Crazy Fans
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I attended an all-boys Catholic high school just outside of suburban Chicago. While we excelled at football, we did manage to have a decent basketball team once in a while and our all-girls sister school had their share of winning sports teams. But the one thing we never lacked was a raucous cheering section.
While the majority of high school sporting events have almost turned into a fashionable social event. A recent basketball game I shot had the home team’s side stocked full of what can be best described as the cast for MTV’s new reality TV show “The girlfriends of prep-basketballers”, so I still get very excited when I see an engaged and well led mob of fans.
Nowhere in the Chicago area may there be a better example than the Crusader Crazies of Brother Rice High School on Chicago’s south side. So well polished is this group that even the antics of a press photographer can get the going.
After half of the group was asking for me to photograph them, I turned the camera on myself and started snapping pictures, then slowly started to back up.
The video above is them imitating a roller coaster (something I haven’t seen anywhere else) and the one below is some taunting as the opposing team leaves the locker room at half-time.