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Stand v. Sit @ Game

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What do you think about standing during the game?

  • You should be able to stand and cheer if you want

    Votes: 102 77.3%

  • You should only stand for pivotal moments

    Votes: 30 22.7%

  • You should not stand, its not courteous

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    132
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No one's ever asked me to sit down, either. And I prefer to stand. I stand as much as the circumstances will allow me. In big games, like Michigan, I stand most of the game. When the rows in front of me start to stand up, so do I. And then the people behind me have to stand up. It's part of the game, and it should be expected.

But just to declare that you don't give a fuck about whether anyone else sees the game or not is self-centered and rude. There has to be a balance between your rights, and respect for other people's rights. To achieve that at Ohio Stadium, you have to kind of go with the flow.

I do not like people who arrive late, leave early, and are inconvenienced by the rowdy crowd. They shouldn't come if they can't take it. On the other hand, I appreciate old people, like my 79 year-old mom, who still loves to go to the games, and yells as hard as she is able. She stands plenty, and she understands that people in front of her are going to stand up a lot. That's OK, but it would not be OK for someone to stand in front of my mom the entire game and not care whether she could see or not. That would be rude and unacceptable.
 
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Well, Look at the mess I got us into.

I should not have used the word "assholes" for those who stand at games. I apologize. As a penance I promise to not combine the drinking of scotch and posting to BP for the next two weeks.

Just for clarification: I'm not sitting the whole game. I'm out of my seat the second I spot that first drummer coming down the ramp. I'm up at every crucial 3rd down, if those around me are up. I don't think anyone can resist standing on a long pass, a crucial fumble, when Ginn breaks open, but I don't see the need to stand the whole game, or how it's anyones right to stand regardless of how far they traveled or how much they spent on tickets. There has to be a happy medium here and those who sit and demand that everyone else sit the entire game are just as out of balance as those who presume the right to stand all of the time.

That clarified, apologies made, and having taken note of the fire storm I inadvertently started, please look at the rest of the posting I made... that's what makes this funny to me. The comment about people who stand was just a toss off to a much bigger issue.

Cincibuck
 
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