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Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:19 pm
by Zubby
Reminds me of when Justin Zwick, #1 QB prospect out of HS but failed... Troy Smith took over won a Heisman and took team to National Championship...

Anyway the last game of the season game think it was senior day too, game was won they put Zwick in for the final minutes of his career and he gets booed...

smh



stupid ass fans lol

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:24 pm
by r3demption
I would boo bargs if he was on my team for that much lol

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:21 pm
by JasonStern
on rare occasions, yes. I boo'd portland last year when felton/matthews/wallace/aldridge/camby got blown out by over forty points to the d'antoni-lead knicks. I get that the team was trying to get nate mcmillan fired, but fans shouldn't have to watch that.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:28 pm
by Bodhi
There are times when it's okay to boo a player or the team. Here's on example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCcC8oHjWc

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:34 pm
by RunSunRun
Cleveland Cavs wrote:Alot of American fake fans proving once again that European support is the best in the world, you stand behind your team at all costs, down 40 at half? you still support them and cheer for them regardless of what happens


Yes, because its not like European fans use racist taunts against non-white players or anything...oh wait.

Get out of here with that nonsense.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:51 pm
by KL78192020
The boo's are great. Sooner or later he won't get minutes, and the team will be forced to part with him.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:54 pm
by roldy
Bodhi wrote:There are times when it's okay to boo a player or the team. Here's on example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCcC8oHjWc


I remember watching this game live. Kobe and Odom just kept giving Kwame the ball mistake after mistake; it was terrible. Does anyone remember the clip where a play goes terribly wrong and the commentator (I think Mark Jackson) says, "It hit Kwame in the wrong place.... the hands."

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:55 pm
by DatBoiCapspace
ozzykhan16 wrote:The boo's are great. Sooner or later he won't get minutes, and the team will be forced to part with him.


Literally the exact opposite. When he was getting minutes nobody boo'd. Now he hardly plays off the bench and people boo when they know BC has been shopping him for the whole season now. All they are doing now is affecting his play and hurting his trade value.

The Raptor "fans" that boo him are just sheep. They are mad at BC for the euro years so they want to take it out on Bargs because the rest of the team has been playing awesome and instead of being happy about the present they just want to bitch about the past. Its pathetic.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:13 pm
by Sabzi
Of course you are free to boo/berate/criticize as you please in regards to your team.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:22 pm
by Prop
no, it's completely unacceptable to express negative feelings about your team/players at any time. UNACCEPTABLE! well, except on message boards, of course. you can bitch all you want on those.

but in person, it's cheers only. that's the rule.

in fact, booing bargnani is unpatriotic at best...and at worst, tantamount to treason.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:27 pm
by Game Show
Yes, you paid for your ticket, you can boo. Organizations can discourage fans from buying tickets if they don't want the criticism, though

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:28 pm
by steamed hams
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Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:28 pm
by Sunsaholic
If players making big money, who your team depends on to perform at a simple level, don't show any effort and act like they don't care then if fans can let them know they can't get away with it that easily then it is acceptable.

If a player is in a slump, and not performing well at all like they should but they are truly upset about it and want to get better and work hard then booing is absolutely unacceptable. This doesn't really happen though.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:36 pm
by Nate505
spearsy23 wrote:You know there has to be a team willing to take him on, right?

I hope it's not the Jazz. I wonder if that's even true at all to be honest.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:18 pm
by Scraptor
I set up the poll to be as neutral as I could, because I was genuinely curious what people think, but I personally feel booing is justified only on rare occasions, like when the team doesn't play with effort or if a player has acted like Dwight Howard in Orlando.

I hate Bargnani, and when I argued last year that we should trade him while he was hot, the majority of posters didn't want to. IIRC 65% polled felt he was a cornerstone of our franchise. To boo him now after injury and having his role reduced is like booing your ex for being ugly. She was ugly when you dated her, but now that you've got something better, you suddenly have the balls to boo her?

The timing is just terrible. But I'm just as embarrassed by the idiots who boo when we don't get pizza for not scoring 100.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:23 pm
by JayMKE
If they deserve it, then by all means. Big difference between booing because your playoff team isn't winning and booing an embarrassment like Bargnani.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:37 pm
by RutgersBJJ
If you pay for a ticket you can do whatever you want as long as you're not throwing crap on the court. If this was inspired by Bargs I would say Toronto was about 3 years late in giving him the Business. He doesn't even like basketball. It's very obvious.

If the peoduct on the court doesn't correspond to the price you paid you should boo. I hope everyone but Tyson gets boo'd out of the building st the next Knick home game.

Re: Poll: Is it acceptable to boo your own team?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:40 pm
by ATLTimekeeper
I've booed the team in individual game performances. Booing individual players on your team everytime they touch the ball? That's delinquent fanaticism. Toronto's part of the eastern seaboard. A lot of depressives. We need more vitamin D.