Should 'boos' be banned? (This is actually being discussed)

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[slowhand520]

This is pathetic. Another example of the warm fuzzies way of raising our kids.

[E Rocc]

I was about to post this. I posted it on another forum (which is more flexible about titles and language) as "The P****fication of America: Part 87,439.

-Eric

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[advance_copy]

Free speech? We don't need no stinking free speech.

[4yearlurker]

What,no more Bronx cheer??

[rhombus]

It's often hard to distinguish a "boo" from a groan. Groans are oftentimes involuntary.

[stockstrader]

"Booing" is just soooooooo insensitive!!! /s

[metmom]

If good sportsmanship can be cheered, bad sportsmanship should be booed. If someone is being a bad sport on the field, I see no harm in letting him know that everyone saw what he did and disapproves of it. If he doesn't like it, he can clean up his act and behave like a civilized human being. This is sports, not the arena.

As far as parents doing it for coaches and officials, when they let foul play go, the same thing applies. Everyone can see when they make bad calls and when the coaches don't pull their players in line.

My son plays soccer and the team they love to play the most is the one where the coach DEMANDS good sportsmanship from his players. One girl on one of his teams collided with another and was heard saying to the coach (while being pulled off the field) , " But I DID apologize!"

It's such an encouragement to see that.

[metmom]

One girl on one of his teams collided with another from the opposing team I should have added...

[Ellesu]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795240/posts

more comments here.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Prohibition already failed once...

[CaptRon]

They're not saying "Boo", they're saying "Moooooooooooookie".

Oh.

Sorry. Baseball season's starting and I had a flashback to 1986.

[dforest]

Whatever will Casper and friends say now?

[stockstrader]

lol...reference Payton Manning,,,

"They're not saying BOOOOOOOO.....they're saying MOOOOOOOOOVERS"!

[econjack]

I can't even believe that someone with more than two brain cells is even considering this. Looks like Big Brother just took a few more decades than expected to get here.

[dmz]

In Baltimore in wasn't boos in the early '70s, it was Booooooooooog.

Of course, Boog suggested that later in his career it was a little tougher to hear the 'g' at the end.

[CaptRon]

LOL!

[knarf]

"If good sportsmanship can be cheered, bad sportsmanship should be booed."

I've always been fascinated with the processes the human mind uses to conclude or decide a matter.

My wife took the loving burden of homeschooling our children about 14 or 15 years ago because of the concept of (In our opinion)... The prime function of education is to learn how to learn.

That being said ... somewhere along the line I developed the treatise that all thought processes were polarized ... black and white, up and down, in and out, positive and negative .... etc.

We process our thoughts starting with the absolutes and determine our own sliding scale of grey on the black and white bar.

OK ... enough of that, I've driven myself crazy enough, no sense in bringing others in ...

BUT ...

All the social engineering that goes on today, especially in the government schools seems to eliminate one side of the thought process. You can "YEA !!" but you can't "BOO" ... you can love but not hate, or hate but not love ... (and more etcetera's)

Just my two cent's worth of amateur psycho-analysis.

This is why FreeRepublic is so important and invaluable to me.

[dmz]

If good sportsmanship can be cheered, bad sportsmanship should be booed.
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In a perfect world, I completely agree (discounting that in a perfect world there would be no bad sportsmanship ...)

Unfortunately, one thing leads to another and the bad call has people going off on the sidelines with much worse than boos.

I coached rec council baseball / lacrosse / soccer, and the 2 oldest competed at the high school level (one playing div 1 lacrosse), and the youngest is playing at the high school level.

From where I sit, it's not the kids that need to be reined in, it's the parents.

[Vaquero]

the original boooo sound was LOOOOOOOOOOOOOU. for Lou Pinella..... but my favorite was BOOOOOOOOO-URNS from 'The Simpsons'