The banner work came together with Thoma making his own individual large banner, I made two large banners, Kevin and Danza made a smaller but badass banner, and Anthony made a nice two stick mocking former Crew player McBride.
1. Thoma's "Clean Up Our City, Throw Away The Trash Banner."
2. Anthony's McBride Wanted For Treason Banner
3. Kevin and Danza's "Good Night, Red White" Banner with a karate kid kicking the Fire logo
4. My Glory To Columbus Banner. Complete with my best replica of the MLS Cup (yes I'm a cocky bastard, over two weeks before we won it with two games left.)
5. Together with the Crew jersey, finished product:
Bringing this all together was quite the laugh. I was totally waxed but I knew if I didn't get on the field to coordinate this TIFO it wasn't going to happen because no one else was stepping up and no one else knew the whole plan and everyone involved. So, after fighting my way through the crowd, I got the security guard to let me on the field. Then I had to go about working on getting 2,000 drunk people to hold up these banners at the same time. And, we did it twice. Trust me it was alot of hard work and my personal proudest moment as I didn't know I had the balls to just jump on the field and get everyone to raise up the banners for such an important game.
Here is my Glory To Columbus one afterwards, I didn't take a good pic of it beforehand. It looked much better before the crowd banner became wrinkled and a beer mop:
And, me trying to be all ultra-istic with it:
Anyways, the first design was even more elaborate then this but I'm glad we scaled back with the short ammount of time. The first one was to have all these banners and give everyone in the crowd around the banners a yellow piece of cardboard to hold up around the banners. But, on short notice we figured this would be too complicated.
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