OTish: Your sports fan pet peeves?

I dislike anything "nation".

I don't think the national athem should be performed like the singer is trying to get a record deal.

I dislike growing calls of remove your hat and stand for "God Bless America." It's not our national anthem, it's a religious song (I have no problem with religion) and since it's the second nationalism song of the day sometimes replacing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," it feels less like being thankful for a great country and troops who defend it and more like I'm entering propaganda territory.

 

Sorry, but having the band play the Victors 150 times every game...i mean geesh!

Sometimes we are getting our butts kicked then a timeout and then the Victors - pisses me off every time.

I hate people who tweet at high school kids who may be considering playing your favorite school. 

 

There is a special place in hell for those people, and if there isn't I'll build it. 

The guy who knows everything and talks the whole game. After the tenth "see I told you so, coach" I'm ready to lose it.

A few people have touched on these below, here's my own personal list:

• Boo-fan - Fans booing correct calls. Booing a guy who did his job correctly is ridiculous.
• Instruction fan - telling the players what to do from 90 rows up. "Run" "Tackle" "Throw it!" Oh, well thank you kind sir, I would not have thought to take a jaunt to the end zone had you not kindly informed me of my ultimate task. Especially worse if you're the guy behind me who sounds like Larry the Cable Guy and does this (Any Sec 39'ers out there?
• Explain It-fan - The guy who is explaining the play, call, penalty, etc. to his child/wife/girlfriend and has no clue what he's talking about. Every passing play is not a slant, and every run is not a read option. Unless you're playing me in NCAA Football.
• Parent of Uncontrolled Child-fan - The parent of the little kid who is constantly flinging the pompon into the back of your head or hitting you with his foam finger and is completely ignoring it.
• I'm an Important Business Guy fan - Guy who is trying to handle a business call or handle something clearly non-urgent while sitting in the stands instead of heading to a concourse. Nobody cares that you streamlined your gamificiation to incentivize your synthesizing of ideating your horitzontal management structure paradigm.

 

Applying to football - not waiting until between plays to get out of or into your seat.  It's 3rd and 1, I want to fucking see what happens, not have the whole row in front of me stand up just to let you through.  You can wait like three seconds.

(This is at Lions games mainly.  People don't stand most of the game.)

The know-it-all that thinks that because he played high school defensive tackle he has more insight into the coaching decisions of D1 football than anyone else.

Red aka Scarlet, Green. That is all.

Constantly complaining about the refs as if their team never gets the benefit of a bad call.

A couple of peeves:

1.  Just about anything in the ESPN comments section these days

2.  The dude who wears a jersey to a sporting event of a team NOT playing that day!

Like someone wearing a Steelers jersey at the Broncos v Colts.

For UTL1, there was a guy in a Sparty jersey right in front of me.  No UM or ND ties either.  Just said he wanted to come to the ball game -- didn't cheer for ND but rooted against and booed Michigan the whole game.  WTF?!

Any sports scandal with "gate" at the end. I HAAAAAATE it

Anyone who still uses the word "hater" in the year 2105.

No, that's just dumb. It's "home and away." A home and away series.

Why would you represent yourself on the first "home" and then represent your opponent on the second "home"? Do you suffer from a multiple personality disorder?

Playing at neither location? Call it a "neutral."

Dudes that claim, "I cheered my ass off" as if that elevates them above everybody else.

Playing ACDC's Hell's Bells intro at a game

When people say high school recruits are already getting "enough" and shouldn't complain because they got a full ride somewhere

so probably noted but the "become vitriolic & personally abusive to players for not doing X" guy. Fans have the right to question a coach call & even incredulously wonder why a player didn't see the open man, open hole, missed a tackle, blown coverage, etc. Yet, there is always that one guy yelling absolutely ATROCIOUS things about any young man that makes a mistake. Petsonal, vitriolic attacks. It's embarrassing when I'm at s UM game & I'm unfortunate enough to be near one. There aren't as many in The Big House as other places I've been but they are there & they are just the worst. They know NOTHING about the sport their watching outside of videogame experience. Shockingly, they aren't always drunk! Most times they aren't. They're just the worst kind of sports enthusiasts alive. Even if it's a pro game there is no place to bring personal life, wishes of injury, wishes of harm to their family, etc into it for missing a free throw or dropping that first down pass. I've had to boss up on a few in my young life but the best was this last year at the UTL PSU game. Season ticket holders so this same older couple (easily in their 70s) ate next to me. Have been nice all year and we casually exchange opinions, criticisms, etc but in a polite way. PSU game has this jackass 2 rows back being the guy I mentioned above. EVERY PLAYER was "retarded, needs to tear his ACL, etc" over petty mistakes/failures. I let this go on until the beginning of the 2nd quarter. I'm about to verbally destroy this guy and about a minute before I do he yells "Devin Gardner is the biggest pu**y to ever play at Michigan! Bench his ass!", he sits back down and is still yelling as he says "I don't know whether we should make that retard go back to kindergarten or just take him out back and put the b**ch out if his misery.....I'll donate the bullet!". It was awful and nobody was saying anything so I begin to get up when the husband of the older couple next to be stands up, walks to his row where the guy was about 2 seats from aisle AND GOES APESHIT ON DUDE! It was so amazing! This 70ish year old man BOSSED THE F UP on a dude less than half his age & I swear he was scared. He wanted to part of this guy who looked (and was) polite, dapper, kind, etc. The guy could barely squeak out "I'm....I'm just....we should be better...I just....I just...." as this dude crushed him. I, stood on my seat cushion, turned around & just kept clapping. A bunch more sighed "finally", "about time", laughed, etc. The rest of the game he said exactly zero words I could hear. I was so impressed that I wasn't later upset that his wife have me one if the worst flu bugs if my life (she shouldn't have been there as she was having up a lung all night & I was right next to her with the wind going across her face toward mine. It was worth it. /sorry for wall of text. Android app.

OP - great topic, thanks for starting this one

Who thinks we'd all like to hear his opinions and running commentary througout the entire game.  Shut your Pie Hole mush, Plz.  Blaaaahhhhhhrrrrrffff.