Posted on 01/14/2016 3:41:07 AM PST by smartyaz
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) â The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association wants to ban certain words from being chanted at high school games.
It is part of an effort to promote better sportsmanship. Here are some of the words and phrases they do not want to hear:
Sieve, Air Ball, Seasons Over, Over-Rated.
The association says these chants are âtaunting and disrespectful.â
The association sent a letter to athletic directors last month with the new guidelines.
It is getting attention now because a three-sport athlete was just suspended for five games for tweeting her criticism of the new rules. Her tweet did include profanity.
A spokesman from the WIAA says it is up to each school to decide if they will enforce the policy and decide the consequences.
You are rotten people,
And if you ask I’ll answer
I hope you all end up,
with pancreatic cancer.
I’m from the silent, respectful 50s. We used to chant (at a slow, deliberate pace) “Be calm, be cool, be collected.” I think that would pass.
But when I got to college (UC BERKELEY) the old chant “Oski, Oski...whiskey wee wee” would probaly not pass muster. Nor would, “Give ‘em the axe, the axe, the axe....Right in the neck, the neck, the neck.” Chanted at both my HS (mascot, the Warriors) and UC Berkeley (the axe being an annual trophy passed between UC Berkeley and Stanford).
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“Die, you gravy-sucking pigs”
“Try to make a touchdown, you scumbags.”
“Beat us today.....Work for us tomorrow.”
I went to my daughter’s high school basketball team, and they were losing pretty bad so that students started chanting “SAT SCORES! clap-clap-clap-clap SAT SCORES!.....”
That’s not as bad as Kansas, where every kickoff the students yell “RIP HIS F’ING HEAD OFF!”
A Brother Rice alum?
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