" Cannot not imagine why anyone would throw away a ten dollar beer anyway."
I agree with you there! LOL
As for how it escalated, of COURSE, it escalated from what happened on the floor and the rivalry between the teams.
But that is THIS incident. Players have had racial epithets hurled at them, and as I stated the Denver fiasco that had Raiders in the stands looking for the people who threw ice balls and objects at the players.
One guy was hit in the eye and injured, I believe at a similar situation in Kansas City or Denver.
Several on this thread tend to think banning it won't happen, but after a couple of million dollar lawsuits, it will.
My reaction was more from the ESPN idiots than anything else. had to go there because local sports were all doing local football play-off games.