Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 10424727)

Well if you run across fat-man and his two-bit whore wife, make sure you taunt them ruthlessly and remind them that their brain-dead parents messed up when they didn't choose to abort them...

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 10424887)

But I admit it's hard to believe him going off like that with no slur

Originally Posted by BWillie (Post 10424939)

You ppl have some thin skin if you are freaking out because Orr said piece of crap...citing garbage like what if it was your kid who was told that. If I had a kid, and he did what Marcus Smart did id be embarrassed that he loses his cool so easily. A reasonable amount of fan heckling is to be expected, and quite frankly is part of the home and away allure of sports. I wouldnt want it any other way. Heckling does go to far, but this reallly was not one of those times

Originally Posted by GoChargers (Post 10425182)

Seriously? You are aware of who Marcus Smart is, right? What racial slur did the chair say to him in West Virginia before he kicked it during another one of his tantrums?

Smart clearly has anger issues. He's had a series of on-court incidents already this year, and once you consider that Travis Ford is a joke of a coach and an enabler with a dysfunctional program, it seemed destined to boil over into something as extreme as this.

Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 10424681)

I personally feel that if we looked the other way for a while (a few years) and let these players beat the shit out of fans when they scream out-right obscenities, we might find that these asshole fans STFU (and cheer their along instead of degrade the other team).

While I don't want to go back to prehistoric days, I do think we need to evolve to a state where you only talk as tough as you're willing to back up (or try to). This cowardly shit of expecting the players to be the bigger person is shit!

Yell while the other team is trying to concentrate, be quite so your team can focus and think, and waive those goofy things to distract them then they shoot free throws - it's all good, but call an athlete a name/insult only as much as you're willing to back up.

I think fat-man is little more than an Internet tough guy. He may be there in person, but he's sure counting on rules and the current pussification of the planet keeping his teeth secured to his gums.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 10425448)

Agreed. I also think heckling at comedy clubs is maybe one of the most bizarre socially acceptable practices. I love the Seinfeld episode where Jerry walks into a heckler's office and heckles her.

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 10425456)

Kramer knows how to handle hecklers...

Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop (Post 10425469)

I forget. How did Kramer handle hecklers?

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10425465)

1) College or pro there will always be people way out of line trying to tear you down. You never, NEVER, give in to it.

2) A push. A PUSH. I'm good with 3 games.

3) Keep in mind you're a college player and your entire life is supported by your game day performance. Never jeopardize the future for the emotions you feel in the present...

Originally Posted by KC_Connection (Post 10424972)

Still hilarious that you've taken a complete 180 on this issue over an inconclusive video that proves nothing and a PR statement with no credibility from the fan who insulted the player.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 10425485)

I just think the system is pretty stupid when a fan can get away with saying some nasty shit, and players (especially amateur players) aren't allowed to even jaw back or flick the guy off. Again, we'll see if nasty shit was said in this instance. My guess is this guy should have been clocked a long time ago.

Originally Posted by noa (Post 10425046)

I think it all depends on the context. I sat in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium while the fans yelled at Jeff Francouer that they ****ed his wife and other similar taunts. He just turned around and laughed and smiled, and the fans got a kick out of that. I think that type of heckling is always expected in some places. But I have a harder time with it in the college context.
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