Rowdy Fans Riot After College Football Games

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

[Sparta]

COLUMBUS, Ohio

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Rowdy Fans Riot After College Football Games

They spelled your name wrong, but we know whose fans they were referring to. You go, boy!

[Dutchgirl]

but heck it was Florida State!!

We understand, the novelty of winning and all. No hard feelings from the 'Noles. Frankly, an occasional loss keeps us humble and is acceptable from anyone but the GATORS!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Then you've apparently never had to endure the traffic after a game, or wait tables in a restaurant near a speedway after a game.

Which McDonald's do you work at? Could you have been one who cleaned our tables before we sat down? What a small world!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Gee, what's wrong with a little fun? /sarcasm

[xrp]

The riot police should have opened up with fully automatic weapons fire to quell the rioting, destructive fans.

[Per-Ling]

This is what you get when you mix beer with fans of teams who aren't used to winning.

Some great coach somewhere once said when you score a touchdown, act like you've been there before. Thanks, OSU, for putting us on par with Euro Futbol Rowdies!

[Sparta]

Exactly!!! But the Athiests, Communists, and Liberals Union (ACLU) would not like that. Wait: even better reason to use live ammo.

[TonyS6]

I was at the game. It just wasn't the undergraduate students, but a mix of alcohol-laden alums and some people who never attended college. Really a major embarrasment for a major university.

What to do? Clearly, the vast majority of people on the field (and at the parties afterwards) were drunk. Do we give everyone a breath test before admission? Do we prohibit gatherings after football games? Or is it up to the people in question to learn to control their behavior? In our "blame others" society, people refuse to accept responsibility for their behavior; hence, laws are adopted to reduce to everyone's freedoms. Likely, OSU and the City of Columbus will ban public gatherings after the games (where alcohol is served) and invoke a police state after the games (with $10,000 fines).

It is important to realize that the few are willing to impose major costs on the rest of us. They are too stupid to recognize that liberty requires hard work and self-restraint. Otherwise ...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL! : )

[For the Unborn]

What else could one expect of OSU fans?

[ewing]

A Cal football fan climbs the goal post support as fans take away the goal post after California defeated Stanford 30-7.

[RightOnline]

I'll never, as long as I live, understand this "I'M SO GODD**NED HAPPY MY TEAM WON, I'M GOING TO DESTROY AND BURN AND BREAK AND ATTACK AND LOOT AND PILLAGE JUST TO CELEBRATE!!!!!!" mentality.

NBA Championships.......college football games........no matter, you see it more and more every year.

We've become a nation of savages.

[ewing]

Trash litters the streets surrounding Ohio State University as city workers replace light posts destroyed by fans celebrating Ohio States victory over Michigan Saturday.

[Sparta]

Some live 5.56 NATO or .308 rounds should deal with that mentality just fine. Or look at it this way, we can use this mentality and train the rioters to fight the Islamofascists.

[ewing]

Hawaii's coach Mike Cavanaugh right, holds back an unidentified University of Hawaii player during a brawl between Hawaii's and Cinncinati's players at the end of the game at Aloha Stadium.

Players from both teams scuffled and police were called to restore order after a prolonged melee.

[TopQuark]

Good point, now that I understand it better. Thanks for the clarification.

[NautiNurse]

Wasn't NCSU banned from playing in their own stadium several years ago for similar behavior? Was it an EZU game?

[rockfish59]

Ahhh, the lads are just feeling their 'beer muscles'

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

[BenR2]

The United States (thanks mostly to Blue Nation America -- Blue Nation has Turned America into "Junkie Girl") is becoming something like a third world nation. But in fact we are going to be much more horrible because we will have become such a thing by choice, when we had many other options.

And, unlike most third world countries where there is some kind of history and tradition of order (of some kind), the savages who will inhabit the US in a generation or two will be people who actively think tradition and order of all kinds are just all forms of political and personal oppression.

Ping your post above.