I was born and raised a Packers NFL fan. Everyone in my family were die hards. When my father passed, we asked people to wear Packers apparel if they had it. There were some local Vikings fans that bought Packers shirts for the occasion. One guy wore a vikings shirt underneath to stay true. That’s what sports rivalries should be all about. It’s just a game but it builds relationships through competition. We may cheer for different teams, but at the end of the day, we come together for what’s important. If someone boo’d the Packers at my dad’s funeral, I would have laughed as I think most of my family and friends would have too.
I was at a friend’s father’s funeral and someone had to stop the celebrant and let him know he was eulogising the wrong person.
If your death doesn’t polarize people, did you really live?
I aspire to have my funeral wind up like the church scene in the first Kingsman movie.
Ugh, it was his final wish; here goes! Proceeds to double tap the priest first, because they’ve been using magic to convert bread and wine into flesh and blood for decades. Don’t want to turn my back to them during a fight.
Priest instantly turns into a bottle of Rosé and some ciabatta
It is soon discovered that 90% of the Church hierarchy is artificially-created bread-and-wine homunculi.
I will never understand these sports people…
(Sits back to watch the Manjaro mutiny and the Systemd age verification drama)
In my experience, a situation like this would probably be in jest by someone the deceased knew and had a friendly disagreement about sports teams with.
Usually, when family or loved ones disagree about the team they support, it just leads to gentle ribbing. It’s all in good fun.
Im a fan of the local teams rival. Thats where I grew up, and my son is a fan of the rival too. This is birthright right.
Sports are supposed to be how we compete physically without war. Iroquois lacrosse comes to mind.
If someone booed at my funeral, they were a friend that knew I loved the game like they do.
Yeah, I’m not a huge sportsball fan but if someone did that at my funeral, I sure as hell wouldn’t haunt them from the grave over it
I have a good friend who has the same birthday as another friend. They are both huge baseball fans but one is a Giants fan and one Dodgers. For non baseball fans, those teams are usually intra-league rivals. So each year for their birthdays they get each other a piece of the other team’s memorabilia. And each year they quietly swap it with each other into their own collections a few weeks later, because the Dodgers fan doesn’t really want Giants merch and vice versa. So like at whomever’s funeral I can maybe expect a boo toward the Dodgers or Giants from this long friendship. It would feel right.
Is it me, or is that heart-warming in a weird way?
Very. I expect Emacs heckling from Vi enthusiasts at my funeral.
“Yeah I hate the dead guy’s favorite football team, but I showed up because I respected the hell of it him”
Kind of a deeper honor.
heartwarming.
it acknowledges the whole “he is still with us” in a active way.
i hope my funeral is just a bunch of cunts roasting my corpse and having a great time about it.
roasting my corpse
I mean, you could just get it catered
it’s like when the sick kid dies and the only kid who razzed him at school gets invited to the funeral because he’s the only one who made him feel like he was having a normal childhood. part of the human experience is gentle heckling.
i think booing someone’s favorite sports team at their funeral honors your relationship to them if that was part of it.
