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Hope Cat Recruits at Game had fun!

I watched the game on t.v. and missed hearing the chant and I can't believe it is that big of a deal. That chant in particular is not original and is used by griz students as well, only we say f.t.c. Do I agree it's a cool thing? No. Is it something to bunch your panties over? Obviously when people are bored it is.
 
GK19 said:
I watched the game on t.v. and missed hearing the chant and I can't believe it is that big of a deal. That chant in particular is not original and is used by griz students as well, only we say f.t.c. Do I agree it's a cool thing? No. Is it something to bunch your panties over? Obviously when people are bored it is.
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GK,

I see you are a student so I hear where you are coming from. It is good to get a reminder of that at times! Thanks! When I was your age I might have been leading the cheers had I not been playing. :thumb:
 
What you choose to wear or say is a reflection of you and no one else provided you are acting as an individual and not a specific representative of an organization. Also you can no more say "all Cat fans" any more than you can say "all Griz fans". In any sufficently large sample, and I'm certain both the groups of Cat fans and Griz fans qualify, you will find the whole gamut of behavior. All of these attempts to prove superiority are simply a waste of time because they can never sum up or compute an "average" behavior for any population thereby proving that one group acts better on average than another. Given that just give up this whole us vs. them when it comes to whose fans are better behaved. The discussion is just really silly because anecdotes are proof of nothing.
 
Grisly Fan said:
What you choose to wear or say is a reflection of you and no one else provided you are acting as an individual and not a specific representative of an organization. Also you can no more say "all Cat fans" any more than you can say "all Griz fans". In any sufficently large sample, and I'm certain both the groups of Cat fans and Griz fans qualify, you will find the whole gamut of behavior. All of these attempts to prove superiority are simply a waste of time because they can never sum up or compute an "average" behavior for any population thereby proving that one group acts better on average than another. Given that just give up this whole us vs. them when it comes to whose fans are better behaved. The discussion is just really silly because anecdotes are proof of nothing.
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But we got 4 pages of nothing discussed now didn't we? :thumb:
 
I find the arguments made by the cat fans laughable and totally absurd. Let's change the image here and see if they can relate.

Okay... let's assume that we aren't talking about chants here but assume the fans throw glass beer bottles instead. Is there a difference between these following scenarios?:

1) A few fans throw a beer bottle on the field?
2) The majority of fans throw beer bottles on the field?
3) When you enter the stadium the fans are handed beer bottles and encouraged to wear t-shirts with beer bottles on them?

Admittedly the first scenario might be Griz fans... however the 2nd and 3rd image are cat fans (my experience). I find it interesting that cat fans aren't able to distinguish between SUPPORT FOR THEIR TEAM and hatred for their opponents. It's interesting that cat fans are so obsessed with beating the Griz and appear unable to view a larger perspective. Think of the number of cat fans who came on this site after the griz/cat game and claimed that winning that game is what made their season... that going to post-season play was inconsequential to their season. Although I hate ... really hate.... losing to the cats... I'd do it every year if it meant we could still enter post-season play.
 
ponezone said:
I find the arguments made by the cat fans laughable and totally absurd. Let's change the image here and see if they can relate.

Okay... let's assume that we aren't talking about chants here but assume the fans throw glass beer bottles instead. Is there a difference between these following scenarios?:

1) A few fans throw a beer bottle on the field?
2) The majority of fans throw beer bottles on the field?
3) When you enter the stadium the fans are handed beer bottles and encouraged to wear t-shirts with beer bottles on them?

Admittedly the first scenario might be Griz fans... however the 2nd and 3rd image are cat fans (my experience). I find it interesting that cat fans aren't able to distinguish between SUPPORT FOR THEIR TEAM and hatred for their opponents. It's interesting that cat fans are so obsessed with beating the Griz and appear unable to view a larger perspective. Think of the number of cat fans who came on this site after the griz/cat game and claimed that winning that game is what made their season... that going to post-season play was inconsequential to their season. Although I hate ... really hate.... losing to the cats... I'd do it every year if it meant we could still enter post-season play.
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First of all, are you comparing language to throwing beer bottles at players?

Secondly, I can't think of the number of Cat fans who came by and said they are glad they didn't make the playoffs and proclaimed that we would rather beat the Griz than make the playoffs. Go find some of those posts for me, and smack forum doesn't count because those posts were there soley to rile you guys up.

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Grisly Fan said:
What you choose to wear or say is a reflection of you and no one else provided you are acting as an individual and not a specific representative of an organization. Also you can no more say "all Cat fans" any more than you can say "all Griz fans". In any sufficently large sample, and I'm certain both the groups of Cat fans and Griz fans qualify, you will find the whole gamut of behavior. All of these attempts to prove superiority are simply a waste of time because they can never sum up or compute an "average" behavior for any population thereby proving that one group acts better on average than another. Given that just give up this whole us vs. them when it comes to whose fans are better behaved. The discussion is just really silly because anecdotes are proof of nothing.
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I'm pretty sure I studied this very thing in Soc 101. Were you in my class, Grisly?
 
EastCoastGriz said:
GeorgeAllen said:
January 1984.

Nevada-Reno's Curtis High, little brother of NBA guard Johnny High, is leading the Big Sky Conference in scoring. He gets arrested for hitting his girlfriend a few days before a trip to Dahlberg Arena. When he sets foot on court, most of the students in the Zoo are wearing fake black eyes, bandages on their noses, etc.

Instead of bouncing an inflatable beachball around the Zoo section, the students are bouncing an inflatable blow-up doll purchased from a local sex shop. The doll, too, has black eyes and a bandaged nose.

The pep band plays a contemporary chart topper -- Michael Jackson's "Beat It" from the new Thriller album. Students sing along. But, instead of singing the lyrics "beat it," the Zoo chorus sings, "beat her."

Mr. High scored three points.
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I was at that game. It was pretty darn funny.
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Thats exactly what I am saying, players expect that kind of stuff when they go on the road, so don't complain about MSU fans who chanted "DUI" when Chavez came into the game.
 
I think that is to be expected, although what is acceptable and what isn't is pretty subjective. Where do you draw the line given that Alcoholism is a disease? If you razz Chavez are you non sensitive, or just a fan trying to get an opposing player off their game? Are you just being PC if you object to it? What if you think that is OK, but are incensed about racial slurs that were directed at JR Camel when he played at UM? Are you a hypocrite then? It is a subject that one would think there would be a simple cut and dried answer for, but yet there isn't.

Since this thread still lives just thought I would throw this out.
 
EverettGriz said:
I'm pretty sure I studied this very thing in Soc 101. Were you in my class, Grisly?
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Nope, I have never taken a sociology class. I suppose what I wrote was pretty much a "no duh" Life 101 kind of thing based mainly on common sense except that common sense is sometimes uncommon and it really doesn't hurt too much to be occasionally reminded of stuff that "everyone should already know."
 
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