Would you boo the Broncos?

Situation #1: “Come on!”
Situation #2: Confusion rather than frustration.
Situation #3: It would depend on how the offense was struggling. If I perceived it to be self-inflicted wounds, I might “Come on.” Otherwise, I would just be nervous.
Situation #4: I’d quietly stew and secretly hope the game didn’t come down to a field goal.

I don’t agree with booing one’s own team or taunting the other. Remember these kids(which is what they are) are risking life and limb to entertain us for not a lot of direct compensation. All the ones I know who played at this level have at least some nagging injury, and a few have severe ones. They were doing 2 a days in the hot August sun when we were drinking margaritas. Their families will likely be in attendance and suffer for their sons when a crowd acts this way. As for the other team, if the game is to be worth winning your opponents must give it their best. Sometimes, this will be better than ours’. When it isn’t, show some class(I.e. no rubbing it in with taunts of “overrated”).

When Kellen Moore threw away a TD pass at the feet a BSU received and UCD defender in the North endzone.. where we thought he could at least try to run in.

A little guilt about it? Yes. But this was at the end of us seeing serious under-performance. Vanilla offense shouldn’t sell tickets. Next FCS team the Broncos get, I’m not going.

was when they were inside the 5 or 10 (it was kinda hard to tell, cuz they were on the North side of the field and I was in the SEZ) it was 3rd down, Kellen rolled to the right looking for an open receiver, finding none tossed the ball out of bounds instead of running straight ahead and diving into the end zone himself. Although there was a defender nearby, it seemed like he would have been able to at least have hit the marker on the way out of bounds. Then came the boo’s. I don’t recall actually booing, I was shocked and most likely let out my own “Come on!”. In fact I do recall using that exclamation quite often during the game. Especially when it started to rain for the second time.

Not that we didn’t deserve some of the P.I. calls, but they were letting the Aggies get away with the exact same “infractions” they’d called the Broncos for just moments earlier.

I would’ve booed the weather, too but my lips were starting to become numb.

Our good friend Conan O’brien has a handy song for reference on this matter:

Yay Boo, Yay Boo
It’s lots of fun to do
If you like it holler ‘Yay"
If you don’t you holler “Boo”

Such wisdom.

I think the only time I ever boo at football games in general is at officiating and even then it has to be a very bad call. As a former high school player I understand there is a lot of time, effort and game planning that goes into each week. I can only imagin how a college team prepares. I think that the average fan doesn’t understand that coaches don’t just close their eyes to choose a play. There are usually “packages” of plays that they prepare prior to games that they think will best exploit the oppositions defense. Sometimes those plays work and sometimes they look like they have no idea what the hell is going on. I would never boo play call as I am sure that there is no way that I could do any better. And we need to keep in mind that the other team is always going to give BSU their best shot. Its not like teams are just going to lay down and roll over for us. I think booing your team out of frustration shows just how little you know. Most fans have no idea what it is like to play infront of 30,000+ people. I always assume the players are doing their best and that the coaches will put the best possible team on the field. I think in general we have been spoiled as a fan base and we should appreciate what we have and not take the broncos for granted.

I think there are situations I would boo. #3 would be the most likely to get a boo from me. I didn’t boo at the game Saturday, I wasn’t shocked to hear them and I thought they might get louder. I was very frustrated. For those of you who think these players don’t get compensation your an idiot. Free College degree, $15-$20 an hour part time jobs that you just have to turn in your time card to get paid. I would suit up in the heat of summer for two-a-days and work my butt off in the cold to not have to pay for school. Now I think Booing is pointless at a football game unless there are many people doing it, If the players and coaches can’t hear your frustration then it serves no purpose. Basketball however I can sit right next to the players and I have yelled many times at our player " Make your free throws scholorship" or “You go to school for free to play better than this” Are these not true statements?

I’m not a fan of booing your own team. I’ve never done it myself. However, that doesn’t mean I’m completely against it. If there was a moment I would have boo’d, it was when KM should have tried running into the end zone.

the fans booing was just a light precursor to what the coaches were going to do to the players. I think over-excessive booing is just classless — ie. what I foresee Florida State fans doing to coach Bobby Bowden later this year. The Broncos really have given us fans so much, but I wouldn’t think it too harsh for us to remind them what level of success we’re used to. I’m sure they felt it themselves on the field Saturday night, and to get it from the fans was, hopefully, just another way to solidify how important it is for the players to work harder this week.

Then again, Coach Pete is giving them 2 days off as well. I suppose it is around mid-terms.

I don’t boo in any sense for much the same reason as I feel silly typing boo. I don’t boo because I am a 28 year old man with a family and a professional career. I don’t boo because I’m up there in the stands in everything just short of a snuggy and they are down there fighting the good fight. So besides the belief that “booing” a collegiate football team is a bit beneath my age and station, Since ‘96 when my Dad took me to my first game, the Broncos have never given me anything to “boo” at. One of the huge reasons why I am a Bronco fan is because the special chemistry the fans have with the team. Call it Idaho quality of life, blue collar ethics, and speak softly/ carry a big stick mentality combined with the BSU athletics refusal to drink their own kool-aid. While I admire and revere some of the older program’s tradition and fan base, some of their tactics, (like smack-texting LSU fans and the homoerotic homerism of Meyer/Tebow) I appreciate the down to earth nature of BSU Football and its fans. Just my perspective.

Is it just my computer or are the new comments not being cleared when you leave the page?

I don’t boo. I may say come on, WTF was that etc., but I don’t boo.

Yankees fans will loudly boo the Yankees when its deserved. Those people pay a kings ransom to come watch the greatest collection of major league talent underperform and they will boo. Yankees players know they deserve it and use it as motivation. Coach Pete clamors for Bronco Nation to pay those outrageous fee hikes and cheer his team on. And the you have to watch that performance last week? I was booing at my tv and I pay the BAA a fair amount of money each month to stream the games to my comp. They deserved it and hopefully use it as motivation.

is whether you are booing millionaire athletes/coaches; or underpaid refs (often acceptable even when not fully justified) or booing college athletes (often unacceptable even when fully justified).

Fully acceptable booing situations: the coach is playing more conservative than you’d like, the ref makes a call against your team that is even marginally arguable, or your high-priced NFL player drops the ball/fumbles/throws an interception.

I’d boo a college athlete if they were on the other team and I felt like booing. The only time I see myself booing a Bronco was if they did an illegal hit that injured a player, and it was like their second unnecessary roughness penalty of the game. And even then I’m not all that sure.

I think everyone is confused. You guys weren’t hearing boos. You was hearing “Shooooooo.”
Oh wait, he only had one catch. Crap. Wrong again.

Never boo at my team. Lots of WTFs, but not booing. Since I see the broncos live once in a while, what’s the point of booing at the tv.

I have never boo’d a team that I am rooting for amateur or pro. It’s not that I have a personal stance against it, but as someone mentioned above the Broncos have never given me reason to even remotely consider booing. It would take a lot for me to forget, even for a moment, that any athlete is not susceptible to making errors from time to time. If I had been at the Georgia game, I probably would not have been able to withhold the urge to boo. In fact, I would still boo Zabranksy right now if given the chance.

Looking at the comments, it doesn’t appear the average OBNUG reader boos either. Unfortunately the average OBNUG reader does not represent the average Bronco fan. Many fans only frame of reference for the Broncos has been this meteoric rise to national prominance. Their expectations of the team are beyond reasonable, but the Broncos’ consistency continues to raise that bar of expectations.
I will never forget our fans booing the Broncos at halftime of the final home game of 2002 because they were only up 14-10. It was much the same situation Saturday against UC Davis – the team was still handily winning, but were playing mediocre and the fans reacted. I blame this on the fan base being more concerned about scoring margin and poll rankings than truly wanting to support their team and watch entertaining football.

It is frustrating when the Broncos don’t play at their high octane level. In those situations I am more of a “come on” guy or sometimes belt out an unintelligible Howard Dean like growl.

I’m a Bronco going to school at BYU, so while I’m here I go to the football games. The thing I hate the most about the fans here is how much the boo anyone…the opposing team, the refs, their own team, the announcers, the ball boy…anyone.

There is never a reason to boo your own team, never. You can’t claim to be behind your team when they are winning and then boo against them when they aren’t. That is the definition of a fair-weather fan.

The only thing I will boo at is very bad calls (even then it’s rare) and unsportsmanlike play. If a player takes a blatant cheap shot I will boo him in front of his grandmother.