nice job softballand rowdies

[timmyboy]

the softball team played a nice game today in beating that numberless, nameless and colorless team from canada.........i mean new york lol.for anyone who wasent there, the reason i called them numberless,nameless and colorless is because a group of the A K Rowies showed up to the game (it was great to see em show up for the softball team) and they were cheering and carrying on and the umpire told UA officials to tell them that they are no longer allowed to refer to buffalo by the players name, number or by their school name it was pretty funny.

[zippyrifle32]

ok, i can understand the player's name, but not even being able to refer to the school's name? how about the city of origin?

[Jamison32]

According to the cop that talked to use we were not allowed to refer to anyone/thing associated with Buffalo. We were only allowed to cheer for Akron and no negative comments about the way that invisible team our ladies were playing. We went to the game on Saturday also and the ladies performed very well also. I know a group of us are planning on stopping by between classes for some of their games on Weds. Maybe we'll have a new third base ump who will allow us to atleast say what position the opposing teams players are.

[zippyrifle32]

i was there yesterday and thought the rowdies were good not only at softball but baseball as well. had work to do today, so i didn't go. glad to see we won though.

[Zipsrifle]

I would imagine that something drove the ump and authorities to censor the rowdies. Any idea what that might have been?

[Jamison32]

We didn't say anything considered "offensive" to a woman athlete. We understand that they are different that male athletes when it comes to heckling. But the ump called up to the press box and said "no use of names or numbers". So we followed that rule and used their positions when saying stuff. Then one of their coaches was way out of the coaches box and a Rowdie was yelling things about that and the ump called time and came to the cop and told him that we can only cheer about Akron. No references to Buffalo's players in any sense. No brutal things were said. We'll see what happens this Wednesday

[ZachTheZip]

We went through the same crap with the refs during soccer games last year. As long as it isn't illegal or against NCAA rules, they can't do a thing about it.