Worst Experience at Hilton Ever

[CloneJD]

It was actually really organic. The student section picked up that TJ would shout this out to the players and they made something out of it. Really cool actually.

Lol it’s incredibly dumb

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

This thread has some big time "sit down I'm trying to watch the game" vibes.

 

[carvers4math]

LMAO "kill" is a term used in freakin volleyball.

Maybe we can yell dribble at volleyball games

 

[cycloneML]

Joe Walsh opened for Stevie Nicks. He was awesome and then she came out wasted and brought it all down. I’m pretty sure it was his birthday as well. He should have been wasted.

I saw this show in the 80s. Did it also happen recently?

 

[AuH2O]

My favorite guys at JTS are the ones that "predict" the plays to show how predictable the offense is, as if "handoff" is a play.

 

[randomfan44]

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.

Talking a lot does not equal "belligerence".

"Belligerent" was the UK fan who tried to fight the 70 year old man who sat next to me at AFH for the UK vs. KU game.

 

[dafarmer]

JTS favorite, A guy in section K always shouts "Call them both ways" no matter the penalty. At the OSU game, a kid(maybe his) yelled out "Call it both ways" after a TO. The laughter must have embarassed him because we never heard it again.

 

[BCClone]

Talking a lot does not equal "belligerence".

"Belligerent" was the UK fan who tried to fight the 70 year old man who sat next to me at AFH for the UK vs. KU game.

Were the fans at AFH that tried to fight the Kstate players last year or the year before belligerent?

 

[cycloner29]

I worked at Hilton as an usher and tech crew person, where should I start?

 

[Shawker]

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.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Talking a lot does not equal "belligerence".

"Belligerent" was the UK fan who tried to fight the 70 year old man who sat next to me at AFH for the UK vs. KU game.

The belligerence wasn't until the last 5 min when he kept taunting ISU fans for leaving early. "Where's everybody going? Something I said?" etc. Cocky MF

 

[CascadeClone]

The belligerence wasn't until the last 5 min when he kept taunting ISU fans for leaving early. "Where's everybody going? Something I said?" etc. Cocky MF

yeah, when a guy is doing that, he's just begging to get dropped, and hoping no one is willing to spend a night in jail. eventually, he is going to find someone willing to make that trade, and it will not be a good day for him.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

yeah, when a guy is doing that, he's just begging to get dropped, and hoping no one is willing to spend a night in jail. eventually, he is going to find someone willing to make that trade, and it will not be a good day for him.

Right. I just couldn't believe the guy was acting like such a jackass with his wife and especially kids with him. It would have been a different story had he been with his buddies or something.

 

[CYdTracked]

KU fans in general are just annoying as hell. If you've ever been to the Big 12 Tournament in KC they pack the Sprint Center and surrounding areas and it's basically another home game for them. Nearly every foul against KU is greeted with boos as if their team never commits fouls and all the gimmicks and the rock chalk chanting is just icing on the cake for reasons I loathe their fan base.

I basically will root for them to lose against just about everyone and would love for them to miss the tournament just once so their fan base could experience what pretty much everyone else in the country goes through at some point. 1988-89 is the last time they missed the postseason and that was not because of their record (19-12) it was because of recruiting violations by Larry Brown resulted in a 1 year ban. You have to go all the way back to 1982-83 when they last had a losing record of 13-16 and missed the postseason. They've only lost 10 or more games in a season just 8 times after that year. You are talking about an entire generation or 2 of KU fans that have no idea what a "rough" season is in basketball. It's a good thing they completely suck in football but for the most part their fans are numb to that anymore and don't care as long as their basketball team keeps winning Big 12 titles and competing for national championships.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Good grief. I think a shorter list would be things people ARE allowed to say at games.

 

[Sparkplug]

 

[CycloneVet]

Talking a lot does not equal "belligerence".

"Belligerent" was the UK fan who tried to fight the 70 year old man who sat next to me at AFH for the UK vs. KU game.

I’m sure grandpa had it coming

 

[VeloClone]

I'll keep that in mind. I am not big on confrontation, but if ever faced with a situation like this again I think I will have to say something for my own sanity. I was surprised none of the other Cyclone fans in our section said anything, as I could tell others were agitated as well. I think we were all just hoping the clones would give us enough reason to drown the guy out, which unfortunately didn't happen.

One thing you could have done was stand up every time the kid behind you screamed in your ear. Eventually Dad is going to say something to you about his kid not being able to see, and you can just say that his kid screaming in your ear is causing you physical pain and you are standing to get away from the source of the pain. Then it is him doing the confronting, not you, but you get your point across.

 

[VeloClone]

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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.

Agreed. It was also pretty silly with former Jayhawk Enaruna on our squad.

 

[VeloClone]

CF: where people apparently have a problem with saying kill

Keep them away from volleyball games.