The Heckle Thread

[bgbry44]

I played college football for Wabash College a small D3 school in Indiana. We have one of the longest running rivalries in the country with DePauw U. for the Monon Bell. I dont remember all of the chants and heckling, but one thing stuck in my head after playin in 3 Bell games. Our entire crowd roaring DEPAUW.....SWALLOWS! And then after we beat them into the ground it was DEPAUW...TO HELL...WE GOT THE BELL! Man, I miss those days...

[pcgd]

My favorites were for the Carthage basketball team the year they went to the D3 final four.

One thing that I did stuck out...

One team (I think Hope College) had orange uniforms which had the unfortunate habit of becoming discolored when they sweat. One guy was sweating all the way down his back and on his ass. I got a "SWAMP-ASS...SWAMP-ASS" chant going.

As far as the free throw stuff...

We'd always just count whenever someone was shooting a free throw.

I got kicked out of a woman's soccer game as well. It was homcoming weekend so there were some big soccer games and I was friends with a few of the girls. I was heckling a player on the other team and she actually flicked me off while she was playing. Needless to say, I was not completely sober. Our Athletic Director said I had to go and 2 security guards escorted me out of there. So, later, I came back with a wig and different jersey on. After the men's game which followed the women's I went up to security...took off my wig, and they just laughed.

Good times.

High school we didn't do much creative. Mainly yelling obsense words for no reason. shirts like SJO SUX or Calvin peeing on a spartan head. Really original.

However, My mom taught at our rival high school however which always provided interesting results, esspecially when the games were at her school. I went to one game and got a little too close to the floor and their Principal told me I needed to get back. Typical 18 year old response was "Do you know who I am??" Unfortunatly, he did.

And on the right field fans yelling at the high schoolers...I hate that. When you are looking up at a fly ball, one of your players should be telling you if you have room or not. Typically you aren't skilled enough to be able to look for the fence and then find the ball again. When a fan or the opposing team yells "FENCE" or something dumb like that and the ball drops, its classless. Cause next time, you won't believe when you really are about to hit a fence, and thats how people get injured. Yell that the Right fielder has a huge ass, say you dated his sister, scream when the ball is in the air, but "OUT OF PLAY" or "FENCE" is stupid.

[steiny_ramone]

I was at a Tigers-Jays game about two Sundays ago, I was sitting in the outfield, and everyone in my section started chanting GOOOOOOMMMMEZ, at the Tigers outfielder Gomez. He turned around and looked at our section a few times, and when he did everyone in the section started waving at him.

[dknight]

One of the best heckling experiences I've ever been through was at a Nashville Sounds game. Adam Hyzdu was up at bat and a fan stood up who was in the first row behind home plate and said "Hey Adam, remember the Red Sox? That's a big league club! You were there once!" Adam, turned around, gave him a look, and then struck out.

[Steel Certain]

Mets game back in the 80s...someone yelled out at Dwight Gooden..."WATCH OUT...HE'LL SNORT THE FOUL LINE!!!"

Wow.

[Milo Meningocele]

I used to split Tigers season tickets. Even though the Tigers are my team, I was merciless toward Bobby Higginson. Some of my favorite moments:

Screaming his batting average at him whenever he came up..."Two E-LEV-en! Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap"

Pointing out that he's too old to call himself "Bobby".

Mocking his frequent injuries, i.e. shrieking out "Tuuuuuuuuuuuuurfffffffffff tooooooooooeeeeeee!!!

Yelling out to inquire whether he'd knocked up any strippers or harrassed any flight attendants lately.

Waving my sign that read, "Tampax: Official Sponsor of Bobby Higginson". (before it was confiscated).

Me and a couple of friends also kept something up pretty consistently one season where we'd scream bloody murder every time the opposing first base coach stepped outside his coach's box. "Hey, get back in the BOX!!...Hey ump, look...he's out of the box!!" It really caught on in my section that year, and even seemed to visibly rattle the poor guys sometimes.

[illinirox1]

At a Blue Jays game last summer, I had seats on the 3rd baseline, and there was a guy right in front of me that kept heckling the Mariners' somewhat out of shape 3rd base coach. Basically he just kept on yelling "(Coach's name) is on the juice!" "He's juicing!" It went on for most of the game, and got annoying.

I've always had a soft spot for the University of Michigan hockey student section. (Which takes up about half the seats in Yost Ice Arena) They take out newspapers and read while the opposing team lineup is announced, and shout "who cares" after every player. Then after every goal Michigan scores they count how many goals it is "One, (Two Three Four etc.) , We want moooooore goals! SIEVE SIEVE SIEVE SIEVE SIEVE" etc., then chant "It's all your fault!" over and over again at the opponent's goalie. Also I'm not sure if they do it anymore, but there used to be a phone that rang over the loudspeaker, after which the section yelled "Hey goalie! It's your mama! She Said- Yoooou suck!" Followed by more SIEVE SIEVE SIEVE chants.

And after every penalty there's a string of carefully picked obscenities that gets yelled at the refs for about 15 seconds.

[Brass]

Me and my buddies normally do this to the opposing goalie at Springfield Falcon's games.

"Hey! Montoya! You know why you're number 29? Because you're not #1!"

Corny, yes, I know. But innovative!

[rvrdgsfn]

A few years ago at a renegades playoff game. One of the opposing players, Boh I beleive, was somewhat, tipsy. Anyway, Some of the fans starting yelling out to the tune of let's go rangers only the words were.....

BOH KNOWS HAPPY HOUR!!!!!!

clap clap clap clap clap

Of course, their was always when Richmond played Hampton. Their was the...

Ads fans: Let's go Admirals

Gades fans: YOU SUCK ADMIRALS!!!!!

& the most popular was that one fan had a huge troll doll, dressed like the head coach of Hampton Roads.

[Natsfan36]

it was the state soccer quarterfinals.....my friend...well...hes not the meanest person.....so during the whole game, he would be yelling stuff like..

number 21 didnt cut his fingernails..

hey number3, im having a soccer clinic tommorow afternoon, you should come...

number 5 forgot to put on deodorent today...

just stupid stuff...and he got a lot of weird stares....

also when we play our rival Creighton Prep (all guys), someone would always throw soap on a rope on the field.....and we would chant "We got girls,"

[maz]

Just went to a bucs game this saturday night vs. the tigers. There were plenty of detroit fans there. They were msking alot of noise up until the 6th inning.

They would all chant "Here we go Tigers here we go!" Until a section near them started chanting "Here we go Pirates here we go!" Until eventually the whole sold out stadium {it was bobblehead night} was chanting it. The tigers fans were very outmatched. That shut them up for the rest of the game.

That and when we scored 7 runs in the 7th inning.

[BB61]

I went to Temple for a year. These are Philadelphia sports fans, just like any other. I went to five Owls basketball games that year (99-00, Pepe Sanchez's last year). Our arch rival that year was St. Bonaventure, who had defeated and whose crowd had humiliated the Owls in Olean a month before. They had two players -- a point guard who was 5'7", and a 6'8" center from Holland. Every time the guard touched the ball, he would either get a "Ga-ry Cole-man!" or a "Weeeeeeb-steeeer! Weeeeeb-steeeer!"

Now, I thought we were pretty tough. Then I went to a George Mason game, and sat in the student section with my girlfriend. Um... they made Philly fans look tame, but they had two heckles I really liked. Firstly, they replaced the "Go Green, Go Gold, G-M-U!" with "Rough 'em up, [Fluff] 'em up, G-M-U!" And the other one is when the game was no longer in doubt, the entire section started jangling their keys, shouting "Warm up the bus! Warm up the bus!"

When a pitcher goes to first too many times, I usually shout, "Hey, if you want his number that bad, just go ask him!" It made a bunch of Yankees fans laugh at a recent Phils-Yankees game.

Aaaaaand, my favorite comeback to a heckle as a referee (at a 7-8-9 year old soccer game, no less)

Parent: You need new glasses!

Me: Go get them for me! You're gone!