Stand v. Sit @ Game

[jwinslow]

Let the banter continue in this thread. We can all stand in unison and rip on scUM's latest dumb aesthetic decision in the other thread now.

Cincibuck, sorry I didn't bring your post over, I wanted to have an explanation for the split as the first post.

Originally Posted by cincibuck

That's why they're called seats. I cheer, I care, I pay my alumni dues and then some... that's also called school spirit too. If you want to stand up the whole game, regardless of where your seat is go to Texas A&M...

I was responding to being called an a-hole for standing and cheering for my team. But good work on following it up by suggesting those who support their team wholeheartedly are stupid aggies.

[BuckeyeNation27]

Originally Posted by cincibuck

In the 50's and 60's OSU led the nation in attendance with a stadium capacity less than 90,000 and a ten game schedule (I remember this little ma and pa diner, Ptomaine Tommies, down around 13th and High, had a neon sign in the window: "seating capacity 87,568 [which was the stadium capacity at the time] 35 at a time" )

Michigan stadium was bigger but they weren't putting the butts in the stands and then along came Don Canham and Bo Schembechler and all of that changed.

The horseshoe design is unique and I guess if I had a seat in the Huntington box I'd think the revamp job of Ohio Stadium was super, but we may come to regret that we did not tear the thing down and start over from scratch. We could have spent two years with games split between Cleveland and Cincinnati while they re-did the thing from the ground up. they could have made a 200,000 seat stadium, could have kept the horse shoe motiff, gotten rid of those huge, field-blocking posts in B Deck, elevated A deck enough that I wouldn't have to yell at all the assholes who insist on standing up, kept the running track inside and Columbus would be Olympic host certified... ask New Yorkers about that... and we'd have the capacity needed to match the growing demands on Athletic Department monies by Title Nine.

wow. tear down the shoe and sit all game? I haven't dinged anybody in a while.....but if anybody deserves to lose some reputation, its somebody who thinks like this.

please don't take that personally. thats just............wow.

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'm going to the Texas game, and the first pansy-[censored] that tells me to sit down is never going to be able to eat corn on the cob again...

[Bucksaresweet30]

That was one of the best responses ever.

[IrontonBuck]

I'm going to the Texas game, and the first pansy-[censored] that tells me to sit down is never going to be able to eat corn on the cob again...

Milli,

It's probably been a while since you've been to the horseshoe, living in Hawai'i and all. But, they have a little talked-about, quaint custom at Ohio State games, called "courtesy". It basically means that you can enjoy yourself and cheer your butt off, but you also have to consider those around you. They are competing ideas, cheering hard and thinking about others, but judging by your very obvious intellectual skills on display every day on this board, you'll be able to handle it OK. Many thousands do. So, if you are right in front of me and never sit down, I will end up pouring coke on you. If you're not courteous, I won't be either.

[BuckeyeNation27]

damn....i didnt know there were so many pussies on this board.

[MililaniBuckeye]

IB, it's a football game, not a frickin' opera...

[crazybuckfan40]

If they tell you sit down, you just tell them to stand the [censored] up!

[jwinslow]

Guess what, at my first ever seeing of The Game at home last year (2004), we had that place rocking like nothing else. It's always that way, but I heard from some that the sustained cheering even before the team broke the huddle was a little above usual.

Yes you can cheer from your seat. But if you are absolutely brimming with adrenaline, screaming your head off, and trying to deafen the freshman from TSUN, you probably aren't sitting down.

I'm not doing it to be an ass. I'm not doing it to stick out or anything. I'm doing it because its the only way I can exert the most excitement over an upcoming play. It's well known that you can't sing as well in choir when you are sitting down, likewise you can't scream as well sitting down.

I'm not gonna punch anybody in the mouth that tells me to sit down, that's not my style. But you're seriously going to dump coke on me because I am trying to make the Horseshoe the hardest possible venue for scUM to play in?

[BuckeyeNation27]

Originally Posted by crazybuckfan40

If they tell you sit down, you just tell them to stand the [censored] up!

[censored]in right!

[Brutus1]

It always works out good where I sit. Everyone knows when to stand and when to sit. Even the scUM fans that sat in front of us last year caught on. It may 50-50 on stand and sit during a normal game. The Texas game, I think, will be a much different story. I think we'll be spending a majority of the time on our feet yelling and screaming. Now, when we spot that turd Matthew MC....(I can't spell his name), it may have to get a littke animated.

The strange part is, is that it's more comfortable when you're standing. At least you get a little 'buffer zone'. All it takes is just 2 or 3 heffers to make it like sardines for the rest of the row. As long as they're Buckeye fans, and don't look at me like I'm retarded when I give then 'the hand' , then it's all good.



Mili,
You going to be in town for some Wedgewood when you come up for the game?

[jwinslow]

BTW, it's also not courteous that my ears are ringing after one of the louder games and I might end up with minimal hearing damage if there was a guy screaming right behind me. But guess what? If you want a comfortable setting with room to stretch out, a perfect view, and everything accustomed to your liking you should probably be watching it at home.

Our home field advantage would be pretty crappy if everyone sat down so everyone could see. Everyone would laugh at our student sections and especially our pathetic block O twirling their towels from their seats.

If you are physically handicapped and not able to stand all game, then you should make arrangements for one of those seating areas.

[BuckeyeNation27]

if you are physically handicapped and not able to stand all game you should get a [censored]in wheel chair with some kind of hydrolics so it makes you stand up. this isnt a 3rd grade chorus concert you pussies.

[BIATCHabutuka]

i forget what game it was but anyways...

me and my brother were sitting in the south stands one game. we quit drinking about 15 minutes before kickoff and worked our way in the stadium in time for kick. bota of seagrams seven ready to roll.

so there we are loud as can be pre kick. some bastard gives us the down in front. i turn around, point them out and yell homo in back. [censored]er never said another word to me the whole game.

[jwinslow]

For those of you who think we should sit out of courtesy, that therein means its somehow wrong to be standing at a football game at any point. How do you decide when it is okay to stand and when it is not okay to stand?

Or is the problem that the person sitting down wants to have a nice comfy seat at a football game?

Its not just the "unimportant plays" where people will complain either. Someone who has decided they have a right to sit all game and see the field will be opposed to you even standing on third down or on a key offensive possession after halftime when the momentum can shift either way.

When Chris Gamble intercepts a pass and runs it back for the only touchdown on the day to win the game in 02, are you sitting down? Unless you are physically unable, you're probably jumping up and down with the rest of the ecstatic fans. That is exactly what I am talking about. If you are really excited about the game, you're not gonna show it by sitting down.