OT: OSU must be afraid of the boo-birds
Apparently OSU administration may be afraid that their fans will boo the Navy team when they play on September 5. To prevent that, they've gone so far as to produce a video which reminds their fans to stand and welcome the service academy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Z52GKONPc&feature=email
Can you imagine needing a video in order to remind us to stand and applaud a service academy team into Michigan Stadium? Hardly the start of a tradition to stand and welcome your service academy opponent.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:00 AM ^
Shrug. Better than not putting out a video and ending up looking like Rutgers and Maryland.
edit: besides, we just had a post exhorting M fans not to boo our own damn player. So.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:05 AM ^
Blog user != University Administration. Point taken, but it's a little different.
Still, at least they're making a point to avoid it. It would have been nice for our players if some of our fans could have refrained from booing last year.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:10 AM ^
Yes, I can imagine that.
We booed our own players last year and have done so many times in the past before then. I would not put it past any fan base in college football to boo their opposition as they come out of the tunnel, regardless of who it is.
Just like I would not put it past any NHL fan base to boo the other country's anthem.
Every fanbase has knuckleheads, Michigan is hardly the exception.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:12 AM ^
that you would make the erroneous leap, and assume the administration of THE Ohio State University had some part in producing this...
August 25th, 2009 at 11:26 AM ^
Whatever necessary, as corny as it may sound, I think when playing the service academy schools, they deserve at the very bare minimum not being booed.
I may be different if they are a rival or something, but that's just what I think.
Neg points commence.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:41 AM ^
see a fan base booing a team like Navy or Army. I'm sure there will be people booing them. It's not a big deal, fans boo any away team. It's nothing personal, we just like our team better. I would hope that our fans would not boo a service academy team, though.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:42 AM ^
to whoever made that video.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:14 PM ^
If I were them, I'd have made the video, too. You can never be too safe in that kind of situation, and it's better to have some sort of precaution rather than risking disrespect to some of the nation's most respected people.
Besides, OSU doesn't play service academies every day. They're not Notre Dame, they might not know the etiquette. Zing.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:22 PM ^
To be fair (gritting teeth) to OSU, there was nothing in there about not booing, as though that were the expectation.
I actually (stabbing self in leg with pencil) thought (peeling skin off own face) it was (breaking femurs with bolt cutters) a pretty (shaving ass and sitting in bowl of gin) cool vid (immolating self in driveway).
August 25th, 2009 at 2:00 PM ^
The end of the video says they hope this is a tradition that "starts at OSU and is practiced by every team that hosts a service academy." Wow. Just wow.
Do you think they know that ND fans have always done this and most other fan bases are patriotic as well? It's almost as though they can't recognize that stopping their own drunken fans from booing the military BARELY brings them up to the minimum standard around CFB.
They are really trying hard to turn the NEED for this video into a positive somehow, but it fails.
Maybe OSU fans will "start a tradition" by not throwing bags of urine at opposing teams or cursing out little kids who support a visiting team. Maybe with "their leadership," it can be an example followed around CFB....
What a joke.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:15 AM ^
the point I was trying to make with my last sentence.
Pretty f'n presumptuous to say that you're starting a tradition with this one.
What they're obviously trying to do is stop large portions of the fanbase from mocking and booing the academy. Which, having twice vistited C-town on football saturdays is probably a smart move on their part. It is sad that they need to do it.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:16 PM ^
OSU have to make a video reminding fans that there are more important things than football? Maybe, maybe not. But I applaud them for making an effort if they deem it necessary.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:38 PM ^
I think they should do it because I wouldn't want to be know as the school that would boo a service academy.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:41 PM ^
If you think any huge school with a huge enrollment/alumni base/fan base is incredibly more well behaved than others, you're kidding yourself.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:52 PM ^
It's not that I think a certain fanbase is much more well behaved than others, it's that I think a certain fanbase is much more worse behaved than other large fanbases.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:55 PM ^
And I'm sure that has nothing to do with being a Michigan fan...
August 25th, 2009 at 3:10 PM ^
There are certain fanbases widely known for assholery, to the point where it doesn't take a rivalry to illustrate it. I have probably both over-harped on this and over-told this story, but: going dressed as a Purdue fan (it's my brother's alma mater) to a Purdue-Maryland bowl game a few years back confirmed everything I had already felt about the Maryland fan base from the point of view of a rival. And we're talking Purdue: one of the least offensive schools I can think of, and in no way a natural Maryland rival.
Plus, Maryland is well known for treating Navy like shit. Not just the players either - uniformed midshipmen that get bussed down to the game at College Park.
Some fanbases just get pigeonholed, and it's rarely undeserved IME. I certainly think OSU's very public pattern of trashing Columbus earlier this decade got them pigeonholed, so it's no surprise at all that they'd make equally public efforts to reverse that perception.