Posted on 09/19/2023 8:35:00 AM PDT by dennisw
That's a profound statement right there.
Guy didn’t die, but did get the joy of having this happen next to me last night at the MNF game in Pittsburgh...
Looking at the game, turn back around and groups are shouting at each other and scrumming and there is a guy out cold at my feet.....
So much fun. (eye roll)
Thanks for your great personal accounts of the action at Foxborough and Fenway. I was in the infamous Fenway bleachers a few times for day games (5PM start I think it was), but unfortunately no fights broke out. No loud drunks carrying on.
Virtue signal harder please.
“He basically grabbed another fan,” Kilmartin told WCVB. “They started tussling around for a few minutes. At one point, another fan walked over. He punched him … and the man just went out. It was pretty hard to watch.”
My guess is the fat bully started it and had a heart attack from the excitement and died.
All we’re doing is fighting each other. Save it for the bad guys. Their day just might come.
Where were you relative to where Watt scored that TD?
Item (2) changed things for the New York Giants football team dramatically. They had an ugly incident at the infamous “Snowball Game” back in the 1990s. NYG fans had long been the most laid-back of all NFL fans — mainly because they were older fans who had been attending games at Yankee Stadium and then the New Jersey Meadowlands for decades.
That particular game against the San Diego Chargers was a rare example of a scenario where NYG fans at Giants Stadium would get out of hand: it was a late-season game in cold weather, the team had already been eliminated from the playoffs, and the opponent was a west coast AFC team that didn’t have a rivalry with the Giants. As a result, many of the season ticket holders gave their tickets way for that game … and the stands were filled with younger knuckleheads who didn’t have anything to lose except to get thrown out of the stadium.
After that incident, the Giants and the stadium management adopted a new policy. Fans would lose their season tickets not only for their own unruly behavior, but in cases where they gave their tickets away to someone who ended up getting removed from the stadium. This was a big deal because the waiting list for NYG season tickets was decades long, and if you lost your season tickets you could only hope that your grandchildren could eventually get them back.
After that policy was put in place, one major change was obvious. For late-season games in seasons where the team did poorly, many regular season ticket holders would stay home — but they stopped giving their tickets away. So instead of having a December game with 25,000 regular fans and 50,000 newcomers using someone else’s tickets, you’d have just the 25,000 regulars there. The team’s lowest attendance figures in decades were seen for these games.
We were hanging out down on the Jumbotron area, left after the fight... which was early in 3rd quarter...
Watching Chubbs season and possibly career end on the Jumbotron replay was gross as all hell.
I do hope he fully recovers, but I don’t see how he didn’t tear multiple ligaments in his leg.. that was just nasty
Bill Lee described it in great detail in his book, “Spaceman.” As he was getting carted off the field after injuring himself, a fan fired a beer bottle out onto the field from behind the third base dugout. It hit him square in the chest. After his initial shock, he said he wanted to find the guy in the stands so he could shake his hand. He said he couldn’t believe how hard and accurately the guy threw that beer bottle over that distance. Lee even said that with an arm like that, the Red Sox should consider signing the guy as a relief pitcher. LOL.
“I just don’t understand sports fans. They describe themselves as “we” and “they” as if they were somehow actually a part of the team they are rooting for.”
I’m with you on this and include college football in this as well.
It’s kind of weird As fans we actually have no control over what happens
I have never witnessed any violence at Fenway, but I never went to a Yankees game there. My daughter (I think) had a visitor from out of town, Minnesota maybe, who in an off handed way, said “let’s go to the Red Sox - Yankees game tonight”. Those games are sold out 30 minutes after tickets go on sale in March. Fans and scalpers.
Are you familiar with the term solipsism? If it were not for me, the Boston Red Sox would never have existed.
Sports geeks, their whole world is watching people run around chasing a ball.
Per this...
...LE knows who did it and are waiting on autopsy results.
At the end of every season the fans of 31 out of 32 NFL teams spend at least a bit of January and February, perhaps months, somehere between pi$$ed off and clinically depressed. About something which has no direct effect on their lives and over which they have no influence or control.
Why would anyone go to an arena sponsored by the man hating Gillette company?
Anyone seen the latest Gillette shaver for men’s genital area? Talks about “your junk”. Has all the low class of the ladies shaver with dancing pube hairs loving their pube hairs.
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