OTish: Your sports fan pet peeves?
Was thinking about this topic listening to the radio yesterday. This applies to all sports and sports fans.
my no.1 is up and down guy. The guy in your row (usually at pro sports where alcohol is served) that gets up and down a minimum of 10 times a game to go refill and take a leak. Cannot stand it.
DISCUSS
February 12th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
Donnie Kelly Baby!
February 12th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
Basketball: bad/lazy defense, Bill Walton
Hockey: shootouts after overtime
American Football: inconsistent ruling on challenged plays
Football: faked injuries
February 12th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
Personally, I love the shift. Baseball is tedious enough to watch. Anything you can do to make it more interesting is a bonus. And save the "you don't understand the game" response.
Also, I like the shift because it penalizes bulky pull hitters. It encourages hitters to use the whole field which is the right way to hit.
February 12th, 2015 at 6:56 PM ^
Basketball: Flopping
Hockey: Diving (we're looking at you Cindy)
Futbol: Diving (We're looking at you Ronaldo)
February 12th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
Also, congratulating douchy guys like Dantonio, Meyer, or Crean after they do something good. Just like I wouldn't compliment the guy flipping me off in the car next to me, I'm not going to congratulate those guys after a NC, Rose Bowl, or Jordan Morgan missed lay in. I'll save it for the truly good guys like Tim Miles.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
I don't know if this qualifies as a pet peeve, but as I was leaving the OSU game last year after we missed out on a upset for the ages, the scum that is OSU fans stuck around, put their arms around each other, and started to smugly sing that disgusting, vomit-inducing Carmen Ohio song.
Seeing opposing fans celebrate on our turf, OSU fans no less, is one of the most infuriating things I can ever see. I know I'd do the exact same thing in their stadium if I got the chance, but still, seeing it is just stomach-wrenching.
February 12th, 2015 at 6:58 PM ^
If so many ticket holders didn't sell to the away side, or better yet, supported their fucking team on SENIOR DAY, this wouldn't happen! That's my pet peeve; not the dregs who come up from that state down south.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
People (men, women or child) who do not remove their hat for the playing of the national anthem.
It's two minutes. Remove your fucking hat and show some respect.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
Finally, we agree. I think you're more of an asshole too.
Good day, sir.
EDIT: ummm...I mean ma'am.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
I disagree with my MIL, but I show her tons of respect. Good example, right?
February 12th, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 7:01 PM ^
That being said I still find it incredibly hard to believe that I am the only person who does some of these "pet peeves"? Or else because of the "outrage" no one wants to admit to any now :)
February 12th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
Yeah. I wouldn't like you very much at all. Free speech and all...do what you gotta do.
Love it or leave it, brother.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
It was an attempt at humor. The type of humor that I'm not surprised you did not pick up on. Try reading it in Hulk Hogan's voice.
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:27 PM ^
What?
February 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
MODS: please hammer this douche
February 12th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
Ban her for what exactly? Stop being "outraged." Who cares what she thinks of the national anthem etc.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
I agree. I whole-heartedly disagree with her position, but I don't think she deserves the banhammer either.
She is a person with which I would not like to spend one second, regardless her position.
Why should we/they stop being "outraged", though? What's wrong with being outraged at someone for how they think or feel.
We are allowed to have differing views here, aren't we?
February 12th, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
You feeling "outraged" on a sports blog isn't actual outrage. You're not going to do anything to prevent anti-nationalism/miltiariasm people from speaking their minds (actually that would be un-American in itself)... you disagree with her. I think people have lost perspective on what actual outrage is given the events of the past year...
Are you surprised/dismayed at her comments? Yes, who isn't?.
Are you shocked/angry/furious at her? I doubt it or you should be taking the internet a little bit less serious.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:05 PM ^
I was responding to a question... but that's fine. You proved my point.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^
I just wanna see how narrow this thread can go at this point. Humor me...
February 12th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^
I saw a thread yesterday that got down to almost a word per line of narrowness lol. Yay 90s Blog technology.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 7:16 PM ^
I agree...
sorry @OccaM, when those kids tore apart the ski resort up north, and there were 3 diaries about it here, filled with "fratboy douche" comments, you were pretty upset. So is @pkatz only allowed to be outraged at things you approve of?
February 12th, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
Don't be stupid.
"Take your hat off for America! It's a bastion of capital-F 'Freedom'"!
"Saying something I disagree with!? BAAAAAAAAAN!"
February 12th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
Asshole.
February 12th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
I think you are getting patriotism confused with nationalism. The national anthem is played "to honor America," not as a call to arms against other nations.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
My pet peeve - playing the national anthem at sporting events.
Lets go back to the pre-WW2 custom of not doing it.
While we're at it, let's go back to the Pledge of Allegiance as it existed prior to about that time also.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 3:47 PM ^
It depends on the country. Many countries will play it in certain contexts, such as the final of their country's national cup. Some never do. Some (including the U.S. and Canada) play it a ton.
There are countries that take it further than we do. I had a friend from Uruguay who told me he and his classmates had to sing the national anthem at the beginning of every school day, in every year from kindergarten to the end of high school - and it's apparently a really long song.
February 12th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
pre-1954 pledge MUCH better. oops, crossed a line.
As a sports-related pet peeve? I'd have to say the volume and nonstop blaring of sound effects, (crashes, roars, explosions) Music (the same 15 second snippets OVER & FUCKING OVER again) during games.
Maybe I'd like to not have to scream in my wifes / friends ear when sitting next to them at a game onc e in a while.
Don't get me wrong, I love cheering every second that the team is on the field competing; but really, do we have to be at 100 decibles half way through the 2nd quarter when the refs are conferring on a clock reset?
February 12th, 2015 at 5:13 PM ^
pre-1954 pledge MUCH better. oops, crossed a line.
Funny enough - I know some relatives/descendants of the original writer (Francis Bellamy).
The family STRONGLY opposed the additions in 1954, and has pretty continuously lobbied to return the Pledge to its original form since that time.
February 12th, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
I don't mind the national anthem, but I hate that they've replaced the seventh inning stretch with "God Bless America" since 9/11/2001.