To further bring you the fan’s perspective, we’re going to start running the best heckle we overhear at every Long Beach State home men’s basketball game.  If the crowd gets creative, we’ll print several.  Of course, they have to be more or less family friendly…

Tonight’s game against Temple is a pretty easy choice, since the Owls’ leading scorer’s name was, seriously, Dionte Christmas.  The holiday-limited student section got pretty creative, throwing out such gems as:

“Christmas is going to come late!  Reeeeaaaaaaaal late!”

“Bah humbug!”

And my personal favorite: “Hey Christmas!  It’s not Christmas yet!  Seriously, go wait for a few days and then come back.”

Unfortunately, Christmas scored 19 points in the second half—he was clearly annoyed at the fans at one point, though, turning to look at them twice.  Keep your ears open at the next home games, and let us know if we get the “Best heckle of the game” right!