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Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.


And they have about 14 helmets behind the anchors on a desk and NIU's is one. Pretty cool.
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.

Ahh the good old days...03-cloud9
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.


And they have about 14 helmets behind the anchors on a desk and NIU's is one. Pretty cool.

What he meant to say is yes we were loud, but the icing on the cake is when someone threw a pizza at Tom Amstutz from Toledo. But it is loud. I had the privilege of having sideline passes for a game once.

Here is a link to the video from earlier today if anyone wants to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81gnVUCxDQ
(09-15-2011 03:55 PM)niu-scott Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.


And they have about 14 helmets behind the anchors on a desk and NIU's is one. Pretty cool.

What he meant to say is yes we were loud, but the icing on the cake is when someone threw a pizza at Tom Amstutz from Toledo. But it is loud. I had the privilege of having sideline passes for a game once.

Here is a link to the video from earlier today if anyone wants to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81gnVUCxDQ

Nice... Thanks for posting on youtube.
(09-15-2011 03:55 PM)niu-scott Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.

What he meant to say is yes we were loud, but the icing on the cake is when someone threw a pizza at Tom Amstutz from Toledo.

Not only pizza, but:
  • Dog treats shaped like dog bones
  • Marshmallows
  • Rubber bouncy balls
Not a lot to be really proud of I guess, but damn it was funny to watch the Vanderbuilt players get riled up as they were pelted with dog bones and we yelled at them how they were losing to the worst team team D1-A
(09-15-2011 04:14 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:55 PM)niu-scott Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.

What he meant to say is yes we were loud, but the icing on the cake is when someone threw a pizza at Tom Amstutz from Toledo.

Not only pizza, but:
  • Dog treats shaped like dog bones
  • Marshmallows
  • Rubber bouncy balls
Not a lot to be really proud of I guess, but damn it was funny to watch the Vanderbuilt players get riled up as they were pelted with dog bones and we yelled at them how they were losing to the worst team team D1-A

I remember an orange being thrown.

Also we had a game or two where they gave us beads. Paired up with a straw it was a bit crazy.
(09-15-2011 04:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 04:14 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:55 PM)niu-scott Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 03:34 PM)2010Huskie Wrote: [ -> ]Just watching college football live, and NIU's student section got a good shout out in fact that they had to move the teams because the kids were too loud and bothering to the away teams.

What he meant to say is yes we were loud, but the icing on the cake is when someone threw a pizza at Tom Amstutz from Toledo.

Not only pizza, but:
  • Dog treats shaped like dog bones
  • Marshmallows
  • Rubber bouncy balls
Not a lot to be really proud of I guess, but damn it was funny to watch the Vanderbuilt players get riled up as they were pelted with dog bones and we yelled at them how they were losing to the worst team team D1-A

I remember an orange being thrown.

Also we had a game or two where they gave us beads. Paired up with a straw it was a bit crazy.

This is all awesome haha. I wish our student section was still behind the visiting bench, i could only imagine what that would be like. Wish i was here during the days students sat behind the visiting team
a few unruly bad oranges soured the MAC honchos and teams were forced to swap sidelines because of it.

I fault NIU security for lack of control during a few games when stuff was tossed from the student stands at visiting players.

Violators should have been identified and tossed from the game and barred all season thereby sending a message to other goons.
(09-15-2011 04:31 PM)niucyberdawg Wrote: [ -> ]a few unruly bad oranges soured the MAC honchos and teams were forced to swap sidelines because of it.

I fault NIU security for lack of control during a few games when stuff was tossed from the student stands at visiting players.

Violators should have been identified and tossed from the game and barred all season thereby sending a message to other goons.

Agreed. Having the Dog Pound behind the visitors was SUCH an advantage. As I have said many times before on here we got in the opposing teams heads and it really made a difference.
Would be great to see it return to that way, maybe if NIU promised more security.

I'll always remember the 04 Toledo game, so much hatred in the stands that night, I'm not even sure we really cared who won the game, we just wanted the chance to yell at the Toledo sidelines.
Ah yes, the good old days. I remember one game where me and several other front row students made it our mission to make Akron's Charlie Frye's game a living hell. Every time he returned to the sidelines, we would start up on him again. I don't know if it helped, but NIU did win that game 49-19.
Did any of the visiting players ever get hurt? Or was it just the risk of them getting hurt that they moved the visitors to the other sideline?
I remember the Toledo game my freshman year and a few guys came with a full roster list and had done their research to dig up the kind of dirt they spewed at the Toledo team. 'twas comical
(09-15-2011 06:56 PM)jcsportsfan2 Wrote: [ -> ]Did any of the visiting players ever get hurt? Or was it just the risk of them getting hurt that they moved the visitors to the other sideline?

Never hurt them, except maybe their feelings...... 03-lmfao

My rather large group of Athletics friends used to go to a lot of women's volleyball games as well, and they were at Chick Evans. We would sit at the ends of court, like sitting in the endzone of a football game. Since in VB the teams switch sides each match, the old time equivelent of the Dog Pound would switch sides as well to sit behind the opposing teams. You should have seen the eyes of the opponents when we all got up and followed them to the other side!

We were BRUTAL to those opponents. Absolutely brutal. We'd make comments about their sweat stained shorts, say they smelled bad, used to chant the opponents number or name when they made a bad play. It worked 100% of the time, 60% of the time. Sometimes the best was to figure our who the freshman were on the other team, because they would be the most emotionally fragile; just out of HS, and now playing D1 ball and having "adults" heckle them like no tomorrow....

We would get into the opponents heads and we helped the Huskies win games...... And then Huskie VB players would always run over to our section after the game for high fives and hugs. Head VB coach Pete Waite (remember him?) was our biggest fan and supporter. He'd make the VB players go support the other non-revenue sports as thanks, and it was great to see them in the stands when we competed.

Of course, and I wish I could remember the team, all I remember is that their uniforms were white, and their coach absolutely flipped out at the NIU officials at a game about our conduct. We were not saints by any means, but we were not crude nor racist nor mysogynistic etc etc. Just good, hard heckling, any only here or there inappropriate. So Dee Abrahamson (Asst AD) came over, and with a very large grin on her face, asked us if we could dial it back because the refs could technically award the game to the other side if we were deemed offensivlely out of line, plus the other team said they were going to file an official protest with the MCC offices.

Typical, eh? That took a lot of fun out of going to the VB games, but we still went to support the girls as they were very good back in the late 90's.
(09-16-2011 08:23 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-15-2011 06:56 PM)jcsportsfan2 Wrote: [ -> ]Did any of the visiting players ever get hurt? Or was it just the risk of them getting hurt that they moved the visitors to the other sideline?

Never hurt them, except maybe their feelings...... 03-lmfao

My rather large group of Athletics friends used to go to a lot of women's volleyball games as well, and they were at Chick Evans. We would sit at the ends of court, like sitting in the endzone of a football game. Since in VB the teams switch sides each match, the old time equivelent of the Dog Pound would switch sides as well to sit behind the opposing teams. You should have seen the eyes of the opponents when we all got up and followed them to the other side!

We were BRUTAL to those opponents. Absolutely brutal. We'd make comments about their sweat stained shorts, say they smelled bad, used to chant the opponents number or name when they made a bad play. It worked 100% of the time, 60% of the time. Sometimes the best was to figure our who the freshman were on the other team, because they would be the most emotionally fragile; just out of HS, and now playing D1 ball and having "adults" heckle them like no tomorrow....

We would get into the opponents heads and we helped the Huskies win games...... And then Huskie VB players would always run over to our section after the game for high fives and hugs. Head VB coach Pete Waite (remember him?) was our biggest fan and supporter. He'd make the VB players go support the other non-revenue sports as thanks, and it was great to see them in the stands when we competed.

Of course, and I wish I could remember the team, all I remember is that their uniforms were white, and their coach absolutely flipped out at the NIU officials at a game about our conduct. We were not saints by any means, but we were not crude nor racist nor mysogynistic etc etc. Just good, hard heckling, any only here or there inappropriate. So Dee Abrahamson (Asst AD) came over, and with a very large grin on her face, asked us if we could dial it back because the refs could technically award the game to the other side if we were deemed offensivlely out of line, plus the other team said they were going to file an official protest with the MCC offices.

Typical, eh? That took a lot of fun out of going to the VB games, but we still went to support the girls as they were very good back in the late 90's.

+10 that's just awesome :D

Now i wasnt at NIU during those times, but us in the Red Riot had a grrrrreat time taunting the Western Michigan womens bball team, one specifically that we called "steroids" and she totally flipped on us during the game, heehee! There was also a mens baller from i wanna say Toldeo that we had a good time with, too

I sooooooooooooo wish i got to be in that student section back then! When i get pissed at football games, i scare the red shirts on OUR team, lol (right HMM? :D)!
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