From player to specatator, the tale of an Oregon Duck

[Grisly Fan]

Players will mostly work their asses off and feel under-appreciated. Fans will mostly not do a hell of a lot and feel self-important and over-estimate their knowledge of the sport. It is that way in every sport and probably always has been. Love and hate might be opposites but so are enthusiasm and apathy. As long as fans are willing to pay for the tickets to fund the scholarships that enables a free education, players get to accept fan behavior as long as it remains within the rules. That means booing or cheering or whatever. It is one whole big symbiotic relationship and if you take away one part the whole damn thing disintegrates because it is all artificial. Yeah that is a bit melodramatic but it is also true. All anyone can do is be the fan or the player that they want to be and let the other nonsense go. Yep Ducks fans are basking in the 15 minutes of fame but that too shall pass and the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Griz fans learned that last year (and this year is still a work in progress -- the lesson may be continuing). I suspect that the longer this athlete is away from the game, the more he will become like the rest of us idiot fans and the cycle will continue. Thank God.

 

[PlayerRep]

This statement makes no sense.

"As long as fans are willing to pay for the tickets to fund the scholarships that enables a free education, players get to accept fan behavior as long as it remains within the rules."

Players may not be able to stop bad and unacceptable fan behavior, but players have every right to complain about it and expose the bad behavior. It's a free country; people can act like idiots and complain. However, fans thinking that buying tickets or donating or paying taxes allows them to complain louder and dumber, is just plain stupid.

 

[Bluenoser]

Posted by me elsewhere:

Whoever plays the SEC automatic qualifier in the NC, I will be rooting heavily for that team. Except if that team is Oregon. Then I will be the biggest SEC fanboy on the planet.

If Oregon were to play the Taliban - in anything - I would root for the Taliban.

If Rosie O'Donnell were to die some spectacularly gory death and were to become a zombie, and then someone dug up the corpses of Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, Hussein, Himmler, Steinbrenner, and other assorted douchebags and turned them into zombies too and they played Oregon; I would be rooting for the O'Donnell, Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, Hussein, Himmler, Steinbrenner, and Assorted Douchebag Zombies.

Not even close.

I've lived in Portland and have visited Portland for decades. Nike Votech football fans are some obnoxious mix of Raider fan, Yankee fan, and European soccer hooligan all rolled up into one smug, smarmy, goatse lovin' felch monkey douchebag.

 

[Grisly Fan]

This statement makes no sense.

"As long as fans are willing to pay for the tickets to fund the scholarships that enables a free education, players get to accept fan behavior as long as it remains within the rules."

Players may not be able to stop bad and unacceptable fan behavior, but players have every right to complain about it and expose the bad behavior. It's a free country; people can act like idiots and complain. However, fans thinking that buying tickets or donating or paying taxes allows them to complain louder and dumber, is just plain stupid.

i never said that they had to like it. Yes they get to complain about it but at the end of the day they only get to accept it. Or are you proposing the players climb up into the stands and make the fans stop being jerks? No? Sorry but as long as fans pay to be n the stadium then they have the ability and right to say stupid stuff (just like your ability to log into this forum).

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

Typical college athlete...ohh poor me...my life was so hard and we were slaves making money for the school....take your free ride..enjoy not having student loans..and STFU!

Just another example of someone not knowing WTF they are talking about.

I was a college athlete...I'm just not ignorant enough to not realize how good I hade it, and also appreciated what the school was providing me!

 

[Forshizzlegrizzle]

hade it? You sure you were a college athlete?

 

[poorgriz]

I think players have every right to complain about the "bad" fans... and we all know which "fans" these folks are. I also believe that fans have every right to complain about and\or criticize players. Not for mistakes on the field... but definitely for lack of effort, and absolutely we have the right to lambast players for inappropriate actions off the field. :evil:

 

[Moosehead]

hade it? You sure you were a college athlete?

Give him a break..he majored in athletics, not spelling

 

[PlayerRep]

I think players have every right to complain about the "bad" fans... and we all know which "fans" these folks are. I also believe that fans have every right to complain about and\or criticize players. Not for mistakes on the field... but definitely for lack of effort, and absolutely we have the right to lambast players for inappropriate actions off the field. :evil:

No one questions whether fans have the "right" to complain about or criticize players. The question is whether they should, or whether it is right to do so. I'm not talking about minor complaints criticisms. Obviously, that's not a big deal. In my view, fans at the FCS level shouldn't severely criticize players, and certainly not boo the team at games. In my view, those that do these things are bad fans. And other fans and posters have every right to complain about and criticize these "fans", and to label them bad fans, which they are. And some of these bad fans have every right to whine and cry, when they get called out, and many of them do.