From a Parent Clarification
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I haven't seen anyone on here bashing Drake. Everyone knows he is sucking it up for the team and is not fully healed. It must be in reference about some uninformed, moronic meathead at Big Tens. My wife and I had to leave our seats one year at Nationals because some Hawk fans right behind us were obnoxious and profane. All fan bases have their fair share of losers.
The intent was an outing to enjoy ourselves. Seating in front of mouthy idiots was not enjoyable. Their vocabulary was very limited. An "F-bomb" was substituted for at least one hundred words. They were whiny complainers. If we wanted to enjoy the wrestling, we had to move to other seats.
This. Its everywhere and becoming a deterrent to attending live events. Just easier not to deal with it by staying home with the big screen. Exposing young children to those meatheads is doubly frustrating.
There was a young lady, a Nebraska fan I believe, thrown out of our section Sunday afternoon. She came back from the break, apparently inebriated and very loud and obnoxious. A few Iowa fans, also mainly feeling no pain, started messing with her. After the DeSanto match, the Iowa guys apparently had heard enough and told her so. She went ballistic, and pretty soon her boyfriend and her, and several guys were out in the hallway having a "Discussion" of some sort. The guys came back in, then she did and proceeded to get in their faces. A couple minutes later, security came and asked her to come with them to the delight of most of the section. She came back in, got her stuff from her seat and left several minutes later, boyfriend in tow.
It was very unfortunate and distracting (and amusing to some) to everyone around. I know this will be a very unpopular opinion on this board, but I believe a lot more of this will happen with alcohol sales in the college arenas. I've been around quite a few of these at the NCAA tournament, after breaks especially, and sat by a few obnoxious drunks at Midlands since it moved off campus, but now we're seeing it more at dual meets, etc. Most slightly drunk people are just funny, but some people can't hold their liquor and it can get ugly fast.
It was very unfortunate and distracting (and amusing to some) to everyone around. I know this will be a very unpopular opinion on this board, but I believe a lot more of this will happen with alcohol sales in the college arenas. I've been around quite a few of these at the NCAA tournament, after breaks especially, and sat by a few obnoxious drunks at Midlands since it moved off campus, but now we're seeing it more at dual meets, etc. Most slightly drunk people are just funny, but some people can't hold their liquor and it can get ugly fast.
I'm happy to say my experiences at Big Ten's (1) and Nationals (5) have been great. Where I have sat, over the course of the few days the people around me and a friend were nothing short of all kinds of fun. Especially, true at Nationals. It has always been a very family-like environment with kind and fun discussions.
I do think beer can be a problem. One row over from my season tickets, there was a couple of guys (with numerous cans of beer around them and with kids, who never shut up. They used all kinds of profanity and were always screaming at the refs and calling them names. If that wasn't bad enough the kids (about age 8 or 9) started yelling, screaming, cussing, and otherwise bad behavior, and the father and friends thought it was hilarious. It went on all day (Last meet, but they did it all year).
I do think beer can be a problem. One row over from my season tickets, there was a couple of guys (with numerous cans of beer around them and with kids, who never shut up. They used all kinds of profanity and were always screaming at the refs and calling them names. If that wasn't bad enough the kids (about age 8 or 9) started yelling, screaming, cussing, and otherwise bad behavior, and the father and friends thought it was hilarious. It went on all day (Last meet, but they did it all year).
I should clarify. A father and son that were PSU fans sat next to us, Iowa fans behind, and Nebraska fans in front, and we talked quite a bit and got along fine, mainly just a few obnoxious fans nearby that hindered people's enjoyment.
My mom and I went for 40 years, all over the country, and now usually my youngest son, and we sat by people from almost every fan base. We made friends and sometimes exchanged addresses and phone numbers with fans and wrestlers' families from many places. There were a few over the years I wanted to knock out, but mainly wrestling is a big family, a brother/sisterhood of good people. No matter where you go in life, there are always going to be bad apples. We need to ignore them. and enjoy the good ones.
My mom and I went for 40 years, all over the country, and now usually my youngest son, and we sat by people from almost every fan base. We made friends and sometimes exchanged addresses and phone numbers with fans and wrestlers' families from many places. There were a few over the years I wanted to knock out, but mainly wrestling is a big family, a brother/sisterhood of good people. No matter where you go in life, there are always going to be bad apples. We need to ignore them. and enjoy the good ones.
Sadly, many people are letting their Cheeto fingers mindset (typing what they want, when they want, from where they want - with no repercussions) carry over into the “real world” … I can say what I want to whomever I want … no matter where I am…
We’ve really shifted how we behave in public … Technology got us here. Smartphones (Twitter, Facebook) all came about in 2004-2007 … We didn’t know what to do with it except to take duck-lipped selfies, shame people anonymously, while secluding ourselves along the way. We’ve developed this entitlement to act the same way in public as we do behind these tiny screens.
My youngest nephew came down and sat next to the wife and I. He is a 10 year old who has never met a stranger and will talk to anybody. At one point, tugs on my shirt and says "the people around here really hate Iowa." I told him to get used to it. Besides a Friday night (benign) drunk Nebby fan in front of us, things were ok. Yea, they cheered when Iowa lost a match but that's just the state of things.
Got a funny similar story…. My 10 year old nephew was bouncing around between seats Saturday as well and he’s the same way. Very easy kid to talk to and pretty sharp. He picked up on the Nebraska crowd very quickly as well. After Red gets stuck he runs back over to us (with the jag Nebby fans directly behind us) and says innocently, but loudly, “Geesh! I’ve never seen a guy get pinned twice in one match before!”
It couldn’t have been more perfectly timed or priceless.
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