Worst Experience at Hilton Ever

[cycloneML]

I had tickets to go to this game with my brother, who had never been to a game at Hilton vs a Big 12 opponent. Thought it would be a good time to introduce him to the REAL Hilton Magic against a team like Kansas who, let's face it, is the most exciting team we play and probably our biggest basketball rival (sorry Hawk fans).

It was a dud before it even started. With Agbaji out, we knew some of the luster was off a bit. Kansas without Agbaji is obviously still really good, but he is the star of the show. We didn't let it bother us and arrived early enough to enjoy the shootarounds. Maybe 20 min later, a guy shows up in our section with his wife and 2 young kids (probably both under 10) dressed all in blue. He is wearing a tight fitting Kansas beanie on his tiny noggin. They sit in the row directly behind us. This was off to a far less than ideal start.

The first half was one thing. One of tiny head beanie wearing Dad's rugrats was sitting directly behind me screaming in my ear anytime KU did something well, which was especially often in the first 5-6 min of the game. My ears were bleeding before the under 16.

The kids quiet down as Iowa State battles back, bows up on defense and competes more or less for the rest of the 1H. An eruption of "Traitor! Traitor! Traitor" erupts from the student section as Jalen Coleman-Lands charges into George Conditt and both appear hurt. The mom chirps up, "Real classy, ISU" My brother and I roll our eyes.

Halftime hits and ISU has not played well, but my brother has gotten to see small glimpses of Hilton at its finest, only to be conveniently quelled for KU by media timeouts (these seriously ended 2 of ISU's runs in the first half). We were both a little annoyed but still in decent spirits overall. Then, for reasons unknown, tiny head beanie wearing KU dad decides to switch places with his loudest kid and sits directly behind me. The 2nd half starts.

The guy didn't shut up for 20 game time minutes, or 60 real life minutes. He had a comment for everything going on. "Is that their only play?" every time Brockington would pull up from 19' after taking a handoff from Conditt or Jones on a curl in the high post. "What was that?" followed by hysterical laughter when Jones bricked one off the backboard. He also made fun of Jones when he got stuffed on a soft layup attempt, saying "Where did Iowa State find this guy?"

He was very critical of ISU switching to zone when they did, and kept telling everyone in our vicinity exactly how Bill was going to attack it and why it wasn't going to work. He kept shouting "baseline's open!" "Backdoor all day, baby!" etc.

Around the 5 min mark when some ISU fans were starting to concede the victory and making their way out, he goes, "Where's everybody going?" "Is it something I said?" (He repeated this 3 more times until the final buzzer sounded).

This was a terrible first experience of Hilton Magic for my brother, and my worst overall in person. It was bad enough that ISU did nothing to stir our crowd in the 2H, but to have to sit in front of belligerent Jay Hawk Dad took the cake. Horrible experience. I will be back, because I'm a lifer, but I think my brother is out.

Dude I advise you never to visit Phog Allen. There are 15,000 of those types there. I once heard a guy there say that Georges Niang was a *****. I almost punched him the mouth.

 

[isucyfan]

Volleyball has "kills" too. That's what I think Otz is going for...I don't associate it with a violent act or anything.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Section 235ish REBOUND lady would like to have a word with you.

235 my ass...she's 3 rows above us in 239!

 

[dafarmer]

Amen to that. The wife I went to a movie a couple years ago and the woman sitting right next to us somehow smuggled in a whole rack of ribs. She spent the first half of the movie sucking on the bones. I thought it was over when she closed the box and put it under her seat, but then she started flossing.

Call in the manager.probably got comp tickets and refreshments. Bad reviews kill off business.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I am quiet by nature but will occasionally share what I'm seeing or thinking with the person or group of people I attend the game with. I don't just broadcast to all within earshot openly. I may have only found this guy annoying because he was a Jayhawk though, and not sure I would have cared if there was a Cyclone fan equivalent of him doing the same thing. It just seemed like a real d!ck way to behave as a visiting fan surrounded by the home teams fans.

There's a Cyclone fan in 238 who is a real jackass. He never cheers, just shouts thinks like "What the **** are you doing (player's name)" and other encouraging offerings. Annoying as hell. And yeah, from the next section over, I have been known to holler "give it a rest, dude".

 

[dafarmer]

Traitor was more that he went to our “rival”, not that he left ISU.

 

[BCClone]

The Cyclone Alley chants have been super childish, even more than usual because of the total lack of creativity. F Bohannon, F KU, you suck, BS, and now we get “kill, kill, kill.” I know that’s coming from TJ but it’s idiotic. What a super environment to take a kid to. Yes, I am getting old as I actually found myself in agreement with the blue hairs in our section who have never complained about the swearing, but felt like calling something a kill was too far and a bad message to send to kids. They’re 100% right. I’m not even opposed to the occasional obscenity if we were more creative about it, but it just sounds like a childish mob of 7th graders whining right now. Also, none of those chants are actually going to get under the skin of your opponent. They’re just going to laugh at the lack of thought put in and tune you out. Scream all game and come up with something that will really bother that specific player. WV’s game sheets show actual creativity and it would be awesome for Cyclone Alley to copy that. Left right left right sit down is right up there with “let me hear your [mascot name] cheer, what’s that you say?”

Before the soapbox gives out from underneath me, calling Coleman-Lands a traitor was worthless. The guy was barely here and who would blame anyone for leaving? He held on longer than some of the others and at least considered staying. How is there any hate there? It was trying way too hard to call him that. We’re not talking an Adam Haluska situation here or even a Hinrich/Collison where top preps who left the state came back as Jayhawk stars. Hilton can be an incredible environment and both the Iowa and Baylor games were fantastic examples of that just this year, but last night was both disappointing and dumb on many levels.

Time to break out the hockey chants it sounds like!!

 

[DeereClone]

I will say this style of play is not great for Hilton Magic. Seems like everyone is on pins and needles and expecting the next shot to miss. The exact opposite of Hoiball.

Also not a big fan of the "kill, kill" chant. Sounds really weird.

The whole kill thing is manufactured and weird

 

[JP4CY]

235 my ass...she's 3 rows above us in 239!

I know, I just didn't want to place her near us, LOL. I think highly of my 239 crew.

 

[DeereClone]

I had tickets to go to this game with my brother, who had never been to a game at Hilton vs a Big 12 opponent. Thought it would be a good time to introduce him to the REAL Hilton Magic against a team like Kansas who, let's face it, is the most exciting team we play and probably our biggest basketball rival (sorry Hawk fans).

It was a dud before it even started. With Agbaji out, we knew some of the luster was off a bit. Kansas without Agbaji is obviously still really good, but he is the star of the show. We didn't let it bother us and arrived early enough to enjoy the shootarounds. Maybe 20 min later, a guy shows up in our section with his wife and 2 young kids (probably both under 10) dressed all in blue. He is wearing a tight fitting Kansas beanie on his tiny noggin. They sit in the row directly behind us. This was off to a far less than ideal start.

The first half was one thing. One of tiny head beanie wearing Dad's rugrats was sitting directly behind me screaming in my ear anytime KU did something well, which was especially often in the first 5-6 min of the game. My ears were bleeding before the under 16.

The kids quiet down as Iowa State battles back, bows up on defense and competes more or less for the rest of the 1H. An eruption of "Traitor! Traitor! Traitor" erupts from the student section as Jalen Coleman-Lands charges into George Conditt and both appear hurt. The mom chirps up, "Real classy, ISU" My brother and I roll our eyes.

Halftime hits and ISU has not played well, but my brother has gotten to see small glimpses of Hilton at its finest, only to be conveniently quelled for KU by media timeouts (these seriously ended 2 of ISU's runs in the first half). We were both a little annoyed but still in decent spirits overall. Then, for reasons unknown, tiny head beanie wearing KU dad decides to switch places with his loudest kid and sits directly behind me. The 2nd half starts.

The guy didn't shut up for 20 game time minutes, or 60 real life minutes. He had a comment for everything going on. "Is that their only play?" every time Brockington would pull up from 19' after taking a handoff from Conditt or Jones on a curl in the high post. "What was that?" followed by hysterical laughter when Jones bricked one off the backboard. He also made fun of Jones when he got stuffed on a soft layup attempt, saying "Where did Iowa State find this guy?"

He was very critical of ISU switching to zone when they did, and kept telling everyone in our vicinity exactly how Bill was going to attack it and why it wasn't going to work. He kept shouting "baseline's open!" "Backdoor all day, baby!" etc.

Around the 5 min mark when some ISU fans were starting to concede the victory and making their way out, he goes, "Where's everybody going?" "Is it something I said?" (He repeated this 3 more times until the final buzzer sounded).

This was a terrible first experience of Hilton Magic for my brother, and my worst overall in person. It was bad enough that ISU did nothing to stir our crowd in the 2H, but to have to sit in front of belligerent Jay Hawk Dad took the cake. Horrible experience. I will be back, because I'm a lifer, but I think my brother is out.

Guess I’d advise you both to get thicker skin.

Complaining about a guy yelling “baseline open” and “back door all day baby” is LOL worthy.

 

[exCyDing]

Call in the manager.probably got comp tickets and refreshments. Bad reviews kill off business.

I'm a sucker for letting mildly annoying situations play themselves out. Sometimes they pay off with funny stories.

 

[ISUTex]

To be fair I was thinking some of the same things about ISU's offense and Jones last night.

 

[JM4CY]

While I have matured, I had much less of a verbal filter when I wore a younger man’s clothes. I would like to publicly apologize to any small children that may have heard their first swear words while attending Jack Trice Stadium. I truly do not wish any referee to fornicate themselves.

 

[carvers4math]

High pitched “woo” screamers are one of the worst for me. Happens at JTS particularly with drunk Hawk women. I think it was the 2011 OT special when the one screaming in my ear the entire first quarter vomited and was carried out, leaving her flip flop in the pile of puke to remember her by. The smell was awful but better than the high pitched screeching

 

[madguy30]

I will say this style of play is not great for Hilton Magic. Seems like everyone is on pins and needles and expecting the next shot to miss. The exact opposite of Hoiball.

Also not a big fan of the "kill, kill" chant. Sounds really weird.

The style of play is similar to Floyd and Eustachy and Hilton was alive and well then...they just had better offensive players.

If this group were better offensively Hilton would be bananas. The TV would have been inaudible last night if a couple of threes drop when ISU was in striking distance.

 

[Jdk]

Let’s just kill this thread!!

 

[2Xclone]

You must have been in section 202…row 8…sitting next to me. The constant talk got old real fast.

I had tickets to go to this game with my brother, who had never been to a game at Hilton vs a Big 12 opponent. Thought it would be a good time to introduce him to the REAL Hilton Magic against a team like Kansas who, let's face it, is the most exciting team we play and probably our biggest basketball rival (sorry Hawk fans).

It was a dud before it even started. With Agbaji out, we knew some of the luster was off a bit. Kansas without Agbaji is obviously still really good, but he is the star of the show. We didn't let it bother us and arrived early enough to enjoy the shootarounds. Maybe 20 min later, a guy shows up in our section with his wife and 2 young kids (probably both under 10) dressed all in blue. He is wearing a tight fitting Kansas beanie on his tiny noggin. They sit in the row directly behind us. This was off to a far less than ideal start.

The first half was one thing. One of tiny head beanie wearing Dad's rugrats was sitting directly behind me screaming in my ear anytime KU did something well, which was especially often in the first 5-6 min of the game. My ears were bleeding before the under 16.

The kids quiet down as Iowa State battles back, bows up on defense and competes more or less for the rest of the 1H. An eruption of "Traitor! Traitor! Traitor" erupts from the student section as Jalen Coleman-Lands charges into George Conditt and both appear hurt. The mom chirps up, "Real classy, ISU" My brother and I roll our eyes.

Halftime hits and ISU has not played well, but my brother has gotten to see small glimpses of Hilton at its finest, only to be conveniently quelled for KU by media timeouts (these seriously ended 2 of ISU's runs in the first half). We were both a little annoyed but still in decent spirits overall. Then, for reasons unknown, tiny head beanie wearing KU dad decides to switch places with his loudest kid and sits directly behind me. The 2nd half starts.

The guy didn't shut up for 20 game time minutes, or 60 real life minutes. He had a comment for everything going on. "Is that their only play?" every time Brockington would pull up from 19' after taking a handoff from Conditt or Jones on a curl in the high post. "What was that?" followed by hysterical laughter when Jones bricked one off the backboard. He also made fun of Jones when he got stuffed on a soft layup attempt, saying "Where did Iowa State find this guy?"

He was very critical of ISU switching to zone when they did, and kept telling everyone in our vicinity exactly how Bill was going to attack it and why it wasn't going to work. He kept shouting "baseline's open!" "Backdoor all day, baby!" etc.

Around the 5 min mark when some ISU fans were starting to concede the victory and making their way out, he goes, "Where's everybody going?" "Is it something I said?" (He repeated this 3 more times until the final buzzer sounded).

This was a terrible first experience of Hilton Magic for my brother, and my worst overall in person. It was bad enough that ISU did nothing to stir our crowd in the 2H, but to have to sit in front of belligerent Jay Hawk Dad took the cake. Horrible experience. I will be back, because I'm a lifer, but I think my brother is out.

 

[CloneJD]

I will take that over the large group of parents and kids that sat in our row for the Chicago State game. Our seats where on the aisle and these people were in and out the entire freakin game. It was awful.

I took our family of eight to chicago state and some fat ass in the aisle would piss and moan every time someone got a clone cone or took a leak. Hard to squeeze by when it looks like he’s carrying twins. Wrangler’s aren’t maternity pants buddy.

 

[cytor]

My worst Hilton moment: 1983, Stevie Nicks concert. Horrible. By the time she did her 1st encore, the building had about 25% fans remaining. She was a disaster.

 

[NoCreativity]

My worst Hilton moment: 1983, Stevie Nicks concert. Horrible. By the time she did her 1st encore, the building had about 25% fans remaining. She was a disaster.

I saw her in 2005 with Fleetwood Mac and they were really good.

My worst Hilton moment was when we had to wait until 1 in the morning for Axl Rose to finally show up. The place was about half full by that time.