Can someone explain why CU requires all children any age to have their own ticket for the game? I can see needing a ticket if they are over 2 or whatever, but requiring a ticket for someone that can't sit up without help is just stupid.
Apologies to those who have kids, but if they are under the age of 8 please leave them home. Infants cry and scream and become a massive distraction. Once they are old enough to move around, my VERY unfortunate experience is that they don't give a crap about the game, get bored easily, and start running around being a nuisance. Naturally any parents who respond to this accusation will say "not MY children" to which I can only say, good for you for lying to yourself because all kids do it at one point or another. If CU wants to charge for children of any age to be there, I say more power to them. Gotta boost revenue anyhow.
The view would be fine if these damn kids weren't popping their heads into my line of sight every couple of minutes.How is the view up there on your high horse?
My 7 year old does great at games. He sits in his seat and I keep him entertained with sunflower seeds and lemonade or hot chocolate, which he loves. I pay for his tickets, too, so he has every bit as much right to be there as you do.
I guess it depends on your definition of zero tolerance. I'm extremely tolerant of the kids, I just get very annoyed by their behavior. If I had no tolerance, I'd ask to be moved to a different section if I saw a child in the section. How long are those of us without kids supposed to tolerate the hijinx of an out of control child before we're allowed to say anything? Most of the time if you mention a child's behavior to it's parent at a sporting event they get pissed. But I'm the bad guy for not wanting screaming kids going to a sporting event for free that I had to pay for...oops, my bad.Young kids cannot sit still for 3+ hours.
But I really have a problem with anyone saying they shouldn't be brought to a game. IMO, people with zero tolerance for kids are just as big of assholes as parents who tolerate bad public behavior from their kids.
The view would be fine if these damn kids weren't popping their heads into my line of sight every couple of minutes.
As stated...good for you. Glad your child is so well behaved and that he has never been a nuisance. If every child acted that way, I wouldn't have to feel the way I do. Unfortunately every time i go to a game there seems to be some child freaking out and causing a scene. If an adult was acting that way, they would be removed from the stadium regardless of how much they paid for the ticket.
I guess it depends on your definition of zero tolerance. I'm extremely tolerant of the kids, I just get very annoyed by their behavior.
But I'm the bad guy for not wanting screaming kids going to a sporting event for free that I had to pay for...oops, my bad.
The view would be fine if these damn kids weren't popping their heads into my line of sight every couple of minutes.
As stated...good for you. Glad your child is so well behaved and that he has never been a nuisance. If every child acted that way, I wouldn't have to feel the way I do. Unfortunately every time i go to a game there seems to be some child freaking out and causing a scene. If an adult was acting that way, they would be removed from the stadium regardless of how much they paid for the ticket.
I've heard the same thing that Sackman heard when I talked to Bohn about it a few years ago. IMO, it's bs, especially when the Nuggets, Broncos, & Rockies all have the under 2 exception rule. Doesn't help promote families going.. I get the argument of why even bring a baby in, or find a babysitter, but it still strikes me as a horribly unfriendly policy from CU.
Leave it to you, Rino, to not be able to recognize a joke. Typical.So nobody should stand at a game and block your view, eh? Are you special?
How do you propose parents teach their kids how to act in public without taking them out in public?
Not all kids are perfectly behaved all the time. They're kids. I never said my kid was perfectly behaved all the time because he's not - but he's pretty damn good 95%+ of the time. But he has every bit as much right to be at that game as you do. If you don't like it, I don't give a ****.
What is worse, a kid whining that they want to leave, or an obnoxious drunk spouting every obscenity in the book in close proximity to said kid? I know which one I think it is. But I'm sure you have never been that guy, right? :rolling_eyes:
People without kids who don't want to be around kids crack me up. As if you were never kids yourselves.
So you're tolerant of kids so long as they do not act like kids. Got it.
So now it's screaming kids? Up above you mentioned you hate it when kids stand up in front of you. Something tells me you don't want to be around kids at all but you can't say that because you know how bad it makes you look.
The standing kids thing was a joke. You don't understand those because you are abjectly humorless and have been for as long as you've been on this board.
Sorry all. Let me clarify.You sound like the CU fan that is always yelling at me to sit down cause they can't see. Little kids are not in your line of sight if you stand up.