Something for Fans Everywhere to Think About

Empty seats.

I’ve never understood booing your own team. I’m shocked that it happens. Booing is for the opposing team mostly on defense and especially on 3rd and long.

Although, I do remember during Toledo’s last season I had good seats down by the field and after a really predictable play call i yelled out, “Not for long Toledo! If you keep calling ’em like that!” I was particularly upset with his play calling and the direction of the program and it just came out of me. To my surprise, I got a lot of laughs from the Bruins around me. Luckily, we were freed from his presence later that year. Unluckily his replacement was worse.

i’ll never boo my own team, no matter what sport. unless its something like a guy from my team flips off the crowd or something. but nothing based on the game.

i feel zero remorse at heckling/booing the other team. its home field advantage for a reason.

When the punting team takes the field on 4th and a half yard on the other team’s 40, you can boo. The punting team going on the field and the offense coming off the field know that the boo is being directed at the coaches.

Things like that are acceptable, in my opinion. There are more than my example.

The situation cited by bucknell calls for the silent boo. It’s the same sort of deal that says you can’t throw a tantrum because you’re a grown-up, even though your whole being says, by golly, I should lay down and kick my feet and beat my hands and cry because the sitution calls for it. (Cub fans at Loney’s home run last night, for example, were entitled to a tantrum.) But your tantrum has to be silent. So also should the boos be silent for your team.

But I distinctly recall a lot of boos raining down on Dorrell.

Did the players know the crowd was booing the ridiculous playcalling and not the team’s effort? Hopefully.

I love reading the stories about the SUC fans booing the team after losses. Any team should be so lucky as to have had SUC’s success over the last 6-7 years. Stay classy, Toejams.

Tenn fans could do a “petulance” spell-out.

I know that, if I were a highly sought-after QB watching a game at a prospective school (mind you, this is a stretch comparable to "if I won the nobel prize AND an oscar), home-town booing would affect my perception of the school.

They take the difference between professional and amateur bull fighting VERY seriously. I spent a summer in Spain, and took summer school in Seville to better learn Spanish.

The first bull fight I ever went to was in Seville. It was a typical summer afternoon in Seville, sunny and 45 degrees Celcius (113 degrees F). Due to the heat, the expensive seats were the ones that were in the shade. So, we knew that we would be sitting in the sun. We conveniently used this as an excuse to buy even more beer than were already planning on bringing into the stadium. Anyway, we sit down, start drinking, and were having a good time. All of us wanted to avoid being the “ugly Americans”, so we kept pretty quiet. However, the whole time, nobody was having fun, nobody was drinking, and everybody was looking at us like we assholes. So we kept an even lower profile.

Two weeks later I met a different friend over there and we went to a bull fight in Valencia. I told him, “man, these people are totally boring at bull fights and take it way too seriously. So let’s just lay low.” We show up, and the Spaniards inside arena are going absolutely bananas. Everyone is loud, laughing, and drinking like fish. There were 3 older men in my area that were taking these things full of wine that looked like Camelbak water pouches (probably Cow’s bladders, which is why I remember it) and were pooring them into any and everyone’s mouths from about 3 feet above their mouth. This kept up even during the bullfight. People yelling, wine spilling, it turned out to be a lot of fun.

Needless to say, my buddy thought I was nuts until I talked to a local who pointed out the obvious: everybody at the amateur events know the Matadors (who are typically locals) and want to keep it quiet so the Matador can concentrate and be successful. I asked him about the professional fights and he said the pros can look out for themselves.

Well, I’m not sure why I wrote this…actually I do, these capital markets SUCK!