[ComfortEagle]

Booing a team during the game is fine by me, but heckling individual players or yelling out personal comments should not be tolerated.

Two instances come to my mind at this moment:

1) We were playing Somerset in a tournament game one year, and during our warmups we (the linemen) kept getting heckled by some Somerset fans. It wasn't just your standard "you suck" comments. Some of them new our names, others were called out by their number and some personal comments were screamed from across the stadium. That just made our win that much better knowing we shut those guys up.


2) My junior year I suffered a season-ending knee injury (tore my LCL completely off the bone and cracked my femur). I tried to sit on the sidelines for the rest of the game but the doctor told me that it was looking bad and I needed to go on and get to the hospital. So with the help of two other guys, I walked/hobbled back to the locker room to take off my gear. Just as I neared the doors to the locker room, a Belfry fan made a comment that was something to the extent of "yeah, we showed you, we kicked your ***." - Given that I was under painkillers I continued on and found the humor in his statement. This guy wasn't even playing in the game, yet he is taking credit for my injury, which was a fluke? Nevertheless, I underwent surgery and came back the next year to play the full season - gained recognition as honorable mention all-state and was awarded the Blake Vanhoose Outstanding Courage Award.