Inside the puro taqueria made famous by San Antonio author Shea Serrano The ‘Edgar’ haircut San Antonio makes fun of might be rooted in indigenous culture The 40-year-old truck's fandom extends into snacking. It's refreshingly participatory.Įlizondo also tells me he finds Grave Digger - perhaps the most famous and dynastic Monster Truck of the pack - wildly overrated. The fan interaction and community aspect extends into the competitive performance, when audience members submit numerical scores via cell phone after trucks attempt tricks each round. "You can meet the drivers, there's not a lot of sports where you can do that.” “These drivers, they really incorporate the fans," says Elizondo.
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The young diehard particularly loves the face time fans can have with drivers at pre-show events known as "pit-parties." As I took his photograph, he unfurled a white poster board, revealing a hand-drawn apparition of the silver-spiked beast. “I’ve been coming since I was about 2 or 3 years old, I’m 17 now, so that’s a lot of shows,” says Elizondo.Įlizondo was decked-out in head-to-toe monuments to his favorite Monster Jam truck, Max-D. Like basketball and ancient Roman chariot racing alike, Monster Jam is at its core an exciting stadium sport.įor young Monster Jam super-fan Jonathan Elizondo, it’s all about the excitement. Long curious about the souped-up stadium sport, I set out on my trip not only for the thrill, but to better understand the mechanics behind what makes Monster Jam such an enduring American tradition.
Anything to get the crowd amped up.Īs popular as the event is, I had never been to Monster Jam before Saturday, January 15, when the touring competition most recently rolled through San Antonio.
Each truck has its own theme song, from Pantera to Papa Roach and Fall Out Boy. While I think there's more to the sport than meets the eye, this brand of entertainment is fun because of this outrageous Nu-Metal adjacent branding - not in spite of it. Much like a Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit concert, there's an assumed spirit of brashness and a certain kind of masculine bravado that precedes the institution of Monster Jam.
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