BuzzCzar
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Chairbacks and their emptyness, that is the precursor to this story.
If you have been to a game in the last few years, or seen one on the television, you may have noticed that a section of prime seating area seems empty at times during games, and it seems strange.
The effect is magnified in bad weather, when really hot or colder than comfortable. This is due to the fact that the people in this section have access to an inviting interior space that not only provides a climate-controlled area where the game can be viewed on monitors, but also because of the availability of alcoholic beverages in that area.
I completely understand why many of those that pay the $s to sit there want to take advantage of any of these amenities during games.
HOWEVER….
It looks bad to the rest of the fans. It looks bad on TV. It looks like seats are going to waste, and invariably the questions and comments about why the seats are empty come up and it gets old.
I am tired of it.
Some say the Chairback section is dumb. I disagree.
Like with most things, it’s more the execution of the plan that determines it’s success than the plan itself and I think this is also one of those cases. For that reason, I designed a solution to this (mostly imaginary) problem.
I thought of it myself, but being generous and a Tech fan and supporter, I offer the idea freely to the GTAA for immediate implementation.
I feel this could become one of the finest traditions associated with GT football, even taking advantage of other traditions… so let me get on with it.
Does not every fraternity have willing and malleable pledges in fall semester?? Are there not several fan-oriented clubs like the Swarm, Reck Club, etc etc?? They are the key to this, because they will make this work.
without further delay, here is the essence of the plan
For every person with a seat in the chairbacks, GTAA recruits one person from one of the various frats, sororities, clubs, and dorms of GT. These recruits are given a location near the chairbacks, and I don’t even care if its inside the building or if they can see the field or whatever. They are here to WORK. They do it for their club, for their frat, for GT, for their friend on the team.
But they get lucky…because they get randomly matched with a seat in the chairback section....
Hang with me here.
When any of the persons from the chairbacks comes inside to get a drink or whatever they want to be in there for, they get the ticket scanned by an usher. Automatically, the system then alerts the matching blinking device being held by one of these ready and waiting helpers that so many restaurants use to indicate your table is ready and it buzzes.
Now, we need to make sure these gadgets blink gold and not red, but that is a LED issue that can be resolved given our technical prowess, like maybe with colored tape ;) but totally solvable.
The very excited pledge in nice clothes and wearing his RAT CAP now bounds determinedly down the stairs to the seat that was just left empty. His/her job is to fill the seat and cheer. Not obnoxiously, but vigorously and with good manners. Noone that owns a chairback seat can be upset by these younguns. They are there working, they are not there for fun. NO drinking. NO cussing. NO standing (if the fans that own seats behind them don’t stand)
But you know what?? The seats will be full. Not only full, but full of cheering, excited fans that are learning to serve a purpose AND enjoying themselves at the same time with excellent seats that they got FOR FREE.
When the chairback owner leaves the interior chamber of liquid glory and plasma heaven, the process works in reverse. Scan the ticket, it alerts the runner to get up from the seat and get back into the ‘barn’ to wait on another opportunity to fill the seat.
I can see the RAT CAPS sprinting up and down the steps now, in nice clothes. Always in white or gold. NO orange, NO red. NO signs, NO EMPTY SEATS!!!!!
I can hear Brett Musberger in my head now, talking about RAT CAPS, about this tradition of the seat fillers, about whiskey clear and To Hell with Georgia (yes, he does still annoy the **** out of me, even in my own head)
This needs to happen. This needs to happen soon.
There are young students out there wanting a reason to come to the games and make their club/frat/sorority/team/university look good. We need to fill those seats even though we know they are sold, they look bad empty. We need to be cheering from this section.
This is not hard. This is a great idea. This is the BuzzCzar Point of View.
The BuzzCzar Point of View is MY point of view. It’s not a debate, and it is not intended as a way for me to convince you of anything. It is the way it is... in my head. Take it or Leave it.
/disclaimer
If you have been to a game in the last few years, or seen one on the television, you may have noticed that a section of prime seating area seems empty at times during games, and it seems strange.
The effect is magnified in bad weather, when really hot or colder than comfortable. This is due to the fact that the people in this section have access to an inviting interior space that not only provides a climate-controlled area where the game can be viewed on monitors, but also because of the availability of alcoholic beverages in that area.
I completely understand why many of those that pay the $s to sit there want to take advantage of any of these amenities during games.
HOWEVER….
It looks bad to the rest of the fans. It looks bad on TV. It looks like seats are going to waste, and invariably the questions and comments about why the seats are empty come up and it gets old.
I am tired of it.
Some say the Chairback section is dumb. I disagree.
Like with most things, it’s more the execution of the plan that determines it’s success than the plan itself and I think this is also one of those cases. For that reason, I designed a solution to this (mostly imaginary) problem.
I thought of it myself, but being generous and a Tech fan and supporter, I offer the idea freely to the GTAA for immediate implementation.
I feel this could become one of the finest traditions associated with GT football, even taking advantage of other traditions… so let me get on with it.
Does not every fraternity have willing and malleable pledges in fall semester?? Are there not several fan-oriented clubs like the Swarm, Reck Club, etc etc?? They are the key to this, because they will make this work.
without further delay, here is the essence of the plan
For every person with a seat in the chairbacks, GTAA recruits one person from one of the various frats, sororities, clubs, and dorms of GT. These recruits are given a location near the chairbacks, and I don’t even care if its inside the building or if they can see the field or whatever. They are here to WORK. They do it for their club, for their frat, for GT, for their friend on the team.
But they get lucky…because they get randomly matched with a seat in the chairback section....
Hang with me here.
When any of the persons from the chairbacks comes inside to get a drink or whatever they want to be in there for, they get the ticket scanned by an usher. Automatically, the system then alerts the matching blinking device being held by one of these ready and waiting helpers that so many restaurants use to indicate your table is ready and it buzzes.
Now, we need to make sure these gadgets blink gold and not red, but that is a LED issue that can be resolved given our technical prowess, like maybe with colored tape ;) but totally solvable.
The very excited pledge in nice clothes and wearing his RAT CAP now bounds determinedly down the stairs to the seat that was just left empty. His/her job is to fill the seat and cheer. Not obnoxiously, but vigorously and with good manners. Noone that owns a chairback seat can be upset by these younguns. They are there working, they are not there for fun. NO drinking. NO cussing. NO standing (if the fans that own seats behind them don’t stand)
But you know what?? The seats will be full. Not only full, but full of cheering, excited fans that are learning to serve a purpose AND enjoying themselves at the same time with excellent seats that they got FOR FREE.
When the chairback owner leaves the interior chamber of liquid glory and plasma heaven, the process works in reverse. Scan the ticket, it alerts the runner to get up from the seat and get back into the ‘barn’ to wait on another opportunity to fill the seat.
I can see the RAT CAPS sprinting up and down the steps now, in nice clothes. Always in white or gold. NO orange, NO red. NO signs, NO EMPTY SEATS!!!!!
I can hear Brett Musberger in my head now, talking about RAT CAPS, about this tradition of the seat fillers, about whiskey clear and To Hell with Georgia (yes, he does still annoy the **** out of me, even in my own head)
This needs to happen. This needs to happen soon.
There are young students out there wanting a reason to come to the games and make their club/frat/sorority/team/university look good. We need to fill those seats even though we know they are sold, they look bad empty. We need to be cheering from this section.
This is not hard. This is a great idea. This is the BuzzCzar Point of View.
The BuzzCzar Point of View is MY point of view. It’s not a debate, and it is not intended as a way for me to convince you of anything. It is the way it is... in my head. Take it or Leave it.
/disclaimer
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