Celtics Fans Sure Are Happy These Days
February 13, 2009 – 9:39 pm by Jimmy ShapiroSo this is what the atmosphere is like for a home game the year after your team wins the championship. Just pure bliss. I wouldn’t know as I’m a Philly sports fan and the Phillies season hasn’t started yet.
This dude who obviously has entered many a lip sync and air guitar contest goes from a quiet guy sitting in his seat at a Celtics home game to a scene that you would think was scripted for a cheesy sports movie. He’s high-fiving people, kissing women, hugging men, during the Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer” and the crowd is eating it up.
The Jumbotron at the Fleet Center caught this dance during one of the breaks during a recent Celtics game. Other than the dance and lip sync routine, my favorite part is the fact the Fleet Center is still playing twenty two year old Bon Jovi songs and then follow that up with twenty-six year old “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor from Rocky 3. I was in the sixth grade and still playing little league when “Eye of the Tiger” came out. Freshen up your music C’s!
Update: After watching this video close to fifty times, I’m starting to think it was staged by the Celtics game ops department. Why else would he happen to be on the Jumbotron? I was naive enough the first forty-nine times to think it was real. Send me your thoughts, at sportsradiointerviews@gmail.com.
Kudos to Fandome, a great sports video site that a buddy just told me about, for first posting this video. Definitely check it out and browse their growing and entertaining collection.
Tags: Air Guitar, Boston Celtics, Fleet Center, Jumbotron, Lip sync, NBA
14 Responses to “Celtics Fans Sure Are Happy These Days”
This is pure gold!
By NoGutsNoGlory on Feb 16, 2009
I think he is sitting with his mom. Makes it even better.
By adam on Feb 16, 2009
Yeah, you’re probably right; I’m going to have to call Shenanigans.
By Johnny on Feb 16, 2009
It’s like if Napoleon Dynamite was a Celts fan.
By PW on Feb 16, 2009
You THINK that was staged?!?!?
This guy:
–just “happens” to be on the Jumbotron
–goes on for almost two minutes NON-STOP
–goes exceedingly DOWN the aisle without being stopped by security even thought he keep touching other people
Completely staged, choreographed, and executed.
By JP on Feb 16, 2009
Can’t you see his mother hitting his knee at the beginning, like she’s telling him that ‘he’s on, so start the dancing, kid’….
By amo on Feb 16, 2009
I don’t know about it being staged – sometimes the Jumbotrons will stay in one place when they’ve got something funny brewing.
Could be though.
By SRI on Feb 16, 2009
Usually it is someone who does it on a regular basis and the cameraman know where he is looking for stupidity. Buffalo used to have a vendor that did the pee-wee shuffle at Sabres games and got on the jumbotron everytime
By TriKat on Feb 16, 2009
The Flyers have a guy in the stands who dances during intermissions.
By matt on Feb 16, 2009
The dude in Buffalo was the Earl of Bud. He was a vendor at the AAA baseball team in Buffalo, the Bisons. Then he became a local sports icon, showing up at Sabres vs Rangers game 5 (Sabres tie the game with seconds left), 2 seasons ago.
By tadman101 on Feb 16, 2009
Staged or not staged,…its just stupid.
By Birdman on Feb 17, 2009
That has to be Bill Simmons.
By Big dog daddy on Feb 17, 2009
More proof that Boston fans are a-holes
By ROYROGERS on Feb 17, 2009
Absolutely staged. Anyone who’s ever been to a sporting event knows that once someone knows they’re on the jumbotron they act like a buffoon. There are no idiots waving obnoxiously in this video. Fake.
By TehRof on May 4, 2009