Worst Experience at Hilton Ever

[carvers4math]

REBOUND is all she says. It's always after we don't get a rebound and it's not like a deep yell it's like sarcastic meets snide.

Well you know it probably hasn’t occurred to the players that they need to do this. Like the helpful guy in row 28 of JTS upper deck that reminds our defense of the need to TACKLE on every single down. If Heacock ever leaves he’ll probably be our new coordinator with that kind of insight screamed every play, followed by a round of spit spewing smoker’s cough.

 

[JP4CY]

Well you know it probably hasn’t occurred to the players that they need to do this. Like the helpful guy in row 28 of JTS upper deck that reminds our defense of the need to TACKLE on every single down. If Heacock ever leaves he’ll probably be our new coordinator with that kind of insight screamed every play, followed by a round of spit spewing smoker’s cough.

Maybe Notre Dame hired that TACKLE guy instead.

 

[carvers4math]

Maybe Notre Dame hired that TACKLE guy instead.

Great. I have a graduate degree from there. At least when we go to a game there, he won’t be anywhere near me.

 

[t-noah]

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.

My condolences.

I tend to watch sports from a different perspective from most fans. I watch it like I am watching game film, so I see a lot of things happening or see things setting up to happen before they do. Because of this I often explain what or how something happened to my wife or the people around me, but not in an annoying way. Like I see the screen set to allow a alley oop or a key block to spring a long run. The people in my football section tend to ask me a lot of questions during the game lol.

Like you know anything!

LOL

Kidding!

 

[t-noah]

"kill, kill" chant

I don't hate the kill chant, it actually plays nicely from the "coliseum" aspect of things

... and now we get “kill, kill, kill.” I know that’s coming from TJ but it’s idiotic.

Is the 'triple kill' thing a recent phenomenon with just ISU BB under TJ? Yeah I don't think I'd like that one too much.

 

[t-noah]

She's my hero!!

LOL. Well I guess so, if she's got good teeth. But she better also bring the napkins!

 

[Cyinthenorth]

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.

If you read my entire post you'd know that wasn't all we were upset about

 

[Cyinthenorth]

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

Bingo

 

[Cyinthenorth]

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.

I will definitely take your word for it regarding this. Don't plan on ever stepping foot in that place

 

[Land Shark]

too late to complain that we still play jock jams or no?

 

[carvers4math]

too late to complain that we still play jock jams or no?

Never too late. They are at least more recent than the geezer stuff they play at our high school. Highway to Hell came out when I was a senior in high school and I am old. They blast it to this day.

Back then we complained that the band director made us play “Moon River” for basketball pep band. First of all, that was recorded the year I was born and we were playing it 18 years later. Secondly, absolutely nothing about “Moon River” suggests any kind of pep.

 

[cymac2408]

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.

I might have “accidentally“ had to spill my drink on him and then apologize profusely.

 

[dmclone]

Every section seems to have a know it all that's trying to relive their glory days and let you know how much they know. When we had season football tickets, we sat by a former O-lineman for ISU during Mac's era and he pretty much knew everything. He talked to his wife REALLY LOUD so everyone could hear his expertise. About twice a year I would say "Oh you played football?". Then other times I'd throw in a little "Who was your O-Line coach under Walden?" or "So were you a coach or something?". So 2-3 times a year I'd get a little laugh out of it. He was better to sit by than opposing fans but just barely.

 

[Rural]

I never understand why anyone in the stands thinks the world wants to hear their running commentary even if we are cheering for the same team. When we are in top row of JTS and some moron is yelling at the players what to do, does he actually think they can hear him or is it just some weird complex of pretending he knows everything and must share it with the world?

He's not pretending.

 

[2020cy]

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.

 

[MisterO]

I tend to watch sports from a different perspective from most fans. I watch it like I am watching game film, so I see a lot of things happening or see things setting up to happen before they do. Because of this I often explain what or how something happened to my wife or the people around me, but not in an annoying way. Like I see the screen set to allow a alley oop or a key block to spring a long run. The people in my football section tend to ask me a lot of questions during the game lol.

I sat near a prominent former Cyclone player/announcer this past year at JTS. I loved his commentary and insight. He was far more knowledgeable about football than me and I loved how he knew the penalties, who it was on (as well as the occasional- ‘that official hates us’ stuff that he couldn’t say back in his radio days commentary.

So, I agree, if a fan really, really knows what is going on out there- I think most of us ‘average’ fans enjoy it. Especially if we’re on the same team.

 

[MisterO]

Take solace that he has to cheer for Jayhawk football.

I doubt it…if they’re like other hok fans, they put those jackets and shirts away until next season and wear Cyclone gear, (or in their case, Wildcat gear), claiming they root for both teams anyway…

 

[mfl3cy]

You missed the TikTok drummer. They need to have an exorcism to get that funk out of Hilton.

Or add the funk back. That kid had none.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Yep, I do. Kill is a super strong word and getting kids excited about killing an opponent is really dumb when you don’t have to. I’m fine to be the “no fun guy” on this one. The concept of getting 3 stops is great and I’m glad we’re trying to teach the crowd to emphasize defense but I saw how uncomfortable a lot of the folks in our section were and I respected it. They’re loyal Cyclones and many have had the same seats for 30-40 years so I take their reactions seriously.

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

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

The whole kill thing is manufactured and weird

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.