This Braves chant is driving me crazy -- adults actually do this?

[Auggie]

:wtf:

[JonLP24]

1. LOL

Adults put on costumes and do all kinds of crazy things when it comes to sports.

[madinmaryland]

11. Yeah. They do...

[madinmaryland]

2. The tomahawk chop? Haven't they been doing that for 20 years??

:shrug:

[Auggie]

5. Yeah, but this is every fucking at bat

:banghead:

No one does this shit in San Francisco

[El Supremo]

3. Weren't you the one who didn't mind vivusalas?

[Auggie]

4. No, I wasn't "the one"

[Bluzmann57]

6. They do it at Florida State football games too

Lighten up. It's sports and sports are a release for some people.

[El Supremo]

7. And for the KC Chiefs.

It kind of became popular back when.

[Auggie]

8. Good advice. Time for a beer.

[joeybee12]

9. I remember this from the 90's...offensive then...

offensive now.

[Duer 157099]

10. I find it highly offensive.

A crowd full of caucasions holding tomahawks and chanting, yeah, that's shouldn't be offensive...

[wilt the stilt]

12. I was in Atlanta in '91

when it started. It's funny but I was at a game in late August and it was kind of innocent. Only about half the people were doing it. Up until then baseball was a pretty low priority in Atlanta.

Then this special team came with loads of homegrown stars who were as innocent as the fans. Literally, the last 2 months of that season no one in Atlanta slept. Because we were in the western conference we played a lot of games out west and people just became completely enamored with this team. We had a saying "Braves fatigue syndrome". Literally the town was a bunch of walking zombies. At that time Atlanta was only 2.4 million people. Almost anyone who wanted to go to a playoff game or World Series got tickets.

It truly was pretty special.

This started a pretty special time in Georgia. Once known as a football state, kids and parents started to play baseball all the time. We now have 2 sports at the grass root level. Football and baseball. Georgia has the 4th most players in the major leagues.

This happened because of that team in '91.

I think it was something that just happened. It was not orchestrated by the management. It came from the fans and I do not believe any harm was meant by it.