OT: Crazy things you witnessed at sporting events
This is for crazy things you have seen from FANS at sporting events.
Fights, flashings, sex, drunks fighting in the bathroom etc. I want to hear your entertaining stories about wild fan behavior at sporting events.
I just gave mine away right there. At at a Lions game in the mid-00s I saw a man and woman engaging in intercourse inside a parking garage on the hood of a car. In November.
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I was at a professional soccer game in 2011 in the Mexican 2nd division, during the playoffs to win promotion to the first division (now named the Liga MX). Anyway, it was a home game for León against Tijuana. León lost. When they got down 3-0 a bunch of brawls broke out in the stands. People tried to tear down/climb over the chain link fence separating the stands from the field and a handful of them were successful and made it onto the pitch. Fans were brawling with each other and with the cops. Bottles of beer were getting thrown all over the place. I saw a few León fans literally take off their team's jersey and attempt to light it on fire. Crazy, crazy experience.
Two runners up for my craziest thing I’ve seen at a sporting event:
Huge brawl in the stands of a Mexican baseball game
Aside from that story, the other two crazy ones I have are somewhat similar. I was at a city baseball championship in Guanajuato, Mexico, where I live, where the crowd got really out of control and people started whipping glass bottles at each other and brawling in the stands. That was crazy since I knew a lot of the people on the field and in the stands... luckily I was watching the game from the dugout so I was out of harm's way but a number of people were somewhat seriously hurt and a few people got arrested. Once the violence started the players and I all went out on the field to watch and to help bystanders climb onto the field to escape the violence. I saw a guy in the stands right in front of me try to attack a policeman with a beer bottle and get cracked in the head by the cop with a metal rod. My friend's cousin got nailed in the head by a guy's belt buckle and needed 12 stitches on his head.
Getting beers and coins whipped at us when the US beat Mexico in soccer
The other craziest experience was being at the USA - Mexico soccer game in Chicago for the Gold Cup final in 2007. There were maybe 5,000 Americans and 60,000 Mexicans at Soldier Field and we were in an all-Mexican section (aside from my group of 7 friends - we were all supporting the US). The US won 2-1 and as the game ended tons of Mexicans threw beer and coins at us... and a Mexican fan whipped a beer bottle at our car and then kicked a giant dent in our door later as we were leaving the stadium. Truthfully, most of the Mexican fans there were really nice to us and even as stuff was being thrown at us the Mexicans near us were apologizing and saying that we aren't all like that, but it was a crazy experience.
Also at the same game, two Mexico fans who were in front of us got in a fight with each other. They were both Mexican-Americans and while they both celebrated Mexico’s goal (one of them literally pulled shot glasses and a pint of tequila out of nowhere and they took a shot together), one of the two also celebrated the first US goal scored. The two guys started arguing, and then the guy who was rooting for both teams told the other guy, “I don’t care if you’re a US fan or a Mexico fan, but I’ve seen you in Green Bay and I know you’re a Packers fan” and then started choking the guy (briefly). True story.
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because while I read your description of your friend's nut exploding I just started loling.
Ed McMahon: "we blew & it was empty."
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It was 1996 Wings v Avs in the WCF... at McNichols Arena. Since there are a fair number of Michigan ex-pats on the Front Range, there was a good Wings fans presence in attendance during this series... Much to the chagrin of the Aveholes who suddenly jumped on the bandwagon of inheriting one of the NHL's top teams and weary of the Broncos and Saint Elway getting blown out in Super Bowls.
Anyway, we're in the nosebleeds and I run into someone I casually knew from high school -- and his mom was my first soccer coach in grade school. Small world. This is 10 years later too. We're all in the same row. My entire row is Detroit fans and the entire row behind us is Aveholes.
In 1996, Coloradans couldn't even spell "N-H-L". The Denver Post didn't cover hockey -- this was before Woody Paige sexually harassed any female which crossed his path and Terri Frei wanted to have a love child with Joe Sakic. If the DP published NHL standings and box scores, it was on the last page. AFTER the greyhound results. During those first couple of seasons, an announcer in hushed tones would come over the PA at stoppages in play to explain it to the crowd... you'd hear "offside" or "icing" after the whistle in the background over the PA. I shit you not. No wonder the first franchise moved to NJ to become the Devils. I say all this to illustrate what kind of fan base we're dealing with here. Even Sparty would go, "damn"!
So Detroit scores, my acquaintance's wife stands up to celebrate the goal, and some idiot behind her punches her in the back of the head. Now, McNichols is more narrow than The Joe. Your knees rest on the shoulders of the person in front of you... so when she gets punched, she goes flying forward a couple of rows. Her husband proceeds to beat the shit out of the clown who sucker punched his wife. As that's going down a couple of seats over, the kid behind me wants to dump his beer on my head. I grab him by the shirt and tell him not to even think about it.
5 rows further up, there's a seedy looking row of all Detroit fans. They must have blew up their trailer making meth in rural Livingston County or something and made their way west to avoid prosecution -- they'd be safe as the Californication of Colorado was still in it's infancy then and people here minded their own business.
I make eye contact with one of them while holding on to the little bastard who wanted to give me a shower. The guy I make eye contact with says to me just holler if we need any help. As I begin to say no, I got this, they start heading down. When they start heading down, other Aveholes from other rows get up to join the fray.
Next thing I know, the entire fucking section is brawling. It was like the last scene in Slapshot when the Hansons go into the stands to confront the fan who threw something at them. Security comes over and throws the entire fucking section out.
I cut my losses and left. Detroit lost the game too so it didn't matter. I had a security clearance at the time and was younger and more impressionable so I was afraid of getting into trouble. I despise Colorado sports fans to this day. At worked I took great pleasure in reminding the Aveholes that Detroit just made the playoffs for the 24th straight season while the Avs were eliminated. AGAIN. Ha!
My Dad and I went to a Lansing Lugnuts game during their first season or two in the late 90's, and between innings they had a high powered 'Hotdog Cannon'. One came right towards us so my Dad stuck his hand out but it was shot at such a high velocity that it slammed off his hand and nearly broke his thumb. I watched the Hotdog as it flew spiralling backwards about 5 rows and slammed directly into a little 5 year old kids face. I felt bad at the time, but I can't help but laugh now.
And your dad did nothing?
He was the piss drunk Lions fan.
Kidding, he had some colorful language to offer and got the guy tossed.
Bartman.
Fucking Bartman. Honest to shitness one of the worst nights of my life.
I will call your Bartman and raise you a Leon Durham.
I was at both.
Infinite pain~
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And I think you're gonna finally understand"
"In America"
- Charlie Daniels
April 18th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
Unless there were also chicks with dicks, it's not a real brawl.
April 18th, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
Maybe it WAS Golddust?
I've been lucky - I've never witnessed a serious fight at a game, never saw a streaker, etc.
The word you're looking for is unlucky.
Ed McMahon: Chicks vs chicks... Dudes vs chicks haha.. Dudes vs dudes.. Etc ... Complete mess.... Best Part #1) They all came together
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Was at the Lions game 3-4 years ago, and saw this drunk dude in a wheelchair getting the piss kicked out of him by a dozen cops.
I was at that game too with my future wife.
We were sitting on the endzone at the SIlverdome. Some guy was just ridiculing the poor cheerleaders. It went on and on. My dad asked him to stop, but the guy was an unrelenting ass. Finally my father picked the guy up two feet off the ground and set him straight. My dad is a strong guy. Was was offered to play MLB by Bo. After that the guy shut the hell up.
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April 18th, 2015 at 11:29 AM ^
I like how the commentators don't even bother with the "This is bad for the children" spiel that they do in other sports - these guys are fired up to see some fightin'!
During U-M football games back in the mid 90s, the ABC camera guy was right on the field on a small platform that rode back and forth on a track. If you had lower seats in the student section, the guy was always in the way whenever anyone got near the endzone. Students constantly threw stuff at him. One guy a couple rows in front of me throws a full-sized pop that hits the camera guy square in the back of the head. The camera guy goes completely apeshit and tries to climb down from the platform and come after him, but doesn't realize there's a huge wall from the field to the stands, so he just kind of stood there and yelled a lot. ABC remedied this situation by putting a big plexiglass shield on the back of the camera platform, but someone still managed to hit the guy by throwing their pop with a huge arc. That camera guy just hated life.
The other crazy story is when the Zamboni broke down on the ice at Yost and had to be towed by the other Zamboni, except the guy that hooked the chains up didn't actually connect the Zambonis together (he passed the chain around nothing, basically) so the tow truck Zamboni just drove off without towing anything. The whole area erupted in laughter.
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Senior year of high school a friend (I'll call him Brad for this story) and I were cheer leaders at the powder puff football game. Brad's a little person, about 3' 11". The cheerleading squads were throwing water balloons at each other, and we were running out of ballons. One of the cheerleaders on our squad was talking to a friend about buying more balloons. Brad thinks they are in some kind of confrontation and hits the friend square in the back of the head with a water ballon. The friend is about 6' 3" 240, becomes instantly enraged and starts chasing Brad with an earnestness and expression that had me fearing for Brad's life. Not wanting to engage the big dude directly, I began running interference, zig zagging between Brad and his pursuer. The next thing I noticed was the crowd just laughing uproariously. It took me a minute to realize how humorous the spectacle must have looked: a giant chasing a little person in drag with another guy in drag running interference.
Since you brought up the Generals in the 70's, it reminded me of one of the best things I ever saw at a sporting event.
A game in '70 or '71, against the Muskegon Mohawks (I think). Fan favorite Bob Perrani in goal for the Generals. Muskegon goes for a line change, and the Mohawk with the puck just casually flips it from his own end toward the Flint goal. The puck literally trickles directly toward Perrani, who puts his stick down ... and just whiffs on it. Right through the five hole for the easiest and most inexplicable goal you've ever seen.
Muskegon goes nuts, the fans are stunned, and Perrani is standing there like a 5th grader who just wet his pants at the school assembly. He could not pick his head up, even as his teammates skated up to pat him on the back. And then slowly, the fans got to their feet and gave him a standing ovation. There was nothing smart-ass or sarcastic about it - it was real, and it last for the better part of a minute.
I didn't get it. Something bad just happened - why were people cheering? My stepdad explained it to confused 11-year-old: these kinds of things can happen to anybody, even to the best players. The fans are cheering to let Bob know they're still behind him.
It was a good lesson for a kid to learn.