PSA: Booing is NOT okay
https://twitter.com/grant_newsome/status/906620103525101568
Hearing the Michigan 'faithful' boo today made me sick. Completely disappointed in that display of 'fandom'.
Expressing yourself by rolling your lips in just before forcing out your foul breath is not okay. If you are not willing to cheer and encourage your team on while they are not performing up to expectations, don't buy a ticket or go to the game. Just because you spend money on entertainment does not entitle you to act that way.
If you want someone to succeed, do you boo them to or do you encourage them to push through and persevere? People forget these are impressionable young men who hear that and are affected by it. Yes, they need to be able to play through adversity. Do you really want to be the cause of that? These players want to hear you cheering loud and proud. Do it.
The masses need to know this is not okay. Don't let anyone in your section get away with this without ridicule. This needs to stop now.
September 9th, 2017 at 10:16 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 7:14 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 7:26 PM ^
I'd like to know what part of "don't yell at college students playing football" makes me sanctimonious. I'm fine criticizing them; I do it in print and vocally with friends. But I'm not going to sit on the sidelines of a game and yell at them while they are still playing because I'm unhappy. I'd love to hear your counter-argument to why it's fine. But I have a sense you just think using that word makes you sound smart.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:23 PM ^
But when I do I boo loudly!!!!
Stay thirsty my friends.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:30 PM ^
That's one of the funniest things I've read all week.
September 9th, 2017 at 7:17 PM ^
Enjoy the upcoming week my friend. ;)
And Go Blue!
September 9th, 2017 at 6:23 PM ^
They are athletes performing for a paying audience.
They profoundly underperformed.
Why wouldn't the audience boo? Do you also believe that other performers shouldn't be booed for bad performances?
If they don't want to be booed, the solution is simple: Perform adequately.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:26 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:40 PM ^
Could you explain to me why an audience wouldn't boo a drastically subpar performance?
For the record, it takes quite a bit for me to boo when I'm watching athletes. Today I would've been frustrated, but not booing had I been in the stadium.
I just want a fair-minded argument as to why you think the people who were booing were bad people for booing a bad performance.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 8:16 PM ^
"Because these are college students playing a game for (ostensibly) no pay. These aren't professionals getting paid millions of dollars."
So? They are performers who are performing poorly. They should get used to being held to a standard of performance, since ostensibly their entire career will be defined by it.
September 9th, 2017 at 11:59 PM ^
you should realize this can happen. every team has at least one game like this every season. if you don't like that, don't buy the product.
don't boo, or don't come back. you'll only get pissed off again.
September 10th, 2017 at 12:46 AM ^
One, I wasn't in the crowd today.
Two, I wouldn't have booed even if I had been. It takes worse than what we saw on the field for me to boo. I just don't understand people getting all chafe-assed about it.
Three, I will boo whenever I damn well feel like it. If you don't like it, you can take your own advice and leave.
September 10th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
It's selfrighteous moralist preening. They do it to make themselves feel superior. Faux outrage is rampant and ego is why thet are all chafe-assed.
September 10th, 2017 at 2:51 AM ^
September 10th, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^
If this team is so mentally weak that they are undone by a smatter of boos then the coaching staff isn't doing their job in that area. If true, we fans are in for a disapointing season. I don't think that is the case, thankfully.
September 10th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^
September 10th, 2017 at 6:41 PM ^
Booing the home team in Michigan stadium is extremely rare.
If you're playing football for Michigan and you hear the boo birds come out, seems to me that would lead to a little self-reflection about how much effort you're putting in.
September 11th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
September 10th, 2017 at 2:51 AM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:51 PM ^
Yep, people like you. Unwilling to criticize the team because you think your unending super fandom somehow makes you a saint. I'm sure you're the first person to bring up our victories against nobodies in the 60s and 70s while ignoring the fact that Michigan has vastly underperformed for the majority of this century. Wake the fuck up. I don't think it's unreasonable to be upset at a team that has had countless opportunities to be good (recruiting advantages, coaching advantages, etc.) yet who's only achievement of the last 14 years is almost winning the B1G.
September 9th, 2017 at 7:36 PM ^
I have literally no idea where you are coming from. If you think I'm a blind superfan because I think you shouldn't yell at college students, go for it.
I've been consistently critical of the program and players as necessary. I just disagree about screaming at them from the stands during a game. Apparently that has struck a nerve; so be it.
September 10th, 2017 at 2:31 AM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^
Does booing help a team get better, or is it just cathartic for overweight, self-indulgent, wankers? Asking for a friend.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:31 PM ^
Couple more things real quick.
1. You think Harbaugh lets guys get away with complaining about booing? You think he thinks that's an important thing for them to be thinking about?
2. Is it just me or is there something ridiculous about guys on here worried about people booing but during that same time frame were on a message board where the words and sentiments stay a while if not years, and these guys are talking about the guys we are supposed to have unending support for in ways like "X guy sucks" and things like that? Seriously, get the hell out of here with telling us how to be fans. We're not their fucking groupies and they aren't fragile little kids. Well...
September 10th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
I'm quite unnerved by how many people think booing is a-ok. Jeebus. They weren't even losing at the time. I don't care what "right" you have to boo, it's poor form and a bad look for our fan base. And apparently it makes the players upset too. Shouldn't they love us, their fans? Isn't that the whole fucking point of caring about how well they perform?
Here's an interesting thought: Should our defense boo the offense because of how poorly they perform? Anyone think that would be a great idea?
We're supposed to be on the same team, guys. If you are in the stadium, it's on you to help represent Michigan the right way. Booing is not the right way.
September 10th, 2017 at 10:23 AM ^
"Here's an interesting thought: Should our defense boo the offense because of how poorly they perform? Anyone think that would be a great idea?"
Bingo. Well done.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:33 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:36 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:38 PM ^
Boo can wake the team up and make them realize they are stinking up the joint from lack of concentration and effort so Id have to disagree with you..
September 9th, 2017 at 7:51 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 7:52 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:42 PM ^
I had (another) duplicate post. So here is the best of Hans Moleman to cover it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2t6LO9oLI
Hans Moleman does not boo.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:41 PM ^
I was saying Boo-urns (Simpsons reference)
September 9th, 2017 at 6:41 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^
Did you yell at them to their face? My guess is not.
Also, they are being paid. But whatever, yes, telling your adult professor nicely that you disagreed with their performance in a classroom is the same as yelling at students playing a football game while you sit in the stands.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
to be the hallmark of mental weakness and lack of fortitude. It's not a good look.
September 9th, 2017 at 7:39 PM ^
I find personal judgments of a person's constitution based on your personal view of their opinions to be a bad look. But then again, that's probably just my mental weakness showing.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:48 PM ^
Cool, man.
September 9th, 2017 at 7:40 PM ^
You seem really interested in my opinions on this topic, mostly to point out how you find them to be unimportant.
September 9th, 2017 at 7:44 PM ^
Well, in his defense, he posted this at 6:48 and you're still thinking about him almost an hour later.
September 9th, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^
Because I wait on my computer at all hours to respond to comments, then stew for an hour. Or I was doing something else. Could be either. And apparently you find this conversation interesting enough to follow it as well.
September 9th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^
You do realize the comments you post every couple minutes are time stamped right? So it couldn't be either.
September 9th, 2017 at 8:55 PM ^
ME TO SCREAM AT YOU FOR DENYING ME MY RIGHT TO VOICE DISPLEASURE WITH THE PRODUCT ON THE FIELD. tHEY AREN'T KIDS, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT SNOWFLAKE. I AM A SUPPORT THE TROOPS ZEALOT, IF ONLY THEY WERE BOOED AND NOT SHOT AT. GET A GRIP MAN NO ONE WAS EVER HURT FROM BOOING EXCEPT MAYBE YOU AND OP.
September 10th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
For typifying the general maturity level of those that share your viewpoint.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:45 PM ^
So every week we're going to have a poster who tries to break the all-time "neg" record? Good luck, OP. You seem to be well on your way but still have a ways to go.
September 9th, 2017 at 6:48 PM ^