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Football Slogans: For Team Pride and More
When it comes to sports in this country, none perhaps is more loved than football, as evidenced by, among other things, the thousands upon thousands of football slogans and flags that begin to dot the American landscape every autumn. But what is the main purpose of these football slogans? Why are they created and what do they signify? Unfortunately, to answer that question in depth it would take far more space than this article will allow, but despite these limitations, in this article we will try our best to explain what most feel people feel is the most significant or primary purpose of these slogans, illustrated by a few examples that have stood the test of time through the years.
What Is the Main Purpose of Football Slogans?
The main reason that football slogans are created is team pride, although it must be said that intimidation does seem to play a small part as well. However, to get a clear picture of this—to really focus in and understand how important team slogans actually are—it is first necessary to describe for you the average football fan.
Football fans are unlike any other type of sports fan. Most of them merely feign mild interest in the other sports, try to look semi-engaged during baseball, basketball and hockey season for example, but in reality they are just biding their time, “chomping at the bit,” as they say, just waiting for football season to commence.
Once football season gets underway, one would have to be deaf and blind not to see how extremely loyal football fans are to their respective teams—sometimes to a fault. On game day throughout America, fans can be seen donning their favorite football jerseys, painting their faces in their team’s colors and proudly flying their team’s banner from rooftops and doorways. And not long after, in the heat of the moment and as game time approaches, the football slogans begin to roll off their tongues. There are the “Cheese Heads” in Green Bay, the “Black Hole” in Oakland and the “Iron Curtain” in Pittsburgh, slogans that were created years ago, yet slogans that still have a deep and emotional meaning to the loyal fans who have supported their teams through good and bad. They chant these slogans as a matter of pride and even use them as a way to intimidate the competition—although usually in good fun.
These days it seems that every football team has a unique slogan. From pee-wee football squads to high school and college teams and right up through the professional ranks, football slogans help to unite fans together in a common cause. Football Sunday becomes the glue that brings people together. They celebrate together when their team wins and console each other in defeat, but regardless of the outcome, you can bet they will all be back the following Sunday to do it all over again. Yes, slogans have become part of the very fabric of football, and with new slogans being created every year, it certainly seems that this trend will not end anytime soon.