Rowdy Fans Riot After College Football Games

Fox News ^ | Sunday, November 24, 2002 | AP

[Sparta]

COLUMBUS, Ohio

[Macklew]

Seven reasons are listed for the "Fall of Rome" - I can't think of all of them (high taxes was one), but one of them was violence in sports. NEXT?

[Hamilton2]

One was the acceptance of homosexuality.....

[Atchafalaya]

I agree, the first indication of said is a failure to spel gud. Mea culpa, mea culpa , I couldn't help myself.

[dennisw]

What a funny photo!!!

[WarEagle]

Lighten up, everybody! It is a tradition to tear down the goal posts after a big win. Also to decorate the trees with toilet paper, soap windows in school colors, and get drunk. This has been going as long as there have been intercollegiate sports. It is not a sign we are becoming the 3rd world. If people were killed in full-fledged riots after a football game we would have room for concern. Until then, please don't try to take the fun out of it. Have an adult beverage and chill.

[dennisw]

Foucault is gay and think Derrida too. See a pattern?

[LowOiL]

I was at Auburn after a big game. Toomer's Corner to be exact. The crowd started to get out of control by tearing a convertable top off an opposition car and dumping beer and paper in it. The occupants were pretty terrified and I saw the fear in their eyes. It sickened me. So, I must respectfully disagree with your analogy above. Alcohol, Youth, Excitement and Crowds is sometimes a force that needs greater force to control it. In Washington they had several females molested in front of everyone and noone did a thing to stop it. I think greater force was needed, I would not want my daughter's body disgraced that way, those kinds of crowds need to be dispersed (and the way to do it does not involve please pretty please).

BTW.. 17-7 War Eagle... I hooted out my back door after the game. It felt good.

[logic101.net]

I dispise your reaction to this post. I dispise the idiots who think "we won; let's burn down the town", or "we lost, let's burn down the town".

I think we need a fedral law passed stating that when a riot occurs it is perfectly legal to shoot and kill those who participate! We can call it the "Darwin Law". Those that are too stupid to accept the result of a game, a trial, or a law passage and feel the need to burn down a town get killed. Perfect Darwinsim! Actually, it's perfect Behavior Conditioning. Once law abiding citizens are allowed to defend their homes and businesses against rioters and looters there won't be any more riots. These types might be morons, but they aren't THAT stupid!


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[xm177e2]

So you think vandalism and arson are OK as long as their related to post game celebrations?

Yes, that's exactly what I said. An exact quote. </sarcasm>

What What I said was just that your analogy is faulty. Rape and vandalism are not moral equivalents. Try again.

[all_mighty_dollar]

Perhaps make the goalposts out of something disposable. I don't know. But sending out more and more police isn't going to do anything except incite more violence.

Banks could just set out their tellers and money on folding tables in the parking lot. After all--people are going to rob banks, right?

NOT if the government printed the money on worthless paper!.......Oh wait....they're already doing that!

[ccmay]

Great pic! May I suggest the anti-globalism Bolsheviks be the next to get a face full of capsaicin, next time they go off the rails? Fire hoses, police dogs, and a few cracked skulls are fine with me also.

-ccm

[tomkat]

The hotdogs of today's NFL wouldn't last 5 minutes on a Lombardi team.

i suspect that's true - 'hotdogs' are the trash meat of the game, just like in your grocery aisle.

Kramer wrote another book (in the 60s/70s ?) about one of the Packers' seasons that i read as a kid.
'Instant Replay' ?

great read from the perspective of one of the non-glamour boys ...

[ncpastor]

You can sell clumps of grass on the internet?

You could probably sell air bubbles on the internet.

[Caipirabob]

They need to start permitting Militia to organize and counter these animals. The wanton destruction of personal property is reprehensible. It should be met with excessive force.

[ncpastor]

OSU administrators should set a policy that the team forfeits a win EVERY time this happens. And I can tell you Tressel is not a happy man about this - he has too much character, methinks.

[Chemist_Geek]

Funny what replacing a few words will do, huh?

The Right of the People to riot and destroy others' property, shall not be Infringed?

[NautiNurse]

The more of the 'state' you put into a situation like this, the more injuries you are going to have by people being beaten into the ground by police.

Then suspend the sport until folks like you get the message.

[Hatteras]

"Time to put electric, barbed wire fences around the fields, I'd say!"

I'm in favor of an invisible fence and require all students to wear shock collars.

[Hatteras]

"I think they've only met once or twice since then..."

You mean like the '91 Peach Bowl, ECU 37 - State 34? :-)

[Stand Watch Listen]

Some great coach somewhere once said when you score a touchdown, act like you've been there before.

Paul Brown