And the beat goes on, do do do do do

Last night was our game against the Warriors and as usual, the Rowdies represented! We were a bit light on personnel for the Romp and as such got started a bit late. The end result was that we were able to go through the upper, but not the lower concourse. Note to readers: We would LOVE to have y'all join us for our Romp, even if only for a bit. When you see and hear us come by, hook up with us and lend your voice to our Romp!

We got acknowledgement from several players during pregame warm ups as during them, we chanted the various players names until we were acknowledged or got tired of it. Shane Battier and Luther Head in particular pointed up to us while we were chanting their names.

At halftime, I talked with a couple who heard our "We love Head" chant from the opposite side of the Toyota Center. I personally love that chant because of the obvious double entendre (for crying out loud, who in their right mind doesn't love Head/head?) and because it gives the parents an easy way to explain the chant to children too young to get the double meaning (Luther Head just made a 3-pointer).

In addition, there were several LOUD versions of the calls for Novak to get off the bench (including "Noooooooooo-vak, Noooooooooo-vak," and "We want Novak," ) as well as our trademark "Hit the Road, Jack" song when Roberson fouled out and at the end of the game.

Last night, every Rowdy who had attended all of the games in November was put into a hat for a drawing for either a Yao autographed 2007 all-star poster or one autographed by Shane Battier. I missed out on the posters, but then he drew one more name for the hat that the names were in and my name came out! BONUS!!!

Here is the YouTube for the Cold Pizza interview with Corey and Brandon

Here is the YouTube for the Channel 2 (Houston NBC) interwiew with several Rowdies

Signing off until after the Laker game next week.

GO ROCKETS!!!!!

And the last catch-up post

The T-wolves came to the Toyota Center on November 28th, a game that many of the Rowdies were looking forward to after the way Mike James snubbed us in the off season. There were a variety of chants and yells thrown at him including "You're not Jordan," Who's Mike James," and "Where's Mike James" (after he was benched in the 4th quarter). However, the one that got the most traction was "We don't need you," which we chanted several times. There were a few Garnett gans in attendance and we were able to boo a few Minny fans seated in our vicinity including one who kept standing up from the second row to look at us even when his team was down by double digits.

The Cleveland game on December 2nd was electric There were a BUNCH of LeBron jerseys to be seen in the crowd and we had a field day jeering the unfortunate wearers during the Romp. Before tipoff, a family with three kids made their way past us with two of the kids in James jerseys. The third young'un remarked to me as he passed us "I'm rooting for the Rockets." Priceless. Again, we broke out the "You're not Jordan" chant, which seemed to work out well as James was continually frustrated by Battier's defense all night long. We were also able to dust off the "We love Greece" chant as Spanoulis got over 18 minutes of court time.

I will talk with y'all again after the Warriors game, but until then, here is some more reading material...

Rockets Fan of the Week

Continuing to catch up...

The game against the Bulls started out on a sour note for us (myself and the Rowdy I carpool with) as I-45 had two lanes closed down between Park Place and 610. The resulting backup had us arriving for the game late and for the first time this year, we missed the Romp and tipoff. We broke out the "You're not Jordan" chant on Ben Gordon, which may have been a mistake as he went off for 30 after we did that chant. (note to self, don't piss off Ben Gordon) Thankfully, the Rowdies went home happy as we staved off a comeback attempt by the Bulls.

The "You're not Jordan" chant worked much better on Arenas when the Wizards came to town on November 22. We didn't see any Wizards jerseys so we didn't have a chance to abuse opposing fans, but such is life.

Memphis came to town on November 25, which saw the return of the "Brokeback Mountain" chant for Rudy Gay, introduced the "You got traded" chant for Stromile Swift, and the ever popular "Where's your Scunci" (pronounced scrunchy, a hair tie) for Mike Miller. Again, the good guys were victorious. Here are some more pics...

A few of the Rowdy Hotties!

Rock and Roll!

She is a popular Rowdy for pics!

It's been a long time...

...but I am back to add to the blog. Sorry for the delay, but with three classes, two kids, and one full time job (plus 33 more Rockets games to attend), my time is pretty limited.

Since my last post, we had home games against New York, San Antonio, Chicago, Washington, Memphis, and Minnesota. I will talk about each of the games and some of the things that happened with the Rowdies in each.

For the New York game, I was a bit disappointed to see that Steve Francis was injured and not playing. I would have loved to give him an ovation even if everyone else in the Toybox booed. For me, Steve gave us our first playoff win in the Toyota Center almost singlehandedly, was the representative for the Draft Lottery in which we won the right to draft Yao, and had enough trade value to land TMac. Francis brings a lot more good memories than bad for me. The Rowdies were well represented that night and the Toybox was nearly full since it was a Friday night. We poured a heap of jeers and catcalls on a Knicks fan who was seated near our section (as usual) and were thrilled to see the good guys pull out a W.

The San Antonio game was also a lot of fun except that I got my sign taken away because it was too big (55"X48"). Here is what it looked like...


Oh well. We still had a great time poking fun at the Spers fans, particularly while we were up by 18. Not so wonderful in the end result, but we still had a great time. We'll get our sweet revenge on December 22! Here are some images from the game...

The Three Amigos with a red-haired fan

Four more Rowdies

Jessica with her Rowdy guests

Some of us are truly NUTS!

Courtney and Jessica

Me and the crew

The aftermath

Continued in the next post...

Battier commercial shoot

A while ago (it has been nearly a month), the Rowdies were given the opportunity to shoot a commercial with Shane Battier. Some of the pictures I got as we were waiting for the shoot are in a previous blog post. The finished commercial is now up at Rockets.com.

http://www.nba.com/rockets/gallery/videoplayer.html

Click on the video that features Battier (as of today, it is at the top left of the table) and you will see our finished product.

Pictures provided by Courtney

Here are some pics that Courtney provided.

Three of our new girls...

The Bash Brothers with a Mavs fan.

Matt Bullard in the Rowdies section.

And more Rowdies...

Opening Night!!!

Editor's note: I cannot possibly get and retain everyone's names without some help. If you see a picture where you are not named or where I have not named someone whose name you know, please email me that information. Also, please let me know if you don't want your name in the blog at all. --A

The Rowdies were in and outside the Toyota Center tonight as we torched the Mavs. We started out by welcoming the fans walking into the LaBranch street entrance. We started about 5:45 and lined the red carpet that was rolled out from the entrance to the security gate. The turnout was awesome as we were 70 strong tonight.

We had a great time jeering the Mavs fans as they entered and high fiving and cheering for the fans as they walked into the Toybox. Once we were inside, we split up for our Romp and walked through the concourses firing the crowd up even more.

We rolled out some new chants including the Greek word for "Defense," Amina! Ah-mi-na, Ah-mi-na. I think that this will be our standard defense chant when Spanoulis is on the court.

Overall, I think we did pretty well considering we had just integrated 20 new Rowdies into our group. The new Rowdies were AWESOME, one brought a drum to help us keep time on our chants, the "Three Amigos" are fantastic, and together we make a great boost to the noise and energy level at the Toyota Center.

The one bummer came when a Rockets employee came up and told us that we would have to sit down except for "big plays," not realizing that every basket and every successful defensive stop is a big play to us. I can actually see how we might have more impact if we are sitting (still yelling and chanting, just in our seats) and jump up when we score a basket or get a stop. However, there was at least one non-Rowdies fan who came down and told us not to sit down for anyone, to make them explain to JVG why they kicked the Rowdies out. This is the guy... http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Rocketscom_visits_with_this_w-194356-34.html

All in all, it was a fantastic game and we really brought the noise tonight. I can't wait for the Knicks game on Friday.

Here are some pics from the red carpet.

In the pics above, you can see us holding some white sticks. These were styrofoam with chemical glow sticks inside. When they turned the lights out in the Toybox, I got a picture of thousands of these glow sticks being waved...

Here is a pic of the new Rowdies in their seats.

New Rowdies

Wednesday night, November 1 saw the addition of 20 more wild and crazy Rockets fans to the Red Rowdies. These 20 people had their tickets purchased by Tracy McGrady and will also be in section 114 with us. Congratulations to the newest Rowdies.


This is one of our new recruits, Brian. Bryce says that he will make a great addition to our squad and by appearances alone, I would suspect that this is true.

How could I forget?

WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

Extra, Extra! Pictures!

I have finally gotten enough time at the computer to post some pics from the commercial shoot we did with Shane Battier. I was kinda hoping they would preview those commercials already, but what can you do...

Anyway, here are a few of the pics I got there.

This one is my son in his Yao jersey and shorts.


This one is (from left) Bryce, Tia, Anne, and Dedrick.


Old School (above), Maya, and Roland.

The far left is a Rox employee, then there are Adam, Adam's girlfriend, Nahreesh, and Energy Boy.

The apparently obligatory RPD pic. This one is at the Spurs game. They are [insert] and Dedrick.