Chant on Saturday?

#26
#26
If someone is using a lot of profanity around me, I politely ask them to stop it and usually they do.
I'm no prude but that is very immature totally disrespectful to the people around you.
I'm ashamed that our students resort to such behavior regardless of how other schools behave.
All of us would like UT be to seen as a school with class, that chant is classless.
 
#27
#27
I'm with you jwells, dickens and jenn. Totally classless regardless of what the opposing fans are doing. :good!:
 
#28
#28
Fayettevol said:
I'm with you jwells, dickens and jenn. Totally classless regardless of what the opposing fans are doing. :good!:
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I agree, as well. One of my good friends that I tailgated with is from Atlanta and had some GA friends in for the game. I was embarrassed to hear how they were treated by some of our fans.
 
#30
#30
jennsd said:
If someone is using a lot of profanity around me, I politely ask them to stop it and usually they do.
I'm no prude but that is very immature totally disrespectful to the people around you.
I'm ashamed that our students resort to such behavior regardless of how other schools behave.
All of us would like UT be to seen as a school with class, that chant is classless.
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The guy behind us tried to start a fight over us standing on our own seats. THere's no telling how the drunk idiot would have reacted to us telling him to play nice.
 
#31
#31
Who cares what happened you have a bunch of drunken college students chanting i dont see the fuss is all about. Everyone knows that they have some fans that are disrespectful and others toatal class it happens every where in college football or any college sport. You can't control other people just so act like you want to act and quit whinning about how other people act!
 
#32
#32
Most students who chant don't really care about the football. They will chant whenever they feel the visiting team was chanting too loud. There is nothing we can do about it.
 
#33
#33
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jwells said:
We spend most of the year talking about how little class other schools have, and how we're some shining beacon of sportsmanship, then we follow it up during the season with garbage. It makes us no better than Florida, Georgia, LSU, or even Rutgers (who, IIRC, were the subject of an ESPN column on their behavior).

Georgia's fans were def. out of line, but it doesn't call for that kinda stuff. I'm sure parents brought their kids to the game to hear that...I mean, hell if 20,000 people are doing it, it MUST be ok. It sets a bad example, and makes us look stupid.

After standing listening to the filth spewed by the guys behind me, who spent the whole game calling the opposing team, fans, band Fa***ts, MotherF****, and every other word, AND doing it TO OUR OWN TEAM, the chant just really put me over the top.

I don't understand how sports has degraded into inappropriate trash talk. You can cheer, boo, yell, scream, jump up and down, but to throw obscenities in what is billed as fanbase that personifies sportsmanship..it's just dumb.
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Could not have said it better. I am 56 years old and it gets worse each season. In the old days you might really dislike a team or player but did not question sexuality or shout expletives (although I thought a lot of them when losing to bama). Here is a good motto to live by "Don't believe everything you think, and when in doubt keep both to yourself." As to the profanity, i go back to my grandmas rule "If you ain't got something nice to say, don't say it!"
We all get upset and go overboard at times, just need to watch where, when and in front of who.:salute:
 
#34
#34
with the way kids are now days,it's a shame they reduce to ignorance to get their point across.
 
#36
#36
gcb/hoosiervol said:
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Could not have said it better. I am 56 years old and it gets worse each season. In the old days you might really dislike a team or player but did not question sexuality or shout expletives (although I thought a lot of them when losing to bama). Here is a good motto to live by "Don't believe everything you think, and when in doubt keep both to yourself." As to the profanity, i go back to my grandmas rule "If you ain't got something nice to say, don't say it!"
We all get upset and go overboard at times, just need to watch where, when and in front of who.:salute:
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How about the old saying "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me".
 
#37
#37
I sat in PP, row 5, below the GA fans and I never heard the student section and I doubt any GA fans near or above me heard the student section. I definitely heard the GA fans chant and then I heard booing (toward the GA peeps) immediately after they started. I'm glad I didn't hear our student section and I'm glad that that didn't happen when I brought my 3-year-old to the Southern Miss game. Classless.
 
#40
#40
Vader that is loudest I've laughed in a long time. You are on the fast track to being one of the best mods on this board.
 
#43
#43
vader said:
I appreciate the sentiment, but I will point out for the sake of the poster that it was not his opinion that got him edited, but how he expressed it. :hi:
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Exactly so. Which is the same point those of us who think the chant was classless are saying: the sentiment, given the circumstances, was understandable. The way they expressed it was not only classless but not very creative.:hi:
 
#45
#45
wow...I missed all of this and I was at the game. The only chant I heard was "over-rated". Of course, I set the top of WW. I don't think you can get any further away from the student section than that.
 
#46
#46
jennsd said:
If someone is using a lot of profanity around me, I politely ask them to stop it and usually they do.
I'm no prude but that is very immature totally disrespectful to the people around you.
I'm ashamed that our students resort to such behavior regardless of how other schools behave.
All of us would like UT be to seen as a school with class, that chant is classless.
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+1

The only time it really gets to me is when I have my 9 year old with me. One of the greatest things about collage football is crowd participation. I've been to several Titan's and the atmosphere is DULL compared to Neyland Stadium on a Saturday.
 
#47
#47
Neyland's Ghost said:
The chant was MUCH louder last year vs. Alabama.

There was a brief, O-Ver-Ra-Ted and a Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Hey-Hey-Hey-Goodbye chant late.
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There were more than just students chanting against Bama.

I agree that it is classless. However, get several thousand drunk students together and it's bound to happen. UGA fans chanting when Vinson was down is classless as well.

I almost got in a fight in the 05 UGA game with a UT fan that was drunk and cursing in front of little kids. I politely told him to shut up. He took offense to what I said. Eventually he was thrown out and several of the parents thanked me.
 
#48
#48
Fayettevol said:
Exactly so. Which is the same point those of us who think the chant was classless are saying: the sentiment, given the circumstances, was understandable. The way they expressed it was not only classless but not very creative.:hi:
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Seems that chants without class usually lack creativity.
 
#49
#49
justingroves said:
There were more than just students chanting against Bama.

I agree that it is classless. However, get several thousand drunk students together and it's bound to happen. UGA fans chanting when Vinson was down is classless as well.

I almost got in a fight in the 05 UGA game with a UT fan that was drunk and cursing in front of little kids. I politely told him to shut up. He took offense to what I said. Eventually he was thrown out and several of the parents thanked me.
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It is regretable that you can't attend these events without dealing with social retards ruining it for everyone. I rarely go to these games because if I get snuff spit or urine tossed at me I'm goin to jail cause someone's gettin popped in the mouth.
 
#50
#50
TheVol said:
You guys are way to sensitive. It's all in fun. Who cares?
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Thing is...it's not in fun. Nothing about those guys made my stay in Neyland more fun. You've got 70,000+ that are at the game to be good sports and be respectful. Another 20,000+ are students, many of which would rather act stupid and leave at half-time so that they can get more drunk(The guys in front of me left at the half...sets that were 8 rows from the sideline!!!) than they truly care about the game. The rest are the opposing fans, who, if you're gonna travel that far and spend the money, I'd say most of the time you'll be interested in the game.
 
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