Getting it from both sides
Before I filed my column Monday night, I had received two emails from Bedlam basketball fans. An OSU fan wanted me to address the OU fans who chanted “OSU sucks!” near the end of the game. An OU fan wanted me to address the cheap-shot fouls he thought the Cowboys committed.
Let me be perfectly clear. I am against crowds that chant coarse language and I am against cheap shots. So what did we see Monday night?
Well, the crowd did chant “OSU sucks!” and I’m still waiting for the college president, or coach, who will do something about this ridiculous trend in college sports. All someone has to do is take over the P.A., say cut it out and cut it out now, and glare a little. The crowd will back down. It is classless to chant obscenities or words you don’t want your 8-year-old using, and if you don’t mind your 8-year-old saying suck, then shame on you.
As for the cheap-shot fouls, I saw only one. Martavius Adams’ takedown of Taylor Griffin on a block-out was foolish — and OSU got its comeupance. Adams was whistled for a flagrant foul, which meant Griffin got two free throws and OU got the ball, even though it had just scored. The foul provided OU with a four-point possession; think a four-point possession is big in a 64-61 final? Silly play by Adams.
The other fouls in question? Not cheap. Marcus Dove twice drew the ire of the OU crowd for hard fouls, once on Blake Griffin and once on Tony Crocker, the latter at the end of the game. But you’d better foul Griffin hard if you want him to feel it, and Dove, not Griffin, is the one who crashed to the court on that play. And the final foul came in desperation, with 2.9 seconds left in the game.
So I saw one cheap shot, and it turned out glorious for OU. I heard the crowd chant and longed for someone to stand up and do something about it.
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If you do not think “sucks” is profanity, maybe you should study a little harder!! What do you think sucks means? I had a professor who would not use sucks in chemistry class.
It’s those fine upstanding OSU fans that post on a certain OSU message board that should be commended. There’s nothing quite like saying terrible things about the Griffin brothers’ mother and making fun of their ethnicity, is there?
There is nothing an OSU fan can say a message board that would justify crude chants by OU fans. I have never expect OSU to show any class. The recent decision to not sell single game tickets to football Bedlam is a great example. I still expect OU to show more class than that. We used to chant “Beat Cylo Tech and Poor Aggies” I never attended a game in stillwater but I would not be surprised if they did something worse than that. OU fans should still show some class. I was not at the game, but I did watch in on TV. I turned it off when the chants started. I was sorry the whole country had to see our lack of class.
The JD that will be hanging on my wall in May tells me I have studied plenty hard. If you don’t like what the word “sucks” means then you need to take it up with Merriam-Webster. I especially like how they define the slang version of the word which is referred to in the chant: “OSU is objectionable or inadequate”
transitive verb
1 a: to draw (as liquid) into the mouth through a suction force produced by movements of the lips and tongue b: to draw something from or consume by such movements c: to apply the mouth to in order to or as if to suck out a liquid
2 a: to draw by or as if by suction b: to take in and consume by or as if by suction
intransitive verb
1: to draw something in by or as if by exerting a suction force; especially : to draw milk from a breast or udder with the mouth
2: to make a sound or motion associated with or caused by suction
3: to act in an obsequious manner —usually used with up
4slang : to be objectionable or inadequate
— suck it up : to make the effort required to do or deal with something difficult or unpleasant
there is nothing wrong with the word suck or chanting ‘xxx ssucks’ This happens in most all college rivalries. I seriously doubt an 8 year old child’s first exposure to this word is at a college football/basketball game. Are we going to let political correctness creep it’s way into every single facet of our lives. I hope not.
For those Poke fans that are offended, the stuff being said about the Griffin brothers’ ethnicity and their mother on the OSU message board is FAR worse than any use of the word “sucks.”
Like there is not going to be any crude chanting in Stillwater. My God man, it’s Bedlam! No profanity no problem.