Student section and profanity in your school's arena

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena

The one thing that's always irritated me about the "sieve" chants at Wisconsin is that the Kohl Center staff actually flash "seive" on the electronic ad banner that rings the arena to instigate the fans. Its one thing for the student section to do it but its entirely another when its done by the home team's staff. Obviously it must be endorsed by Eaves and the leadership of the school. To me it just shows a complete lack of sportsmanship and class. I'm surprised the WCHA allows it.

How on earth could that be the cheer that bothers you at the Kohl Center?

 

[walrus655321]

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The one thing that's always irritated me about the "sieve" chants at Wisconsin is that the Kohl Center staff actually flash "seive" on the electronic ad banner that rings the arena to instigate the fans. Its one thing for the student section to do it but its entirely another when its done by the home team's staff. Obviously it must be endorsed by Eaves and the leadership of the school. To me it just shows a complete lack of sportsmanship and class. I'm surprised the WCHA allows it.

As long as they're only flashing "seive"...if they were flashing "sieve" then I'd be offended.

 

[bottomdweller]

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Lowell is starting to see heavy attendance from students now that they allow them in for free. Combine that with the selling of alcohol in the arena, and all the new students like to chant bullsh*t at the most obvious penalty against Lowell. You also have the freshman who like to drop f bombs at opposing fans. It's a work in progress.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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My favorite part about that was that they took away a sign that said "Fix the Huskies" but let you keep that one. Idiots!

Bob Barker would have been ***ed....

How on earth could that be the cheer that bothers you at the Kohl Center?

Well, because they spelled it wrong, obviously. If they had spelled it "sieve" instead of "seive" he'd have no problem. I think he's a big fan of the grammar horse.

 

[huskyfan]

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The second game at the new REA, I told a 40 year old woman to "sit the F down and shut the F up" when she scolded us for standing up the entire game. I was going to apologize to her the next weekend but she never came back. Oooops!

I'm still mad about that

 

[BB_Cubs]

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How on earth could that be the cheer that bothers you at the Kohl Center?

Read it again. I didn't SAY the sieve chant irritated me, its a pretty standard and accepted display of poor sportsmanship these days (yeah, I said it), but rather the school's use of its electronic ad banner to encourage the behavior crosses the line.

 

[Puck Swami]

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Schools and scoreboards should encourage cheering for the home team, but scoreboards should never denigrate an opponent - ever.

I guess I am old school, but when I look the old scoreboards used to say "Home" on one side and "Guest" on the other, I took the guest part seriously. I guess my attitude toward opponents is best summed up by an amazing ad that the International Olympic Committee produced some years ago:

Watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0KQ9M0190

The script:

You are my adversary, but you are not my enemy.
For your resistance gives me strength.
Your will gives me courage.
Your spirit ennobles me.
And though I aim to defeat you, should I succeed, I will not humiliate you.
Instead, I will honor you.
For without you, I am a lesser man.

 

[Dirty]

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BB Cubs is correct. Wisconsin fans are a bunch of savages.

 

[Turk 77]

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The second game at the new REA, I told a 40 year old woman to "sit the F down and shut the F up" when she scolded us for standing up the entire game. I was going to apologize to her the next weekend but she never came back. Oooops!

Thats no way to talk to your mother go to your room

 

[crazypotatoes]

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Minnesota - Duluth - Struggling lately, they did a "purple fagg0ts" cheer to mankato a few weeks ago and that made them threaten to take away student season tickets. they also have been using f-bombs and *****, from what I have read from their student section forum.

One thing the UMD students did that I really did not approve of was start singing "Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye!" when one of our players leaving the ice for an injury. I fully approve singing it when a player gets kicked out, but its completely out of line to sing it while a player is limping to the locker room.

 

[Zudnic]

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I have been to games at every Hockey East school plus Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Duluth, Denver, Michigan State, Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown, UAH, Bentley, and Holy Cross.

That makes for 22 out of 59 schools.

I can say this categorically: Wisconsin fans are by far the most profane of the lot.

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

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I have been to games at every Hockey East school plus Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Duluth, Denver, Michigan State, Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown, UAH, Bentley, and Holy Cross.

That makes for 22 out of 59 schools.

I can say this categorically: Wisconsin fans are by far the most profane of the lot.

Not Harvard?

 

[slurpees]

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BU = the F em up, BC sucks can be heard 900x a game, otherwise clean-mouthed [albeit very annoying] student section & very classy alum/casual fans in the middle sections

Vermont = the worst. F bombs raining down from alums and average people in the non-student sections. Every chant having a different swear word in it from the student section. I've never been to UMass but I doubt it could be that much worse.

I'm kind of glad to hear a BC fan saying this about BU, things were starting to get far too respectful around here. BTW, your signs were hilarious. Surprisingly, RSIG let me keep my no hardware sign last year but took my Joe Charlebois report card

And until you've been to UMess, you can't understand what it's like. If you have anything on that looks like it might be a BC shirt (or in our case BU) they'll come seek you out, sit next to or behind you and go to town. It's digusting. I'd rate it in it's own class below UVM.

For many schools I think a lot depends on who the opponent is. Teams like BC and BU (I'm speaking about to HE) generally bring out the drunk morons and freshmen who want to yell and be fools when they play at the middle and lower end schools. This is certainly the case at UMass based on their attendance numbers sometimes doubling for a BC/BU game compared to a Providence game. It appears to be more apparent at Lowell and Merrimack this year. NU's crowds have increased since the team came out of the basement and the downsizing of capacity helps to make the place more full, but they are inching closer to UMass/UVM territory with the numbers of drunk fools who don't follow the sport at all. (The drunk kids who made fun of my friend for apparently being a fool because of his "Who is house is this?" sign sum that up pretty well.) But at least there is a core of those usually know what's going on there.

 

[Boosh]

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Read it again. I didn't SAY the sieve chant irritated me, its a pretty standard and accepted display of poor sportsmanship these days (yeah, I said it), but rather the school's use of its electronic ad banner to encourage the behavior crosses the line.

Okay, maybe I have really thick skin or else there's some ancient meaning for the 'sieve' thing that a naive young college student such as myself doesn't know about, but how is calling the opposing goaltender a sieve after a goal is scored such a world-ending act of poor sportsmanship? I agree that maybe putting it on a scoreboard could end up leading to some more problems in the future if they start adding other things in there, but seriously? Does anyone on this board go to a hockey game to sit on their hands and think happy thoughts about what a wonderful team they have and how gracious their opponents are and what a wonderful, happy world we have? Yeah, profane, inappropriate chants/commentary is a bad thing, but calling a goalie a sieve? Wow. Maybe I'm just an *******. And by the way, being in the Kohl Center when 15,000 people sieve the goaltender at the same time is amazing. If we're going to complain about anything at the UW it should be the old fart in the sweater than needs to take his numbers and be put in a home.

 

[Dirty]

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Wow. Maybe I'm just an *******.

You are.

 

[VarsityWisconsin]

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Read it again. I didn't SAY the sieve chant irritated me, its a pretty standard and accepted display of poor sportsmanship these days (yeah, I said it), but rather the school's use of its electronic ad banner to encourage the behavior crosses the line.

I call it gamesmanship. I like that the Kohl Center tries to create a home ice advantage by singling out the goalie. Welcome to the real world where people get criticized and thrown under the bus.

 

[kdilks]

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Minnesota - Duluth - Struggling lately, they did a "purple fagg0ts" cheer to mankato a few weeks ago and that made them threaten to take away student season tickets. they also have been using f-bombs and *****, from what I have read from their student section forum.

Hey, I was there for that. I was actually more shocked/offended when they did "If you can't get into college go to state", because....really? "Academic elitism" and "regional branch school" don't exactly go together in my mind.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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If we're going to complain about anything at the UW it should be the Nazis in charge of security that won't let you bring in signs.

FYP. If you disagree, then I decree that you be shot out of a cannon for your anti-Phil position.

Either Phil is grandfathered in, or he's much more careful about the fine print in the rules than visiting fans have ever been. In either case, don't hate the player- hate the freakin obnoxious security measures at the Kohl Center.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Hey, I was there for that. I was actually more shocked/offended when they did "If you can't get into college go to state", because....really? "Academic elitism" and "regional branch school" don't exactly go together in my mind.

It's a good thing you didn't go to Tech then...we did that one at North Dakota as "If you can't get into college go to Tech"

Because, clearly, UND is leaps and bounds ahead of MTU in academics...

 

[Dirty]

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Phil just needs to choke on a bratwurst or something.