College football has gone over the edge.

[redstatebluegirl]

The kicker for Alabama, and not even the one who missed the kick against Auburn, has been getting death threats. They are threatening him and his family if you can believe that.

This country has lost its mind! Most of the Alabama fans I have met are really nice people who are serious fans, but not crazy. They need to collectively call out those fans who are doing this on social media. If they can be identified and have tickets they should lose them for a while to think about what they did. Adults doing this, good grief.

At the OU OSU game, an OSU fan was videotaped flipping off the OU band, and saying some pretty nasty stuff to them.

OU has them too, we have tried to call them out as have others, but most of them didn't even go to OU, they are just classless fans who don't know how to behave.

[USALiberal]

1. Nothing new. Nt

[Va Lefty]

4. Yeah, I remember a couple of years ago Ken. Bball fans sending death threats to a ref

[get the red out]

31. I was so ashamed when that happened!

That was such a horrible low for "fans" of the same team as me and my husband. We got pissed over the call, cussed a bunch at the TV, but the game ended and life moves on, for non-violent people.....

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. 'Twas ever thus.

[a la izquierda]

3. I teach at WVU and you know I'm an OU alum.

I took my friend, also an OU alum, to a WVU vs OU game in Morgantown a few years ago. Someone said “welcome to Morgantown!” I replied “oh I live here.” He shouted: “well fuck you then, bitch!”
I remember a letter to the editor from Miami fans regarding OU fans. They commented on how classy the fans were everywhere in Norman.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. Normally we are good fans, but we have had a couple

of bad things the past couple of years. People and the university called them out and told them to cut it out.

[NewJeffCT]

5. After the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs

in the 1986 World Series leading to the Red Sox losing to the Mets, Buckner got death threats from Red Sox fans.

And, of course, that pales in comparison to Andres Escobar of Colombia getting killed after scoring an own goal in the World Cup in a stunning loss to the upstart US team

https://www.foxnews.com/world/murder-of-soccer-player-after-own-goal-20-years-ago-still-resonates-in-colombia

[yesphan]

6. As an OU fan,

I have intervened on behalf of visiting fans when other OU fans get obnoxious.
I say, they're our guests, we invited them.
Well, except Miami fans in Norman. They get pretty nasty on their own.

[redstatebluegirl]

9. The worst ones we have ever seen were at LSU a few years ago.

I actually felt threatened at that game.

[yesphan]

12. I've heard

the same from others as well.

Let's not forget about the OU fan who tore the scrotum of a Texas fan in a bar in OKC a few years ago.
I would guess that neither of those people actually attended their respective universities.

[redstatebluegirl]

21. That is what we have found.

The ones who are the worst clearly didn't go to OU or any other school.

[Aristus]

7. I stopped watching sports of all kinds years ago.

All the frenetic fandom for something so essentially worthless.

[Initech]

10. Have you been living in 2019?

People get death threats just for breathing on someone the wrong way. It's a truly scary world we are living in right now.

[FrankBooth]

16. People sent death threats the shelter that rescued the Unicorn Puppy

Threatening to kill the poor little dog. The shelter pulled his adoption. Some real sickos out there.

[Initech]

33. I'd be curious to know what percentage of death threats are from bot accounts.

I'd like to think that no person is that evil but then again we live in a world where Alex Jones harassed the parents of murdered children and George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's parents for an ungodly sum of money, so...

[Goodheart]

11. I'm an LSU graduate and fan, and they're doing great this year, just in time for me to...

not care so much any more, given the horror that occupies our White House.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. I think the bully in the white house permeates the whole country.

[walkingman]

30. I think you are correct. Civility is gone - welcome to the "New America".

[imanamerican63]

14. It is the same for all the coaches and players all over the country.

Pee wee, high school, college and professional.

That the way sports is going, sadly. I am a avid Cornhusker fan, but winning is not every thing.

[redstatebluegirl]

17. We have been to games in Lincoln, the fans there were great!

[imanamerican63]

24. .......

[OKNancy]

25. I agree. when I used to go to OU games...

when I could afford it, the Nebraska fans were the best.

[Saboburns]

15. It's not just college athletics friend.

Donald Trump is the actual President of the United States of America. And more than 50 million Americans will vote for him to be re-elected; they thinks he's the best POTUS we ever had.

Chrisley Knows Best is in it's SIXTH season, with no signs of slowing down.

Store bought boobies and hard-on pills are making record profits.

The percentage of human beings who are convinced we faked landing on the moon is increasing, not decreasing.

It ain't just one area, like college football, that's hosed. It's the whole shootin' match, the whole kit and kaboodle.

As I see it, The Dumbasses ain't just winning my friend-they've won.

[RT Atlanta]

18. It's Alabama fans....

Many of them of sidewalk 'alumni' (no ties to the skool other than what momma and diddy liked back when the bahr coached there) with not much going for them. Because they measure a lot of their self worth based on the performance of their favorite semi-pro team, they are naturally 'upset' and of course they're gonna share their feelings with the kicker.

This is the same school that produced Harvey 'I poison oak trees because my school lost a football game' Updkye. The same Updyke that has been treated like a rockstar at home games in t-town after his destruction of Auburn's historic oak trees. Of course those same fans cheering on good ole Harvey are gonna threaten an 18 year old for missing a FG.

I hate it for the kicker. Saban, if he's man enough, should call those idiots out in public - but at the end of the day he's a weasel that hides behind the podium and complains of 'unfairness.'

[redstatebluegirl]

22. I remember the tree incident.

I actually visited Auburn for a conference once before the tree was poisoned. It was a lovely tree with tons of tradition, so darn sad.

[Mossfern]

19. He's impugning the witnesses now!

[coti]

20. People are losing perspective. I tried to point this out in the incredibly popular "cop pig cup"

threads, but even here at DU folks were too caught up in intensely arguing inanities to notice that what they were talking about didn't mean shit.

[redstatebluegirl]

23. There are some bullies on here too.

I have most of them blocked.

[cwydro]

29. Yes, some here think it's perfectly ok to tamper and/or steal others' belongings.

Just as long as their politics are different from their own.

[get the red out]

26. My friend had a ;) suggestion years ago

He said in order to identify as a "fan" and actually BE FANATICAL, a person would have had to have been a student of that university for even just a summer session. I know that is not the whole story, and it would be impossible and a violation people's rights, but it was totally tongue in cheek, (and he's a liberal college professor, the terror of all conservatives).

He was also giving me and him an out for cheering pretty hard for our individual Alma Maters.

On a more serious note, I attended an SEC university in the early to mid eighties and was in marching band. We would go to one out of town football game per season and one year our trip was to another SEC school. The band got lit cigarette butts thrown onto us off and on during the game.

I am not under any illusion that my school didn't have a bunch of asshole fans too! They are still embarrassing as HELL.

[redstatebluegirl]

28. Our band kids have been treated poorly at some out of town games.

Especially at OU Texas and OSU games. I was a band kid when I was in college but things are different now than way back then.

[Initech]

34. I've really been wondering why things are getting so toxic out there.

People are just getting meaner and nastier and there doesn't seem to be any explanation. You could probably spend a lifetime or two trying to figure out where society went off the rails and it would still be impossible to point out. My guess would be 40 years of 24/7 unhinged, unchecked far right propaganda but that's just me.

[redstatebluegirl]

35. I think it has a lot to do with the lack of civility.

[Scurrilous]

27. Kicker getting death threats?

Sounds like the plot to Buffalo '66.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Same happened after the Longhorns beat the Buckeyes in 2005. A receiver for Ohio State dropped

a pass that would’ve given them the lead. Poor kid got a ton of hate mail and threatening phone calls when he got home.

[Blue_Tires]

36. It's been crazy for awhile...