Lisa Denton and Barry Courter
BARRY COURTER: Lisa, have you thought about adding the vuvuzela to your musical repertoire? I mean if you added that to your talents on the kazoo and the tambourine, you could be a three-skills musician. Your phone would ring off the hook.
LISA DENTON: Well, No. 1, who’s saying it doesn’t? And No. 2, the vuvuzela can actually cause hearing loss. The kazoo just makes you wish for it.
BARRY: Both fair points. I mention it, of course, because the Chattanooga Football Club is back in action, and they are off to a good start. They have events at Finley Stadium this week. The first is Friday against Guinto Elemento, which sounds like a villain in a Transformers movie. Then on Saturday they have a match in the U.S. Soccer National Amateur Championship Cup.
LISA: It’s worth going to a match just to catch the Chattahooligans in action. They are the team’s most passionate fans, and they do cheers and chants and songs with choreography.
They also helped one of their own, a guy known as Lucha Nooga, win this year’s Sandwich Throwdown at Mindy B’s Deli. We tried all three of the sandwich finalists, remember? They were all good, but votes were tallied by sales, and there’s no competing with the sales force that is the Chattahooligans.