Cheering and booing will always be the purest reactions spectators can have. When somebody delights a crowd, we cheer. When somebody angers a crowd, we boo. Simple. Booing, which dates back to the sixth century, when Greek playwrights were booed, gained steam in Rome's heyday, when gladiators were cheered and jeered for their efforts. But it didn't really round into modern form until professional baseball, college football and boxing took off, in the late 1800s

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070926

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Fire Phil Emery

He does take some really good shots at J.D. Drew in that article.

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If thats wrong, and Im assuming you know what you are talking about, what are the origins of it?

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I don't know the origins, but not too many Greeks were watching plays during the Dark Ages.

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He forgot the B.C. Aeschylus lived in the 6th century B.C.

Aeschylus wrote in the 5th Century B.C. Sophocles and Euripides wrote after him. I know he forgot the B.C., but it's a mistake that someone trying to be pompous about the long origins of booing should be aware of.

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I'm curious though why when they hated a playwright, did "Boo" come out of the mouth. Why that noise, why not "Ahhhhh!" or "Zoink!" or Eeehhh!" or something like that????? Does "Boooooo" just roll off the tongue or something?

The Greeks were saying Boo-Urns.

Get it?

That is so bad it hurts. Have you had that one in the back pocket for years waiting for the proper time to spring?

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