Funniest Thing You've Ever Seen at a Hoyas Game

[unclebeets]

Bill Martin breakaway during garbage time -- tried a reverse corkscrew megadunk -- ball hit the rim so hard it flew into the stands. The bench laughed for 15 minutes. Pops did not.

[SSHoya]

This is too easy for me --- Pops and his reveal of the sweater at the "sweater game" against St. Johns at MSG. You had to be there.

[hobokenhoya]

Jeremiah Rivers playing offense

[BubbleVisionBiff]

Ball-Room-Dan-cing! Clap! Clap! Clap-Clap-Clap!

[hoya9797]

2001, Pauley Pavilion, game nationally televised on CBS

We were sitting way up in the corner with a bunch of GU alumni and students and one of the genius students brought a CBS sign that said Can't Beat Sweetney. One of the camera guys saw this and came up during a timeout and asked us to gather around and cheer and they would show the sign coming back from commercial. So, when the guy gave us our cue, we all start yelling and the sign guy flips it over to reveal Cock Balls Scrotum. The camera guy was not pleased. Incredibly immature and didn't make GU look all that good but still the funniest thing I've ever seen at a game.

[Hoya06]

storming the court, tripping, getting trampled, and then puking in front of the duke bench in '06

[strummer8526]

The last ever Shake Cam. Never has a jumbotron shown so much shaking so wildly.

[Hilltopper]

The first post made me think of garbage time some years later. Jerry Nichols goes 360. Sub is at the table before he hits the ground. And I remember James Reed airballing a breakaway layup.

But I think my favorite was a friend painting his chest, "Small Chest, Big Monday". I believe it led Sportscenter that night.

Best line was at the Hoya- UConn game in 96. Kevin McHale sat at the scouts' table right in front of student section. I was in the front row and a friend from Boston behind me asked to get an autograph for him. As he signed, McHale asked me what my major was. I said, "English- but I actually want to coach basketball." He hands me the paper back, looks up and says, "Good. Because you won't do anything with that English degree."

[msb03]

Student sign at Verizon against 'Cuse in 02: "I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter."

[hoyajmw]

In case not everyone remembers (and many on this board weren't alive), the NCAA banned dunking from the late 60s until the '76-77 season. At the start of that "dunks are back!!!!!!!!" year, the HOyas played a very hapless Chicago State in McDonough. On the way to crushing them 107-65, we managed to miss 6 dunk attempts as everyone tried to show off their moves -- including one miss (sorry I can't remember who) where the player went in from the wing, lost control of the ball, and proceeded to throw it out of bounds on the other side about two rows into the stands. Not just an air ball -- an air projectile . . . It was a riot ... (Fun random dunk related fact: the game where Walton famously was 21 for 22 from the floor to lead UCLA past Memphis State in the title game, he had three MORE baskets disallowed because he was callled for illegal dunking.)

[Boz]

Probably not THE funniest thing I have seen, but the "Hurley's a Virgin!" chant against Duke (back in the days of the ACC-Big East Challenge) was good enough that it even had Bobby Hurley laughing at the foul line.

That was the first one that came to mind anyway.

[DownTownJoeyBrown]

Mar 1, 2013 16:52:14 GMT -5 msb03 said:

Student sign at Verizon against 'Cuse in 02: "I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter."

Thanks brotha. That was my sign!! Full sign said "Syracuse was my safety school, I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter"

I will also like to clarify that I never actually applied to Syracuse. Who would do such a thing?

[greenmachine]

Mar 1, 2013 16:52:14 GMT -5 msb03 said:

Student sign at Verizon against 'Cuse in 02: "I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter."

Every Cuse game I tell my wife about the sign like its the first time I've told it. She's sick of it but I love it.

[greenmachine]

Mar 1, 2013 17:44:25 GMT -5 DownTownJoeyBrown said:

Mar 1, 2013 16:52:14 GMT -5 msb03 said:

Student sign at Verizon against 'Cuse in 02: "I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter."

Thanks brotha. That was my sign!! Full sign said "Syracuse was my safety school, I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter"

I will also like to clarify that I never actually applied to Syracuse. Who would do such a thing?

I always suspected that. No one that clever is stupid enough to apply to that school

[DallasHoya]

The fat guy doing the Hawaii 5-0 dance at mid-court during timeouts at all home games in the mid-80s.

[swhoya]

01-02 season, after that fat litte UConnvict was busted for pot, a roommate of mine had his family send some dried hay sent to us, which we put in little dime bags. Most of it was confiscated but a few bags made it in.

Unfortunately, I distinctly recall him shushing the students from the FT line as he torched us, so I guess it wasn't that funny.
Man I hated that fat little Edited.

[Elvado]

Prov Hoya, yours truly and some others asking the BYU cheerleaders if they would all marry us. Also throwing crushed ice into their male counterparts' megaphones. Childish, boorish, but riotous after a dozen beers.

[BubbleVisionBiff]

Mar 1, 2013 17:44:25 GMT -5 DownTownJoeyBrown said:

Mar 1, 2013 16:52:14 GMT -5 msb03 said:

Student sign at Verizon against 'Cuse in 02: "I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter."

Thanks brotha. That was my sign!! Full sign said "Syracuse was my safety school, I wiped my a$$ with your acceptance letter"

I will also like to clarify that I never actually applied to Syracuse. Who would do such a thing?

You got on TV with that sign. Gold.

[BubbleVisionBiff]

Mar 1, 2013 17:17:51 GMT -5 Boz said:

Probably not THE funniest thing I have seen, but the "Hurley's a Virgin!" chant against Duke (back in the days of the ACC-Big East Challenge) was good enough that it even had Bobby Hurley laughing at the foul line.

That was the first one that came to mind anyway.

That's not the chant I remember. Is that the game where Deke went down with bad leg cramps and the students willed him back up with chants of "Di-kem-be!" "Di-kem-be!" "Di-kem-be!"?

[Big Dog]

A Craig Esherick team trying to score a bucket in the final seconds.