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Chant "air ball" ... get kicked out of stands and lectured

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Gutter, Dec 12, 2006.

  1. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    1). The truly great players take the taunting as a back-handed complement and feed off it, don't they?
    2). If any of these players are going to play in college, the stuff they hear in opposing high school gyms will be nicest things they'll hear in college, so why shelter them?
     
  2. KP

    KP Active Member

    I'm all for civility at high school games, i.e. no personal attacks on people #45 doesn't need to hear he's fat or he needs a haircut, but the airball stuff, banging feet, noisemakers are part of what made the game enjoyable.

    If the MIAA was my college AD, I think they would have tried to throw me in jail.

    Also, for the vast majority of fans, they don't know wtf they are doing. DARRR-YYYLLLL type chants at their own guys, unoriginal material - chanting "We've got girls" at the all-boys Catholic school as they are kicking your ass is rather unoriginal. Or mentioning your football superiority during basketball season. As the high school I graduated from was getting it's ass kicked in the hoop tourney, home team starts the "It's all over" chant. The numbnuts from my school (I had previously graduated) start chanting "We don't care".

    Only good chant I heard this fall was at a state final boys soccer game from an all-boys Catholic school against a regional public school with an Indian tribe as the name of the school. "Thanks for Foxwoods."

    The morons at the MIAA can't be bothered to publish rosters at tournaments that they host, but they come up with a 60-something page manifesto on how to behave (including us media types).
    http://www.miaa.net/student-services/Sportsmanship-Manual-2005.pdf
     
  3. Toolbox

    Toolbox Member

    Listening to all this made me think of a pretty good chant that someone mentioned they heard at a game recently. The local non-Catholic school starts chanting "Ev-o-lution" and the local Catholic school replies, "Not at our school."
    It was good for a laugh at least.
     
  4. Crimson Tide

    Crimson Tide Member

    I reported on unsportsman-like conduct tonight. Out-of-town team is getting its ass handed to it and are playing frustrated, almost to the point of intentional fouls. Kid gets a foul, then pushes an opponent and gets a T. Kid's coach throws him off the court. Not just bench him, but has him escorted to the lockers by an assistant coach. I use the situation to illustrate that out-of-town team is playing frustrated.

    I may or may not hear shit about it tomorrow from parents or admin, but I could give a fuck. Not my job to coddle people's kids.
     
  5. KP

    KP Active Member

    Bravo to both sides.
     
  6. SoSueMe

    SoSueMe Active Member

    Clever kids. VEry funny.
     
  7. scribeinwiscy

    scribeinwiscy Member

    Why limit the bullshit antics to high school kids? On a different scale, this is just as petty as some of the aforementioned high school leaders. Unbelievable.
     
  8. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    One of the schools in my coverage zone chants "gonorrhea" at its biggest rival. I don't know why, and I'm worried about what I'd get if I asked. And no, it's not Degrassi High.
     
  9. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Nicely done, but that post screams out for a picture of Emma (rowr).

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  10. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Funny, I always thought she looked too much like Stephanie Tanner until the last year, when she filled out a bit and got hot. She's no Ashley, who turned a whole country of preteens onto the self-cutting emo craze.
     
  11. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    Thanks for posting that. I read through it and found it thoroughly laughable, especially when addressing spectators:
    "Unacceptable behavior: Criticizing officials in any way; displaying temper with an official's call."

    WTF? Are you really asking Americans ... people who argue about American Idiot Idol ... to not get mad at a bad call by a ref?
    Pardon me while I guffaw, then wipe myself with your manual.
     
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