NY Times: Examining Fans' Rights to Jeer at Games

[rockyroad]

I was in the stands watching some buddies work a tournament game a few years ago (I had the next game) and some bozo started screaming at the crew. Profanities, comments about their mothers and their wives, just totally obnoxious stuff. I got up and moved closer to him and called out to him:

"Hey buddy! Where do you work?"

He looked at me kind of perplexed and said he worked at the local Firestone. So I told him:

"The one on 99th Street? I will be there tomorrow morning at 10:00. I'm going to spend the day screaming at you about how slow you are getting those tires mounted, and what a lousy job you did on that alignment."

He got all red in the face and actually said:

"You can't do that to me!"

When everyone around him started laughing, he got up and walked out. See - these people think that they should be able to say whatever they want to say to officials...but no one can say that kind of stuff to them.