Do people really get soooo bound up worrying about how others are watching, participating, enjoying, perceiving, cheering, critiqing, complaining - whatever - that they feel compelled to comment on it? JEEBUS CROSS, what a bunch of emotionally fragile Gladys Kravitz's that allow others to influence their own "fandom" and / or game experience.
In other words, "Who Cares!". Unless they are using really offensive language and you have kids and / or are getting up in your space, "STFU and ignore it!" Put a little more effort into yourself and leave people be!
I say this to the chick in my section this past Saturday. She's 1 row back and 10 seats down from me and I was laughingly, and yes, loudly, saying in astonishment,
"Are you kidding me!
That "Kurt" called a timeout on 4th & 1 "think over" whether Hawks should go for it (which would have put the game completely out of reach for UNI to come back as a TD would have been put them up 34-16 and eliminated a 2005 Northwestern-esque come back.) and
"C'mon! You called a time out for that?!"
All "Kurt" could muster out of that time out was to line straight up and run the same simple dive play that was run on 1st, 2nd and 3rd down.
(IMO, they should have immediately lined up, no huddle and punched the ball in the frickin' endzone on 4th down. Not only was the time out worthless in it's creativity, it allowed UNI to get set up!)
No swearing. No carrying on to others (except my wife next to me).
Well, chick yells to me, "Are you really a fan? You've been complaining all game!" I said, "Yes, of good football!"
(Which that series of events in that situation was not!)
Maybe that makes me the "Coach in waiting sitting near you at the game." If so, vote away, chick!