Comments on: Cheer, Cheer (but not too loud)

By: Pagna

Pagna — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:48:58 +0000

PMB ’10: I’ve never complained to an usher. And try trading seats with anyone. I assume you are a 2010 grad. Well, son, use the intelligence you should have. Again, give me a break. Think about other people besides yourself. I have been at a ton of Southern Cal games and the classic Miami game and no one had to stand for the whole time to show spirit. Somehow I knew when I wrote on this board that I’d get people like you with no common sense. Sorry, son, but standing up isn’t the solution. Better teams are the solution. I’ll stand up with everyone else at crucial times, sure. But when ONE fan like you stands up surrounded by hundreds or thousands of people who don’t and forces those thousands of people to stand … it doesn’t make sense to me.

I’ll be long dead when you are old enough to want to sit at games, but the day will come, and maybe you’ll remember me.

By the way, I’ll be at the Southern Cal game yelling my head off, and if I have to stand, I will.

By: PMB '10

PMB '10 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:37 +0000

In reply to Pagna.

As long as you don’t mind people standing in front of you, and are cheering where you’re sitting, I appreciate the fact you cannot stand for that length of time. If you have an issue with that, try to trade seats for an aisle where you can see, etc. before you go get an usher and kill the energy all around you. I love the lifelong passion fans have for ND — but if those 30,000 other people in the stands who aren’t up to stand for that long are killing the energy, its time for those 30,000 people to be made to be the ones who feel uncomfortable in ND stadium. NOT the ones standing and cheering and being loud. If a ‘changing of the guard’ is what’s required to make our stadium great (it’s not now. not even close), then that is what it takes.

Go Irish, Beat Trojans

By: Charlie S

Charlie S — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:48:55 +0000

Take out the seats and benches in the stadium. That would help!

By: IBG: The Kiffykins Edition | Gameday 40

IBG: The Kiffykins Edition | Gameday 40 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:46:19 +0000

[…] in Iowa: I had a bit here written early in the week supporting the Jumbo-Tron. But after reading THIS OUTRAGE from ND Nation, you can count me among the jumbo-tron supporters no longer. In fact, the single biggest way to […]

By: Pagna

Pagna — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:57:06 +0000

I haven’t read all the comments here but I got a pretty good feel. I would like to know how old the writers are. I am a Notre Dame graduate and after 43 years I am just as excited and interested in ND winning as ever. I certainly love to hear loud cheering as long as no swearing is involved and the people doing the cheering are not inebriated. But give me a break, people. I am 64 years old with a bad back and legs. You think I have to stand for the whole game to prove I am loyal??? I have gone to at least one home game every year since 1964 and have contributed to the Alumni fund every year since graduating. Are you people telling me I should stay home because me and probably 30,000 other people in the stands just can’t stand up for four and a half hours? By the way, when I was 20 I went and stood for the entire ND-MSU 10-10 tie in 1966. You do that when you are 20 but not when you are 64.

By: man no download slots

man no download slots — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:19:20 +0000

It doesn’t matter is one team good or bad , crowd should be loud on every game if they are truly real fans of that team . There is that obligation to cheer your team on . But that is only my opinion 😉

By: NotreDameNate

NotreDameNate — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:18:54 +0000

Here is my .02 worth. My 1st game was in 06 at Purdue. My buddy scored 2 tickets and we both went. Just so happens that our tickets were with the ND student section, what a freaking blast it was. They knew it was our 1st game and they let me do the 1st six pushups, just amazing. The students were awesome and it was made even better as none of us had to sit down, it was all students around us. That is what I do at my house, I stand and I cheer!

2nd game is in 07 at Notre Dame vs. BC. I realize ND struggled mightly that year, but that does not matter to me. This was my 1st time at a game in South Bend, you better bet your a.s.s. off I was going to stand and cheer. Unfortunately my experience was nothing like the one I had at Purdue. To be quite honest, I was very disappointed. I was told more than once to sit down by IRISH fans. I was shocked, and at a loss for words. How can you go to a football game and NOT CHEER for your HOME team? It left such an impression on me that I don’t know if I would care to spend the money on a ticket, travel, and then have to freaking sit down for the game. I can’t do that. If I go I want to be by the student section in hopes I won’t be told to sit down. But that isn’t a guaranteed either, I’m sure. So I guess I will just watch it on t.v. in my house and stand and cheer all I want. I don’t know what else to do. Hopefully it will be rockin’ for the USC game though.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:25:08 +0000

In reply to joed. I have been to MANY stadiums with dumbotrons and, let me tell you, they do NOT generate excitement. In fact, in every case, every single fan sitting around me thought that they were too loud and added virtually nothing to the game except replay of the previous play. And, before you say it, I am by no means an old man. Just a young fan giving you a bit of perspective with respect to the Dumbotron.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:54:26 +0000

Great article. That YouTube of the ’88 Mich game makes me want to run down on kickoff coverage Saturday night (and watch the rest of the game from the Hospital with a big grin on my face). Go Irish! Make some noise!

By: terry

terry — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:56:30 +0000

“I travel around with our team and our stadium is the quietest place to play.”

There’s a reason, Jack – you.