Sounds like your typical Stanford or Cal fan. Where else can Ohio St. travel to the west coast and have a home game?
Update from today:
Game, less noise I couldn't agree more with "Unsportsmanlike conduct in Seattle" (Letters, Sept. 17).
It wasn't a game of skill anymore; it was an exhibition of excessive stadium noise, posturing obscenities in your opponent's face to draw a foul and street-punk behavior to fire up tensions to gain any advantage to get the win.
I hope the NFL will listen before the fans go deaf. Please stop the excessive stadium noise, and just play football.
This article sums up why America as a whole is fucked! Any time a team wins the loser instead of accepting it always has some lame ass excuse. "The weather, injuries, youth, altitude, THIS economy, and now too much fan noise" good god people have gone soft.
I do remember about 20 years ago a penalty could be called on the fans. I think it happened to UW. The QB would tell the ref he couldn't hear. The ref would stop the clock and if it continued they would call a delay of game type penalty I think. Does anyone else remember that?
This was a rule and still might be an NCAA rule. No longer enforced. But I remember it coming into play at Husky stadium and the defense actually motioning to the crowd to quiet down. Late 80s I think.
I do remember about 20 years ago a penalty could be called on the fans. I think it happened to UW. The QB would tell the ref he couldn't hear. The ref would stop the clock and if it continued they would call a delay of game type penalty I think. Does anyone else remember that?
I do remember about 20 years ago a penalty could be called on the fans. I think it happened to UW. The QB would tell the ref he couldn't hear. The ref would stop the clock and if it continued they would call a delay of game type penalty I think. Does anyone else remember that?
I remember it more happening in the pros especially with the Seahawks. late 80s and early 90s. Furnace and Kirby Puckett were talking about it a little. Usually the ref would tell the opposing QB to play through it and stop being a pussy. At worst they might reset the play clock.. the refs know it was a pathetic rule and really didn't want to call a penalty.
I do remember about 20 years ago a penalty could be called on the fans. I think it happened to UW. The QB would tell the ref he couldn't hear. The ref would stop the clock and if it continued they would call a delay of game type penalty I think. Does anyone else remember that?
It was the 1992 night game vs Nebraska.
Yup, I was there. All it did was give us more time to catch our breath to yell louder. I miss those days.
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Game, less noise
I couldn't agree more with "Unsportsmanlike conduct in Seattle" (Letters, Sept. 17).
It wasn't a game of skill anymore; it was an exhibition of excessive stadium noise, posturing obscenities in your opponent's face to draw a foul and street-punk behavior to fire up tensions to gain any advantage to get the win.
I hope the NFL will listen before the fans go deaf. Please stop the excessive stadium noise, and just play football.
Ellen Gust, Palo Alto
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-18-4822837.php
This was a rule and still might be an NCAA rule. No longer enforced. But I remember it coming into play at Husky stadium and the defense actually motioning to the crowd to quiet down. Late 80s I think.
All it did was give us more time to catch our breath to yell louder.
I miss those days.