New Yorkers...Salt
I sat there at Giants Stadium on Sunday as salty as one could be. Sure the Giants were playing there worst game since the 2005 playoff embarrassment against the Panthers, but that wasn't really it.
I wasn't as embarrassed about the Giants as I was the people in my section, and the stadium as a whole.
Boos rang out from the first play. I know I know this is a tough town and when you play here you gotta expect the highs and the lows. But wasn't this team 7-3 and in the playoffs going into Sunday
But in this idea lies the problem.
Fans would boo when Eli Manning would make the RIGHT play. He would throw the ball into the ground on a busted up screen pass instead of taking a sack. Fans booed Eli mercilessly early on in the game even after he lead the Giants to an opening drive score. It sucks that he had such a terrible game (and even worse 2nd half) because it really takes away from my point.
New York sports fans are dumb.
When a fan boos it is supposed to be sign of two things: Anger and Awareness.
Anger in your team's crappy performance.
But more importantly, an awareness that you know why it was a crappy performance and that you might know how to fix it.
As Sports Journalism(our supposed experts) continues to get dumbed down on a national level thanks to the yelling of hooligans like Skip Bayliss and Steven A. Smith we are taught as fans to second guess everything. We are taught to be cynical and bitter because that is what is airing on ESPN every day.
But only the true sports fan can be cynical. It is not our birthright when we pay to attend a game. That is a poor excuse, one that New Yorkers use and others don't.
That is because as New Yorkers we are arrogant. We live in the greatest city in the world and the craziest one, too. We look at people in Kansas and in Georgia and call them hicks, country boys, whatever.
We are so confident in ourselves that we don't realize how unknowledgable we really are.
Boos rang from my section from people that had never heard of Sidney Rice the Viking receiver that set the Minnesota route in motion.
Boos rang on an Eli Manning interception that appeared, after a pre-snap audible, to be the fault of Sinorice Moss and his poor route running and not Eli's throw.
And listen, I'll be the first to admit that I really don't get football. I think it is by leaps and bounds the most complex sport that we have. I never played or coached the game and I have no idea what goes into each game.
But I will also guarantee that I know more about football that 98.3% of the fans at Giants stadium.
But that doesn't matter. As New Yorkers we are all experts. Every knows what is right and what is wrong. And apparently we are the only people in the country that pay for our tickets, giving us the right to boo mercillessly based on the classic sports cliche "they paid their price of admission, it's their right."
New Yorkers are morons when it comes to sports and its not our faults.
In New York we have real lives. We have culture. We wake up every day and work complex jobs(insert blogger joke here) and live in a city where there are so many things to do. Broadway shows, museums, the world's best restaurants. Most New Yorker's would rather see a great year out of the S&P than they would out of their favorite local team.
And then go to Kansas or Georgia where sports is their life. Instead of waking up and getting excited to see Jersey Boys or for Fed cuts, they sit there every week and get ready for their local football team. Dinner tables discuss Saturday or Sunday's game.
We are just different people.
Yet it is the people in New York doing the booing while the rest of the country smiles. Why is that?
We know less and we boo more?
The result of a Mets game does not impact an entire state. Tennessee beating Kentucky this last Saturday in 4 OT's to keep Georgia from the SEC title left "the entire great state of Georgia in shock," according to an old confederate pal of mine.
We are trained to boo. We are trained to be assholes. And often, it makes us look really really dumb.
Apologies for the salt.
Vaya,
sip
(Pics courtesy of ruralmissouri.com, wmz.com)
I wasn't as embarrassed about the Giants as I was the people in my section, and the stadium as a whole.
Boos rang out from the first play. I know I know this is a tough town and when you play here you gotta expect the highs and the lows. But wasn't this team 7-3 and in the playoffs going into Sunday
But in this idea lies the problem.
Fans would boo when Eli Manning would make the RIGHT play. He would throw the ball into the ground on a busted up screen pass instead of taking a sack. Fans booed Eli mercilessly early on in the game even after he lead the Giants to an opening drive score. It sucks that he had such a terrible game (and even worse 2nd half) because it really takes away from my point.
New York sports fans are dumb.
When a fan boos it is supposed to be sign of two things: Anger and Awareness.
Anger in your team's crappy performance.
But more importantly, an awareness that you know why it was a crappy performance and that you might know how to fix it.
As Sports Journalism(our supposed experts) continues to get dumbed down on a national level thanks to the yelling of hooligans like Skip Bayliss and Steven A. Smith we are taught as fans to second guess everything. We are taught to be cynical and bitter because that is what is airing on ESPN every day.
But only the true sports fan can be cynical. It is not our birthright when we pay to attend a game. That is a poor excuse, one that New Yorkers use and others don't.
That is because as New Yorkers we are arrogant. We live in the greatest city in the world and the craziest one, too. We look at people in Kansas and in Georgia and call them hicks, country boys, whatever.
We are so confident in ourselves that we don't realize how unknowledgable we really are.
Boos rang from my section from people that had never heard of Sidney Rice the Viking receiver that set the Minnesota route in motion.
Boos rang on an Eli Manning interception that appeared, after a pre-snap audible, to be the fault of Sinorice Moss and his poor route running and not Eli's throw.
And listen, I'll be the first to admit that I really don't get football. I think it is by leaps and bounds the most complex sport that we have. I never played or coached the game and I have no idea what goes into each game.
But I will also guarantee that I know more about football that 98.3% of the fans at Giants stadium.
But that doesn't matter. As New Yorkers we are all experts. Every knows what is right and what is wrong. And apparently we are the only people in the country that pay for our tickets, giving us the right to boo mercillessly based on the classic sports cliche "they paid their price of admission, it's their right."
New Yorkers are morons when it comes to sports and its not our faults.
In New York we have real lives. We have culture. We wake up every day and work complex jobs(insert blogger joke here) and live in a city where there are so many things to do. Broadway shows, museums, the world's best restaurants. Most New Yorker's would rather see a great year out of the S&P than they would out of their favorite local team.
And then go to Kansas or Georgia where sports is their life. Instead of waking up and getting excited to see Jersey Boys or for Fed cuts, they sit there every week and get ready for their local football team. Dinner tables discuss Saturday or Sunday's game.
We are just different people.
Yet it is the people in New York doing the booing while the rest of the country smiles. Why is that?
We know less and we boo more?
The result of a Mets game does not impact an entire state. Tennessee beating Kentucky this last Saturday in 4 OT's to keep Georgia from the SEC title left "the entire great state of Georgia in shock," according to an old confederate pal of mine.
We are trained to boo. We are trained to be assholes. And often, it makes us look really really dumb.
Apologies for the salt.
Vaya,
sip
(Pics courtesy of ruralmissouri.com, wmz.com)
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