Boing, Best Way for Fans to Express Emotions

As a fan watching sports in India, Never Once did I Booo or His From The Stands. Not at the opposition, not at the home players nor indeed at the most boo-power of them all, the politicalians who came to inaugurate a game and spoke till the last pressher had got the angle he wanted.

I have been in the media box when some of India’s best-known players have been boed. Years ago Ravi Shastri couldn’t take the field without the boos echoing around the stadium. “It helped me focus and challenged me to do better,” said a young shastri then.

Boos are of different textures. The one aimed at your badly-performing favores is different from the one meaning for the best player from the Away team. Politicians Copped a Third Type, While Coaches and Manners Had a Special One Reserved for Them.

A New York TimesColumnist Wrote Recently, “Fans have a right to boo. Best way for fans to express their emotions so long as it doesn Bollywood into some something akin to angry, torch-bearing Villagers chasing after frankanstein’s monster. “

One player was quoted as saying “We’ve get to play better and if we play better, we don’t have to hear that stuff.” That’s a remarkably mature way of looking at it.

But a Responsibility to Booo? I Remember Sitting Embarrassed in the Media Box as Sachin Tendulkar was boed in his home ton during a match. It was upsetting. If only I had realized the fans werely doing the responsible thing! 

There is a certain logic to this. Boing is a safer way to release emotion than setting fire to the stands, for example, or throwing stones at the players or anybody passing by. One of the first cricket matches I saw was the one between the visiting australians and south zone in Bengaluru which my father has taken me to in 1969-70.

The Great EraPalli Prasanna was running through the side (He Had Six For 11) as the Visiting Side was 53 For Eight Chasing 200. 10 John Gleeson Kept Padding The Ball Away or Holding Up the Game With Flimsy Excuses. A Furious Crowd Began Pelting Stones and Attempted to Set a stand on Fire as Australia Finished with 90 for Eight. My Lasting Memory of the Day is Running out of the stadium, my hand firmly in my father’s grassp. Boos was certainly prefeable that day.

IMAGINE MOST Players would raather take a boo or two in the course of a match than be subjected to the kind of trolling – often obscene, usually pitiable – they are Subjected to TO TOTOTED AND to Day.

You can always put down the boo to a spontaneous reaction to sometising on the field of play. But a social media message sugges a curse allowed to ripen with time.