Thanks for toning down my threats and profanity.

Some people aren’t all that rah rah. I’m one of them. Doesn’t mean I’m less of a fan, I just show it differently. You’re jumping around, screaming, and waving your arms… Meanwhile I’m trying to concentrate on the action.

Then again you have every right to jump around and scream since you paid for a ticket.

That’s why I prefer to stay home and watch the games at home on TV. Cheaper and quieter. If you go to the games, you should be prepared for spending time with people who watch games differently than yourself. Maybe instead of instantly berating people, you might try listening to their point even if you don’t agree with it. You’ll probably get better results overall.

and I cheer and stand all the time. I have, however, been annoyed with other fans when they cheer at inappropriate times or say inappropriate things. I’m not sayin, I’m just sayin

Don’t go to a football game and cry about the weather.
Don’t go to a baseball game and cry about being bored.
Don’t go to a basketball/hockey game and cry about loud fans.

You can gripe about the music being played way too loud and at bad times, but complaining about fan noise? Don’t come to the games if you don’t comes to the games.

and I sat in the “lower bowl”…and I gotta say…I got some over the shoulder looks from people down there when I got loud…It was all appropriate stuff on my part…I didn’t stand up when others weren’t – -I didn’t use any profanity (well “suck” isn’t completely profane when you don’t tell them WHAT they do/could/should suck)…I just LOUDLY told the ref he was awful—-several times (wanted to make sure he heard it well ) then later, I told him he sucked cause he hadn’t improved…

After the first loud “You are awful”, several people in front of me turned over their shoulder to look – - -I thought I was gonna get high fived, but instead they were looking down their nose at me…so I explained myself to them – look that WAS awful – - at least I didn’t swear at them…but they just sat their mute..and self-righteous…what DB’s – - they should stay home with their frickin grey poupon…

It was weird tho cause the camera would pan around at all the people yelling and screaming but down in 121, fairly silent….might as well been at a golf match

but I think it’s important to respect other people watching the game. I’m tall (6’8’’) and when I’m at a Blazer game I love to cheer loudly and get into it, but I keep my standing to a minimum, and only briefly when I can’t contain myself after a great play, like a reflex or something. I stand up and scream and then sit back down. Lot’s of people I know, and have gone to games with, love to go and watch the games, but just aren’t nearly as animated.

Context is everything . . .

If you’re standing up for five minutes after an Outlaw alley-oop with 10 to go in the second quarter, I would probably be a little annoyed if I was sitting behind you too. Not saying that this is what happened in your situation, but you get my point. I hope.

first, if everyone is up and gettin rowdy, then by all means join in. but the reality is that you aren’t in your living room and that other people are trying to enjoy the game, too.

just because you can be loud at a basketball game doesn’t mean that you always should be.

then again, if you’re saying funny stuff and you aren’t running it into the ground like a lot of fans tend to do, then you’d be alright in my book.

(either energetic or more relaxed) I’ll usually stand after big plays but then sit down fairly quickly. At the end of close nail biters, that’s a bit trickier. I want to stand, but try to think of the people behind me. So I end up hoping the people in front of me stand up (I sit in the middle of a section) so I don’t have a choice. My general rule of thumb is to not stand unless the people behind me are standing. But sometimes, those rules just got to be broken. Another tactic is to sit really forward in your seat, thereby blocking enough of their view that they might stand up. I don’t really mind the yelling fans. Sometimes they say such ridiculous things that either don’t make sense or don’t really apply to the current game action and provide some comic relief…well, comic after you make fun of what they said.

I get the whole lower bowl/upper bowl thing from a class warfare pov.. but i’ve been sitting in 116 for the last two seasons and was in the upper bowl for years before that..

We get loud and crazy down in 116.. yea.. there are a few people texting or on the phone but it’s because they are trying to find someone in another section (I do get annoyed with the whole.. ‘im standing are you standing where are you im here i’m standing are you standing’ thing) or they have responsibilities (as I occasionally do) to spend the dead ball possessions texting people who cannot watch the games updates.

I personally think that anyone who was not standing up (without some reasonable medical excuse) during our amazing (and completely unnecessary if we would have just held onto the lead) comeback against the Knicks needs to go home.. period.. I stand when the people in front of me stand and I stand when george wants me to grill it.. if the big screen puts something on the screen that is suggestive of.. its the fourth quarter and we need to get behind our team.. then, seriously, people who are complaining about people standing and making noise should be thrown out of the place as quickly as foulmouthed people or people who cannot figure out the appropriate time to lift their signs up in the air..

at least thats the opinion of a guy who had to look over the invoice for next season last night and try to justify the impossible amount of money that i’m spending on these games..

But if you are paying to attend a LIVE sporting event, you can expect some noise. I don’t buy concert tickets and expect a conversation to ensue. In my opinion, the best part of a sporting event is the atmosphere, and a collective union of fans — of which come from all walks of life, have various personalities, etc. The atmosphere of the Garden would be loud, even if the fans themselves didn’t utter a word. You are setting yourself up for failure if you want to attend a Blazer game and expect peace and quiet. You are paying for the raw experience. And in many cases, you are also taking a gamble. You may be surrounded by rowdy fans, you may be surrounded by quiet ones…chances are, you are surrounded by both.

We are fortunate enough to have every game televised (if you are with the evil cable company), and many places around town in SW WA/PDX Area televise them…and, this is beating a dead horse, but if you want to enjoy the game in your own element, watch it at home.

That said, I love the good, bad, and ugly of live events. It’s unpredictable, but you can make it fun.

really really close up, and they have been cool with me standing up, jumping around and showing enthusiasm for the game. Since I coach I generally have a pretty good idea of what is going wrong, and why the Blazers are doing what they do, which is good because I can explain things to them, and they get more in to the game as it goes along. They definitely wouldn’t appreciate me standing the entire game mostly because they can’t stand the entire game, so after a great play I’ll jump up, high-five everyone and then sit back down.

So yea my advice is talk to the people around you about what is happening, feel free to jump up and dance around, but if the people behind you are older, its really not fair to completely limit their ability to enjoy the game, so when you jump up high five them, and sit back down, because a lot of times people will have a real inability to stand for the entire game/quarter.

I’m all for showing support, cheering for our team and getting excited at games, but I HAAAAAAATE signs. I think they should be banned. It sucks trying to watch a game while the dummy sitting in the row in front of me or right next to me is waving a big white sheet of cardboard the entire game. it’s annoying. I also hate the annoying Laker fan that OVER cheers for his team. Hey buddy, you’re ugly purple and yellow shirt is making me sick, sit down and shut up. Lastly, I agree with the people who are annoyed by the “chalupa” chants when we’ve just barely reaced the 90 point mark.

ps, I also hate paying 8 dollar for a beer

I’m talking crap the entire game about all the players, I cheer for the other team when they make an awesome play, and I stand up and yell nearly all the time. I also pick a player on the other team and ride him the entire game. I’m also 7 rows back from the floor, so it’s great to know they can hear me. And yes, a lot of people in the section hate it.

I would stand up and cheer and clap and look around but nobody said anything. I even asked the guys in front of me if my buddy could come down from the 300 level and sit in their unused seat. They were happy to let him sit there and we all got along swimmingly. I guess my point is that not all the lower bowl patrons are snobby too rich to cheer fans.

all the time. I am a regular at the games and my section is in the lower bowl 200 level. We get rowdy and there are high fives galore during exciting times in the game. I don’t think it is a lower bowl thing it is just a “some people thing.” My beef is mostly when it gets inappropriate, last season we had a guy behind us who would scream “Get off your knees ref, your blowing the game” every five minutes. Not only was it crude it was annoying as heck! I think spirited fandom is a must in the RG, if you don’t bring it go to Staples and hang out with those goombas. I did once sit courtside and I will not repeat that experience. The fans were uninterested in the game and when I cheered I got an amazing amount of dirty looks. You would have thought we were in a library. There was even a young girl in front of us who spent the whole game reading while her brother played some sort of Nintendo DS thingie. This behavior is crap, watch at home and give your tickets to someone who cares. Dont forget to yell “RIP CITY!!”

there was this guy that always stood up all game every game. i didnt complain because im a fan but i saw him get in multiple fights because of kids and such not being able to see.

im all for standing but in the first quarter?

there are also some people that talk and talk with no reason. PASS THE BALL. PUT BAYLESS IN. MVP MVP. OMG SERGIO PASS THE BALL.

they cant hear you. ur not yelling or saying anything useful. some people should be quite.

simply for giving the rub to the thundersticks. I hate those things. I know what you are talking about with all of this, and it drives me nuts.