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Ban on booing at high school games considered
konotv.com ^ | 03/04/07 | AP

Posted on 03/04/2007 5:37:32 PM PST by Ellesu

RENTON, Wash. (AP) - The organization that oversees high school sports in Washington is considering more specific rules for fans that could ban booing and offensive chants.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is drafting guidelines to crack down on negative conduct.

The association director Mike Colbrese blames rude fans for the dwindling number of people who want to be coaches and officials.

He says the guidelines will remind fans to cheer for their team, not against the other.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: booing; highschool; publikskoolz; sports
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1 posted on 03/04/2007 5:37:35 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: Ellesu

You can't legislate human nature.


2 posted on 03/04/2007 5:38:41 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Ellesu

What if there's a crowd favorite named Lou?


3 posted on 03/04/2007 5:39:00 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Ellesu

How about a ban on name calling too? Instead of educating, teachers will be reduced to intervention counselors.


4 posted on 03/04/2007 5:39:17 PM PST by rbg81 (1)
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To: Ellesu
So if you boo, what do the speech police do?

Expel you?

Fine you?

Arrest you?

Imprison you?

5 posted on 03/04/2007 5:39:29 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Ellesu
Let's just stop keeping score and then both teams can win.

It's really not right that someone has to win and someone has to lose.

Geeez!
6 posted on 03/04/2007 5:41:22 PM PST by SomeoneNeedsToSayIt (Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.)
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To: Ellesu

Next, they will ban scoring against opposing teams in sporting events.

After all, scoring against a team could cause their self-esteem to suffer.


[Where and when does the PC end? It doesn't appear that it ever will. And things will only get worse.]


7 posted on 03/04/2007 5:41:25 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Ellesu
What's next -- the slow handclap? Will people be told to clap faster, or leave?
8 posted on 03/04/2007 5:41:33 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ellesu

next is a baseball chatter ...it too causes global warming. heck it is probably already gone.


9 posted on 03/04/2007 5:41:34 PM PST by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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To: Ellesu

So when the refs make a bad call, 1 - 2 - 3 "Please sir, SOME MORE PLEASE?"


10 posted on 03/04/2007 5:43:05 PM PST by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised)
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To: Ellesu

Maybe they should switch to all Nerf while they're at it(?)


11 posted on 03/04/2007 5:43:28 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: hadaclueonce

and someone is surprised that someone goes postal? I am surprised it is not a daily event.


12 posted on 03/04/2007 5:44:04 PM PST by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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To: Ellesu

What are they going to do when the Sonics move there?


13 posted on 03/04/2007 5:44:09 PM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: Ellesu
The organization that oversees high school sports in Washington is considering more specific rules for fans that could ban booing and offensive chants.

Golly, that is just double-plus good!

}:(


14 posted on 03/04/2007 5:44:59 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, MMP AZ 2005, TxMMP El Paso Oct+April 2006 TxMMP Laredo - El Paso)
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To: Ellesu

Wussies.


15 posted on 03/04/2007 5:45:14 PM PST by aomagrat (Let not your heart be troubled: Ye believe in God, believe ye also in gunboats.)
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To: Ellesu

They're not booing they're just saying "Moooooovers."


16 posted on 03/04/2007 5:45:36 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: Brilliant
You can't legislate human nature.

Tell that to liberals.

17 posted on 03/04/2007 5:45:55 PM PST by SaveTheChief (Chief Illiniwek (1926-2007))
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To: Ellesu
We had a mascot one year leading the cheers on our side at an away game (still in Brooklyn, but closer to my house than my school was). Anyway, after the other sides boosters let out a cheer, he yelled out "VAAAAAAC CUUUUUUUUUUUM!"

Needless to say, it stunned more than a few people who didn't know what he had said. I overheard several adults from the school talking to him, and he quietly said, "What I said was 'vacuum'." To which the three looked at each other, scratched their heads, figured it was a teen thing and walked away with a belated, "well watch how you say it" or something like that.

Of course, that is why he said it like that.

18 posted on 03/04/2007 5:46:04 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Math teachers know ALL the angles.)
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To: Ellesu

My Goodness. The world just gets goofier and goofier


19 posted on 03/04/2007 5:47:23 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Ellesu

The feminization of America strikes again.


20 posted on 03/04/2007 5:47:25 PM PST by Hildy (RINO=RUDY IS NUMBER ONE)
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