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Ugly fan encounter at Eagles-Packers game

We used to have a small gathering of SoCals and NoCals and it always included a Giants game. One SoCal is huge for the Dodgers and wears their gear. We show up at Whatever-the-Name-of-the-Place is Park. Giants fan gets in his face and shouts "DODGERS GO HOME!!" Friends shouts back, "You should be glad I'm here because you have somebody to yell at." Both dudes laughed, hugged and went to the beer line.
 
Re: the guy getting fired. If you're in any way a forward-facing employee for your company and it comes out you're involved in bullshirt like this and it paints the company in a bad light, yeah, you're going to lose your job. Easy solution: Stop being an asshole in public.

I did my own research! It says here I can act however I want because First amendment! Look out or I'll bite you!
 
STUPID WOKES!

Confession time: In the jamband scene, there's a subset of fans called "Wooks." Think white guys with dreadlocks and beards, smelling of patchouli and weed and wearing patchwork jeans and grungy Phish or Billy Strings tee shirts. They usually gatekeep and look down on you if you haven't been to 50 shows in the past year.

Anyway, about half the time when I see "woke" I think "yeah, I don't like wooks either!"
 
I did my own research! It says here I can act however I want because First amendment! Look out or I'll bite you!

I work with a longtime basketball official who always says this to captains and coaches in our pregame meetings:

"You know about the First Amendment, right? It's freedom of speech. Not freedom to yell at us."

Always gets a smile.
 
DC fans aren't a treasure.

Years ago, on an otherwise beautiful day, I went to a Nationals game when the Yankees were in town. A delightful young man a few seats down from me, all the way out in the centerfield stands, and his equally delightful female companion decided to loudly voice their dislike of Derek Jeter, mainly by screaming "Derek Jeter has herpes!" and "Derek Jeter gives herpes to the women he forks!" over and over and laughing hysterically like they were the wittiest people in the stadium. A family - in Nats gear - with young kids was sitting behind him and after a few innings of this, the dad very politely and nicely asked them to tone down their language because there were kids around. The woman took great exception to being admonished, told the dad to shut up, and kept at it. The dad got an usher, who told them to watch their language. They subbed "bangs" for "forks." That immediately got them the boot.

And back in the early aughts, a friend whose family had Redskins season tickets for like 30 years got vomited on in consecutive weeks while sitting in their family seats. After years of shirtty football, in a lousy stadium and sitting in awful traffic both ways, that was the nail in the coffin and they gave up the tickets.
 

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