I don't know, we gave them 6 turnovers you probably wouldn't turn down, hah.
Boo or not, clap 5 times, doubt any of it means much to the players in game mode. Getting ready to brawl it out, oh no how will I manage with the fans booing me?
Let's not BOOO Army
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I don't know, we gave them 6 turnovers you probably wouldn't turn down, hah.
Boo or not, clap 5 times, doubt any of it means much to the players in game mode. Getting ready to brawl it out, oh no how will I manage with the fans booing me?
For those that actually (which i can't believe) think that booing an opponent is all that terrible and direspectful, please explain to the rest of us how booing is a personal attack on anyone. I don't generally boo, cause I'm usually busy talking with my buddies or watching our guys, etc....I know if I was playing I'd be kind of dissappointed if no one booed me on the road.
The point isn't that we're distracting the opponent by pulling a Randy Moss (full moon), or giving them the bird, or anything like that.....we're simply letting them know that we're opposed to them for the next 3 hours and they're going to have to beat our team and our volume in order to win. That is all. Basically we're simply trying to get a mental edge on our opponent.
The point isn't that we're distracting the opponent by pulling a Randy Moss (full moon), or giving them the bird, or anything like that.....we're simply letting them know that we're opposed to them for the next 3 hours and they're going to have to beat our team and our volume in order to win. That is all. Basically we're simply trying to get a mental edge on our opponent.
I do boo the opposing team usually (nothing too profane, just a boo) and I'm somewhat split on this issue. I personally don't plan to boo Army on saturday, but I generally agree with the "either it's all ok or none of it is". While I have great respect for what these guys have chose to do, it IS just a football game. You aren't booing the United States Armed Forces, you're booing a football team. I'm not doing it out of respect for the institution, and the amount of work that these guys are putting in, but I'm not going to come down on someone else for doing it, unless they are throwing in inappropriate comments.
Screw that. They are the enemy. And they are the Army, which I dislike anyway.
They are getting paid by the taxpayer to travel to Iowa and play football at the moment and not to travel to Iraq or Afghanistan and put their lives on the line. They "volunteered" to have the taxpayer pay for their education, and then to serve their country. Great. Doesn't mean I have to cheer them when they play my cyclones.
I can assure you that Army fans won't cheer our guys when they show up on their field.
If they were getting on the bus afterwards to deploy, I might cheer them then. That's only after ISU beats them mercilessly.
That, to me, is the best reason not to boo. Many players on the road get pumped up hearing the crowd boo. I like to treat our opponents with indifference.
I also find it really strange when we boo a team with which we have zero or little history. I can understand some people booing teams that you've grown to hate over the years, but booing everyone is a little over the top to me.
I boo every team that comes in, always have, always will. But I will not this week I had actually been thinking about this for a few weeks and I have way to much respect for what they do to boo them.
I guess I fall somewhere between worshiping them before the game and calling them the "enemy".
I guess I"ll go with what I do for any other "normal" team that comes in, I certainly don't understand thinking of them as "the enemy". It's a game. Nobody is trying to rape your daughter. Nobody is trying to knock down your financial pillars.
I guess I"ll go with what I do for any other "normal" team that comes in, I certainly don't understand thinking of them as "the enemy". It's a game. Nobody is trying to rape your daughter. Nobody is trying to knock down your financial pillars.
Hmm. You bring up a good point. I believe I still have the game we played at Army in 2005 on tape somewhere. Might have to dig it up and see if I can tell what kind of reaction our boys got out there.
I agree. I appreciate what they do, but it was a choice and they are getting paid. Things may be a bit different if they were forced into doing what they do, but it was a decision they made. I personally won't boo, I never do, but I don't see anything wrong with it. Also, 95% of the kids from my high school that joined the Army were guys that were the biggest ****** around and only did it because they thought it was cool that they got to shoot guns. Sorry I refuse to worship them.
I agree. You kind of look like a deuche-bag and dumb-*** if you boo.
Booing sure didn't stop us from getting our *** kicked at home weak in, weak out last year.
Did you mean Deutsche-bag? You look German when you boo? I like it.
Hitler was such a ****ing Deutsche-bag.
