Monroe County has a lot of passionate fans but we do have our share of what I would call....IDIOTS! Sometimes things just do not need to be said, even though others are probably thinking it, it still should not be said. We do not have the profanity from fans though. That would not be tolerated among the loyals!!!!

 

Logan County has one beligerent lady that uses profanity when it suits her, they also have a coach that was above the pressbox yelling at a ref. Not very classy at all!!!!

 

Green has the worst Fans I have ever seen.....throwing things, cursing, and just down right nasty!!! We hate playing there!!!

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Yell about bad calls, yell encouragement, yell all you want, but NEVER cuss the kids or single out kids for abuse, either way. I was always told that the individuals that feel the need to continualy curse have a limited vocabulary. Pitiful behavior for adults....

Well its a thread about over the top fan behavior, CCH was brought up and talked about not sure what "game" others should worry about in a thread where your school was brought up in discussion? It also feeds the fire of a topich like this when CCH does things like throw thousands of beads across the Holy Cross gym floor and students cursing at adults because they were told to clean it up, and then the CCH AD did......natta.

Is this a football thread? I can't tell. I think some of you should let it go.

 

Topic is poor fan behavior - that just happened to start in the football thread. Point is that it is an example of poor sportsmanship.

What I am saying is that Mason administrators didn't do what they should have done... Put a stop to it, not just "settle them down" in the second half as you stated.

 

No argument with that. But, from what I've seen, the problem goes far beyond Mason County and needs t be addressed on a state level.

 

Some are complaining this is a football thread. Here's a complaint I have regarding football. Blatant unsportsmanlike conduct should result in being thrown out to the game. Last year a Greenup County player blind sided a Mason Col offensive lineman jogging down the field 20-30 yards behind the play and knocked him for a flip. The player was flagged. This year in the Bourbon County game a Bourbon player while laying on his back was flagged for trying to kick a Mason player with his cleats. Such blatant attacks should result in more than a flag. For every act the refs catch, how many do they not see, too? My son has had players try to cleat him and no flag thrown.

 

Last Friday, they called unsportsmanlike conduct twice on Darrel Cross of Rowan for hurdling players while he was running the ball. I understand safety is the purpose of that rule. A rule that doesn't exist in college or the pros. But, if they're going to that extent in the rules, why are players who intentionally and illegally try to harm other players allowed to stay on the field? This concerns me more than any fan behavior I've seen.

 

(You've got a few years on me in attending games, but not many. :-)

Topic is poor fan behavior - that just happened to start in the football thread. Point is that it is an example of poor sportsmanship.

 

I'm aware of the title. Yet some of the GRC/Mason posters can't seem to get over an incident that happenend 6 months ago still pointing fingers and throwing out blame. Maybe the road to better sportsmanship could start here. But I highly doubt that will happen. Some seem to prefer to operate with that bur under their saddle.

Yesterday I attended two different games to watch nephews play (football.) This time it wasn't the fans but the coaches. Cursing and berating his 5/6 grade players from the sideline, a well deserved unsportsmanlike penalty on another coach and then an opposing coach taunting a kid from the other team after his team made a good play.

I fully understand that some coaches think they are "God like" just because they have "Coach" in front of there name. :rolleyes: I say get over yourself! Being a coach does not give the right to act like a redneck idiot! Show some class and remember these kids are listening/watching every word and or action you make.

I'm aware of the title. Yet some of the GRC/Mason posters can't seem to get over an incident that happenend 6 months ago still pointing fingers and throwing out blame. Maybe the road to better sportsmanship could start here. But I highly doubt that will happen. Some seem to prefer to operate with that bur under their saddle.

 

As noted in several posts in this thread, there are some that happened even longer than 6 months ago. It is those examples witnessed by sports fans that sticks in peoples memories. It is those examples that create "Burrs" under people saddles.

 

It is the lack of action by officials, High School Staffs, Regional Oversight Committee's, and the KHSAA in these instances that what needs to be addressed in each of these instances.

 

If we want our players to play safely, in a model program; should we act like model sportsfans (when winning or losing)? Shouldn't there be some better responsibility by the above mentioned people to ensure that environment is at every event? When it doesn't happen, that is when events happen and people get "Burrs" that stick with them.

No argument with that. But, from what I've seen, the problem goes far beyond Mason County and needs t be addressed on a state level.

 

Some are complaining this is a football thread. Here's a complaint I have regarding football. Blatant unsportsmanlike conduct should result in being thrown out to the game. Last year a Greenup County player blind sided a Mason Col offensive lineman jogging down the field 20-30 yards behind the play and knocked him for a flip. The player was flagged. This year in the Bourbon County game a Bourbon player while laying on his back was flagged for trying to kick a Mason player with his cleats. Such blatant attacks should result in more than a flag. For every act the refs catch, how many do they not see, too? My son has had players try to cleat him and no flag thrown.

 

Last Friday, they called unsportsmanlike conduct twice on Darrel Cross of Rowan for hurdling players while he was running the ball. I understand safety is the purpose of that rule. A rule that doesn't exist in college or the pros. But, if they're going to that extent in the rules, why are players who intentionally and illegally try to harm other players allowed to stay on the field? This concerns me more than any fan behavior I've seen.

 

(You've got a few years on me in attending games, but not many. :-)

 

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1. Agree.This is where each administration needs to enforce the safety of the players, coaches, and fans.

2. I would hope that when the coaches of those players see the tape then this would be addressed and stopped. No room in athletics to purposely try and hurt another player. I truly am sorry your son has to endure this.

3. Hey, I am proud of my age, and tell it galdly...not like most women..

As noted in several posts in this thread, there are some that happened even longer than 6 months ago. It is those examples witnessed by sports fans that sticks in peoples memories. It is those examples that create "Burrs" under people saddles.

 

It is the lack of action by officials, High School Staffs, Regional Oversight Committee's, and the KHSAA in these instances that what needs to be addressed in each of these instances.

 

If we want our players to play safely, in a model program; should we act like model sportsfans (when winning or losing)? Shouldn't there be some better responsibility by the above mentioned people to ensure that environment is at every event? When it doesn't happen, that is when events happen and people get "Burrs" that stick with them.

 

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Too bad. I just dont get it. We had a similar incident last nite at Boone Cty but not with adults but with kids. We were congregating as always and displaying our Highlands colors and some BC students on the tennis courts had a bull horn and were directing obsenities at our group which included younger kids. One of our Highlands supporters walked over to the kids and kindly asked them not to use foul language and they basically stopped. I give the kids credit for respecting an adult and I believe it was handled correctly without confortation or screaming. The problem I had was there were BC parents and adults opposite of us that simply did nothing about it. Kids are kids and they make mistakes but adults must be held accountable for their own and in this threads case they should have taken care of their own. If something like this happened at a HHS game I can gurantee you that this person or persons would be told to SHUT IT or leave. I gues like someone else said on here this is where our society has gone. In the toilet. JMO.

 

I was at the HHS vs Johnson Central playoff game last year and watched a HHS fan in the middle of the HHS adult section stand up and yell at the Johnson Central bench to "go back to the meth trailer". Nothing was said to him. HHS isn't above this problem much like every other school has bad fans/parents and it seems to only be getting worse nation wide. I understand the occasional slip when watching a football game but the repeated, directed and inappropriate language at highschool kids has to stop. Maybe an IQ test to get in the game. :idunno:

I can understand passion and living for Friday Nights (or whatever night the contest comes on), but I have never understood the personal attacks. I know that people live for the games, the want for the home team to win, and to see a great contest; but at the degredation of others and one-self, I cannot understand.

 

Jim Schue summed it up best: "Just another classic example of people's inability to put sports -- and especially high school sports -- in its proper perspective".

Not much officials can do, if it is a big crowd, they seldom will know for sure who did/said what.

I personally dont see the big deal. Are you saying that these kids dont say cuss words or hear them all the time. The use cuss words most of the time in every sentence. Grant it not every kid, but most. And if they dont say it, i guarantee that they hear it in practices, around the locker rooms, and also in school. I graduated last year from a Northern Kentucky high school and these words are second nature to me. Everyone in the whole school used them as adjectives on a consistant basis. I could be wrong but i think that is the generation gap between kids these days and their parents.

I personally dont see the big deal. Are you saying that these kids dont say cuss words or hear them all the time. The use cuss words most of the time in every sentence. Grant it not every kid, but most. And if they dont say it, i guarantee that they hear it in practices, around the locker rooms, and also in school. I graduated last year from a Northern Kentucky high school and these words are second nature to me. Everyone in the whole school used them as adjectives on a consistant basis. I could be wrong but i think that is the generation gap between kids these days and their parents.

 

I wouldn't care to much if i hear a bunch of kids cussing but an adult cussing in around a bunch of kids is a different story.

I am reminded of a quote from one of my sitcom favorites, George Costanza...."We are trying to have a society here!"