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A pledge from a Jayhawk


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I saw the Jayhawks fans getting treated fine around me.  There was even one lonely/drunk Jayhawk fangirl that was standing up and yelling to everyone when they were up 20-3 and everyone left her alone.

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I never saw anyone getting physically harrassed, but I did hear a few "Jayhawks suck" which was probably from some drunk people. Also, there is a lot of security around including TSA employees and I don't think people would get away with doing that. I made sure to wish the visiting Jayhawk fans a "good game and a safe ride home"

Heck, you hear "___________________ suck" at the Rays games in the 9th inning and after the game has ended, and I don't think that is coming from drunk people...well maybe some.  ;D 

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I thought when u dial 911 your phone goes into emergency mode and goes right through. i thought e911 was its own system. even if its not, i think this exaggerated and i am making a pledge to keep doing what im doing. that is, drinking beer bongs before the game, yelling as loud as i can all game, never sitting down (sorry u cant do that anymore season ticket southies), and visiting the miller lite party deck at half time for my three free beers, so i can continue my drunken cheers throughout the second half. this man wont waste a beer.

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There's one in every crowd.  So, USF has about 50 in our crowd.  That's not bad.

50 people escorted from the game of 48,000 fans in attendence.  Still only about 1 in 100

or about 1 in every 1000, you know, if math is your thing

Ummm....  it was an engineering estimate.  I was only off by 1 factor of ten.

I would have caught it in my final calculations...  :-\

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There's one in every crowd.  So, USF has about 50 in our crowd.  That's not bad.

50 people escorted from the game of 48,000 fans in attendence.  Still only about 1 in 100

or about 1 in every 1000, you know, if math is your thing

Ummm....  it was an engineering estimate.  I was only off by 1 factor of ten.

I would have caught it in my final calculations...  :-\

is it sad that this is the funniest thing I've read all day!

thanks for the laugh :)

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Friday night game between two big programs.... i wouldn't have brought my kids. I know, it sucks. But college football is becoming less-and-less family friendly and becoming more of a war zone.

Yeah we don’t bring our daughter to the games anymore it really infringes on my poring $7.50 beers on the other teams fans   ::)

For real we stopped bringing her because my wife doesnt get to enjoy the game when she has a two year old running around.

Didn't bring my kids to WVU, UCF last year, and not to KU this year.  You have to gauge the level of game before you do that....

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I didnt see any of these things happen. In fact I gave a couple of Kansas fans beers and thanked them for Mario Chalmers game winning shot. Aside from the boo's and normal trash talking everything seemed pretty good. I will keep an eye out for it in the future though.

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Good thing I believe everything people post on message boards -  Before this I didn't know that UCF fans could spell KU.

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Hello Bulls fans,

Let me start by saying congratulations on your big win.  You beat my Jayhawks fair and square.  I didn't like losing the game, but you have a great team.  I wish you well with the rest of your season.  This, however, isn't the reason I joined your message board and am posting what will probably be my only message.

I'm usually a lurker on other team's message boards.  I usually look, but I rarely join and butt my nose in.  This time I felt compelled to speak out. 

One of my best friends is retired.  He and his wonderful wife experienced a frightful experience at Friday's game.  It got to the point where they feared for their safety so much that he tried to call 911 in hopes that he could get a police escort out of the stadium to their rental car.  He was unable to get a phone connection.  (probably too many USF fans calling friends to celebrate the win.)  Thankfully they both were able to make it back to their rental car safely.

Let me be very clear.  I realize that most of the fans in the stadium were not causing the problems.  For those of you that weren't, thank you.  How many of you TRIED TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION?

I'm not wanting to lump everyone together.  I will say that when my friend told me his story, I wanted to punch someone.  Thankfully, both he and his wonderful wife made it back to their car safely.  Their clothes smelled of beer, even though neither of them drink.  (Thanks to a shower from a Bulls fan.)  It was a relief for them just to get away.  What they experienced was not just a few drunk fans being idiots.  It was systematic abuse.  It was repeated constantly from the moment they got out of their rental car, through the entire game, and didn't stop until they drove away.

This incident has caused me to look at KU fans and games in a new light.  I NEVER want any visiting fan to come to a KU game and be treated like my friends were at Tampa.   While KU's fan culture is mostly one of respect, I'm very aware that we always will have a few idiots.

I encourage USF fans to ask yourselves a few questions:

1.  Do you want to have future games against quality opponents?

2.  How many athletic departments around the country will want to subject their most loyal travelling fans (who usually are the biggest donors) to contant abuse at your stadium?

3.  What will USF's strength of schedule look like as quality opponents dry up?

4.  Which of YOU is going to be part of the solution?

Your athletic department, school administration, and officials can only do so much.  If USF fan culture is going to improve THE FANS MUST MAKE IT HAPPEN. 

This incident has inspired me to take a pledge to make certain that I'm doing my part to prevent visitors from being mistreated at KU games.  I invite every USF fan to join me and take the same pledge.

I pledge that every time I go to a game, that I will go out of my way to find visiting team's fans.  I will find them as they get out of their car and greet them warmly.  I will walk with them to the Stadium/Fieldhouse and show them the kind of respect that I would want to be shown.  I will try to talk about the game with them and share a few laughs.  I will still cheer for my team as loudly and as passionately as possible, but win or lose, I will respect the visiting fans.  After the game I will go out of my way to walk visiting fans to their car and give them a positive send-off.  Whenever possible, I will invite a group of polite fans to join me in my walks with vistors. 

It's not enough for me to feel bad for a visiting fan that had a bad experience.  It's not enough to report bad behaviour.  I must go out of my way to MAKE the visitors feel welcome and prevent bad incidents from happening to begin with.

Once again, you played a great game.  Congratulations on your win.  I hope you can create a fan culture that is deserving of the great team that you have.

Who would like to join me in my pledge?  Is there anything that should be added to it?

going to sporting events isnt for everyone

it is a big cruel world out there

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