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Thursday, October 5, 2000

Young fan hopes to tune up 'Rays
7-year-old Igloo regular writes song designed to inspire a championship
By Aimée Courtice
Caller-Times

David Adame/Caller-Times

Taylor Woodworth, 7, holds a copy of the song he wrote for the IceRays. Taylor hopes the song will inspire the team to a winning season.

Seven-year-old Taylor Woodworth has a song stuck in his head.
   And he hopes the song's words, which he wrote to the tune of a popular pop song, will be just as catchy for IceRays players and fans.
   Taylor and his dad, Brian Woodworth, are talking with a local radio and TV station about recording and producing the song in a video.
   If the video is produced, Woodworth said they hope it will be showcased during intermission at an upcoming IceRays game.
   "I hope it makes the IceRays play better," said Taylor, a second-grader at Windsor Park Elementary, who has rarely missed a game since the IceRays' inaugural season two years ago.

'Boss of the Ice'
By Taylor Woodworth, age 7
Set to the music of Backstreet Boys’ "Larger Than Life"
They may run and hide when we’re screaming your name ALL RIGHT!
But let me tell you now there’s a price for your fame ALL RIGHT!
All your opponents see blood on the ice
All you IceRays can’t you see, can’t you see
How we love your fighting and brutality
Every time we’re down, you can start a fight
And that makes you BOSS OF THE ICE, alright
Looking at the crowd you can see our smiling face COME ON!
Wishing we could help you make another goal today COME ON!
Cause, all of your fighting, keeps us alive
All you IceRays can’t you see, can’t you see
How your fans are shouting for Eddie
Every time we’re down, you can start a fight
And that makes you BOSS OF THE ICE - boss of the ice
Yeah - that’s right, all of your fighting, keeps us alive - YEAH!
All you IceRays can’t you see, can’t you see
How we love your fighting and brutality
Every time we’re down, you can start a fight
And that makes you BOSS OF THE ICE
Yeah - Every time we’re down, Yeah - you can start a fight
Yeah - That’s what makes you BOSS OF THE ICE - yeah
All you IceRays can’t you see, can’t you see
How we love your fighting and brutality
Every time we’re down, you can start a fight
And that makes you boss of - that makes you boss of
That makes you BOSS OF THE ICE

   Written to the tune of the Backstreet Boys' "Larger than Life," Taylor's rendition "Boss of the Ice" touts the IceRays as the team to be reckoned with in the Western Professional Hockey League.
   Taylor said he thinks the song will be inspiring enough to lead the IceRays to a winning season and the President's Cup, the championship award for the WPHL.
   "I want the IceRays to know that I tried really hard to make the song good, and I hope they like it," said Taylor, who came up with the chorus to "Boss of the Ice" in January while listening to his Backstreet Boys compact disc.
   "He ran up to me and said, 'Hey dad, listen to this,' and started singing it to me," Woodworth said. "I thought, 'Wow. This is great. '"
   He and Taylor worked together to compose the rest of the lyrics.
   "It was pretty easy," Taylor said, adding that he wanted to make sure one of his favorite IceRays players, goalie Eddie Skazyk,was named in the song.
   Pat Dunn, director of ticket sales for the IceRays, said that Taylor and his dad's effort at putting the video together shows strong fan support for the team.
   "We think it's really exciting," he said. "It shows this is a family-oriented sport and the kids have fun when they come to the Igloo."
   Since the IceRays' first season, Taylor has been a regular face in the stands at IceRays games, only missing some of the games that fall on school nights.
   "But if it's a big game, like the playoffs or the first game of the season, we're here no matter what," Woodworth said.
   A loyal fan
   From their regular seats at Memorial Coliseum, Taylor and his dad watched as the ice rink was prepared Wednesday afternoon for the IceRays' first exhibition game later that night against the Wichita Thunder.
   Taylor always comes to the games sporting his autographed IceRays cap and T-shirt, waving signs he and his parents make at home to try and get other spectators in his section to cheer on their home team.
   It's OK to cheer
   Woodworth said Taylor was captivated with the atmosphere of the Igloo - from the action on the ice to the cheering in the stands - just minutes into the first game he attended.
   "Taylor couldn't believe that it was OK to yell and shout at the games," Woodworth said.
   But now, yelling, screaming and whistling through acorn shells is all part of the fun, Taylor said.
   We knew him when
   "Let's go IceRays, let's go!" Taylor shouted, standing up on his seat and pumping his arms as he demonstrated one of his usual cheers hours before his team's exhibition game.
   Taylor said he is confident the song will catch on and that most of the kids in his class already know the words.
   It won't be long, he said, before it becomes popular.
   "The song is going to be famous."

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