No Signs For UVA Sports Games

Posted by Thor on August 21st, 2008 24 Comments

First it was the banning of coats and ties (not really, but Sea of Orange killed coats, ties and sundresses), then the killing of the pep band, and now it’s the banning of signs from UVa sports games. In an email sent to UVa students, the move is “intended to support and promote sportsmanship and positive game day environment for all fans in attendance at athletic events.”

I guess I can see the reason for this, but at the same time, isn’t there a lot of verbal unsportsmanlike like conduct that happens at athletic events?  I guess, it’s more for the appearance of a proper sports game, but, if it were proper, wouldn’t we all be wearing coats, ties and sundresses anyway?

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24 Responses to “No Signs For UVA Sports Games”

  1. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:05 am1mc said:

    dude… thank god I realized what that video was before the melody started. now I have a chance, a slim chance, of escaping a day full of mind numbing swedish pop music floating between my ears.

  2. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:05 am2Thor said:

    GOT YOU!

  3. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:08 am3mc said:

    i hate you Thor(s). you’re a yuppie douchebag.

  4. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:09 am4Thor said:

    you forgot sexist, vile, fabric destroyer, ego maniac

  5. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 am5parlie said:

    we’re like a lunchroom happy hour, or whatever the fuck.

    as far as football goes, maybe signs were annoying to people seated behind the sign holders? i don’t know. it’s hard for me to remember the last time i remember anything specific about a football game.

  6. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:29 am6buster said:

    i shamelessly admit that fourteen years later i still love this song. i may be alone, but i thank you, thor!

    i think this ruling sucks. i don’t give a rat’s ass about UVA football - though i think the “fire groh” kid was perfectly in the right - but the basketball fans have usually come up with some very clever and hilarious signage. it ain’t gonna be the same without them, though by then the AD might hopefully re-think this silly policy.

    /damn old people, ruining everyone else’s fun

  7. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:32 am7dieter said:

    Brought to you by the University founded by the old guy who wrote something about free speech.
    YEAH TEAM!

  8. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 am8mc said:

    indeed, where will the tv cameras go in those looonnng pauses between plays? what will fans do with their well honed acronym creation skills? I suppose students will have to write messages on their bodies now. their hot college bodies.

  9. 21 Aug 2008 at 9:38 am9Lulu said:

    @7: Oh dieter, George Mason/James Madison did not found UVA.

    /what?

  10. 21 Aug 2008 at 10:32 am10DP Dude said:

    Here is a link to the original story if you are interested in reading it.

    http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/cavs_ban_all_signs_at_games/26424/

  11. 21 Aug 2008 at 10:33 am11Thor said:

    thanks DP DUDE

  12. 21 Aug 2008 at 11:19 am12Sho said:

    LOL, thought it was going to be a rick-roll for a second… maybe you can start a trend Thor.

  13. 21 Aug 2008 at 12:39 pm13Ethan said:

    Ace of Base is fucking awesome.

  14. 21 Aug 2008 at 1:11 pm14parlie said:

    oh come on ethan, now you’re just being a jerk!

  15. 21 Aug 2008 at 1:15 pm15shenanigans said:

    @13: Oh shit we agree on something. Oh shit, now everyone knows I love AoB. Fuck. Retract!

  16. 21 Aug 2008 at 1:45 pm16Blanco Nino said:

    maybe UVA doesn’t want their sporting events to look like they’re being put on by the WWE.

  17. 21 Aug 2008 at 1:50 pm173stix said:

    ahhahahahahaaaaahhhhahahahahhahahha Man, UVa blows.

    I guess without signs, the local T-shirt company will benefit. I’m gonna laugh when students hold each other in the air with stuff written on thier shirts. I’m gonna laugh harder when they fall on thier asses in the stands.

    only after no one gets hurt, though, of course.

    Stupid wahoos.

  18. 21 Aug 2008 at 1:56 pm18ThisSideUp said:

    They’re quickly erasing all point of attending a live football game. Hell, I can sit in silence with no signs in front of my TV and pay less money, not support UVa’s outrageous athletics funds and see the game much better. Soon, they will ban all talking at UVa sporting events.

  19. 21 Aug 2008 at 4:47 pm19Ethan said:

    Meh, the atmosphere was shitty to begin with, so I doubt this will affect anything.

  20. 24 Aug 2008 at 7:34 pm20Canyon said:

    I think every student should bring a sign to every game, and force UVA to junk about a hundred thousand signs this year. I bet they’ll change their minds after that.

  21. 24 Aug 2008 at 8:53 pm21Floozy said:

    @20…..Osmium ones.Ha.

  22. 25 Aug 2008 at 12:22 am22Stanley said:

    I, for one, look forward to the enterprising Math major who brings a placard reading “the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to the length of the hypotenuse” mounting an impervious defense: “My good sir, that’s not a sign. That’s a cosine.”

  23. 25 Aug 2008 at 12:28 am23mc said:

    stanley is back! hi stanley, thanks for bringing geek back to the blog.

  24. 25 Aug 2008 at 8:08 am24Floozy said:

    WOO HOO Stan the Man is back…… apostrophical atrocities will no longer go uncorrected.
    /sign constructed out of a certain famous London newspaper… “But your Honor it’s just a sign of The Times.”
    //Thinks the cosine joke is just a phase that Stanley is going through.

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