off-the-wall fan stories

by **lil lady lax fan** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:50 pm

What are some of the more outrageous things that you've seen fans do or heard them say at a game?

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by **ZagGrad** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:08 pm

I think it was at a football game and I heard a guy yell "Hey ref, your proctologist called...he knows where your head is!!" I tend to break that one out from time to time at the basketball games. I have others, but they aren't appropriate to post.

by **bste_lax** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:26 pm

I have always been a fan of "Go back to Foot Locker" for any basketball ref.

Also at a Single A Cedar Rapids Kernals baseball game, some fan was really ripping into the team with him yelling "how late did you guys stay out last night at [some bar]" which got myself and another friend at the time laughing pretty good.....I am sure the few beers we had for my birthday didn't add to how funny we found it.

I know a lot of funny things but like Chris, can't really post them due to language and other factors.

by **lil lady lax fan** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:39 pm

When I was at Eastern Michigan we did one against our own team. The Hurons were losing 42-7 so us stalwart fans in the marching band started chanting "square our score." Somehow I don't think the football players appreciated that chant...

We also had one great visual stunt. After the pregame show we discreetly taped something to the inside of our horns when we took our seats. When we went to play the fight song after the first touchdown out rolled red felt tongues.

by **cjwilhelmi** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:45 pm

Can anyone (Matt) find that picture that was in the General Topics Forum earlier with the fans from the Duke/MD basketball game? That was good and somewhat appropriate here. I tried to find it in the other forum but couldn't locate it.

When I was at Harding we had a couple memorable moments at basketball games:

Other schools writing about our fans in their school newspapers

Other schools showing clips of games at our home court to show recruits how exciting it is to play at their school

We played a team with a guy two weeks out of prison so we held up blown up copies of Monopoly's "Get Out Of Jail Free" card

My favorite: A mom from an opposing team coming over to get a picture of the group i sit with to put in her son's scrapbook. The reason - we were the "meanest, craziest people he had ever played in front of"

by **bste_lax** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:50 pm

cjwilhelmi wrote:Can anyone (Matt) find that picture that was in the General Topics Forum earlier with the fans from the Duke/MD basketball game? That was good and somewhat appropriate here. I tried to find it in the other forum but couldn't locate it.

Right on cue.....

by **DawgLax25** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:38 pm

Two stories,

The first one was at a b-ball game in HS my senior year. The opposing team had an all-american who went to play for Marquette. Anyways, there was a big picture of him in the local paper the night before. One fellow student took that picture and blew up the players face and stuck it on a popsicle stick. This student made hundreds of these. Before the game, he handed them out to everyone in our student section. Every time the player got the ball, we would hold up the cut outs to our faces and chant his name. I say he was rattled by our display missing his first five shots from the field.

The second one was at an SP hockey game. A player from the other team put his head down coming across the middle. He was appropriately erased by our player. Now our hockey arena is very small so you can hear someone pretty good yelling from across the ice. A young kid (13 or 14 I guess) leaned over the side glass and yelled, "Welcome to church! You've just been baptized!" The student section started laughing and I don't think the player liked the comment from the young gentlemen.

kos

by **TexOle** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:04 pm

I went to Lake Highlands in Dallas. When the Fox affiliate, the ABC affiliate, and Fox Sports Southwest rank you as among the best fans you start to hear some crazy stuff. We did the face on paint sticks. We had players start fights with our student section, but the best had to be when a player from Rockwall complained about our chant when he touched the ball. He complained to his mom, and she was not thinking and complained to our principal. We were told to stop that chant. Next time he touched the ball and every time after that you would hear the student section yell "Mama's boy!" We would have themes for all the schoo. HP was always prep night (golf clubs and tennis rackets were present). Rockwall was Monster truck night (we couldn't call it what we wanted). Baseball was not much better. We would park in left field and watch the game out there. The left fielder was always in for a long day. Every time he tried to catch a ball you would hear about 6 car horns and 5 air horns. Someone would usually bring a Playboy and show the centerfold. When the LF looked at it he would be called a pervert the whole game. We had a parent yell at a football game that he would not even hire the officiating crew to work a cock fight. I have heard chants for PESH of "Where's your heroine? and Where's the spandex?" I was at a St. Olaf/St. John's football game and I saw a textbook pass interference. I just had to yell, "He can't do that, he is not a priest yet." That got a few dirty looks form the students and moms. The dads all loved it. St. Olaf hockey games are usually where the most brutal stuff happens. I have heard teams say they will not return to play at our arena due to our fans. Our new favorite chant is when something happens to a foreign born player is "USA." I am sure there are more.

by **bste_lax** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:15 pm

TexOle wrote:I went to Lake Highlands in Dallas.

I took stats for my basketball team at Plano and LHS was always a fun place to watch a game with their fans. Dressed up in weird clothes and they had "ring girls" who came out and showed us what quarter it was much like in boxing. We had a guy on our team who was one of those, you hated to play against him but loved when he was on your team who hustled his butt off but sometimes could be seen as a "dirty player". I think the LHS students were nice enough to chant "homo" anytime he touched the ball. Luckily the kid was the type it didn't bother him.

by **YESIAMAGIRL** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:15 pm

This one is from this past high school football season. Football is HUGE in my town (I don't think anybody else knows what lacrosse is). But a group of senior girls decided (wasn't my idea :wink:

) to paint our stomachs for every home game. We did it a couple of times with phrases such as T-O-U-C-H-D-O-W-N-!, R-O-A-S-T 'E-M, W-E A-R-E # 1. Everybody loved it and lots of people would take pictures. At one game the TV camera man recorded us and we were on the news that night. Well on Monday our principal (who nobody liked) called us into his office and told us we were giving a bad name to our school and we couldn't paint our stomachs anymore. Everybody in school was mad, especially the football team. Well Friday night came along and we didn't paint our stomachs....until half time. In the 3rd quarter when our team scored we revealed our newly painted stomachs............F-H-S S-U-C-K-S A B-I-G O-N-E. ooops the principal didn't like that one. We got kicked out of the rest of the game and had in-school suspension for 3 days the next week. Nobody could believe he did that to most of the varsity volleyball team, which included the student body president, senior class president, and 3 of the valedvictorians for our class! At our next volleyball game, all of the football team took off their shirts and spelled out all of our names! It was awesome!! They only got detention though...which is crap!

by **TexOle** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:37 pm

I dont think we ever yelled that one Matt. It was mostly flamer. Most teams loved to play there with our fan support. Coaches always wanted a group like ours. PESH was the worst. We would go up there and not be allowed to cheer. I have been told that parts of the fan groups at LH have been banned.

by **bste_lax** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:57 pm

TexOle wrote:I dont think we ever yelled that one Matt. It was mostly flamer.

I don't want to get into a pissing contest but I am 100% sure on what was yelled as many parents were appalled while everyone on our team found it funny including the person who it was yelled at. Moving on.......

I will say you guys were the rowdiest although my personal favorite place was Duncanville's now old gym. That place was caged in and gave off a very cool vibe. Then you have their always really good team which half our team was watching them dunk during the shoot around.

I do remember a funny chant off between our JV team and some of LHS student section. LHS students started some chant (probably the heroin one) which our JV team I think started saying something about the scoreboard of the current game or probably something about football (this is back when we were good). Then the students came back with "You're on JV" with our team yelling back "At least we play". It was quite amusing.

by **cjwilhelmi** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:10 pm

Since we're bringing up Texas Football, I have some fun memories at MUSTANG Field. Sorry for you CHHS guys out there, just had to emphasize the true name 8-)

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When I was at Grapevine it was a pretty normal occurance for our student body to almost get into fights or get into them on Friday nights. We regularly had bull horns and had them going the entire night. I remember one night (using the bullhorns) we made a wide receiver cry, I can't repeat what was said. We also had a live DJ at all the games who did an awesome remix of the Sportscenter intro with the "lets get ready to rumble".

One night after either the CHHS or Southlake game we were walking out of the stadium after the victory and had parents of the opposing team cussing at us and calling us poor and trailer trash.

My favorite thing that has happened as a fan at football or basketball games is when the people in the opposing band start yelling at you, you can always come back and say "hey-your in the band"

by **bste_lax** on Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:12 pm

cjwilhelmi wrote:One night after either the CHHS or Southlake game we were walking out of the stadium after the victory and had parents of the opposing team cussing at us and calling us poor and trailer trash.

Well, you did go to Grapevine. :roll:

J/K

I will go back to my heroin and drive my beamer my dad got me.......man are stereotypes fun......

by **DanGenck** on Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:27 am

At a hockey game once in high school, I taunted a kid from South Kent relentlessly all game. The game was tied at 1, and I was just riding this kid and totally knocking him out of his game. Finally, he snaps and flips out and starts yelling at the stands... we knew then that he had been broken, and the heckling just got worse.

Like 10 minutes later, there is a face-off in our zone and once again... we're taunting him even more. We got his name off their roster and we're just really giving him hell. South Kent wins the face-off right back to this kid, he rifles a shot past our goalie and we lose 2-1. We had not lost to South Kent in years (so long actually that South Kent did not have school the next day in order to celebrate their victory over us) and have beaten them only once since...

Karma got me good that day, and I have never taunted another opponent or athlete since.