100 Things Rockies Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Adrian Dater

Author:Adrian Dater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2018-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

44. Tulo!

It started innocently enough, as many crowd behaviors do. The Wave that became so popular in stadiums throughout the world, for instance, is believed to have started at an NHL game in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1980.

Exactly when the chant of “Tulo!” began at Rockies games hasn’t quite been pinned down yet. By the playoffs of 2007, though, it became a given that Troy Tulowitzki would receive such a chant from the Coors Field crowds.

It starts with a little organ music, the kind used for many other one-word chants.

“DAH-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-DAH, TULO!” Rockies director of entertainment Jack Donehoo said every player got the organ music at one point in the 2007 season, but when fans started yelling the shortened version of the shortstop’s last name, it stuck.

Not only did it become a nightly staple at Coors, it became part of the team’s 2008 preseason marketing plan. Unless Tulowitzki was a good player, however, the chant would have died quickly. But just about everybody who saw him play growing up thought the native of Fremont, California, would make it as a baseball player.

Tulowitzki was the seventh overall pick in the 2005 baseball amateur draft, and he was billed as a Derek Jeter-type of shortstop. That suited Tulowitzki just fine, as he idolized the Yankees star as a kid.

As a junior at Fremont High School, Tulowitzki hit .536 at the plate and went 15–1 as a pitcher. As a senior, he batted .519 with 24 home runs. At Long Beach State, he was a two-time All-Big West selection, finishing his college career with a .962 fielding percentage.

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