Im a chick and i just want some guys to stop yammering and watch the friggin game!!!!!
I hate to always be standing on a soap box here but there is something that has happened at the last two games I have been at that I just have to vent about.
At the Purdue game, these two drunk idiots seat jumped to sit behind me, then they proceeded to loudly blab on and on about everything that came into their heads, with no internal filter. they had contests to see who could garner the most high fives from passerbys. they ripped the coach and the players, said Tate sucked and cursed like crazy in the presence of children and elderly. Continually bragged at having smoked pot with a particular player.
They were a coupla fat a**es who probably never played a game of football in their lives.
I wanted to sarcastically yell at them
"I remember my first beer" Sometimes you should just stop flapping your trap like a cast member of The Hills (God, I hate reality T.v.) and just be quiet and let us enjoy the game. it was very distracting! there i feel much better. Its just that the lack of seeing Minor rage in the Osu game had me curled up in the corner rocking and sucking my thumb. Withdrawal has made me quite cranky
November 24th, 2009 at 2:52 AM ^
Firstly I call bullshit on this post because it violates rule #1 of the internet - there are no chicks on the internet.
Secondly, the OP's observation, about men at football games displaying what is usually considered stereotypical female behavior isn't exactly news.
There's no such thing as "female" and "male" nature, only human nature. In our culture, does that nature tend to find differing expressions between the genders? Yes. However, they differ more on a surface level rather than essence.
For example the stereotype that is brought up and disputed in this thread - that women like things such as The Hills b/c of its drama, and men like things like football as opposed to The Hills b/c men aren't into drama like women are. Wrong. The reason men like football is precisely because it *is* drama - and more specifically the form of drama that in our culture's construction of masculiinity it is socially acceptable for men to like. The notion that men like football solely for the athletic spectacle (yes that's part of it but by no means all of it) is a very overly simplistic read on things.
Case-in-point:
- Did anyone notice how popular the thread was about a month ago that talked so much about the drama relative to Miles at Michigan? One dude got posbanged (no pun intended) like 50 points just because he said Miles banged a certain person's wife and ssid Lloyd had parkinson's and all kinds of crazy shit. People ate that up.
- The Favre saga - both parts I and II. No explanation needed.
Anyhow, things like football, WWE, utimate fighting or whatever that cage match stuff is called, etc. all have the same function for men in our culture that Grey's Anatomy and The Hills, and Desparate Housewives have for women. So, the OP isn't exactly groundbreaking or revelatory.
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November 24th, 2009 at 9:36 AM ^
...but it's only a matter of time until one of you goes Marjorine on us and fakes your death, dresses up like a woman, and tries to infiltrate our sleepovers to find out what we're doing and steal the device.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:42 AM ^
Oh, we got the device. It happened in like early 2002. What we hadn't counted on was its extraordinary POWER. We were losing men right and left to something our scientists could only call "sensitivity."
Eventually we had the thing locked in crate and stored in an FBI warehouse among millions of exactly-the-same-looking crates, but not before it went viral and caused serious (fortunately, mostly temporary) behavioral changes in those that had been exposed to it.
Maybe you remember it: it was called "Metrosexuality."
November 24th, 2009 at 11:21 AM ^
You're here, you're not queer, but you're close. I guess we'll have to get used to it. Isnt' there a sale at Express for Men this weekend? Crab people anyone?
PS I can do this for days at a time without rest.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:18 AM ^
GREAT POST, GUY PRETENDING TO BE A "COOL" CHICK TO GET ATTENTION FROM DORKS ON THE INTERNET!
November 24th, 2009 at 10:33 AM ^
there was a guy sitting behind me and my friend who decided that Roy Roundtree is a good porn star name and proceeded to yell this at everyone (including a kid)in his general vicinity every time the announcer said his name.
For the record, I too said "fuck" at the highly frustrating plays. I couldn't help myself.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:27 PM ^
i had a really similar situation. two drunk pieces of trash sitting in front of me drinking rum out of a coke bottle. non stop swearing and screaming the entire game. right in front of this other guy's little daughter. someone finally said something to the dude and he went crazy. took his shirt off, started showing his army tatoos, talking about how he fought for his country, crying.
it was actually pretty sad. the guy was a complete moron, and he probably had some mental problems. the ushers removed him.
fact of the matter is, the worse the team does, the more season ticket holders will sell their tickets, and the more of these episodes we'll have.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:40 PM ^
Title of this post in my head without giving it the thickest Midwestern accent. Yammering sounds like something a Bob Evans waitress would say to an unruly crowd of Bowlers.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:49 PM ^
can this thread just die, please.