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.
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:27 PM ^
go overboard when it comes to chastizing the opposing fans. By chastizing, I mean swearing at kids with opposing jerseys on, or beating up someone with an opposing jersey on, and then pissing on them...
February 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
the reversed version of that GIF.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
Douchy Bro sez...
February 12th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
People who say "who cares" when it comes to sports here not named Football or Men's Basketball. That's very shortsighted and dumb. Support MICHIGAN.
Just because you aren't interested in that sport doesn't mean that you have to disrespect it and those who do watch it.
February 12th, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^
Noooobody.
February 12th, 2015 at 4:31 PM ^
I don't really care whether one other person cares or not, but the people who see a clearly labeled thread and then comment "who cares" or whatever are actually the worst.
February 12th, 2015 at 5:51 PM ^
I was repeating his question, as a question, then responding with a play on Harbaugh's "nooobody" thing because WD was saying it a lot there for a while. It was a joke, and only that. Lighten up Francis.
February 12th, 2015 at 6:17 PM ^
I wasn't criticizing you at all, just piggybacking on the discussion going on with my own take.
February 12th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^
Sorry, I read that all wrong then.
February 12th, 2015 at 7:06 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
Overly negative fan. The guy who thinks that the game is over and that his team is going to lose after one bad play. Just relax, man. You're bringing everybody else down.
Basically, Randy Quaid in Major League 2.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 6:45 PM ^
it's pretty awesome when the team comes back and wins. Then, negative fan can Suck it!!
February 12th, 2015 at 8:35 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
There are 2 things that Rankle me no end when watching the B1G Network.
The Big Ten is a Conference not a League.
When they shorten Boilermakers to just Boilers.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
If that makes a Boiler then I'm OK with that. I often call Purdue "The Drum". Honestly I don't see getting worked up about an opponent in any respect.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
Also, the one fan in your section that stands up and waves his arms and tells everybody else to get up, then gets upset when nobody is paying attention to him. Hate that guy.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
Lazy announcing. Specifically, any announcer who doesn't know the rules of the game they are calling, wondering why "X" was/was not a penalty when even the average fan knows the answer.
Oh - and growing stronger by the day, people taking multiple selfies throughout an entire game. I can sort of understand one, to capture the experience. But if you're regularly breaking out the duck face at ten minute intervals, I hate you.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 6:23 PM ^
Commercial, touchback, commercial.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
Specifically one that throws out how bad my teams are without knowing more than 4 players on their team.
I've found I can have a good conversation with (gasp) a Buckeye fan if they know their stuff. The guys that don't know their teams, schedule, records, etc.....are usually the loudest, and usually wear green and white.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
YES! I'm a Red Sox fan (dad's from Boston). The day after Boone's walk off homerun in the '03 ALCS a Yankee fan in my class started running his mouth, something I don't do. Anyway, I told him he could continue to chastize the sox and I if he could name the Yankees' closer. He couldn't...
February 12th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
who get school colors wrong, my mother in law always says blue and gold and politley correct her...
people who take what is said on sports radio as the gospel...
the fan who goes out and buys everything that has their favorite team's name on but does not know anything about the team,,,
February 12th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
Also, the people mostly from MSU and Ohio State that talk more about Michigan than their own team. Yes Harbaugh went 29-21 at Stanford while ignoring that he took over one of the worst teams in the country. That's like shitting on David Cutcliffe because he didn't take Duke to a national championship in his first year. Also, the Niners sucked before he got there and went to a Super Bowl in 3 years. You'd think that they would be focused on their Cotton Bowls and national championships but they must be worried deep down.
February 12th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
I felt so odd upvoting this post.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
What do you do when this guy is your dad?
February 12th, 2015 at 5:12 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
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February 12th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
This is something you encounter at events as well as on blogs and in the media, and it is the person who throws out the reactionary "fire (insert name)" and then has no organized theory on how to replace the person that they wish to see fired.
Granted, there are times that I would agree, but it is the situations where people say this and things are going relatively well overall that make me wonder if I am watching the same game as the person clamoring for heads, or if I am understanding the same thing as that person. It's when those people answer with nothing or "I don't care. Anyone" when queried about their statement that I want to tear my hair out.
February 12th, 2015 at 4:57 PM ^
Every time I hear some bonehead yell "Fire (fill in the name)!", I am reminded of one of my favorite Abraham Lincoln stories - and since this is Lincoln's birthday, it's an appropriate time to share.
In 1862, with the Civil War going badly for the Union, Lincoln was in a meeting with a pompous congressman, who kept insisting that Gen. George McLellan had to be replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln finally asked the congressman with whom he should replace McLellan.
"With anyone!", Congressman Pompous replied.
Lincoln shook his head. Anyone might do for you, he told the congressman, but I must have Somebody.
Like a lot of fans, I doubt the congressman could understand the difference.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
People that are intolerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^
I don't like hearing a bell gong on evey 3rd down.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
Bandwagon fans. Can't stand them. Especially when they brag about a team and they don't even know the players or watch the games. I know some people cheer for teams that they fell in love with for some reason (their father, uncle or other family watched their games all the time, they love a specific player), but when someone doesn't even watch a sport and picks whatever team is the media favorite and can't hold a conversation about a recent game and only use their fandom to brag when the team is good, but nothing is heard from them when the team is average or terrible it just pisses me off!
Fans that actively root against their hometown team. When the Pistons were great I knew a few people born in raised in Detroit who were rooting against them. Not people who just weren't fans of basketball, but guys who loved basketball and wanted the Pistons to lose. I seriously wanted to kick their asses. Even if you don't like the team, the positive outcome of a local team winning a championship is amazing and to root against your hometown team is tantamount to rooting against your city. It pisses me off!
February 12th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
The terrible attempts at interviews that reporters try to do with coaches or players at the half, end of game, etc.
"Coach, your team just lost, how do you feel?"
February 12th, 2015 at 6:15 PM ^
Absolutely. If that's all you can think to ask, give somebody else the microphone and go back to doing the traffic report.
I remember the infamous example of Lloyd getting asked some dumb question on the field and his icy response, "Why would even ask me that?" He caught all kinds of grief for it, but I wanted to applaud. I thought the reporter got the answer he deserved.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
February 12th, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^
Doesn't Harbaugh do that? i think you just . . .No, you couldn't have.
February 12th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
Posted at the exact same time too.
February 12th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^
Can't control his foul mouth in front of my daughter guy. I don't mind some cursing at a football game. I expect it. But the guy is clearly aware of her and deliberately screaming hard core profanity from his swollen face. Right behind him is "I am very stupid so I'm looking to start a fight" guy.