Ethnography

Ethnography

October 5, 2014

football madness



It is Saturday the time is 6:00 P.M. I arrive upon the big gates before I enter the game. I give my student I.D. Before I enter the game, and make my way towards the stands. The football game isn’t as packed as I would expect it to be however there were still plenty of people there. My group sat in section S near the field; this may I add is where all the madness occurred, with a particular set of people that I will never forget. The group that I will be discussing today consist of three people. The first we will call was an African American individual who was 24 years old; we will call him big B. The second individual was a Hispanic female who is 19 years old, her name for this blog will be cheeks. Finally the last individual will be called hobbit, he was a short white male; around the age of 19 as well.

I sat in the middle between cheeks and Big B, the first thing they were doing was making fun of each other. Big B was laughing at her because of some misinterpretation he had about some guy he seen her with. He was giving her a hard time about cheating on her boyfriend with him. She replied with the denying claim; and stated that they were only friends. Her boyfriend was there and they all just ended up laughing at the misunderstanding, and made jokes about it throughout the night. I did notice hobbit was making weird dancing gestures towards Big B and cheeks. At first I thought he was just trying to get their attention but he consistently did it from about four rows down from where cheeks and Big B were sitting. The dancing motion I will never forget; what he did was spin his hand in a rotating motion, biting his lips, with a scrunched up face. The face and dance was so funny that it had everyone around him laughing.

There were other moments when cheek would hit Big B with these colorful pink sticks, and when she accidentally threw the stick and missed Big B it hit another individual in the crowd. What was funny about that was it triggered a chain reaction of people getting angry of trying to figure out who threw the pink stick. What ended up happening was this Tall Hispanic individual we will call Mc.Tallister called out this other individual who we will call Grinch. Mc. Tallister shoved Grinch continuously until a big fight between them broke out. Finally the security ended up breaking both of them up. That fight triggered a couple of other fights that happened in the stands. I thought to myself how crazy it was that two individuals (Cheeks and Big B) caused such a ruckus, between individuals. Cheeks said “I think it’s best if we don’t mention what happened to anyone”, and they laughed about it and continued watching the game.

Finally as the game came closer to ending, Hobbit did something that was hilarious. One of his friends that he was sitting with dared him to do something spontaneous. He said I’m Down, afterwards I notice him looking around left and right; my guess was he was looking for security. Once he noticed that there was none, he took off his shirt, put on a Halloween mask, grabbed two of those pink sticks that Cheeks threw at Big B. He yelled all around the stands screaming in a crazy voice saying “AHHHHHHHHHHHHWHHHHHH, F**K GEORGIA SOUTHERN, and LALALALLALALALAL”. That moment was the funniest moment I have ever seen at a college game. After that moment I decided that was the perfect time to leave the game I have seen enough. Cheeks and Big B laughed and ended up leaving as well; That night was one of the funniest moments I had at the game.

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