I have a good friend who has the same birthday as another friend. They are both huge baseball fans but one is a Giants fan and one Dodgers. For non baseball fans, those teams are usually intra-league rivals. So each year for their birthdays they get each other a piece of the other team's memorabilia. And each year they quietly swap it with each other into their own collections a few weeks later, because the Dodgers fan doesn't really want Giants merch and vice versa. So like at whomever's funeral I can maybe expect a boo toward the Dodgers or Giants from this long friendship. It would feel right.
I have very specific desires for mine, but I've warned my family because as they scatter my cremains (I'm assuming they couldn't figure out how to compost me and turn me into a tree) i want them to play a very specific inappropriate to the moment song that if they stop to think about it will make them giggle.
it's like when the sick kid dies and the only kid who razzed him at school gets invited to the funeral because he's the only one who made him feel like he was having a normal childhood. part of the human experience is gentle heckling.
i think booing someone's favorite sports team at their funeral honors your relationship to them if that was part of it.
Ugh, it was his final wish; here goes! Proceeds to double tap the priest first, because they've been using magic to convert bread and wine into flesh and blood for decades. Don't want to turn my back to them during a fight.
I'd like to think the Priest's "Bread/Wine convert to Flesh/Blood" also works in reverse offensively. As in a priest can cast this spell on a living person and turn them into a loaf of rye and a bottle of Merlot.
I was born and raised a Packers NFL fan. Everyone in my family were die hards. When my father passed, we asked people to wear Packers apparel if they had it. There were some local Vikings fans that bought Packers shirts for the occasion. One guy wore a vikings shirt underneath to stay true. That's what sports rivalries should be all about. It's just a game but it builds relationships through competition. We may cheer for different teams, but at the end of the day, we come together for what's important. If someone boo'd the Packers at my dad's funeral, I would have laughed as I think most of my family and friends would have too.
I went to open ice out in long island as a kid, and a couple Islanders showed up, and signed my Rangers jersey. Dad jokingly locked the front door and wouldn't let me in when I got home.
In my experience, a situation like this would probably be in jest by someone the deceased knew and had a friendly disagreement about sports teams with.
Usually, when family or loved ones disagree about the team they support, it just leads to gentle ribbing. It's all in good fun.
Of course. The person who booed is probably someone extremely close, and booing was their final tribute to their friend, their last disagreement about the sport they loved together. I could see myself doing something like that for a friend.
everything is sports just as much as everything is politics when you live in a world where people treat their own political faction as a sports team they root for rather than a sports team they are on
39 Comments
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 150d
Im a fan of the local teams rival. Thats where I grew up, and my son is a fan of the rival too. This is birthright right.
Sports are supposed to be how we compete physically without war. Iroquois lacrosse comes to mind.
If someone booed at my funeral, they were a friend that knew I loved the game like they do.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 150d
Yeah, I'm not a huge sportsball fan but if someone did that at my funeral, I sure as hell wouldn't haunt them from the grave over it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 149d
I have a good friend who has the same birthday as another friend. They are both huge baseball fans but one is a Giants fan and one Dodgers. For non baseball fans, those teams are usually intra-league rivals. So each year for their birthdays they get each other a piece of the other team's memorabilia. And each year they quietly swap it with each other into their own collections a few weeks later, because the Dodgers fan doesn't really want Giants merch and vice versa. So like at whomever's funeral I can maybe expect a boo toward the Dodgers or Giants from this long friendship. It would feel right.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 149d
That's wholesome AF
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
But what if they said:
sidelove@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 150d
Is it me, or is that heart-warming in a weird way?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 150d
heartwarming.
it acknowledges the whole "he is still with us" in a active way.
i hope my funeral is just a bunch of cunts roasting my corpse and having a great time about it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 149d
I mean, you could just get it catered
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 149d
please tell me you meant cremated.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 148d
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 149d
I have very specific desires for mine, but I've warned my family because as they scatter my cremains (I'm assuming they couldn't figure out how to compost me and turn me into a tree) i want them to play a very specific inappropriate to the moment song that if they stop to think about it will make them giggle.
PlungeButter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 149d
Is it Set Me On Fire by Enter Shikari?
"Please set me on fiiiiire I wanna be ashes in the atmosphere...."
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 149d
“Yeah I hate the dead guy’s favorite football team, but I showed up because I respected the hell of it him”
Kind of a deeper honor.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 149d
Very. I expect Emacs heckling from Vi enthusiasts at my funeral.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 3 pts · 149d
Yeah, its because you should have used Vi (I use Emacs BTW)
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 149d
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 149d
it's like when the sick kid dies and the only kid who razzed him at school gets invited to the funeral because he's the only one who made him feel like he was having a normal childhood. part of the human experience is gentle heckling.
i think booing someone's favorite sports team at their funeral honors your relationship to them if that was part of it.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 150d
If your death doesn’t polarize people, did you really live?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 27 pts · 150d
I aspire to have my funeral wind up like the church scene in the first Kingsman movie.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 150d
Ugh, it was his final wish; here goes! Proceeds to double tap the priest first, because they've been using magic to convert bread and wine into flesh and blood for decades. Don't want to turn my back to them during a fight.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 150d
Priest instantly turns into a bottle of Rosé and some ciabatta
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
It is soon discovered that 90% of the Church hierarchy is artificially-created bread-and-wine homunculi.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 150d
Oh snap I'm about to carb up and get a buzz. Thank you good sir.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 150d
I'd like to think the Priest's "Bread/Wine convert to Flesh/Blood" also works in reverse offensively. As in a priest can cast this spell on a living person and turn them into a loaf of rye and a bottle of Merlot.
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 150d
I just wanted a raging party with great food. My dreams have been too small.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 149d
My favorite part is the one extra in the background just waving a chair around
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
Getting face, back and body shots by a British secret agent?
Where do I sign?
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 150d
I was born and raised a Packers NFL fan. Everyone in my family were die hards. When my father passed, we asked people to wear Packers apparel if they had it. There were some local Vikings fans that bought Packers shirts for the occasion. One guy wore a vikings shirt underneath to stay true. That's what sports rivalries should be all about. It's just a game but it builds relationships through competition. We may cheer for different teams, but at the end of the day, we come together for what's important. If someone boo'd the Packers at my dad's funeral, I would have laughed as I think most of my family and friends would have too.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 149d
I went to open ice out in long island as a kid, and a couple Islanders showed up, and signed my Rangers jersey. Dad jokingly locked the front door and wouldn't let me in when I got home.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 149d
That's almost as silly as the local football hooligans not wanting to pronounce their rival towns name so they jusy say the last half.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 149d
Yeah exactly what I was thinking. It was probably in jest
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 150d
I was at a friend's father's funeral and someone had to stop the celebrant and let him know he was eulogising the wrong person.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 149d
I will never understand these sports people...
(Sits back to watch the Manjaro mutiny and the Systemd age verification drama)
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 149d
In my experience, a situation like this would probably be in jest by someone the deceased knew and had a friendly disagreement about sports teams with.
Usually, when family or loved ones disagree about the team they support, it just leads to gentle ribbing. It's all in good fun.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 148d
Of course. The person who booed is probably someone extremely close, and booing was their final tribute to their friend, their last disagreement about the sport they loved together. I could see myself doing something like that for a friend.
It's really pretty great.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 149d
everything is sports just as much as everything is politics when you live in a world where people treat their own political faction as a sports team they root for rather than a sports team they are on
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 150d
Sounds like he had some real football hooligans at his funeral, then. Died as he lived, seems.
danhab99@programming.dev · 3 pts · 149d
Try reading this with a Family Guy New England accent
hOrni@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
Seems kinda obvious.