Some Unwitting Cads Kidded

September 3, 2007 10:36 PM

Football fans aren't so bright.
posted by chlorus (27 comments total)

The Hilliard, Ohio high school students who pulled it off were later suspended. They were inspired by the Harvard Sucks prank. (via)
posted by chlorus at 10:42 PM on September 3, 2007

Probably would have been funnier if it was at all easy to read. It reminds me of the zug.com super bowl prank where you could barely make out a statement if you looked at it from just the right angle.
posted by mathowie at 10:42 PM on September 3, 2007

It's been done.
posted by anthill at 10:45 PM on September 3, 2007

Football fans aren't so bright? So if somebody handed you a black sheet of paper you'd be able to surmise what the whole pile would spell out?

What does the fans' "brightness" have to do with this?
posted by ethnomethodologist at 10:46 PM on September 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

I don't know if you can really call them "stupid." Someone from the "pep squad" hands out completely black or completely white signs, and tells you they say one thing. How, exactly, do you figure out if that person's telling the truth about what all your signs say?

Now gullible, gullible's another story entirely.
posted by chrominance at 10:46 PM on September 3, 2007

(jinx!)
posted by chrominance at 10:47 PM on September 3, 2007

Meh.
posted by delmoi at 10:48 PM on September 3, 2007

Football fans aren't so bright.

The whole enterprise is an exercise in groupthink. It's no surprise the student was suspended.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:50 PM on September 3, 2007 [2 favorites]

An unoriginal prank executed poorly, then crowded about online? My boy, let me introduce you to the Campus Republicans. So many adventures await you!
posted by maryh at 10:53 PM on September 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

You really had to go with "football fans aren't so bright" huh? Example A of how not to make a metafilter post.
posted by puke & cry at 10:55 PM on September 3, 2007

I'll save this thread.
posted by Mach3avelli at 10:59 PM on September 3, 2007 [5 favorites]

I'll save this thread.

Needs more Beef Supreme.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:07 PM on September 3, 2007

I'll save this thread.

Yes. Yes, you did.

The only thing I can think to say - and I mean this as the highest compliment - is this:

Boom Goes The Dynamite.
posted by gompa at 11:26 PM on September 3, 2007

I just thought I'd post the Blade Runner: Final Cut trailer again.

Its just that cool.
posted by Avenger at 11:33 PM on September 3, 2007

The only part I hate is that they got suspended. There's a tradition of clever unsportsmanlike conduct in college football to which these guys were paying (perhaps unwitting) homage. I know when I was in school, we painted a rival school's mascot our school colors (this was easy, because the statue of the damn thing was sitting right in the middle of campus, completely unprotected. Tag.) It is disturbing that innocent fun is now punishable by suspension. Especially well-planned and well-executed innocent fun.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:40 PM on September 3, 2007

If we're all linking to other videos, here's the 1940 version of Lord of the Rings.
posted by stavrogin at 11:46 PM on September 3, 2007

Well, what the hell. Death metal wedding, The Wicker Man.
posted by puke & cry at 11:52 PM on September 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

Football fans aren't so bright.

Hey there, on behalf of us football fans, please enjoy a complimentary helping of go fuck yourself!
posted by jonson at 12:04 AM on September 4, 2007 [4 favorites]

City of Angels. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
posted by stavrogin at 12:12 AM on September 4, 2007

This doesn't really say much about anything... it's funny, but "Football fans aren't so bright"? I'm about as anti-pro-sports as they come, but if you want to throw a scathing punch at the industry and its fans, this isn't the way to do so. This is just a bunch of people in a crowd, doing as they're told, as most people often do.
posted by tehloki at 12:36 AM on September 4, 2007

Pile on!!

Unforgivable.
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 12:44 AM on September 4, 2007

Football fans aren't so bright.

Not stupid, just gullible. If the fans were truly stupid they wouldn't have followed the directions on the cards and would have completely screwed up the message, don't you think?
posted by hafetysazard at 1:08 AM on September 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

It is disturbing that innocent fun is now punishable by suspension. Especially well-planned and well-executed innocent fun.

Yeah, seriously. But I'll bet the administrators were laughing their asses off, too--probably they're just trying to avert a destructive prank war. These guys were pretty innocent, but the retaliation might not be. (When I was in HS, some clowns from our "rival" decided to drive a car all over our brand-new football field.)
posted by equalpants at 1:12 AM on September 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Now here's a not very bright football fan.
Proper football, too.
posted by Joeforking at 2:05 AM on September 4, 2007

PostIronyIsNotaMyth writes "Pile on!!

"Unforgivable."

Now *that* rescued the thread.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 2:30 AM on September 4, 2007

My not-so-bright self only likes football because there's no wrasslin' on Sunday.

The Ultimate Warrior is out of control!
posted by billyfleetwood at 3:12 AM on September 4, 2007

Suspended for this?? Bigots on the run, was funny
posted by zouhair at 3:27 AM on September 4, 2007