Joe Fan.....Your team just won the Nat'l Champnship, what are you going to do now?"

[yyz]

Joe Fan.....Your team just won the Nat'l Champnship, what are you going to do now?"

"Well, shit! I guess I'm gonna be part of a riot, and break and burn stuff!"

When will this shit stop?

Who decided it's "cool" to rip up a city, after your team wins a championship?

I see Minnesota joined the fray.

 

[BahamaMama]

kinda sad, isn't it YYZ ? .... can you imagine what the fans from here (and i repeat FROM) would do IF the queens ever won the SuperBowl?

 

[yyz]

Yes......Thank God, that will only be something we need to wonder about!

 

[Nolan Dalla]

Great point, YYZ.

What really amazes me (WARNING -- self-serving rant to follow) is that following the completion any sporting event in the 130 years history of competitive team sports, there has NEVER been a case disgruntled gambler who stormed the court, started a riot, or did anything that caused a disturbance. NOT ONE! NEVER!

Isn't it incredible that we have hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars riding on the outcome of a sporting contest, yet in the entire history of sports none of us has ever created a public nuisance? That's amazing!

Yet, the pom pom waving amatuer-hour drunks who masquerade as fsports ans start riots, tear up cities, burn cars, and make complete asses of themselves after their team wins or losses (especially college teams). So why in the hell are we, THE GAMBLERS, the ones being targeted for being a bad influence on sports?

Well said, YYZ -- I couldn't help but jump on my soapbox and begin screaming about how much angry this hypocracy makes me.

-- Nolan Dalla

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

Re: Joe Fan.....Your team just won the Nat'l Champnship, what are you going to do now?"

Re: Joe Fan.....Your team just won the Nat'l Champnship, what are you going to do now?"

[Who decided it's "cool" to rip up a city, after your team wins a championship?

Think it was Detroit in 84. Everyone else is just copying.

I can honestly understand it at the college level as I was very stupid and selfish at that time in my life. But I don't understand when people trash their own home towns. You could not get into the city after a Bulls' championships for any of the last three championships and if you were in the city, it was a police state. The amount of money that is wasted on something like that is astronomical.

 

[BahamaMama]

Yes......Thank God, that will only be something we need to wonder about!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! un huh!!!

(side note....i still keep trying to find the bears hat you want in your size....no luck yet ......but gonna have it SENT to me, then beg for your addy again for forwarding

 

[PerpetualCzech]

Great point, YYZ.

What really amazes me (WARNING -- self-serving rant to follow) is that following the completion any sporting event in the 130 years history of competitive team sports, there has NEVER been a case disgruntled gambler who stormed the court, started a riot, or did anything that caused a disturbance. NOT ONE! NEVER!



I agree with the idea behind your post but this part is certainly not true. For starters, a Columbian defender was murdered for letting in an own goal in the 1994 World Cup and the motive behind it was gambling losses.

 

[PerpetualCzech]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/512/2216221.html

And then some morons have the gall to complain the police acted improperly. Policework has to be up there as one of the most thankless jobs on the planet.

 

[dawgball]

When the Braves won the World Series, I was in school at UGA. We got our ass kicked in by Florida in football that day, but when Atlanta's game was over the celebration began. Luckily, no violence was had that night, but downtown was absolutely nuts. Just long lines of people that stretched from sidewalk t sidewalk doing the tomahawk chop and celebrating.

I saw how our University police handled this situation,a nd it was very unprofessional. The kids that are hired as University policemen are a joke. These guys have absolutely no business carrying a gun or a ticket book.

What happened in Minnesota is a shame. A portion of the crowd ruined it for everyone, and it sounds like the cops did what they had to do. Are a few innocent people going to get treated poorly. Yes. There are mistakes that are made.

It is pathetic that a large crowd can not go out and heartily celebrate without causing trouble.