PSA: Booing is NOT okay

Submitted by LebronJames on

 

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.

 

 

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trappedinohio

September 9th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^

**Student-athletes attending a world-renowned institution for free, recieving national exposure on a weekly basis, free meals, free room and board, direct path to career opportunities that pay more per year than I'll make my entire life etc.** 

 

Stop with the student-athletes are victims bullshit. They CHOOSE to play football. If they can't handle the things that go with that, that's on them. Not the fans. 

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gruden

September 9th, 2017 at 6:52 PM ^

If M handed out free football tickets to everyone I'd agree.  When you charge money for something, it creates an expectation of value.  While a home win is never guaranteed, the expectation here is watching a well-executed game on the M side.  That's the value.  When there are performance issues, the audience may make expressions of dissatisfaction.  They aren't getting good perceived value for what they paid to sit in the stadium and watch.

The other feedback is not buying the tickets.  In this respect the AD and coaches are essentially being warned that if poor performance becomes a thing, they will stop buying tickets.  At that point tickets become worth the price of a Coke.

Once you charge money for something, the purchasers are entitled (and have) certain expectations of what that money has bought them.  Recruits know that playing at M has not only a big stage but also high expectations, which the coaches - and sometimes the fans - will tell them.

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mgoberling

September 9th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^

I understand the expectation from the perspective of purchasing entertainment, but booing is just selfishly putting your own negative entitlement before the team. It serves no purpose to boo YOUR TEAM as a fan. The coaching staff already has an expectation for how the players need to perform. The fan's role is to support through highs and ESPECIALLY through lows. Good fan bases can pick their teams up, they don't kick them while they're down.

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Maynard

September 9th, 2017 at 7:19 PM ^

Sorry, but this is horseshit. Good fan bases are like good coaches. They don't settle for less than the best most focused performance and effort. You want to be on the big boy level? Act like it. Participation trophies don't cut it. I guess some of us see the fan role differently. Some seem to think it is unconditional love and support. Some think it is as a paying customer, a consumer. Some (and I am in this category) think there is a balance. Either way, if Alabama plays a shit game or if Ohio St. lays an egg, those fan bases will boo too. As will every other fan base in the country. Sick of this faux elitism from some around here like your shit don't stink. Let me give you a clue: You're not that special. You act, react, and feel like every other. 

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mgoberling

September 9th, 2017 at 7:27 PM ^

Others booing does not justify doing it. Doesn't change that it's a classless act. And wow, didn't anticipate being attacked, but yeah, my shit definitely does stink...

As a paying customer, I take my entertainment in the form of a win by the boys. Cheering and supporting them through their lows and highs is the most effective way to reach that outcome. Booing creates a negative rift between the fanbase and the squad. It's useless.  

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jblaze

September 9th, 2017 at 7:05 PM ^

Was at the game. Don't remember anyone booing Michigan at all. In fact, the stadium went wild after Rashan got the BS targeting foul and cheering for him.

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Epic-Blue

September 9th, 2017 at 7:05 PM ^

What I pay for face value of my tickets...I'm allowed to boo if I want! After this shit show today...any true fan would boo this offense out of town! Blow me OP! Dickhead!

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UofM626

September 9th, 2017 at 7:09 PM ^

I will continue to boo or cheer as I want. I am entitled to say as much of whatever I want as long as I'm not using cuss words with kids around in my area. Anyone who thinks you cannot boo is the REAL PROBLEM, you are probably the one who thinks everyone deserves a trophy as well.

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XiX

September 9th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^

I'm not big on booing, as it seems fair-weatherish to me, but to each their own. Still, I love Grant's response to someone who made a similar point that many have made on here:

Haha!

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greymarch

September 9th, 2017 at 7:28 PM ^

Feel free to post my replies to young Newsome.  What? Dont want to show my replies?  Fine, I'll do it for you...

 

@grant_newsome @theplayerthefan "Harbaugh says to not let your emotions get the better of you. The booing bothered u snowflake? Listen to your coach: http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Harbaugh-best-to-be-dead-inside-have…"
 
@grant_newsome @theplayerthefan "Grant thinks he isnt "a michigan man." He isnt a UM student. He is above all those who attend the university. Thank god Harbaugh isnt an elitist like you."
 
@greymarch
 
 

Grant thinks he isnt "a michigan man." He isnt a UM student. He is above all those who

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XiX

September 9th, 2017 at 8:37 PM ^

Guy really had no good response other than to resort to trying to call Grant "elitest" and a "snowflake". I'd embed them but no point in giving someone like that a platform. And he claims to be a Bo disciple. smh

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Lawyer12

September 9th, 2017 at 7:12 PM ^

Booing is part of sports. I have no doubt you were never an athlete. Athletes could give a shit if the crowd boos. Don't be so sensitive.

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XiX

September 9th, 2017 at 7:21 PM ^

Booing is a part of sports but the rest of what you wrote...

I suspect you aren't speaking for every athlete considering it was one of our own players' tweet that the OP referenced. And, further, wouldn't an ad hominem attack suggest your own sensitivity?

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blahblahblahh

September 10th, 2017 at 2:18 AM ^

It makes me cringe to see the fallacious "do you even sports?!" argument coming from someone with lawyer avatar/username, especially when it's in the face of evidence that directly contradicts your original point. I'm sure your experience as a second stringer in Bumfuck, MI in front of crowds of 300 is comparable to that of a D1 athlete at a top program.

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mtzlblk

September 10th, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^

Absolutely disagree with you.

You aren't going to hurt feelings, you are only going to succeed in making players think you are an entitled douchebag. You think they hear you boo and try harder? I think they hear you boo and say "fuck you" and all the evidence supports that. Nice job.

Hmmmmm....12 year old lawyer douchebag, username checks out.

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Perkis-Size Me

September 9th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^

A kid should never be physically harassed or receive threats. That's definitely drawing the line.

But if he doesn't receive criticism how the fuck do you expect him to get better? Everyone benefits from HEALTHY criticism. Not a bunch of jerkoffs who say that a kid should watch his back or else......

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Cope

September 9th, 2017 at 8:50 PM ^

Silence is enough of a social pressure to a football player to make them pissed at their performance and want to do better next time. Nobody wants silence in their own house. Booing is over the top. The best thing one can do when someone tells a bad joke is not laugh. It's the social pressure they need to get better. Laughing enables them, telling them their joke sucks makes one a jerk.

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MGlobules

September 9th, 2017 at 7:28 PM ^

"the masses need to learn. . ."

We'll all look to you for guidance, your lordshop. 

Booing was fine when ineptitude and greed ruled Michigan stadium during the Brandon/Hoke era. But when the team you were worshipping yesterday isn't scoring enough points today? Spoiled frat weenies. A suitable winning bulge is vouchsafed to no man.  

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EGD

September 9th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^

Hoke put a guy back on the field who had just suffered a concussion and appeared entirely incapable of protecting himself. I am against booing the team--but I can make an exception for that. Not for taking longer than expected to blow an opponent out.

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