COLUMN: Wanted: creative fans
Going into the basketball game against the University of Puget Sound, I knew that the Loggers avageraged 103.3 points per game las year, so it wasn’t going to be a defensive battle.
I was preparing myself for an up and down affair, and that’s exactly what happened.
After getting up by 40 points, the Ags and Loggers continued the fast paced style of ball. There will always be one constant in a fast-paced game and that is the errors.
Turnovers, bad calls, bad decisions and bad shots all rear their ugly little heads. Even more so since it was the first game of the season.
Yet through it all the trusty fans still berated the ref and the other team.
They might have remembered that it was the first game of the season, hence the referees had not been practicing a whole lot either.
The validity of an argument where the difference of outcomes would be a 48 or 50 point lead in an exhibition game naturally has some flaws.
After maintaining the lead stable for most of the second half, fans were mocking the poor play of the Loggers.
But the cheering wasn’t even new or inventive.
An entire offseason had passed away without any brainstorming.
Maybe the fans have really good cheers they are holding back for BYU and Utah. If so, disregard the last paragraph but if not, get cracking.
We are all college intellectuals, learning from textbooks with rather large words in them, something that you fans come across in your daily life has to be able to be yelled at the top of your lungs at opposing players.
Be imaginative and don’t worry about sounding a bit crazy just let things flow, but remember a vulgar crowd is a called a mob.
Kevin is a junior majoring in print journalism. Comments can be sent to him at krn@cc.usu.edu.