Drew Carey, Seattle Sounders Part Owner, Hints At Steve Zakuani Tribute

by Jeremiah Oshan on Apr 23, 2011 2:47 PM PDT in Sounders: MLS Regular Season

What started as a grassroots idea for a Steve Zakuani tribute has apparently reached the ears of ownership. Drew Carey, one of the team's minority owners, recently made this comment on twitter:

#11 cards for next #Sounders game in honor of Zakuani and his broken leg have been requested. Will keep you up to date. #forZakuaniless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyDrew Carey
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What form, exactly, this tribute might take is obviously very much in question. One possibility would be for the Sounders to hand out placards at the gate to every fan. Another might be simply asking fans to print something out at home. Either way, there seems to be significant potential for Sounders fans to make a pretty profound statement at next Saturday's game against Toronto FC.

The tribute would likely be similar to the one Sounders fans made to Charlie Davies after he was injured in a car accident in 2009.

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lets hope this goes through.

glad we got the attention of the ownership.

by Sandra_R on Apr 23, 2011 2:48 PM PDT reply actions

We can make our own 11s as well

My banner which normally hangs at the front of 214 will have a Giant 11 on one side

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by Dave Clark on Apr 23, 2011 2:57 PM PDT reply actions

Maybe instead they could...

make #11-shaped paper weights with sharp edges and give them to the fans before the next home game against Colorado.

by Kyle Ritter on Apr 23, 2011 5:20 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs

(just joking)

yikes. got a couple “repaying violence w/ violence is what’s wrong with this world” fb messages…

by Kyle Ritter on Apr 23, 2011 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha brilliant

by SeahawksPhan on Apr 23, 2011 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Song

Maybe playing CeeLoGreen over the PA when Colorado comes to town in July would be satisfying.

by K61 on Apr 24, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

How about a stadium wide "Steve. Zakuani" call repeat?

by Robert on Apr 23, 2011 5:23 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Nice

We don’t need ownership to back this. We just need to make it happen.

I’m planning to be there next Saturday with my #11 cards in hand (one for me and several extras for the people around me).

Make it happen folks.

by magistermilitum on Apr 23, 2011 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I should clarify...

Really happy the ownership (at least Drew) is behind us on this. However, it doesn’t mean that they have to be for us to pull this off.

by magistermilitum on Apr 23, 2011 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Any recommendations on what to use for the paper material?

I assume straight printer paper doesn’t hold very well.

by Derek R on Apr 23, 2011 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions

that's why it would be nice for ownership to officially endorse this

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by Jeremiah Oshan on Apr 23, 2011 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Would that be at a significant cost to the team?

Or would it only be in the $1000-$5000 range and be chump change?

Just wondering. I fully support the #11 cards idea.

by SeahawksPhan on Apr 23, 2011 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Cost for just my section

I was thinking if we don’t hear about the ownership organizing something for Saturday, I’d be willing to buy 8.5×10 cardstock (not printer paper) for my section with a big “11” on them. There’s like 600 seats in the section so I expect it would cost around $50-$80 at Kinkos. I can pony that up once or twice. I sit in section 107, so it would be on the TV broadcast too.

On the back (or in small print on the bottom if it costs less) I’d put one sentence of instructions for them to be held up for the entire 3rd minute (the minute he was injured in) from 2:00 to 3:00 on the clock (some people think the 3rd minute is when the clock reads 3). No chant required, just the big white cards for a full minute.

I’ll do a fan post on Friday about it unless other plans from the owners materialize. If anyone else is interested in covering their section, we should try to share the same template so it looks uniform.

Even if we do something this weekend, I’m thinking maybe we could do something every home game until Zakuani returns. That may mean until the end of the season unfortunately.

by K61 on Apr 24, 2011 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions

3rd minute or 11th?

That’s probably the decision that needs to be made throughout the Sounders community.

A lot are pushing for 11th

I’ll get in contact with SG leadership and see what they think is best. At the least the SGs, our readers and other websites can print their own and spread them out.

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by Dave Clark on Apr 24, 2011 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions

I vote for 3rd

I guess it boils down to what the goals of the message are. If it’s just to remember Steve and wish him well, then the 11th minute makes sense. However, if an additional goal is to send a message to the players, TV viewers, and league that we as fans demand that reckless, physical play be eliminated, I think the 3rd minute makes more senese. The second goal would make more sense as a long term campaign/demonstration where we do this at every home mach (until Steve plays again). We’d be reminding everyone of the minute that the horror happened in Colorado and that we don’t want to see that crap in the game we’re about to watch (or started watching 2 minutes earlier).

by K61 on Apr 24, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

Cardstock works fine

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by Dave Clark on Apr 23, 2011 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Instead of "Seattle....Sounders"

Let’s do the “Steve….Zakuani!”

I like this idea posed by Robert. It should be done!

by ABTsportsline on Apr 25, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions

Table rolls to make giant 11's

A couple section tall 11’s would be pretty cool.

by blakec on Apr 23, 2011 8:33 PM PDT reply actions

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Make donations to Zak’s charity:

http://kingdom-hope.org/

by arjaylee54 on Apr 23, 2011 9:40 PM PDT reply actions

Just stopping by to wish you guys and Zak the best. What a terrible, horrific injury on a stupid challenge. He is such a promising, exciting young player. I really hope he recovers quickly and completely.

Go Sounders.

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by Dig Deep on Apr 24, 2011 12:23 PM PDT reply actions