Nice story! People got to realize regardless of team, everyone has the right to cheer at the game ... that's what they're there for!!!!! If someone wants to sit in silence and watch the game, either buy a freakin box seat, or STAY HOME! Do I want to sit and listen to a loudass drum for hours? NO! But if I happen to sit by someone that does, so be it. This actually happened two years ago during the 22 game win streak. I bought tix; little did I know it was right next to the red rowdies. I couldn't hear anything besides them! I still had fun and watched the game and cheered. Those faker fans were probably just mad about the Gasol/Ostrich sign which I have to say was astoundingly accurate!
I have pictures from the game; I can take a picture of my "drum"...that's about it! Will that do? If so, how do I post pictures?
I support the Rockets but let me be the dissident voice in this thread. Neither me or members of my family are getting beat up, have beer thrown at us, pissed on or a multitude of other things over a basketball game. It's simply not gonna happen. Some things in life are not worth either you or your family getting hurt over. If it's gonna happen it definitely will not be because they are disrespecting Brooks, Yao or anyone else on my team. They are grown millionaire men, they can handle the disrespect. You want me to get to get in an altercation because someone is entering my house to burglarize and defile my family? I'll go hulk like crazy on them, literally shoot them out of my house. But not over a basketball game, just not happening. PS: Don't forget, you might just also get a crazy fan who think it's worth it to stay after the game and look you up so he can chase and shoot you. Seen it happen (although not at an NBA game).
Nothing to be ashamed of. I came close to starting a race-related brawl at Toyota Center earlier this season supporting my Rockets. It's no coincidence this was with a Lakers fan too. I went to the Rockets-Lakers game back on November 4; you may remember this one as it went into OT and Artest and Ariza each took their turn drilling critical 3's in the last 30 seconds of regulation. So the end of OT rolls around and LA winds up winning by 1 in a thriller. This fat woman in a retro-style #8 Kobe jersey starts running around, waving her jersey in people's faces and taunting them. All these meek little sheep bow their heads and go on their respective ways. I've been sitting behind a whole row of obnoxious (but at a minimum, relatively respectful) Laker fans the whole game, the Rockets just lost, and I just downed a TC beer in about 15 minutes on a paltry amount of food, so I'm not to be messed with at that point in time. Me being me, however, and moestavern19 being the character that he is... well, we just can't help but start throwing some comments back in her direction. Nothing personal, all basketball-related. Eventually, she gets tired of harassing other people and brings the battle to our front door. This culminates in one of us calling her a bandwagoner and not a real fan who knows the first thing about basketball. "Why," muses moes, "I bet you don't even know who wears number 8 on the Lakers!" Naturally, she starts going on about "of course I know who he is, he Kobe Bryant!" So naturally, we both begin to laugh at her while noting that there is in fact no player to be found on the Lakers' roster that wears number 8, and that Kobe wears number 24. I continue to needle her (because at this point, after her douchebaggery, she deserves it) and eventually she focuses her full ire on me. She starts in with personal attacks at me, which I have no problem reciprocating. We're walking through the upper level concourse at this point, and she yells at me, "I don't have to listen to this from no dumbass white boy!" RACE CARD. She played it. I just have to pounce on this, and, in this mob of people, immediately call her out for being a racist. "Why you gotta play the race card, huh? Just because I'm white and you're black you think you can do that? We can't have an argument about basketball without you resorting to racist insults?" At this point, I'm in full-on troll mode. I start baiting other people there ("You heard her, she's calling me a dumbass white boy! Can you believe this?") and even getting the ushers pulled into it ("How are you guys just gonna let her come in here spouting her racist hate and not do anything about it?). All the poor ushers are like, "Come on, man... come on. Just let it go." I could tell they were starting to get a little uncomfortable with the potential escalation of all this, so I decided to start toning it down some. There were a few parting shots here and there, but eventually she slunk off into the crowd, never to be heard from again... Actually, no. This was the cherry on the sundae. She comes back about 10 minutes later with this gorilla of a man. We're talking about 6'6" and 240+ lbs, easily. A white guy. "Look, this is my boyfriend. See, I ain't racist! I wouldn't date a white dude if I was racist! See? ... ...We cool?" The troll in me screams to fight on, but the survival instinct kicks in when I realize that this guy could break me in half should he so desire. I just say, "Yeah, whatever," and leave it at that. It still bugs me to this day knowing that had I said something along the lines of "you dumb, black b****," I would have been mercilessly slaughtered, but no one batted an eye at this woman bringing race into it. Double standards are awesome! Done with my thread jack here, but seriously, **** Laker fans.
And I laughed this incident off, because it was more hilarious than anything. Then after I'm walking back to my car, an asshat Laker fan threatens to run me over in his SUV, for wearing a rockets jersey... IN HOUSTON? Christ, I lost it I let the moron have it. I walked away but then he started dropping homo-slurs and then I stormed back at him and told him to start some ****, but I ended up walking away again, who knows what those trash laker fans are packing in their gangster cars.
i'm glad the usher didnt tell you to leave or took the drum. If you bought it at their shop you should be allowed to use it, if that's what it was made for. but i imagine you were pretty annoying :grin:
A Rockets fan for almost 28 years, I only go when I can afford great seats away from other fans like the poster. I stopped being a regular because of people like you. I take the game very seriously, it is , for me, a sports hall, where homage is given to the game & its players.
I went to opening night in Portland and had to sit amongst a bunch of rabid Blazers fans. They were cool and we had some good conversations.
I say all of us crazies get a group together for an astros game against the cubs.. in 2013, when we are contending. This is a guy I wanna go to battle with. SCREW KARL MALONE.
I did not use the drum every minute of the game. And furthermore, as far as I am concerned, I had good seats and still had all rights to cheer for my team! By 'great seats', is that an area reserved for people who don't care to cheer for the Rockets, possibly paying bigger bucks just to be there? I was not being obnoxious!! I was there for the game and the players only! What's wrong with trying to pump up our team?? Do you go to games to quietly pay homage? How is that being the 6th man? How does your silence help the team? Our ROCKETS need all the support possible!!!
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I have a few pictures in an album at photobucket but I'm not sure how to copy them to this site. Sorry folks...Peace...GO ROCKETS!!!
at photobucket, find the pics you want to post on here click the share button, and find the line that says "IMG for bulletin boards & forums" copy the code, paste it in a reply. simple as that.
