Word: booed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...education program for fans, game tickets are now printed with standard admonitions: "Don't cause your team to be punished. Do everything you can to calm people around you." Israeli TV and radio will soon carry programs on sportsmanship, and schoolchildren will be instructed to cheer rather than boo an outstanding play by an opposing team. Acknowledging that the education may not be 100% effective, the Football Association also plans to erect security fences between the fields and the stands. For all the preventive measures, however, many soccer officials feel that it will take more than one season...
Under the boo...
...believe that "Good News, Bad News" jokes derived from a group game we called "Yay! Boo!" which was played at high school and college parties in the '40s and '50s. For example: "This is your social chairman speaking. Tonight we have invited some ladies over to entertain us (Yay!). However, they will be completely dressed (Boo!)... in cellophane...
...With Harrison, you felt that everything you said would get back to him. He accused ballplayers of bringing their roommates to games to boo him. And if you told him something privately, he would throw it back at you in a team meeting," the player said...
...want to see the day when a whole generation of fans exists which will sit in a stadium and boo a home team for sitting on a four-point lead and not covering the spread," he said...