Whoever taught you it was OK to boo the other team at a sporting event?
That’s not very sporting.
Thankfully, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is evaluating guidelines for fan behavior that would prohibit offensive chants and would OUTLAW BOOING.
Don’t tell me the ACLU is going to come in here and say the Constitution gives us a right to BOO!
I say BOO to way to many stupid laws.
i don’t like people booing but are you going to charge an entire stadium with the offense of booing and give everyone a $100 fine? And how would you prove in court that someone booed?
from the “Is Bugman the Man” thread
ironic
Someone suggested: The penalty is still secret but rumor says that the first violation will result in a stern lecture that makes understand that you made the other team feel really bad.
Second offense will result in being order to apologize publicly and stand in the corner for 10 minutes.
A third offense will be to write on the score board “I am not a good sport” 100 times and to have to wear the “I’m mean” T-shirt for the rest of the game.
Rumor also suggests that next on their agenda is to make all games end in ties, so none of the players have to deal with the trauma of losing and the presentation of “Everyone is a winner” tee shirts.
Anyone remember Doug Sisk, the briefly tenured pitcher for the Mets? One day at the ballpark he was stinking it up and the crowd began chanting “Sisk sucks, Sisk sucks!”
His wife and kids were at the park that day.
Oh well.
BOOERS, DON’T PANIC: BAN WON’T HAPPEN
MICK McCABE
Free Press sports writer
568 words
16 March 2007
Detroit Free Press
© Copyright 2007, Detroit Free Press. All Rights Reserved.
When word got out that a director of a state high school athletic association was trying to ban booing at high school athletic events, I didn’t need three chances to guess the culprit.
It had to be none other than our Jack Roberts, director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
“I’m pleased, I’m grateful, I’m proud you think of me in that way,” Roberts said with a touch of sarcasm. “But I haven’t gone that far.”
It turns out that the person of questionable sanity is Mike Colbrese, executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
Over the last week, Colbrese has been slapped around on talk shows and in newspaper columns across the country - probably the world by now - for suggesting that people should not boo at high school events.
Colbrese isn’t backtracking, but he did say his intent was not to outlaw booing.
“A bad headline on a good story totally took it out of context,” he said last week as he was driving between state championship events in the state of Washington.
The entire discussion began because school administrators in Washington asked Colbrese to consider ways to improve sportsmanship and crowd behavior at athletic events.
In the interview, Colbrese wondered when it became acceptable to boo at high school events, and everything escalated from there.
Sportsmanship and crowd behavior are concerns everywhere, but Roberts doesn’t believe it is out of control - yet. However, he is concerned about the parents, as am I.
“The kids are, unfortunately, are taking lessons from the college crowds,” Roberts said. “But high school crowd seem to watch games with smiles on their faces. Too often I see adult crowds unhappy.”
As we spoke, we began to think of booing as something that is sport specific.
“I don’t think we would put up with it at golf,” Roberts said. “I don’t hear it at tennis. I’ve never heard a boo at the bowling finals. In all of the years I’ve been going to gymnastics, I haven’t heard people booing, same with competitive cheer.”
In all of the cross-country and track events I’ve been to over the years, I’ve never heard anyone booing. I can’t imagine anyone booing at skiing - spectators are too cold.
Perhaps if someone was disqualified from an event in swimming, there might be some booing, but that is it.
“I think that if we do 28 tournaments, 14 of them would have no booing at the finals venue,” Roberts said.
Colbrese said he is not considering any legislation to ban booing, but Roberts thought the entire hullabaloo over the possibility could do some good in the long run.
“This may not go to the elimination of booing,” Roberts said, “but the message from the effort could result in great progress.”
Roberts is probably glad it was Colbrese who first broached the subject, but I wouldn’t have been surprised had it been Roberts.
“He might be my twin,” Roberts said.
Colbrese acknowledges that he and Roberts are of similar philosophy, but twins?
“If we’re twins,” Colbrese said, “I get to be Arnold Schwarzenegger and he is Danny DeVito.”
OK I didn’t realize that this was only about school events and no legislation was involved. We live in an over legislated world in my opinion.
I have never heard anybody boo at a high-school game except when there was no call on an extremely obvious offence (like when three guys from Meath Park gang tackled our QB after he released the ball 
) I have also heard boos when watching WHL games if someone is hit from behind, i think those boos are justified. I don’t believe that we have a booing problem but things may be different down south.
I am all for discouraging booing but not making it law.
Thanks JJuggle for posting that article so we know where Billy is coming from.
Billy, are you serious? C’mon, man. Use the bathroom.
Dave,
Get your mind out of the toilet!!
And I DO NOT want to see anyone BOOING at NAUCC this year. It’s been embarrassing. Those kids from Washington State are so polite, but some of you others…
Well, I can’t top that. I should have known better than to tangle with the master mis-quoter. <bows deeply>
Dave is the masturbator
Dave,
You’re baiting me again, aren’t you?
Well, I can’t top that. I should have known better than to tangle with the master baiter. [bows deeply]
Billy
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BOOERS, DON’T PANIC: BAN WON’T HAPPEN
MICK McCABE
Free Press sports writer
568 words
16 March 2007
Detroit Free Press
© Copyright 2007, Detroit Free Press. All Rights Reserved.
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yay my hometown paper is bieng quoted!!
The boo-ers were panicking like cigarette smokers before the smoking ban.
They may find out they can do without the booing, and they’ll be healthier, too.
Besides, they just came out with a study on the impact of second-hand booing, and it ain’t pretty.
That means even if I’m not personally booing, but people around me are booing, it affects me adversely.
Can’t I go to a game without being subjected to such health risks???
I agree there are far too many people dictating how we should live lives.
If anyone thinks boo’ing is wrong and unsportsman like then lead by example and just don’t do it.
Can I read these forums without the health risk of second-hand substitution? *
What? You object to laws against robbery, burglary and murder, too?
Being booed infringes on my rights to play peacefully without criticism.
No, playing competitive sport infringes on your right to play peacefully. There is no peace in competition, just like there is no I in team.
We should do away with competitive grading too. No more curves. No more ranking. No more college. No more employment. No more dating.
I )@*#^ &@%# # $(%&^( #^$! 
(@# new laws, the peices of crap in elected offices dont let anyone enforce the worthwhile few laws we have, and only enforce the ^%@#$ &^%%$ laws like this being proposed!
And the penalty will probably be anger management classes, whos the jack&^^ that thought this one up and how much money are they spending to push it through, I can think of plenty of worthwhile causes that could use a little help and be alot more useful than a Boo Hoo ordinance.
I am tired of candy ass politicians trying to protect everyone from themself
Yes, because you can pass all the laws you want but they are never enforced!
We have gun laws coming out our @$$ but anytime a crime is committed the first thing the public defenders do is dismiss the gun charges, our laws are not worth the paper they are written on UNLESS you or I commit a crime, then they say we know better and get us on everything.
The other day I watched a sherriff write a citation to a homeless person for asking for handouts on a HWY offramp, I my first thought is “Do you really think this person is going to care he got a ticket and will actually pay a fine or show up in court?” I dont think so
Meanwhile the real crimes still go on and nothing seems to get done
Dave & Billy,
Please PM me when you’ve gotten old and gone deaf. I’d love to hear you two trying to have a conversation when you can’t understand each other…
Dave: “Windy isn’t it?”
Billy: “No, it’s Thursday!”
Dave: “Me, too, let’s go get a drink!”
That beats booing in my book. How come nobody is complaining about cursing? 
My wife and I go to lots of Sacramento Kings games. There are rules against offensive language, which I think are quite sensible at an event where lots of kids are present. Want to curse? Go outside. But the crowd does boo sometimes. Who do they boo? Almost never the players. The boos are almost exclusively reserved for the referees, as an indication that the crowd isn’t happy with a call (and is right most of the time). Usually we only boo for calls against the home team, so that’s a little one-sided. I guess that would happen anywhere…
There’s a difference between booing and sportsmanship. When my local NBA crowd boos, it’s usually to indicate a breakdown of sportsmanship, in the form of a bad call.
As for high school games, I don’t go to any but I think it is reasonable to expect a level of decorum appropriate to a school environment. Any such rules of behavior should be enforced strictly, especially on the adults/parents. Can’t set a good example? Stay away from kids’ sports.
Lets just BOOO the ACLU and then they will try to outlaw booing, and then we can just BOOO them more