An entire section of fans dressed up as refs at Caps/Blackhawks game and they started the best chant

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Nobody goes to a sporting event to cheer for the referees.

No, fans go to sporting events to cheer on their favourite players and teams, but for some weird (and awesome) reason, we've seen a group of people cheer for the officials at an NHL game twice this season.

"Let's go refs!" 🤣 [😂] . This section of fans at the Barclays Center was cheering on the refs at tonight's Isles/Avs game. . (Via: YouTube/Neothylacine X)

A post shared by TSN (@tsn_official) on Nov 5, 2017 at 8:24pm PST

Wednesday night in Washington, a big group of fans dressed up as referees for the Capitals and Blackhawks game and cheered on the officials with an incredible chant.

They came to cheer for the refs. Nothing weird about it. #CapsHawks pic.twitter.com/5JQLtH8t6G
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) December 7, 2017

There’s a referee fan section at tonight’s #capshawks game. They’re dressed in black and white stripes and cheer every time the refs make a call. I approve. pic.twitter.com/qZxChESccb
— Chris Daly (@oddbodkins) December 7, 2017

It's a far away picture but there's a group of referee fans dressed in stripes. They cheer whenever the refs blow their whistle or drop the puck for a face-off 😂 #CapsHawks pic.twitter.com/7ZmWbLwnmr
— Renee (@reneesydney12) December 7, 2017

As per NHL.com, the group was made up of actual referees from the Washington metro area.

Make some new friends @Caps_Slapshot? 🦓 pic.twitter.com/a6k9E2gqDD
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) December 7, 2017

Usually fans rip on officials at games, especially when they make a call they don't agree with, but it's nice to see some people come to games to cheer on referees and in our opinion, this needs to happen much more often.

(H/T: NHL.com)