So I went to Toronto Raptors game, first one in a while, first one ever for my girlfriend. The atmosphere in the arena was pretty tame to be honest, not as quiet as Leaf games but noticeably quiet to me. After a couple of wobbly pops I started to cheer more and louder. Nothing malicious or crude but the typical “DE-FENCE” “Where’s the call?!” Polite chirping but, admittedly LOUD. Not in anyone’s ear, but the whole section was hearing me, maybe even the bench of players. By the 3rd quarter two people in front of me to the left, asked if I could turn down the volume. I was slightly taken aback by their request and told them that I would try. A group of latinas behind us heard that and started cheering louder with me so I kept up the intensity . My question to you good people of Reddit, am I the asshole for cheering too loud or are people getting too soft?
NTA Why even go to the game if you’re not gonna show support to your team?
NTA. You were at a professional basketball game, not church. Cheer loud and support your team!
NTA. You were at a damn game not in library, if someone would’ve come to me for this, I would’ve cheered louder on their face.
NTA. It’s a basketball game, stand up and make some noise! Also, go Raptors!!
NTA. The level of the room? He was at a damn basketball game! Loud cheering is expected. The players feed off of the noise of the crowd! You want quiet, you’ve come to the wrong place.
YTA for using the term “wobbly pops.”
NTA. Tell those asshats to go buy some baby earmuffs
NTA.
Sporting events are meant to be loud, the arena usually has “get loud” moments to try to KEEP the crowd loud, and stadiums are regularly voted on as “loudest atmosphere” as a positive thing.
If the other group wanted a quiet/calm evening they should have gone to a movie or play or something along those lines.
As long as you weren’t shouting heinous or offensive stuff, you’re fine.
NTA. Toronto fans can be unreasonably quite. Especially in the lower bowl. Plus, if it was yesterday against the Knicks, that was a tough game to watch. You were trying to make the best of it and the suits were just being miserable
NTA. cheering is the whole reason sports has audiences. Charlotte NC has this same problem. Upright crackers think it’s not cool to cheer or make noise.
ESH – people should expect cheering at a game, so the shushing is a weird choice. But loud drunk people are just obnoxious, regardless of the environment.
NTA – so many Toronto professional sporting events are just filled with suits these days, the atmosphere is trash and the players have spoken out about it. You paid an insane amount for a ticket I’m sure so cheer on your team and have fun.
I’m way too European for this one. Part of the joy and fun at sports games – particularly football (soccer) – is the chants by fans.
It’s almost a competition as to who can come up with the most amusing chant for either one of your players or even the opposition players. And it’s often full on, set to the music of popular songs, sung by the whole crowd, chants. Some tunes have multiple versions with totally different words that are team specific.
The louder the fans, the more engaged they are – and the players themselves can feed off that energy.
So from my European perspective, although the chants are a tad boring by comparison, you’re NTA. It’s a sports game, not a play in a theatre.
NTA, you’re in a sports stadium and you weren’t even insulting anyone imo