Fun Read Re: Mizzou Antlers

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Last night, for the second consecutive game, members of the Antlers - a long-running, unsanctioned spirit group at Mizzou known for being loud *******s at Missouri Tigers football and basketball games - were ejected from Mizzou Arena by university police.
The backstory is that, a week ago, the Mizzou athletic department met with some of the Antlers to express concern over offensive chants led by the rogue cheering group this season. Among those chants:

*To a ref: "Your eyes need more help than the people of the Philippines."

*While a player from Southeastern Louisiana shot a free throw: "Raise your hand if you thought Hurricane Katrina was a good thing."

*While a Southeastern Louisiana player was injured on the floor and being assessed by a personal trainer: "Check his hymen while you're down there!"; "Just give him a box of tampons, he'll be fine"; "Shoot him like a horse"; "Take him out back and throw him in the Dumpster." (This one occurred while the Tigers were up 30 points.)

*At a Hawaii player who was cut during a game: "If Magic Johnson can play with AIDS you can play with a little cut"; "Someone take our team to get AIDS tested."

There's much more.

The Antlers apparently ignored at least part of the athletic department's warning, because they were thrown out of Saturday's game against Gardner-Webb. Last night, against IUPUI, the Antlers showed up dressed in suits; they carried signs with kittens and butterflies on them and chanted things like "Respect is number one!" and "Sportsmanship!" Sometime in the second half, they apparently stepped up the obscenities and were again shown the door by university police.

That last "sportsmanship" bit is kind of funny, but the rest isn't. I went to Mizzou, and I'm all for a rowdy student fanbase. But what the Antlers do is just ****ing stupid. Yes, they're just college kids, but they are old enough to know better. Every single one of the chants they're accused of making - and on St. Louis' The Morning After sports talk show this morning, the Antlers' "Grand Poobah" Emmett Delaney allowed that the list being circulated is "accurate, unfortunately" - should be grounds enough to boot them from games indefinitely. It's not just the children in the crowd who shouldn't have to hear that kind of profanity; ordinary people shouldn't be subjected to such terrible jokes. It's like sitting through a really aggressive open-mic night at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

"We have, since this meeting, attempted to cut out any blatant misogyny, racial, or disaster jokes. Simply stated, we've tried to be better," some Antlers guy wrote on Twitter.

Let's hope so. Because as long as they're in the stands doing homophobic and racist cheers, the rest of us Mizzou fans and alums have to answer for these morons.

The Mizzou athletic department should continue to eject the Antlers from games as long as they're acting like terrible people | The Fast Pitch | The Pitch
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When keepin' it real goes wrong...:p

Disclaimer: Before any brain-dead posters accuse me of being a hypocrite, I do not endorse the removal and suspension of these kids from Mizzou games.
 
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Hilarious! This is what makes European soccer fans more rabid than anyone else.
 
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from their twitter feed - some of the "nice" antlers chants to IUPUI before they got booted

CRUMBS CRUMBS CRUMBS! EAT THEM AND LICK YOUR THUMBS ITS PIE!!!-Telling IUPUI our favorite food!!!
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Now we're reading quotes from many different wise men and women from a variety of Relgions! Oh boy!
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"Hey IUPUI, Mizzou arena is very welcoming to opposing players. If there's anything you need please ask event staff!"
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Just sung IUPUI the "FUN" song from spongebob, they loved it!
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"IUPUI! Welcome friends! I hope you had a good ride".
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https://twitter.com/The_Antlers
 
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I have read where this group was really nasty back in the 80's and 90's even chanting opposing coaches and players dead family members. That is way over the line but I am sure the school has that under control now.
 
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I'm all for fans being a disrupting force during games and was even part of the basketball pep band the night we got T'd up in the late 90s, but most of what I saw on that last goes way beyond the levels of human decency. Why anyone would condone any of this is beyond me.

If you're making it an unfriendly and uncomfortable environment for fellow fans of your own team, you're doing it wrong.
 
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They don't stop this in professional sports or across other countries. I may not like some of what they say, but hell, we had it happen in high school once. Some kids made fun of our recently injured QB who tore his MCL/ACL the week before, told our biggest linemen they would die of a heart attack or get diabetes, etc.

We were all 15-18 years old and this team was two size classifications bigger than us.

What did we do? Beat their team into the ground, and when our coach started taking us out we asked to stay in and explained why. We ended out winning by 59 points.

If you can't handle it, do something about it. That simple.
 
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Daloth said:
They don't stop this in professional sports or across other countries. I may not like some of what they say, but hell, we had it happen in high school once. Some kids made fun of our recently injured QB who tore his MCL/ACL the week before, told our biggest linemen they would die of a heart attack or get diabetes, etc.

We were all 15-18 years old and this team was two size classifications bigger than us.

What did we do? Beat their team into the ground, and when our coach started taking us out we asked to stay in and explained why. We ended out winning by 59 points.

If you can't handle it, do something about it. That simple.
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Exactly, if you don't like it. Beat their butts.
 
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