Something special happened on Monday night: an arena full of wrestling fans started humming the theme song for Fandango - a wrestler with a ballroom dancer gimmick. Seventeen-thousand strong were humming along with cha-cha music not just for his entrance, or for his match, but for the remaining 45 minutes of RAW. They then continued to sing and hum his music out of the arena, in the parking lot and on the subway trains from the Izod Center in New Jersey.
The crowd for the post-WrestleMania RAW was one of the loudest, boisterous and fun crowds that I've seen in a long time. They took a free show that airs every Monday and elevated it above WrestleMania - the Showcase of the Immortals, the biggest wrestling PPV of the year, a show that brings in 80,000-plus people to the city that hosts it and contributes about $100 million dollars of economic impact with $15 million of that going to different levels of government in taxes.
The impact of those fans is being felt all over. Fandango's theme song (ChaChaLaLa by Jim Johnston) was on the UK's singles chart; it's creeping up to No. 1 on the iTunes charts; it's showing up on SportsCenter and at baseball games.
Here's to those amazing fans in New Jersey - duh duh duh duh da dada dadadada da dada dada da da dada DAHHH DUH DUH DUH DUH dah dah da da!
Hum along at http://youtu.be/OzMURyGo_9s.
