From: wilbanks@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wendell Gee)
Subject: Re: Buff Fans...
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:09:50 GMT

dschmidt@palladin.corp.sgi.com writes:

Commander Worf, set phasers on MAXIMUM ROAST!!

>|>It's just those East Coasters and
>|> Left Coast beach bums that move here and think the south end zone is
>|> thier
>|> private party. 

>This statement is just plain dumb.  I am going to assume you are a
>native Coloradoan for the moment and blame this statement on years of
>breathing thin air.  I am sure if you took a demographic survey of the
>south end zone, you would find that people from Illinois, Texas and yes,
>god forbid, Colorado, hold their `private party'.  I stood in the
>student section for three years and as long as you don't actually expect
>to sit and politely observe the game, you will have no problem.
>|> 
BZZZ. Sorry, but I am a native OKLAHOMAN. What I am against is all these 
East and Lefters who ask me, "do you live in a teepee?" It's the ones 
whose brains have been pickled by alcohol and burned out by pot in high 
school who decide that since a) they're in Folsom on a beautiful Sat. 
afternoon and b) they've had have a bottle of Absolut and c) their brains
have stopped functioning (as if they ever were) and so if someone is in 
thier way WE'LL KILL 'EM!! 
Since I was cheated out of tickets this year by our beloved monopoly, the 
CU Athletic Dept., I have enjoyed watching the game on TV, or hiking up 
the Flatirons, or biking into the canyons, or many other things. I haven't 
toned down my immsense bias to CU one bit. I still call friends back home 
and laugh in their faces when OU or OSU gets beat, or when we beat them. 
I'm heavily involved with college football from a student's standpoint. 
And I still yell at the ref.

>|> I hope that maybe the people around here will grow up and have a lil
>|> |> courtesy in the stands. 
>|> I HOPE. Not like it'll be reality soon.

>What kind of courtesy do you want?  It is not like everyone gets
>thrashed.  If it is not your bag, sit with your older alums and politely
>watch the game like statues.  I am not condoning or pardoning for what
>happened to the KU fans and certainly despise open violence to opposing
>fans.  But, the stuff happening in the stands (i.e. colorful chants,
>beer cup fights, screaming at the officials and opponents) are what make
>college football so exciting.  Face it, without the anarchy, college
>football games will seem like pro: lifeless, boring and remote.

Controlled anarchy IS fun. Getting pegged with hard plastic cups and coming
within inches of getting crushed/punched/killed isn't. I never get wasted 
and go to a game. I have to keep a hold on my common sense so that I 
don't get killed. I have no problem with the classic chants, CU's classic 
"Tuba Line", screaming at opponents, taunting them a SECOND TIME. But I 
have respect for the fans who would come to CU and endure being treated 
like shit by a bunch of rowdies. and I have respect for the 100 guys who 
bang helmets and pop shoulder pads every week on that turf. But games 
can be fun without trying to kill each other off. 

>|> 
>|> >Matt Weiser
>|> >weiser@pogo.den.mmc.com
>|> >Go Buffs!

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AND I'M TAKING THIS FROM A GUY WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE FIGHT SONG??????????
-- 
Dylan Wilbanks, Classics major, AND NOW Environmental Conservation!
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