As we enter the 2017 season, a number of major and minor changes have occurred that amount to an exciting paradigm shift for our club. What will these changes bring? What will be their long-term significance? Where do we fit into all of this? When the Quakes came back home to San Jose in 2008,…
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On September tenth, the Quakes played a crucial game against the Seattle Sounders. Smoke bombs were lit in our sections. When it came time to face the consequences, the group accepted them and was prepared to move on. While entering the supporters gate at Avaya for the Sporting Kansas City game on September twenty-fourth, we…
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After the MLS website released a video about this year’s Cali Clasico, we received numerous emails and questions from fans wondering why we were not part of that video and if there was some sort of censorship coming from MLS. While we have had plenty of run-ins with the league in the past, our absence…
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Since we have received a lot of questions from other Quakes fans, we wanted to clarify that we, the San Jose Ultras, will not attend the MLS All-Star Game at Avaya. Last week, we were contacted by sponsors of the event who offered us money and other promotional materials. We were also invited to appear…
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Following Saturday’s game, Univision reported that we “transformed” a chant considered by many people to be homophobic into a positive chant full of energy. The chant they featured in their video, which they wrongfully believe is a transformation of the “puto chant,” is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWZthX7i-s0 We would like to correct Univision and state for the record that we have been using the…
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As the newest partner of the Quakes, the TV brand TCL gave each Quakes supporter group a free 50” TCL 4k TV. We’ve accepted the gesture because we saw an opportunity to put it to good use by making it the grand prize in a raffle in which all proceeds will be donated to the victims of the Orlando shooting…
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April 19th, 2003. San Jose Earthquakes vs Kansas City Wizards at Spartan Stadium. It was day one for our group which started with about 15 people. The intention was to take fanaticism and support to a level that was unseen in this league. Everything we did from doing tifo, to our songs, to the unity…
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During a recent meeting, the SJ Earthquakes Front Office informed us that they are offering $3000 to each of the supporter groups for traveling purposes. Although the offer is appreciated, we politely declined it despite the first three months of the season being filled with several costly trips. Since our founding in 2003, it has…
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“And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea roll its waves.” The entire quote above by Robert Treat Paine was meant to accompany the overheads for the San Jose Ultras’ tifo honoring our country and our troops for the Independence Day celebration hosted by the…
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It’s sad to see the same people who often, and for ridiculous reasons, ban tifo are now trying to commercialize it and create some type of competition among supporter groups out of it. We don’t do tifo for awards, to get media attention or to enter some type of contest against other groups. We do…
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