The Boston Celtics have some of the most passionate fans in the NBA. Sure, Boston sports fans in general have a less-than-stellar reputation, but Celtics fans bring it every night, and when TD Garden is rocking, there aren’t many places in the league for opposing teams to try and pick up a win.
One hallmark of Celtics fans is their organization — they always seem to be chanting or clapping in unison, which is a fun sight to be hold when the Garden is sold out for a big game. The downside is that this video of Gordon Hayward trying to rally Celtics fans to do a rather odd chant for him exists.
Hayward was pursuing one of his off-court passions — streaming Fortnite — when he had an idea for a chant that he wants to hear out of the Celtic faithful.
.@gordonhayward is brainstorming chants with his Twitch viewers 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/1MdvG2hmIz
— B/R Gaming (@BRGaming) August 9, 2018
“If any of you guys are gonna go to the games at TD Garden, you gotta get a ‘daddy’s always happy’ chant going,” Hayward implored those watching. “That would be awesome.”
When Hayward’s friend said he’s not calling him daddy, the Celtics star responded “that would be tight.”
So here’s the thing about this chant, beyond the fact that it would be weird for tens of thousands of people to chant this without context: This would be an awkward thing to chant in terms of how it would flow. Unless Hayward wants fans to copy professional wrestling and take the cadence of “[person] is gonna kill you,” it’s hard to see how this would work. Also I don’t think this would be especially intimidating or anything like that, which defeats the purpose of doing a chant in the first place.
In the end, Boston fans should stick with “Let’s go Celtics” and whatever other weird, silly things are cooked up in the bizarre lab that is Weird Celtics Twitter.
