Amazing TIFO Display Courtesy of Section 8
What’s TIFO you ask? If you don’t belong to a supporters group it’s a legitimate question. As the Wiki explains, it’s originally the Italian word for the phenomenon of supporting a sport team and is mostly used as a name for any spectacular choreography displayed by supporters on the terraces of an arena or stadium in connection with a sport event, mostly an association soccer match’s.
There seems to be better TIFO amongst MLS teams than ever before this year. Some of it has been fantastic. But I don’t know if anything can beat what the Chicago Fire’s supporters group, Section 8, performed on Saturday evening at the Seattle Sounders v Chicago Fire game at Bridgeview. While the Fire laid another egg last night losing yet again, Section 8 may have won in the category of best MLS TIFO of the year. I believe the supporters were making a point that many MLS team supporters like to make about Seattle. That many of their fans are newbies to the sport. So Section 8 went “old school”.
According to Tom Dunmore who is chairman of Section 8 and writer/owner/editor of Pitch Invasion, one of my favorite US soccer websites, “The display was put together in a week for very little money, far less than we’ve spent on other displays. It just took creativity and dedication from a core crew to pull off.”
Check it out!
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The Timbers Army has been doing better TIFO, for years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AucOzX9qqRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbQEMmQ1XNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RSIAxiwrWU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlvsSGGfrY
Funny that to celebrate that Seattle has so many “newbs” to the sport that they would use the symbol of a company based in the Seattle area, for a game system who shares initials with a Sounders supporters group.
Almost as much sense as the TA celebrating their “sounder-less” cascadia wins, or painting a coffin in their own team colors.
Of course, Section 8 is used to having huge TIFO displays, they have a budget in the 6 figures…
That was awesome. We got to show this to the FIFA World Cup committee.
Did Mario shoot fireballs in the game or did fireballs get shot at him? Been a while since I played Super Mario Brothers but wouldn’t it have been better if the fireball was shot at Mario, he jumped it, then ran at the turtle and jumped and landed on the turtle killing it like in the game? Put Mario on a stick so he can be raised to jump and give the turtle a retractable head so he can die like in the game and this would have been not only epic but actually accurate too.
Dunmore is Chairman of Section 8 Chicago, the supporters’ association.
No one is “president” of “Section 8″, “Section 8″ isn’t one organization.
http://www.chicago-fire.com/news/2010/08/tom-dunmore-blog
Of course you are right and I did know that. It was simply a typo on my part. Correction is made – thanks.
Oh Dave….no need to be so sad or mad….or whatever it is you’re feeling. Even Crew fans/supporters are giving the display some props, so I bet even you could manage to say “that was cool”…..even once.
Hope your Monday gets better.
Giggsy, from what I recall of the game, Mario did shoot fireballs after he ate a flower that turned him orange–but obviously that wouldn’t have worked for the Fire!
I like the turtle’s retracting head idea–mind if we use it (potentially)? I mean, I doubt the display will be repeated, but if it is, that’s a great idea.
Sounders newbies?! There where 20,000 plus fans watching them in 1974 at the Kingdom (less Fire supporters showed up to watch their team get knocked out of the playoff race saturday night)!
The artwork is very nice, but the display coordination is really terrible.
Nice try, though.