Why is there no heckling in Track and Field

make it more interesting and jump off a bridge, idiot.

B/c no one watches our sport, that is why.

i've heard that in big meets, people will gather around the water barrier and taunt the steeplechasers

There is subtle heckling. When I was in high school if a teammate yelled out "go for time" it meant "You have no chance to place, but at least you're not walking yet."

I'm told that in baseball there is an equivalent: "You're due" translates as "You're in a horrible slump but don't just assume you're going to strike out again."

If trombone players ran track, they'd get heckled and be forced to get day jobs.

Cus we're all lanced out of out gords shooing up 1,000,000 IUs a day.

Do you count the time Paula and some other runner held up sign, forgot what it said but it was something along the line of drug cheat out.

A better question is why is there heckling in other sports?

It's obnoxious.

yeah, steeple chasers get most heckling out of anybody

one time during the girls race, some bastards started chanting "FALL...FALL...FALL..."

tons of people surround the water pit for the steeple, then go back to napping on the high jump mats for the rest of the meet

well the crowd usually does whoop people as they are being walked

Does having multiple competitors have something to do with it? Unlike team sports, T&F events are not always one versus one, Team A v. Team B. Runners from several different schools may be on the track at the same time.

Does anyone know about heckling at car races, which also has multiple competitors?

Has anyone seen heckling at gymnastics meets or golf tournaments?

During the 2003 London Marathon, one of the fans roadside around 15 miles yelled, "You can win this thing yet!" to the midpackers. Not really heckling; in fact, I thought it was pretty damn funny.

A buddy of mine talked his way into the OD 5,000 at Penn Relays one year, and qucikly found himself at, then off, the back of the pack. A bunch of us kept cheering for him to try to keep his spirits up: "C'mon Mike," "Hang in there Mike," "Get back in contact Mike."

Finally, when it became obvious that he wasn't going to get back into the race, one guy yelled, "You came all this way to finish last?"

I was heckled at a 3 mile race at Prairie View A&M when I lived in Houston. It was a track meet where all of the schools present were from PV A&M's conference. I was in the minority to say the least and got heckled by some fans because "I came down there and embarrassed their runners". It got so bad (screams of "Beat that Honkey") that after my race that I won, I grabbed my shoes, jogged out the back side of stadium, got into my car and headed back to Houston. I was not really afraid but I did nothing to cause the heckling, other than winning the steeple and 3 mile.

Because they don't sell beer at most track meets, that's why.

I suggest you go to Boston and have a bad race, and then you'll see at least 100,000 drunk hecklers.

They certainly gave Carl Lewis the gears when he didn't go for the world record in the long jump in 1984 despite already locking up the gold and having a lot of races left.

There shouldn't be heckling in Track and Field.

It's more like Tennis and Golf as opposed to Baseball and Hockey.

We heckled the hell out of that race as if I remember correctly the guys went out close to 6-minute pace in the 5000m mens final and ran just sub-15. We booed and said the women's race would have lapped you by now.

We also hecked Michelle Tafoya at 1997 USATF champs when she tried to interview Todd Williams as he laid on the track after DNFing in the 5000m due to the heat, what a joke.

Also in 1997, we heckled Lynn Jennings in the 10k final as she did whatever it took to NOT lead and when she did we BOOed the hell out of her.

Finally at the 97 meet, since there was yet to be a women's vault, the women's HJ was THE evnt for the guys to watch and we made sure the ladies knew we were watching.

At 99 USATF in Eugene, we heckled the lady vaulters to the point we left $1 bills for themon the ledge of the stands and if they came over to us we would put one in their uniform.

There's enough heckling on this website for all of track and field.

Unless a guy from a rival team accidentally puts his shorts on backwards, as happened at a meet when I was in college. In that situation, there cannot possibly be enough heckling. Also, if a freshman teammate ends up with one ball outside his liners, flashing with each stride, then there will be heckling and it will be necessary. I also know this from experience.

Perhaps you would like T&F to be like our football ("soccer") where they have to stop matches because the spectators throw bottles and shoot fireworks on the players, call the players n*****s, f***ing f****** etc, where they have to have high fences around the court to prevent the spectators from attacking the players, where the players have to have bodyguards to prevent them and their families from being attacked by loyal fans, where the media publishes the players addresses and photos on the players families and thereby indirectly encourage harassment on the players and their families, where the media calls the player´s kids "sons and daughters of f******" etc etc etc