OT: Crazy things you witnessed at sporting events

i guess this qualifies.  outside tiger stadium after the game, and many hours before the riots start, it is deliriously happy bedlam at the corner of michigan and trumball.  everybody and their brother is high-fiving the world, singing, joy, so cool.  well the padres bus needs to leave and they are slowly inching out of the grounds of the stadium and people are rocking the bus - not too bad, but you can see this might not turn out well.

so along comes the detroit police mounted division and form a V in front of the bus.  they start to walk in unison on that wonderful cobblestone corner with the clip-clop of horseshoes going like a metronome and the bus is still gently rocking as it moves forward.  and on top of the bus while it rocks, going with an EUTM, a dude is break-dancing as the scene unfolds below.  

Barry's 2,000 yard game against the Jets in 1997. By far the loudest, most insane game I have ever been too. We sat in the third row of the end zone. In the 4th quarter, the Jets had the ball and their QB Neil O'Donnell kept stopping play because his offense couldn't hear his signals. It got so bad, that the refs issued a warning to the fans. Yeah, right- try telling 80,000 drunk people to shut up. It just got louder- it went on for several minutes. I remember trying to say something to my friend next to me as loud as I could and he couldn't hear me at all.  Also, sadly, this was the Reggie Brown game as well. When he was on the ground, Herman Moore and another player (can't remember who) sprinted toward the locker room to grab an IV drip and something else (I couldn't see) for him. Of all of the sporting events I've been to, this one I remember the most.

I also remember the 5-0 Michigan-Purdue game in 1995. Stayed for the whole thing and moved to the 50 yard line from the student section at halftime. I swear I still can't feel half of my face. I've missed 5 Michigan home games since 1991 and I can safely say this was the coldest I've ever been. Mostly because I was a stupid, under-prepared student at the time.

Lastly, the Osgood/Roy fight. I had an interview that morning for the company I still work for today. Pretty good day for me, all-in-all.

I was at Tiger Stadium when Morgana the Kissing Bandit ran on the field and kissed Lance Parrish.  I don't remember who won, besides me.

A fight in one of the stairwells at Soldier Field this year. You always hear it before you see it. We heard a fracas and looked over at the other stairwell, which was concrete, and we see a guy push another guy headfirst down the stairs, which were packed. The second guy goes plunging down, too. It was such a long expanse of stairs, I couldn't see the bottom, so I don't know how injured they were but I would bet the first guy spent some time in a hospital. 

"Friend" of mine was super drunk. Sometime durring the first quarter he decided he needed to take a piss, so he decided to piss all over the bench in front of him and incidentally the legs of the people standing in front of us. Student section. 

Reverse cowgirl

Someone brought in a slip and slide and there was this fat guy wearing shorts, a team USA swim cap and goggles. As he made his approach everyone was chanting "USA, USA..." It was random and funny.

I love the Derby

NASCAR event I've ever gone to at MIS some dude that lives down the street from the racetrack was lighting off pipe bombs in his yard to entertain the traffic stuck waiting line to get into the race. Like legit, ½" cast iron pipe bombs with black powder and cannon fuse (he showed us). He got off 2 or 3 and was swiftly arrested.

My thanks to the OP.

My wife and I were at the Big House on a very hot day many years ago.  A couple rows ahead of us a woman was completely wasted, about to pass out.  My wife had a tupperware container with ice in it (back when you could do that) & passed it down, thinking the ice would comfort her.  You guessed it, she immediately threw up in it.  The coupple then left (we did not ask for the tupperware back).  Our good deed for the day.

Probably ten years ago a lady in front of us at Michigan Stadium puked all over the back of the lady in front of her. She was a lil hammered. Her husband took her out at halftime.

I was once at Yankee stadium and saw a fan fall off the upper deck onto the screen behind home plate. The guy was drunk and thought it was awesome. Just delayed the game for like 20 minutes and got him arrested.

I was playing in the Michigan State hockey tournament. We dressed one goalie for the game because our backup goalie was out with mono. For some unknown reason, a brawl just breaks out in the other team's zone. I'm actually sitting on the bench getting a cut above my eye fixed up, but our goalie decided to skate the length of the ice and join the fight. Needless to say, a significant chunk of players were ejected. We went from 12 forwards, 6 defenseman and a goalie, down to 5 forwards (including myself), and 3 defenseman for the rest of the game. Since I was the only player who had ever even put goalie pads on, they put me in the net. It was tied 2-2 at the start of the third at that point. We ended up winning 3-2. I retired from goalie with the best saves % and GAA of all time. It was just crazy to see our team lose 11 players that quickly. Crazy to see the refs just watching. Crazy to see the parents cheering. And crazy to hear my coach screaming.... "Somebody hit somebody!!!!!"

Attended several Piston playoff games in their last playoff run. One particular game I went with my father and some friends and it was a series clinching game the Pistons won so it was wild. I believe it was also a Friday or Saturday night so it was booze a plenty. Saw a fight between a young man and woman. I was only 18 so stone cold sober. I saw this guy just punching this girl in the face. 1. 2. 3. Just slugging the hell out of her. I was like dad look! We gotta do something. So I run over my dad behind me. It was then her her rope-a-dope tactic was realized. She took those punches like a man and then went on the offensive. Kneed him in the groin 3 times. Then started to beat the piss out of the guy. I'm standing there like huh, she's got this. My dad comes over, and I'll never forget, he goes, "well shit." and then yells "BUST HIM UP!!" And we proceeded to watch him run into his car in the passenger side. Just so happened the window was down and she chases him down and continues slugging him through the down window. I have no idea what caused it, or why they were fighting, but it was one of the better no - professional fights I've ever seen in person.

Michigan clinched a share of the 1982 B1G Championship at home vs Purdue and immediately after the clock ran out a guy in a gorilla suit came running out of the student section onto the field, climbed the up onto the cross bar of the goalpost at the north end and proceeded to be absolutely pelted with hundreds of rolls of soggy toilet paper rolls. He survived the initial onslaught. The second wave knocked him down to the point where he was just hanging from the cross bar. The third wave finally did the trick and knocked him to the ground.

Probably about 10 years ago Michigan was hosting the NCAA hockey regional at Yost and Michigan was playing St Cloud State (I think they were the #1 seed). Before the game Michigan was doing their pre-game skate and the SCSU mascot was out skating around too. As Michigan was leaving the ice the mascot came over and jabbed a M player with his stick. This resulted in a small brawl between the mascot and some players. The mascot was ejected from the building to a chorus of loud cheers and Michigan went on to win an awesome hockey game.

One of the combatants was about 6' 5", 350 pounds. It took five security guards to escort him out of the stadium. He was struggling so much, he lost both his shoes. After he was gone and the concourse cleared, you could see his two gigantic high tops left as a reminder of the event. About five minutes later, the girlfriends got in a fight and it started all over again.

was at a CKA game at their new Ice Palace. opponent was metallurg Novokuznetsk, and their goalie was Tarasov. First goal, and the "Tarasov-Pederast" chant starts. Second period, it was every time he played the puck. By the third, it was continuous. 10,000 drunk men, women, children and pensioners calling the opposing goalie a sodomite for half an hour straight. I think CKA even lost the game, but needless to say, it left an impression. Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality!

at Comerica Park by the wheelchair ramp.  Turned my back to the plate (a big no-no) to help my son with something.  A foul ball whizzed past my head just brushing my cap.  Hits the lady next to me square in the left temple.  I was looking in her direction when it happened.  Saw the ball actually strike her.  She went down in a heap, out cold.  Thought she was dead.  

Paramedics standing next to her (crazy lucky) saw the whole thing.  They are right on top of her and take her limp body out on the backboard they had with them.  They break out the paddles on the way up the ramp.  I'm stunned, my son (10 at the time), is in total shock.  We are now both sure she's dead.  Three inninngs later, the paramedics come back to tell me I'm a lucky SOB the ball missed me -- and the woman came back in the ambulance!  Whaaa?!

Was at the Miss State Gator Bowl sitting way at the top. This guy is getting very upset about the outcome of the game and is getting into it (verbally) with every Miss State fan. His wife looks super embarrassed the whole time. We end up moving down (stayed the whole game, yep) to get away.

The funniest part is this guy and his wife sit directly behind us at UTL I. Small world sometimes.

Redskins-Bears, halftime in one of the decrepti old men's rooms in the bowels of the stadium. I was next in line at a urinal when there is a commotion behind me. It's two middle aged women with a lot of miles on the odometer, drunk as monkeys saying they need to pee. I assume they are going to go to the stalls, but one pushes to the front of the line, pulls down her jeans, and pops a squat on the urinal to pee. Sat on that nasty thing facing the crowd of drunken men , does her business, pulls up her pants and goes over to wash her hands. Will never forget that moment as it happened right in front of me.

Nothing super crazy, but I saw a friend get hit in the head with a shoe at Michigan Stadium. My though was expressed years later by Austin Powers-"Who throws a shoe? Honestly!"

in vegas.  the fight where the guy tried to fly into the ring during the fight and got the snot beat out of him in the process.  i had been given tickets and was in attendance - the single best fight i have ever seen, in person or on TV.   had forgotten about that one which happend in november of '93. 

Craziest thing I've seen....this one time, at a football game, the fans in the stands would repeatedly pull out their car keys and wave them frantically in the air in an attempt to pump up the home team and intimidate the visitors. Crazy, crazy.

Second craziest thing I've seen was a guy parachute into Shea Stadium during the '86 World Series. Come to find out the next day the guy was my friends dad. My first experience ever witnessing "paparrazi" as newspaper reporters were swarming outside our classroom trying to talk to my buddy. 

 

The two most mind-boggling things I've ever seen both happened at Cleveland Browns Stadium; shocking, I know.

1) I walked in the bathroom to a Steelers fan passed out cold. Someone had found him and drug him near the urinals. People were actually urinating on him and no one, NOT ONE PERSON, said a word
2) I witnessed a Ravens fan getting in a fight with a few Dawg Pound members and a fan in the deck above threw a goddamn portable TV over the railing to try to hit them. It missed and shattered in a billion pieces but, my God.

I thought MJ died of a propofol OD; you're telling me he threw himself off of the roof of hockeytown? This is all one massive cover-up.

There are some great stories here . . . but reading them reminds me why it's probably good that Michigan Stadium remain a dry venue.  Some of these people, man.

 

 

At a St. Louis Rams game, a dude had a flask disguised as a set of binoculars. Throughout the game he would take a hit, pretend to look through them, then turn and wink at me and say "gotta throw them off the scent." Not necessarily the craziest thing I've seen, but one of the funnier.

I once saw a man eat his own head. Now I have seen everything.