Occupy Game Day

I was at a Miami-Virginia Tech game at the Orange Bowl when GameDay was there. This was around about 2000 and was the same day they did the morning show from there and flew to Tallahassee to do an evening show for one of the Bowden Bowls.

Anyway, the crowd in the OB parking lot had some of the ugliest, dirtiest signs you can imagine that day and the ESPN folks called it the unruliest crowd they'd ever had for one of their shows. Even so, they wouldn't confiscate signs because they said they weren't allowed to. One guy actually said it was a free speech issue.

Apparently that thinking has changed.

 

Beyond free speech issues, it might depend on what campus they're on and what state laws would apply should someone's property be taken from them.

 

Please...Please tell me you're joking when you say that.

Havingt other talking heads following Patrick's example is the LAST THING we need.

Would you say the same thing if, say, Rush Limbaugh, encouraged followers to go to these pre-game shows with "Ditto!" and "Dittohead" signs??

Idiotic. Simply idiotic.

 

"BABA - BOOEY!"

I think I'd go with a Free Feldman sign. Maybe I'm with Hank.

 

A long time ago.

 

How can ESPN confiscate signs? Almost all of the Gameday events are at public university. Barring obscenity, what standing does ESPN have to confiscate a sign? There are enough bored law students out there and people who hate ESPN, this seems like a really easy lawsuit against a public university which allows this to happen.

 

I think it would be much better if we had an "SportsJournalists.com occupy Gameday" operation.

"Like a Cheese cracker!"

"No more ass scented candles!"

"21 and Luggie - show us your tits!"

We could have so many good signs.

 

WE CHAPiON COCKDIAnS!

BUCK MOLESTS COLLIES!

WHAT'S YOUR DAMAGE!

 

Good Lord. The mind boggles.

"No one gives a fuck about your fantasy (baseball/football) team!"

"Vats of dong!"

"BYH lasts 8 seconds, Fowler lasts 4!"

They wouldn't even have to be catch-phrases ...

"25,000 Ragu words on gold!"

Or you could be really subversive ...

"Herbstreit sucks"

Followed ten minutes later by ...

"D_B says Herbstreit sucks"

Or you could do pictures ...

 

I'm sure ESPN's contracts with schools to host GameDay include "rent" for the area. They cage up the fans behind the stage and you have to be admitted in.
You would think some enterprising students would put together two or three (or four) innocuous enough looking signs that become something wholly different when placed side by side or on top of each other.

 

T-Shirts: Two guys stand next to each other

Shirt 1:
ES
SU
CO


Shirt 2:

PN
CKS
CKS