West Virginia Fans Do Not Heed Huggins' Message

I was humiliated. That’s why we get mad. It’s because there were a few drunk idiots that have just ruined the image for the rest of us- again. For the most part, WVU fans really aren’t bad at all. Last night doesn’t really help my argument a whole lot, though, does it?

I was a wrestling fan as a child, and- one year- my father took me to Boston to see the WWF. This was some time ago, but i’ll risk dating myself because the story relates to this.

I forget the main event, but- at some point on the card- Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff is set to beat up the Duke of Dorchester pete Doherty, who was a local jobber. He was quite popular in the Garden.

As the bell sounds to start the match, what looks like a pint bottle of vodka comes hurtling down from the Heavens (not THE heaven, but what they used to call the upper sections of the Garden) and smashes off Mr. Wonderful’s head.

There was blood everywhere, although Orndorff- who has a reputation in that business as a tough SOB- stays on his feet. He goes over and shoves Doherty, who falls over like he was shot. Orndorff puts his foot on the guy for the 3 count, and runs back to the dressing room with a bloody towel over head.

The match was actually shorter than the one move Fingerpoke Of Doom match in WCW, as those people hammed it up a bit before. I would time this match of Orndorff’s at about 4 seconds.

If Huggy made that speech in the Garden that night, he would most likely have taken a bottle to the face. Boston, like Philly, has ugly crowds.

I feel sorry for the well mannered WVU fans because this just reinforces the misconception that West Virginia fans are drunken hillbillies.  Last night was a real setback for the state.

Got news for ya Tileking59 nothing is going to change that misconception. So, instead of fighting it I embrace it. Yeah we ARE drunken, inbred, hillbilly, toothless, welfare mountain trash, ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! I have no interest in changing the way everybody else thinks because it’s always evident just what they think of us!!! It’s their problem, not mine or my fellow Mountaineers. Also, one thing we aren’t is RATS. So you go to the game and be a cop.

See here is the problem.  I think it was stupid for those guys to do it.  However, everyone keeps going on and on about how we have destroyed our image and WVU fans and the state are worthless hilljacks.  Seems to me that when the DUKE fans chanted "Orphan, Orphan, Orphan" over and over again to a guy that just lost his parents in a murder/suicide no one ever questioned their image (much worse than A**hole).  As for telling on people, it was a coin.  You tell me how you are going to see who threw a coin among 15000+ fans.  Oh wait, your NOT!  Furthermore, this isn’t the only place this crap happens.  It happens everywhere!  Now get the hell over it!

Duke burns benches, unc starts fires in the street. But WVU has the nation wide rep of burning couches?

Duke chanted hateful things at paul davis after he broke up with his longtime girlfriend. They chant please don’t eat me at overweight players. They also have made fun of opposing players who struggled academically. But yea, chanting basic "bad words" are SOOO offensive.

I have been hit by a battery at a hockey game. Saw people urinate on opposing fans at a soccer game. People used homophobic slurs at jj redick at maryland. Fans at maryland also hit boozers mom with a beer bottle. But WVU gets the rep and all these stories on news sites.

I’m sick of defending the state and the people. This goes on everywhere but the public chooses to focus on WVU and thinks its okay to call them a hillbilly or inbred in response. Just stupid. I’m with the poster above. I’m ready to just accept it because this is never gonna end

You know I was embarrassed last night also but like Colecoalition and Appalachian slang I’m tired of hearing about us like we’re the only state who’s fans does this. I’ve seen WVU play Pitt in football in Pittsburgh and seen unruly behavior. Blacksburg, V-Tech lets not go there, the "U" come on, it goes on everywhere but only West Virginia is mentioned. We get put down because of a few drunken idiots, but yet we get to read the insightful post and comments by The Sporting News finest like Jaws, Lou Holtz, and all the others. Maybe it’s time to start spending more time on SI.com or Espn.com where things seem to be spread out more evenly.

you know i have been trying not to comment since this happened but the excuses out of WVU are becoming tiresome.  the  " they did it too " BS is weak.  childish at best.

maybe it wont ever end because its true, a coach got hit in the face with a coin last night by a fan in west virginia.  not at a duke game, or a pitt game. or whatever other game you want to mention.

even your coach called your fans stupid.  wake up and quit condoning this tom foolery and trying to make it acceptable because it happened somewhere else some other day.

if the PITT fans do this when WVU is here, then F them too.

just because they are playing a childs game doesnt mean you should act like one.

I don’t believe any of us condone it.  It’s STUPID as Huggs said.  PERIOD!!!!  The problem I have and seems others do to, is that WVU seems to get singled out on this crap.  Why not point out the other schools that do it to?  I mean if you are going to single out WVU then let’s fix every other school and kick peoples asses out of games.  Just don’t come on here and act like WVU is the only place that is doing this.  ONCE AGAIN DWB I THINK IT IS STUPID AND SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN SPORTS ANYWHERE EVER!!!!  DWB, what college team did do you support?

I don’t see any West Virginia fans condoning the behavior on this post. But they insist that this type of behavior goes on everywhere. No it doesn’t. Maybe Kansas and West Virginia can start an exchange program so the WVU fans can learn you can support your team without making your school look bad.- A college basketball fan in Kansas City

i am a PITT fan.   and like i said if this happens here when WVU comes up, F the PITT fans too.

HAHAHAHHA BS Mocary, it happens everywhere.  When I was at the Sugar Bowl the Bulldog fans were completly classless.  One came up and knock the camera out of my friends hand.  Not a bump, but jumped in front of her and screamed in her face and slapped it to the ground.  Of course, several of us proceeded to kick his stupid ass all the way to the cops on the corner.  Trust me I follow WVU Football and Basketball around the country and I know for a fact Mocary that it happens everywhere.  Also, horse crap on the Kansas crap.  I was at a Kansas game a few years back and you had fans equally as stupid.  Cussing and throwing stuff in the stands.  Maybe it didn’t reach the floor but I saw a little girl get hit in the head.  SHE WAS 4 A**HOLE.   So don’t tell me Kansas supporters are saints. 

Look WVU gets a bad wrap no matter what we do…no matter how nice we are (during the UConn game when the fans cheered for UConn as they came out on to the field due to a player being shot and killed the week before) or how bad we are at the PITT game)…perceptions will never change…I tell people I am from West Virginia and the next sentence out of their mouth is so how is Virginia…..I DO NOT agree with what the fans did the other night.  However, other schools do some equally bad things and that never gets as much ESPN air time as this did.  The announcer said a great comment at the close of the story…MOUNTAINEER FANS ACT LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN THERE EVEN IF YOU HAVEN’T…NOT all WVU fans are like the one very few that through things on the floor.  

I see we have a fellow coucher on here WVU Girl. I agree with you were not all like that. So those of you that lump the entire group together based on one or two peoples actions need to grow up.

colecoalition – I’m with you on Maryland fans.  I went to a few games at the old arena and was constantly amazed at the lack of imagination and civility.  It’s not the other team’s fault they’ve had more success than you.  Get over it.

"Appalachian slang" just does not get it!!! While most WVU fans, and for that matter most fans that attend college basketball games conduct themselves with some sort of sportsmenship and civility there will always be that percentage in our society, whether in an arena or on our streets, that feel like As. So – just like the President of WVU has vowed to do with security camera’s in the arena, maybe all of the major programs should copy this action in order to clean up the game.
  

What America does not realize is that all the couch burning, garbage throwing and profanity that goes on at WVU is carried out by interlopers from Jersey who could not get admitted to more elite academic institutions, and typically arrive here with a huge chip on the shoulder. The image of West Virginians should not suffer because its flagship institution sees fit to offer such vagabond hooligans a chance at some form of sheepskin.  The state’s stereotyped perception was in fact created and has long been marketed out of state, so it is only natural for the school’s non-local students assume a responsibility to "live up to it."  Thus, the blame for such behavior lies entirely outside of the borders of West Virginia, and the rest of the sanctimonious U.S. is getting back just what it deserves.  Finger pointing is such fun!

hahaha!!   funny stuff billyhill!