The player, who did not give his name, attended the Ducks’ home game against UCLA on Saturday, and he expressed his displeasure with his fellow spectators in a letter to The Oregonian.
Excerpts from the strongly worded letter, entitled “I Love the Ducks. I Hate Duck Fans,” can be seen below (click here to read it in its entirety).
“My friend and I took our seats where I soon became acquainted with the most ignorant people in all of college football. Directly behind me were a couple of drunk [expletive] who criticized Marcus [Mariota’s] ability to throw the football, DeAnthony [Thomas]’s ability to run the football, the lineman’s ability block, and the coach’s ability to analyze film and call plays. After hearing so much ignorant [expletive], I turned around to tell the “fans” to chill the [expletive] out. Marcus had overthrown a receiver on a tough play and the spectator made comment, “Hey, Marcus! Throw it inbounds, dumbass!” in, which I finally had enough, and turned around and asked if he would like to get down there and take Marcus’ place. The man responded, “No”. Then I asked if we were all still rooting for Oregon, in which he responded in an aggressive, irrelevant and incoherent manner and so I decided to discontinue the conversation I had started with him.”
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“Not too long after, a woman a couple seats down yelled for 10 minutes straight about how the players were playing like “[expletive].” The coaches were being “[expletive].” The refs were being “[expletive].” All during the time I was telling my friend how embarrassing it was to have her on our side. And then I started hearing laughter from the surrounding crowd and encouragement of that behavior. Is this really what goes on in the stands? Is this really the type of people we attract???”
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“I am disgusted by duck fans and I will sit back and observe from afar with high hopes for the player’s success and understanding of their sacrifice, without having to hear the spoiled woes of ignorant fans.
I will always love the ducks: my coaches, my teammates, my brothers and family. The rest… Go [expletive] yourselves.”
The No. 2-ranked Ducks routed the Bruins 42-14 to improve to 8-0 on the season.
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