Proper Game Watching Etiquette

[2014DualCs]

I don’t even know how this would work. I just picture a guy slapping the floor and getting in the the stance.

Yep pretty much it. Key is active hands and a shuffle or two.

60% of the time, it works every time.

 

[Improviser]

OK, apparently I don’t have it. So last night I’m watching the game with my wife, son and his wife all rooting Huskies. It was a 1 point game in the second half so I got up and started pacing to get energy out but not in front of anyone. Yes I was loudly contesting some calls but never did I swear or curse. I was told to sit down and not talk so loud.
We were on a trip visiting and no other tv to go to but I can’t just sit on a couch and watch this biting my lip. I’m guessing many of you are more animated (Hurley like) than I am during these games, right? Do I disown these people?

They may already have disowned you. Don't stress about their fait accompli. 😊

 

[uconnric]

I can't watch with people, especially my family. I don't yell or throw things, but I cannot deal with other people and their thoughts. (It's also why I have never even entertained the idea of visiting the chat here and enduring you coconuts during a game.)

I really, really, really cannot watch with people if those people are my in-laws. I love them dearly but they have never had an unexpressed thought in their lives and that can be grating during a UConn game. If UConn goes down 2-0, invariably, my mother in law will say, uh-oh and my brain will start to bleed.

Making that worse, we vacation with them around this time every year. We rent a place in Florida and there's one television. Since it's NCAA time and that's even more stressful than normal, what I do is remove myself from the situation.

I go find a park bench in the complex and I watch the games there. I take my iPad and a few airplane bottles of rum. Here's where I watched the San Diego State game.

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Was the urine sample part of your probation conditions?

Hard to watch alone. Get too frustrated and turn if off for awhile. Much rather watch it live or in a group. (Except for being at MSG for the Big East Championship)

 

[Durks07]

After our loss
to St. John’s in the BE final.

Let the kid stay. Disown everyone else.

 

[Icehawk]

My kid is usually asleep so I keep my cheering down to an inside voice at best. Good practice for me in self-control

OHHHHH YEAAAAAHHHHHH

 

[thekollieman]

Nothing worse than circumstances necessitating watching with other “UConn fans” that care way less.

 

[CL82]

I gripe about the chat but I'm always on it. You all are my only social media contacts. I dont F with all that other fluff.

So lately, because I live in TN now and for some reason many of you back home get the feed before me, I love seeing someone post in the chat "AK baaaaaaang" or something or other.
Not having seen it on my side yet and waiting for it to happen is like double the thrill.

But the greatest thing about being an insane UConn fan is that my Dad (who still lives in Greenwich) and I talk every day multiple times a day, 365 days a year about one thing: UConn basketball. I have a great relationship with him, 1,000 miles away, and I owe a lot of it to our mutual love for the Huskies. Nothin better.

I've mentioned this before, but my dad and I shared a love of husky hoops as well. Back in the days before Internet, he would cut out every UConn article out of multiple papers and send them to me with a 4-5 page letter that touched a lot of things, including a lot of UConn basketball analysis. I miss those, and him a lot. Enjoy those conversations while you can!

 

[ucp990411]

I frequently watch games with other people. I'm loud, so is most everyone else.

I can't watch a game alone with my wife. For some reason, she thinks I'm going to sit there and shut up. She should know by now that's never going to happen. So she goes to another part of the house where she can still hear me.

I have no game watching etiquette, and I don't expect anything from anyone.

My wife has been trying to watch games with but it ticks me off because she thinks I should talk to her rather than Hurley or the players.

 

[UCfor3]

Started dating my wife in May of 98. She fell in love with UConn basketball that first year and I even took her to the Big East tourney final at MSG against St Johns in March 99. We then beat Duke a few weeks later for our first National Championship. We were supposed to go to a big party for that game but I got sick and she watched the game with me in bed. Was so nervous I started sipping whiskey with a fever in the 2nd half. We shocked the world and the rest is history. In 2004 I watched final 4 game against Duke with just her. We looked dead in the water and then Rashad 3 and Okafor lay in and we snatch Duke's heart right out of their chest. Final 4 in 2009 my wife and I had one of my friends over to have a few beers for the game. We lost and now he and everyone else is banned for UConn games in March. It remains our only Final 4 loss. Since then it is just my wife and I and we are both equally sick with nerves until the buzzer sounds. Can't argue with the formula. Worked 6 times.

 

[dennismenace]

First, my wife will purposely stay away from watching or even entering the room because she gets to emotionally charged by it. Second, she has thoughts like most fans (and continues to) that not only does her watching influence the game but that she can (and will) bring bad mojo just watching it so she asks me during or afterwards "how are they doing or how did they do?"

As for me, I tape the game always. This allows me to turn off the game when I start to really get agitated at players or the coach and sometimes officials or announcers. Not sure if this is just running away (avoidance) or refusing to emotionally abuse myself by sitting through it. I will almost always return sooner or later to watch it under a more calm demeanor.

I used to find the roller coaster exhilarating (of a lot of negativity) but at my age not any longer. If it gets too much I can use the mute or turn on another channel (am I subconsciously haunted by possible bad mojo vibe too ??) and then revisit the tape later to either joy that they turned it around or continued to stink but somehow it being over is less likely to influence my anger.

I love the team and the Boneyard but there are times when its better for my sleep not to get too worked up anymore. One thing for sure is how passionate this college basketball following can make me. It is one of the most enjoyable experiences I can think of. Just love the excitement it brings and that passion it stirs up in everybody. Great escape and really enjoy the development of the young players and the insights and commentary of the BY'ers.