The base of the Roger Neilson statue outside Rogers Arena is taking on a life of its own. A few weeks ago three framed photos of Rick Rypien, Luc Bourdon and Pavol Demitra were placed below Roger’s epic towel powerness, and this morning the three posters above were found.
It may be the summer and Roberto Luongo’s future may be in question, but it’s clear true Canucks fans support him no matter what.
We’ve arrived in Los Angeles and while Palm Trees are great, there’s nothing quite like fan support to officially welcome you to the City of Angels.
— Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo, following practice Thursday.
After two consecutive nights of checking out the nightlife in Nashville, I spent a much needed night in when we get to Detroit Wednesday. My evening consisted of a nap, Titanic was on so I watched a fewminutes hours of that, ordered a grilled cheese and soup for supper, then watched some college basketball. I wasn’t so much watching the basketball game (it might not have even been college hoops!) as much as it was on as background noise while I worked on a David Booth story.
Then I got distracted.
During the hoops action the visiting team, I have no idea who they were so we’ll call them the “Pittsburgh Platypus”, outscored the home team, ummmm the “Chattanooga Fighting Chimpanzee,” 19-0 to end the first half. That led to a lot of booing and prompted a discussion from the announcers about booing and how those fans really knew how to boo.
I didn’t know there was an art to booing, but apparently there is. It’s a lot like showing Roberto Luongo love with a LUUUUUUUUU cheer I guess, there’s a time and place for each cheer, depending on the situation. As you’ll see from the graphic below that I spent way too much time creating out of sheer fun, a first period save and a stop in overtime deserve drastically different cheers.
Let’s hope there’s a lot of LUUUU and LUUUUU cheers tonight in Detroit, maybe even a LUUUUUUU if Luongo gets into the zone. Fingers crossed LUUUUUUUU never has to happen again.
We travel to New Jersey post-game, so I’ll touch base from Devils land tomorrow.
I love getting random emails from strangers. But especially when they include a song. But especially when the song is about Roberto Luongo.
Have a listen to this catchy tune by Ehren Salazar. He classified it as folk rock, I think it just plain rocks, but prepare to have this in your head for hours, days, weeks, months and years to come…RA RA RA Roberto Luongo!
