Creepy guys at high school games.

[TheJON]

So as sad as this is for me to admit, I attended a couple of state girls basketball tournament games this past weekend. No, I didn't go willingly. I was forced by my wife to go watch my cousins play. She seems to think it would make me an awful person by not attending. I think of it more as keeping my dignity.

Anyways, I was sitting next to this guy who had no daughters/relatives on the team and was cheering loudly for the school my cousins play for. I know this because I talked to the guy, he's just a big fan of his towns girls basketball squad.

Fukking weirdo! So I ask this board, what the heck is up with every town having a local older guy (usually 40's-60's) that has no relatives on the high school team that goes to every game and cheers as if they were a student? Seriously, high school sports are lame. If you go to a high school event and aren't going to either A)hand with your old HS homeboys at homecoming or B)have a relative on the team or C)a teacher at that school........you're probably a pedophile.

Back in high school, we had this guy that showed up for all of our games and no one knew him. He wasn't a teacher, didn't have any kids on the team, he was just a big fan of our basketball team. And it used ot creep us out. He was there every damn game cheering us on from either the 1st or 2nd row. He was probably 50 years old or so. We'd always joke about which one of us he was coming to watch.

But my point is that every town seems to have that one pedophile that loves to watch the high school boys/girls play ball. What is up with that??

[King Crimson]

my granddad coached baseball in the town he was proud to call home. the baseball field in Perry, Oklahoma is named after him. he went to all the Perry HS games there were, no matter the sport. it was part of his life. when he died, the HS wrestling team carried his casket. they won state the next day. my g-paw sent his sons through Perry schools and one got a law degree at OU and one played QB at OU and was a HS coach at the highest level for decades.

ask SunCoastSooner about Perry wrestling. one of the most dominant HS programs in the nation over the last 50 years. my granddad was proud to go to HS events and pull for his town.

i realize you'd like to think it's some pedo checking you out Jon, but likely it's someone who likes sports. and doesn't need ESPN to tell him what's what like most people today.

anyway, as far as creepy guys....the best is Benny Greenbaum in Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries. and the movie sucks out loud.

[TheJON]

But that is different because he is associated with the high school by being a baseball coach. I'm specifically talking about dude that has no affiliation with the high school other than he lives in that town. If you're a teacher, student, coach, or have a relative on the team......it's fine to show up and support the school. But you gotta be a pedophile to have no affiliation with the school and go to the games.

So your gramps is a coaching legend in Perry, ey? I got memories of that town!!! We stayed overnight in Perry (I believe it was a Days Inn, maybe a Super a few years back on our way back from a West Coast road trip. We went into this hick bar (I believe it was called Aces and I'm not really sure why I remember that name). Was quite the eventful night!!

[M Club]

you sound like one of those wankers who's aghast at sharing the locker room with a gay dude b/c he'll no doubt be checking you out, even though all those girls it's technically more appropriate to have a go with want nothing to do with you, either.

there are many reasons for attending a hs game. the town i went to hs in had about 4000 people, so everyone knew everyone. i tried using my college id to buy cigars and the lady wouldn't give in. she finally told me she knew i wasn't 18 b/c we were second cousins and laid out the family tree as proof. some people just enjoy the community of it, especially when you're 142 and your children don't come around anymore b/c they assumed you were dead. sometimes they're just pederasts.

[SunCoastSooner]

Not every small town has one "creepy guy" that goes to all of the high school sporting events, JON......nope, most towns have many of those guys. They're called supporters of the athletic programs at the school and are more than likely involved in several other organizations in the community. It's got something to do with community pride, celebrating your school/town getting to the big dance, and there's nothing weird about it at all. We've got folks in my town that have attended football/basketball/baseball games for 40-50 years and wouldn't let anything keep them from the games. It's not weird, JON...it's actually kinda cool.

I'd bet the "old guy" was sitting in the small town coffee shop on Monday morning and telling his cronies about the weird motherfucker that sat by him during last night's big game. Guaranfuckinteed.

Mace

Exactly!!! I find that THAT guy is usually someone who has lived in their hometown for the vast majority of their lives and is damn proud of that fact as well. Usually THAT guy is a divorcee (you'll uderstand someday JON) or a widower and being involved or at least feeling that they are with the community and what is going on provides purpose or at least amusement or time consumption from the ills or lonliness of life. It's not only perfectly healthy but in many ways good for them and the community

ask SunCoastSooner about Perry wrestling. one of the most dominant HS programs in the nation over the last 50 years. my granddad was proud to go to HS events and pull for his town.

Perry has fallen on harder times recently in the wrestling but they used to be the equivelent of what El Reno and Broken Arrow are currently; if they aren't winning the state title they are almost definatly not out of the top 5.

While we are on the subject of wrestling, as an alumni and son of a former OU wrestler... Can we PLEASE fucking fire Jack Spates forthe love of God and anything/everything Holy!!!! One conference dual win in 3 years (wheather against Okie State or not) is fucking pathetic for the tradition our program has!!! Iowa has moved a head of us in individual national titles and team titles during the Spates era and Iowa State is just 2 individual titles away from surpassing us at #3 in history as well. This sport used to be the Sooner State challenge for over a half a century more than 2/3 of the titles went to an Oklahoma school. Okie State has upheld this tradition Oklahoma has not!

[Goober McTuber]

Last weekend I decide to drop in and watch some high school hockey at the state tournament here. Watched six games in two days and saw the best high school hockey team I’ve ever seen in Wisconsin, and I’ve seen a lot state tournament games here in the past 30 years.

I like to get there early so I’m one of the first in the gates because there are a handful of seats on the corners that are better than all the rest. So 20 minutes before they open the gates for the second session, I’m the first one up to the turnstiles. This game featured a team from a city 40 miles to the south of Madison. 11 school busses pulled up and unloaded students and they all crammed into the lobby.

There was an attractive blond (in a 16-year-old kind of way) right behind me who was continuously being pushed up against me. Finally she announced loudly to her friends, “Hey, I’m grinding on an old guy.”

I’d just like to point out that if I were actually a pervert I’d have turned around and let her do the front.

[Screw_Michigan]

Only bitches and faggots use the word "creepy," JON. Thanks for separating yourself from the pack as a taker.

[the_ouskull]

In a number of "creepy old guy" cases, it's a widower. In a small town, a place in which you feel trapped after the loss of what was likely keeping you there in the first place, some people with no other family with whom they're in contact will take to the local fare in order to keep from going legitimately crazy because of the double-whammy loss of the most important person to them in the entire world and the only person with whom they have any kind of social interactions on a regular basis. (Being from a town of less than 6,000 with a per capita household income averaging $11,000 per, I think I know a bit about these sorts of things...)

I'd go to the local sports games too. Hell, I DO, only I'm coaching in them now.

I mean, I could ask some of the other questions... namely about perceptions of the two high school teams. Is the girl's team particularly attractive? Are they a GOOD basketball team? Is the men's team there any good. Is it possible that this guy goes to more than just the girl's games? Maybe he stuck around for the boy's game too, and, in fact, to get his money's worth, was also there before most of the crowd to watch the J.V. games?

Pedophile? Unlikely. Highly unlikely. Lonely old dude, likely with nobody left in the world? Fairly likely. Is he making fun of you at the coffee shop like was earlier mentioned? Absolutely.

Sorry, dawg.

the_ouskull

[TheJON]

The problem with your argument, Skull, is I don't come from a small town/school. My high school was huge and the DSM metro is 500,000, so it's not one of those small town deals. And the guy that used to come to our games probably wasn't a widower with nothing else left. He was probably in his early 50's. He looked more like Mr. Rogers than an old widower. Just sayin'.....

[King Crimson]

ask SunCoastSooner about Perry wrestling. one of the most dominant HS programs in the nation over the last 50 years. my granddad was proud to go to HS events and pull for his town.

Perry has fallen on harder times recently in the wrestling but they used to be the equivelent of what El Reno and Broken Arrow are currently; if they aren't winning the state title they are almost definatly not out of the top 5.

for a 2A school they're still competitive with most any of the big schools (i'm not sure what the HS classification system in OK is anymore). 32 state championships which i believe is a national single sport high school record and 151 individual state champs (including my uncle). nearly all of which are since the late 50's/early 60's. one of the great OU teams of the 60's had 3-4 Perry guys on it. and a couple other from the same HS team at OSU. 2 time Olympian and silver medalist Danny Hodge was in the bible study group my late granddad led. i knew him fairly well as a kid. big man, Danny Hodge, like shaking hands with a catcher's mitt. though, i never saw him crush an apple with one hand--which apparently he can STILL do.

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