Good Thread
Mate, last time I went to the footy at Parra some short redhead security guard told me to sit down because I was "being too loud and obstructig people's view"...We'd just scored a try and Hindy was almost about to get into some biffo and I was screaming for that nice person to lay his hands off God and the redhead told me to sit down and calm down.
I told him:
"Go f**k yourself - I paid good money to come watch my favourite team play, and everyone else is standing up having a great time. Come see me at full-time and I'll shout ya a lager."
He promptly pissed off.
Point is - it's an exciting game; when someone makes a break or scores you stand up. It's natural. f**k the po-po.
see i got to say matey - if you had stood up to watch the try and we just simply cheering noone would have minded. Seems like you carried on a bit, and topped that off with abusing the person behind you. I agree completely that its an exciting game, but that shouldn't be a reason to completely disresepect the people around you.
I stand up when the team makes a break, and i flop back down when we enevitabley drop the ball or get tackled. I've often turned around to give the lady behind me a courtesy "Sorry, got a bit excited" and she's never minded... A little common courtesy goes a long way to calm down a tense situation...
Same with swearing, squealing, abusing, and drunkeness... sometimes i just yell out a bit of "Soz guys, my bad!" and clear the air with my fellow Bay 48rs!
razzman - sounds like you had a bit of a prude behind you, maybe if you just do the "smile and polite" thing for a while, if she still wants to be a prude, then you can pull out the "No, stuff ya" or "Security!!" card...
