BU outlaws swearing in stands

"The policy is specifically directed at rabid fans of BU's nationally-ranked hockey team, the Terriers."

[sports.espn.go.com]

Kendall Lyons, 18, called it an infringement on freedom of speech. And sports, he said, "won't be fun anymore."

You're a great advertisement for your school Kendall

I'm sure Kendall also tells his parents that he's going to get piercings because "it's MY body!"

Trotsky
I'm sure Kendall also tells his parents that he's going to get piercings because "it's MY body!"

Whateva! I do what I want!

Pete Godenschwager
Kendall Lyons, 18, called it an infringement on freedom of speech.

Kendall might want to consider enrolling in a law class.

What does getting pierced have to do with being an idiot?

Jerseygirl
What does getting pierced have to do with being an idiot?

The snark isn't the piercing, but the adolescent's universal "my prerogative!" soap box screech. Could have been a mohawk, tattoo, etc...

But, now that you mention it...

Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, BC sucks!

Some of the smartest people I know are pierced...

I swear, my kids can do whatever the hell they want, just as long as it isn't illegal or rooting for the Red Sox. I'd rather have the works of Ann Coulter '84 foisted on me at Christmas.

Ok, dropping it...

Speaking of BU: [www.sportsnet.ca]
and
[www.hockeybuzz.com]

Jerseygirl
Speaking of BU

Screw them.

RichH

Jerseygirl
Speaking of BU

Screw them.

I feel like more needs to be said, here.

RichH

Jerseygirl
Speaking of BU

Screw them.

Harvard, too.

Jerseygirl
What does getting pierced have to do with being an idiot?

Hepatitis C!

marty

Jerseygirl
What does getting pierced have to do with being an idiot?

Hepatitis C!

Not if you do your research and go to a reputable piercer. Sure, some people get infected or have complications, but those are vastly due to ignorance in selecting your piercer and/or poor aftercare. It's like getting knocked up: really easy to get pregnant, but also really easy to not get pregnant.

I know, I know, crazy kids with their damn rock music...

By the way, I can't believe no one has anything to say about the DiPietro deal. Seriously? Islanders want to lock him up until he's 40? For $4.5 million a year? Although I guess after hiring your backup goalie as your GM, anything makes sense...

Jerseygirl

marty

Jerseygirl
What does getting pierced have to do with being an idiot?

Hepatitis C!

Not if you do your research and go to a reputable piercer.

I don't agree that you can do meaningful "research". Hospitals and dentists have nightmares with disinfection and sterilization. Any unneeded puncture wounds are just that, unneeded.


Here is some "research" reading:

[www.google.com]

Topic driftttttt......

On his MSNBC show "Countdown" tonight, Keith Olbermann '79 reported on the ban, then commented that "This will thankfully have no effect on the students at Cornell University, for whom the traditional insult to shout at the opposing team - no matter who they are - is Screw BU."

(The show will reair at midnight.)

Jerseygirl
By the way, I can't believe no one has anything to say about the DiPietro deal. Seriously? Islanders want to lock him up until he's 40? For $4.5 million a year? Although I guess after hiring your backup goalie as your GM, anything makes sense...

As a long-suffering Islander fan who doesn't allow his children piercings and doesn't care what other parents let theirs do, nothing the Isles do could possibly surprise me. They make good moves, they make rotten moves, they have ADD moments where they can't keep the same lineup or coaching staff together for ten minutes, they lapse into season-long comas.

There is no Plan. There is no Aim. There is only The Moment. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Trotsky
As a long-suffering Islander fan who doesn't allow his children piercings and doesn't care what other parents let theirs do...

There is no Plan. There is no Aim. There is only The Moment. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Good. They can wait until they're 18 and pay for it themselves.

Your last line would make a great ad campaign. If the Isles were into self parody.

A friend of mine used to play with/against DiPietro and thinks he's a real prick...apparently enough so that he's unwilling to concede the possibility that time may have mellowed or matured him. I can't wait to get his take on the contract business.

RichH

Jerseygirl
Speaking of BU

Screw them.

Penn sucks.

(What? It's football season.)

Jerseygirl
By the way, I can't believe no one has anything to say about the DiPietro deal. Seriously? Islanders want to lock him up until he's 40? For $4.5 million a year? Although I guess after hiring your backup goalie as your GM, anything makes sense...

I would've said something, but I've been laughing too hard to type for the past 48 hours.

Rick Reilly addresses the issue in this weeks' Sports Illustrated. He decribes the
"Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, go CU" cheer used by Colorado fans and also the twelve-part Michigan hockey penalty cheer. He seems to support the anti-swearing move.

ebilmes
Rick Reilly addresses the issue in this weeks' Sports Illustrated. He decribes the
"Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, go CU" cheer used by Colorado fans and also the twelve-part Michigan hockey penalty cheer. He seems to support the anti-swearing move.

Bah...BU and Michigan hockey cracking down on fan/student obsenity cheering make headlines. The same thing happens to Cornell what...10 and 5 years ago, and nary a blip. [/inferiority complex]

RichH
The same thing happens to Cornell what...10 and 5 years ago

And 15 years ago. And 20 years ago. An administration cracks down on fan obsenity like a politician warns of "our crumbling infrastructure" and a program manager deploys a "reorganization." It's a thing you do periodically to hint you're awake, with no expectation of actual change.

Trotsky
It's a thing you do periodically to hint you're awake, with no expectation of actual change.

An interesting theory but given all the complaints here about being ejected by the redcoats, I think Cornell took the pledge a little more seriously than most.

ugarte
An interesting theory but given all the complaints here about being ejected by the redcoats, I think Cornell took the pledge a little more seriously than most.

Oh, there are certainly short term consequences of the Great Leap Forward. In the reorg, you change your whole work breakdown structure and waste man-years with "matrix management" training. If you're really into it, you rebid your contract with the new model (and lose). But the ostensible end -- be it a more profitable organization or a more civil athmosphere -- is a mirage. Those things are achieved bottom-up, or by blind chance, if ever.

And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.

Darren Leung
And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.

You'd perhaps have trouble with headlines such as "Prostitutes Appeal to Pontiff."

billhoward

Darren Leung
And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.

You'd perhaps have trouble with headlines such as "Prostitutes Appeal to Pontiff."

Nope. No trouble at all.

Note that they qualified that it only applies to swearing in the stands. Small loophole that enables Parker to continue to f-bomb away.

RatushnyFan
Note that they qualified that it only applies to swearing in the stands. Small loophole that enables Parker to continue to f-bomb away.

Give him a break. The man hasn't digested a decent meal in years!