Memorial Stadium

[teachercd]

It's clear to me that I'm the only nice guy on HuskerBoard.

I don't know how to explain it. How can I go to so many games and not ever see this, and everyone else has not only seen it, but has had it happen to them? I cheer, I yell, I stand, and while I am a big dude, I am not intimidating in the least. I don't look like a hitman or a biker dude or anything, so it's not like people are too scared to tell me to sit down - or shouldn't be.

Those of you who are getting yelled at - is this every game? What are you shouting/doing/ when you're told to sit down/shut up?

Maybe you just don't notice it. I don't mean that in a bad way but maybe you just have not seen it cause you were paying attention to the game.

 

[redblooded]

It's clear to me that I'm the only nice guy on HuskerBoard.

I don't know how to explain it. How can I go to so many games and not ever see this, and everyone else has not only seen it, but has had it happen to them? I cheer, I yell, I stand, and while I am a big dude, I am not intimidating in the least. I don't look like a hitman or a biker dude or anything, so it's not like people are too scared to tell me to sit down - or shouldn't be.

Those of you who are getting yelled at - is this every game? What are you shouting/doing/ when you're told to sit down/shut up?

I don't know James Gandolfini wasn't especially menacing looking in "The Mexican" but he was still kinda a bad-a$$. Maybe you have that understated "test me and see what happens" look without trying?

 

[bball_backer]

Those of you who are getting yelled at - is this every game? What are you shouting/doing/ when you're told to sit down/shut up?

As I said, it's only happened to me once and no one yelled, she just politely asked that I sit until the play was over. I haven't heard many complain other than what I hear on talk radio or read on message boards.

You also need to consider the sample population here. A lot of people here are saying they only go to a couple games a year. Also, I'm going to guess the people that are cazy enough to spend an hour or more a day on a message are the same people crazy enough to want to stand and scream all game. Therefore, I would expect most people on here to have an experience like that. It's not as if 95% of the people sharing these stories are 60 year old season ticket holders that attend every game.

Apparently, knapp, you are in a good section. It also sound like you don't move around much, so it makes sense that if you don't see it at one game, you won't see it at any if you're surrounded by the same group of people every game. Maybe if you went and sat at the top row for a game and watched the crowd, you'd believe us :thumbs

 

[knapplc]

It also sound like you don't move around much, so it makes sense that if you don't see it at one game, you won't see it at any if you're surrounded by the same group of people every game.

That may be the key point, along with the sample population here. I wonder if a lot of the folks getting told to sit down are people who don't go to games much and buy tickets from random folks. I would be willing to bet those folks most likely to sell their tickets are blue hairs who sit around their other blue hair cronies, and their section usually sits down.

The seats we had down in row five weren't ours - we just bought them from a guy for a dozen years or so. He stopped selling them, and now we're up in row 84 or so, but those are really the only two places we've sat for the past 20-ish years.

The only other times I've moved around the stadium have been last year against SDSU when we sat near the student section which was standing anyway.

I'd like to have people who get told to sit down/shut up tell me - where are you sitting when you get told this? Which section/stadium?

 

[Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red]

You lost me at "Fox Sports."

I will NOT miss their choppy, grainy, crappy broadcasts of our games. Good riddance, Fox Sports Midwest!

I wish I could give eleventy billion +1's for this.

The only time I've ever since the "sit down and shut up" thing first hand was when a couple of guys started cussin' up a storm because we were sucking.

 

[broganreynik]

I've had seats in west stadium at about the twenty yard line in row 30-something, then the other three games were in south stadium twice and north stadium, both about row 90. The one where there weren't people yelling at us was in east stadium. about the forty yard line right in front of the support columns.

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Very first Husker game I went to, had an old man grab my 13-year old cousin and force him down into his seat because he cheered when we scored a touchdown. That was back in 1992 vs Arizona State.

I'm not saying it happens ALL the time, but it does happen. I've seen it happen other times throughout the years, not to me, but some other people around me.

I've been going to games at Memorial Stadium for over 20 years, and I've not only never had this happen to me (and I stand pretty much the whole game), but I've never seen it happen. And for about 12 years of that time I sat in row 5, North stadium.

I'm sure it's happened several times, probably several times a game. But for as much griping about the "blue hairs" as you see, you would think it happens all the time, everywhere, at every game. I'm saying it's more urban legend than frequent occurrence.

You must look like a convict or something. I've been going to games for only about 10 years and I've been told to sit down around 5 to 10 times I'd say. And for about 5 of those years I only went to one a season. Last year I was told at the big 12 championship to sit down. The only game which I wasn't in the student section besides when I went to kstate.

Hey, that's not fair. Ol' knapp's funny walk is something he had before he went to prison.

On the other hand, it did seem to be worse once he got out...

 

[knapplc]

Hey, that's not fair. Ol' knapp's funny walk is something he had before he went to prison.

On the other hand, it did seem to be worse once he got out...

Never woulda done a minute of time, 'cept I hired this really cut-rate lawyer from down Arkansas way, tho. Took my money, took my wife, took my truck and left me in the clink.

Lawyers. <_<

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Hey, that's not fair. Ol' knapp's funny walk is something he had before he went to prison.

On the other hand, it did seem to be worse once he got out...

Never woulda done a minute of time, 'cept I hired this really cut-rate lawyer from down Arkansas way, tho. Took my money, took my wife, took my truck and left me in the clink.

Lawyers. <_<

Is this a great country, or what?

 

[walksalone]

Sorry, I do not need some halfassed top 15 list to know that there is no place better to watch a football game than Memorial Stadium...

 

[knapplc]

Hey, that's not fair. Ol' knapp's funny walk is something he had before he went to prison.

On the other hand, it did seem to be worse once he got out...

Never woulda done a minute of time, 'cept I hired this really cut-rate lawyer from down Arkansas way, tho. Took my money, took my wife, took my truck and left me in the clink.

Lawyers. <_<

Is this a great country, or what?

Wow, Yakov Smirnoff flashbacks there.

 

[HuskerFowler]

You lost me at "Fox Sports."

I will NOT miss their choppy, grainy, crappy broadcasts of our games. Good riddance, Fox Sports Midwest!

too bad the big 10 championship game will be on FOX...really sucks

 

[knapplc]

You lost me at "Fox Sports."

I will NOT miss their choppy, grainy, crappy broadcasts of our games. Good riddance, Fox Sports Midwest!

too bad the big 10 championship game will be on FOX...really sucks

Well, there's a pretty significant difference between the national channel and their regional satellites. I don't mind watching the NFL on Fox. The picture is good, sound is good, and it's a decent production. Not at all like FSM.

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I've been to probably 10 games or so and I've never had anyone tell me to sit down. I don't stand the entire time, but when the game really gets going man I'm up and screaming. I think I'd snap if someone told me to sit down. I usually sit between plays, quarters, etc., but I'm up probably 70% of the game.

 

[In the Deed the Glory]

Very first Husker game I went to, had an old man grab my 13-year old cousin and force him down into his seat because he cheered when we scored a touchdown. That was back in 1992 vs Arizona State.

I'm not saying it happens ALL the time, but it does happen. I've seen it happen other times throughout the years, not to me, but some other people around me.

I went to a game last year where a man in his 30s got into a pissing match with an older gentleman because the older man told him to sit down. I'm sure some parts of the stadium are better than others, but this is something I've witnesses a lot.

Had tickets in North Stadium I shared with a buddy 17th row. Had three different occasions in one season where somebody asked us to sit down. First two times we ignored, last time was the Texas "Snow" game. I turned around and told the old prick if he wanted to sit to watch the game to give his tickets up and watch it on TV. He then stated the old "do you know how long I've been donating to this University to get these" case and I promptly asked him if he knew how far I could shove his head up his a$$. That was the last of those altercations.

Sorry Knapp....it happens a lot.