(S1) - PT #5 - Fandom

[Grapehead]

Santa Ana stadium can get pretty rowdy on Otters game days. The players admit that they love all the craziness, and some even think it helped them to their 6-1 home record. In particular there is a group of fans that always creates a wooden logo representing the visiting team, and they would set it ablaze in the parking lot outside the main entrance to the stadium. During the second game of the season, other fans began to bring offerings to the fire, and would lay more flammables at the base of the burning effigy. The team had lost their first home game, but some fans believed the team went 6-0 the rest of the way at home because so many of them were participating in the pregame burning ritual. The local fire department even gets involved, by providing supervision of the fire and having crew on hand to put out any fire that is not under control. They did attempt to put out the fire the first week, but according to them the fans responsible for the fire setup a meeting with the local fire chief and discussed a plan to have a supervised fire in the future. Unfortunately the Otters never earned a home game in the playoffs, and local authorities in Arizona were not as receptive to the burning effigy idea.