# Super Bowl - Why did they boo the muslim named guy in the intro of the captains?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845 "2007-02-04T23:27:27Z")
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/1 "2007-02-04T23:27:27Z")
I have not watched a full football game in 10 years, so there may be something here of which I am not aware.
But at the start of the game when the team captains were announced, everyone was cheered except the one with the muslim sounding name.
He was resoundingly booed. Is there a reason? Does he have some history that makes the crowd not like him or was the crowd just reacting to his muslim name?
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/2 "2007-02-04T23:29:34Z")
They didn’t boo. They yelled “MOOOSE” in unison because of his name, Muhsin Muhammed.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/3 "2007-02-04T23:29:47Z")
His name is [Muhsin Muhammad](http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/1203).
Or, Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhsin Muhammad. WAG.
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/4 "2007-02-04T23:31:12Z")
[QUOTE=Garfield226]
His name is [Muhsin Muhammad](http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/1203).
Or, Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhsin Muhammad. WAG.
[/QUOTE]
OK. That makes me feel better. I thought it must have been something I was unaware of.
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### Author:  [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/5 "2007-02-05T03:18:11Z")
As a Bears’ fan, I can attest that the crowd was going Mooooooose. They do it after every catch.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/6 "2007-02-05T03:43:08Z")
What an odd coincidence - there was a MasterCard ad where an NFL quarterback insisted to the movers that lost his furniture that the crowd wasn’t booing, they were saying “mooooo-vers!” And guess which QB that was…?
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/7 "2007-02-05T03:47:25Z")
They were yelling ‘Boo-urns!’
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/8 "2007-02-05T03:53:24Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
They were yelling ‘Boo-urns!’
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_ **I** _ was saying Boo-urns.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/9 "2007-02-05T06:38:23Z")
It seems as if practically every city has an athlete named Lou or Bruce or something else with the “U” sound. Whenever that guy comes to bat, or makes a nice play, the crowd yells his name. And the announcer feels compelled to say "They’re not booing- they’re saying “Bruuuuuuuuuce!”
The first athlete I remember hearing that line about was John Wesley “Boog” Powell, the Baltimore Orioles’ old first baseman… but my older relatives remember Yankee fans doing that for Moose Skowron back in the Fifties. It could go back a very long way.
It’s such a cliche that, for years, whenever the audienbce has booed one of David Letterman’s lamer jokes, he’s quipped “They’re not booing- they’re saying DAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!”
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/10 "2007-02-05T06:45:28Z")
You’d hear it all the time at Mariners games when Piniella was managing. Loooooooooooooou! Or, currently, Rauuuuuuuuuuuul! (Raul Ibanez).
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/11 "2007-02-05T07:41:15Z")
Years ago on a radio broadcast of an Oakland A’s game the crowd was jeering someone with one of those names (it may have been Lou Pinella). One of the announcers, Ray Fosse, I think, explained to the audience, “They’re not saying ‘Lou’ - they’re just booing. . . I’ve always wanted to say that.”
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/12 "2007-02-05T07:42:38Z")
Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
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### Author:  [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/13 "2007-02-05T14:46:43Z")
Eleuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusis!
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-why-did-they-boo-the-muslim-named-guy-in-the-intro-of-the-captains/390845/14 "2007-02-05T17:08:21Z")
U!
Ribe!