their message to the tv audience?
ïÝSharing their message with the crowd at fenway?
ïÝShowing their allegiance?
ïÝAre they bored at the game?
√Ø√ùMaybe they don’t know why, because they are caught up in a cultural phenomenon of this simply being something you do at a sporting event.
It’s fun to search yahoo news photos for: fan sign
i don’t understand this particular sign. what’s it mean?
The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have a long history of their rivalry. This year the underdog Red Sox defeated the Yankees in the playoffs. So now the Red Sox are in the World Series, and the Yankees have to sit at home and watch the World Series on tv. “Hey, New York how’s your view?” means, “Hey how do you like having to watch the world series at home on tv, instead of being here and actually playing in the world series, SUCKERS!”
Or maybe it’s also human’s tendency to want to communicate. Other examples that utilize written language in a public format where the person physically exists along side it: bumper stickers buttons But what makes these sporting signs more intriguing is that the person communicating with this sign is also the sign’s author. When one wears a button or drives with a bumper sticker, they are usually not the author of the message.
okay, i get it [Yankees are at home”>. human communication is, i agree, fascinating.
oh another written language in a public format where the person phsycially exists along side it: t-shirts
what about a tattoo? do pictoral symbols count? you know, ideographic written languages [such as asian and egyptian”> still exist.
When I was growing up and going to Detroit Tigers’ games, I often made signs to hold up for a favorite player or to cheer the team on as a whole. Even though I was under 10 years old, I did it almost exclusively to get on T.V.
oh tattoo. that’s a good one. do you remember who your fav player was, tom?
Sparky Anderson was the Tiger’s coach when I was heavy into Detroit baseball, I made a few signs for him. I made plent of signs for Kirk Gibson and Alan Trammel, probably my favorite players. Jack Morris and Willie Hernandez were my favorite pitchers. I was too young to appreciate Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, but I remember liking him because his nickname sounded like “Big Bird” from Sesame Street.