This reminds me of my experience at the KU football game this past season. Had a couple of douchey, drunk KU frat dudes in front of us that were throwing the Horns down after every KU score (which was more than a few). Now normally, a simple fun loving Horns down doesn’t bother me. But these guys were turning around making eye contact with me and everyone else with the smuggest of looks on their face. Well, after a few scores me and another guy finally confronted them. They weren’t so cool then. Their girlfriends were horrified and they all ended up moving somewhere else. But I was shocked at how many Horns fans around us were goofing it up with these guys and even telling us to calm down. These dudes weren’t having fun…they were drunk, straight up taunting, and acting like assholes. 99% of the time I let milder forms of this go with no sweat, but this was different. Still disappointed in some of those lames sitting around us.
I don’t see what Beard did as thin-skinned or wrong at all. He simply picked one moment to challenge the guy in a non-threatening manner. I thought it was pretty awesome.