Hecklers Anonymous

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Ever heckled anyone ? Athletes ? Comedians ? Gotta good story ? Inspired by the hysterical article seenhere. (Go about 2/3rds down the page between numbers 11 and 10 for the story.) I thought it would be entertaining to hear some great heckling stories from Dopers.

I’ll start :

Though it wasn’t “major league”, my friends and I went to an ECHL hockey game last year. We happened to notice the opposing teams goalie was named “Gasse”. I am sure it was pronounced “Gos-eh” or something of the like, but we took the spelling much more liberally and began to chant “gassssseeeeey” every time the puck was on his side of the ice. A few beers and the chant evolved into “stinnnnnnnnkyyyyy”. So enamored were we with our heckle that we followed the aformentioned “stinky one” to the other side of the arena in the second period. Then back again in the third. By that time our group of chanters grew from the four of us into thirty or so. To this point we had not seen any rewards for our 45 minutes or so of continuous badgering . . . but then Mr. Gassy gave up four (count 'em four) goals in the space of about five minutes game time. He was pulled (much to our delight) and preceded to shout obscenities in our general direction (to our even greater delight). The home team won the game 4 - 2, and we left quite inebriated and smug with our contribution to our teams victory.

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loud enough for them to hear it. I’m not only an anonymous heckler, I’m a secret one. My fiance and I are like those two old men from the Muppet Show - we crack jokes and make fun of everything (we even managed a few at my sister’s wedding last weekend - pretty much everything’s fair game to us). I’ve been doing this since high school; I have a very quiet voice, so I would make comments to my friends seated near me and get them to burst out laughing and get in trouble while I sat there, quietly doing schoolwork.

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I played football for a small college. One of our opponent’s coach liked to make disparaging remarks about us In my sophamore year after a remark of his that we were too small to beat his team, we came out winning 47-0 to clinch an undefeated season. The football coachs in these small schools were also usually the baseball coaches. In my senior year, his team came to our school with a perfect record and about twenty of us sat behind him (I guess we figured that the victory wasn’t payback enough). We razzed him thru both games and he spent most of his time trying to counter our remarks. Need I say that our baseball team won a double-header that day?