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It made the game miserable because he would not stop his inane banter....

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What is the protocol in that type of situation?

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I gird up my loins, look the dude in the eye and tell him to 'shut the f^@k up' while I prepare to rumble. If he comes to that, he may win or I may win but he'll think twice before being an annoying big mouth again.

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Couldn't disagree more. The other 30 people within ear shot did not pay to have to listen to their obnnoxious, ignorant play-by-play. Cheer, yell, scream, but the constant "HOLY MOSES!" every time we get tackled or miss a tackle is INSANE. Insulting Spav/Sumlin every play, it's ridiculous. Not every play can be a touchdown by the Aggie offense. Not every play is a TFL/TO for the Aggie D. Believe it not, the opposing team usually has 85 scholarship players on their roster too. Some of them may even be better players than ours...

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I have no doubts that somebody *****ing and moaning all game is annoying. That's not the point. Again, you're simply arguing with his opinions. You can calmly ask him to relax and enjoy the game but they won't eject a paying customer because he is saying stuff that you don't like.

There are many instances where fans didn't like all the yelling / cheering next to them because it was too loud and obnoxious. They asked the people to calm down and just sit there and watch the game the way they wanted them to watch the game. Sound familiar?

If the fans aren't breaking rules, they don't have to sit and enjoy the game the way you like to or more importantly want them to. Screaming obscenities, get an usher.

No I'm not arguing with his opinions. I don't like the horizontal passing game. I hate the fact that we don't throw the ball between the hashes. I don't like the mandatory run on first down. I don't like 4 yard routes on 3rd & 7. I don't like the prevent defense, I don't like 12 yard cushions on 3rd downs. I don't like that we cannot cover the TE.

But guess what the entire section doesn't know how I feel!!! And they probably don't want to hear it from me either. All they know is that I applaud and yell for big plays by our O and I scream my ass off while we are on defense. They don't know what I thought about the previous play call and its execution. I understand an outburst when something particularly bad happens but not every play merits an outburst.

It's football, if you scored every play and stopped every opponent it wouldn't be any fun. Obnoxious, loud idiots ruin it for everyone. It is not enjoyable to be around them and they really have no right to be so ignorant in public. If they do have that right, than I have an equal right to shut them up.

Uh that guy is talking the truth by the way.

So he was saying what we were all thinking. Get a head set and listen to Dave

I've noticed that going to the games post JFF things have changed. This isn't an Old Army crowd anymore. Today, the new crowd is there -- angry, bitter drunks who are convinced that everyone wants to be just like them.......and their husbands are with them, too.

It's part of going to a game. It's not a golf tournament. Plus, if you were yelling for our team loud enough or cheering loud enough you would drown him out anyway.

I was in section 118 and didn't hear this guy. Wait, maybe it was me.

I also love when we use to hear people behind us say "sit down so we can see" ha. That one always makes me laugh.

The 3-4 years before the new stadium I sat behind an older guy (mid-60s) that would just stand up and scream, "DEFENSE YOU SUCK!! DEFENSE YOU SUCK!!!" over, and over, and over.... everybody around him hated it, but no one ever said anything.

For a minute I thought it might be me and my son, but I'm not in that section.

Sorry I didn't make that clear, but my wife did sit in the seat next to me. My buddy has 4 tickets, but he wasn't using two of them, so we sat with them.

That's part of the issue. I didn't pay for the seat; my buddy did, as a part of his season ticket package. So, as his "guest", I felt obliged not to make a scene.

I think my experience was worse. In the zone for the first time since 2005 and had a similar complaint but add foul language and spilling nacho cheese/chili on my back and not saying anything about it. My wife didn't notice until we left which was after them.

I had seats in 244 in the south end zone for a few seasons...row 3 or 4. There was a guy who sat in the first two rows who would narrate every play for those around him. Rarely would he be "that guy" - as described in the OP - but he would attempt to predict every play out loud before the snap and then explain to everyone around him in excruciating detail why he predicted what he did. He claimed to be personal friends with damn near every coach we had since D. X. Bible.

He tried to basically be everyone's color commentator. Gosh was it annoying.

Every halftime, he'd disappear for a while after the band marched and then show up with someone's nephew and his girlfriend or his neighbor's accountant or someone to introduce to everyone around him. It was like Rick Moranis' character, Louis Tully, on Ghostbusters introducing Ted and Annette Fleming at his party:

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Ted! Annette! I'm glad you could come, how you doin', give me your coats. Everybody, this is Ted and Annette Fleming! Ted has a small carpet cleaning business in receivership; Annette's drawing a salary from a deferred bonus from two years ago! They got fifteen thousand left on the house at eight percent. So they're okay! So, does anybody wanna play Parcheesi?

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Lone Stranger said:

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I've noticed that going to the games post JFF things have changed. This isn't an Old Army crowd anymore. Today, the new crowd is there -- angry, bitter drunks who are convinced that everyone wants to be just like them.......and their husbands are with them, too.

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Fantastic. So someone from the Fran years is really an "old army" type Ag, and could base a user name on this without ridicule?

Been there. Earplugs work really well.

Just befriend the attendants in your section and bring them bottles of iced water once in awhile and BINGO! they are your silent mafia for the season and will take care of any of your problems. Same with the Security in your area.

Serious.

Watch from the comfort of your living room.

Wait a minute. So if we get a safety, we don't get the ball back on the 1 yard line? That must be some new rule.

I just don't understand the point of blowing all that money on tickets, parking, a hotel, just to act as miserable as possible. And you make it miserable for everyone around you. If you can't have fun during a game you shouldn't go. Be a loser at home.

Bless her heart

OP your story should have gone under J@k a$$ of the game title

Row 25-27? Or there about?

Phat Ag 79 said:

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I sat with a buddy in the Zone this past weekend. He had two extra tickets and rather than sit with my wife in a separate section, we opted to sit with our friends in Section 118. The guy sitting directly behind me was a complete jerk. He complained about every play, it seemed. When Mond would slide after a run, he would complain that he wasn't tough. When Trayveon was be stopped for a 2 yard gain, he would complain about the play call. "Why do you keep giving it to number 5 up the middle?" The topper was when he thought we should get the ball at the Bama 1 yard line after the safety. He was THAT kind of a guy; an authority on football even though it was painfully obvious that he knew very little about the game or the team. It made the game miserable because he would not stop his inane banter, which he must have thought everyone was enjoying. Since they weren't my seats and since my buddy has to sit in front of this a**hole every home game, I kept my tongue.

What is the protocol in that type of situation?

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You calmly turn around and ask him if he got a PHD in BAS and then you:
beat the ever loving,
compound,
complex
hell outta him.

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I think I heard you.

Not kidding

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After watching The Zone for all these years, I've just come to accept they are the worst fans in the stadium. They sit the entire game. They never make much noise. About half of them are never there. And some of the worst behavior I've heard and witnessed originated there.

I will never sit in The Zone.

Here's what I don't like.

When we're playing Alabama, the #1 team in the country, and I'm all hyped. I keep jumping out of my seat, cheering, "AAAAAA"ing, etc, and some wet blanket tells me to sit down and stay seated.

Dude, really?

BenFiasco14 said:

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Here's what I don't like.

When we're playing Alabama, the #1 team in the country, and I'm all hyped. I keep jumping out of my seat, cheering, "AAAAAA"ing, etc, and some wet blanket tells me to sit down and stay seated.

Dude, really?

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You do as you need to, spirit can ne'er be told what to do.