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Just throwing it out there, I will never understand what could possibly make someone decide: "A sports team I like lost a game. Better set something on fire." I'm even more baffled when people decide to do the same thing when a sports team they like wins a game.
 
Congrats to Boston.

Also, I love hockey & don't get the mob mentality of 'burn those cars, we won!'
 
The Boston crowd managed to keep things pretty restrained and civil, although there was a pretty enormous police presence. People were jeering the mayor for shutting down plans to allow people into the arena to watch/celebrate the game, but I think it was probably a strong choice.
 
At least no college students (so far) got shot with a rubber bullet and killed. And no one wearing the wrong ball cap was killed. So all in all, Boston is getting a little better.

Scott
Northeastern University Alumnus (it's in Boston not Chicago)
 
When I see fanatic sports fans doing these crazy things -- and dressing up in weird clothes and painting their faces and being obsessive about a game -- I wonder why people look down on LARPS? :wacko:
 
The day the Cubs win the World Series (which could happen now - Hell's frozen over, pigs have flown, and Duke Nukem Forever actually was released), The Great Chicago Fire, Take 2 will happen, and suicide rates in Chicago will go through the roof.
 
wowy319 said:
Just throwing it out there, I will never understand what could possibly make someone decide: "A sports team I like lost a game. Better set something on fire." I'm even more baffled when people decide to do the same thing when a sports team they like wins a game.
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you're thinking Philly, not Boston
 
I wasn't going after Boston in this case. I was commenting on sports riots in general, since Vancouver was experiencing a big one.
 
Dan Nickname Beshers said:
According to the Vancouver authorities there were "anarchists" who had come prepared with gasoline, weapons, etc.
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interesting...considering the number of pictures taken & not a single one shows a weapon.
I think it is more, 'Let's not make people think we are all sore losers.'
 
wowy319 said:
Just throwing it out there, I will never understand what could possibly make someone decide: "A sports team I like lost a game. Better set something on fire." I'm even more baffled when people decide to do the same thing when a sports team they like wins a game.
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I went to Uconn the year that the mens and womens teams both won the NCAA Championships. There were cops in full-out riot gear stationed on campus, they thought we were going to dismantle the place.

Then again, my graduating class ('05) and the years before it did flip cars and light them on fire as a stress release pre-finals during Spring Weekend.
 
Dom said:
wowy319 said:
Just throwing it out there, I will never understand what could possibly make someone decide: "A sports team I like lost a game. Better set something on fire." I'm even more baffled when people decide to do the same thing when a sports team they like wins a game.
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you're thinking Philly, not Boston
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There was a death in Boston after the 2004 ALS when the Sox beat the Yankees. A 21 year old was shot and killed by a police "pepper ball" (I was mistaken on the rubber bullet comment, I remembered it was a riot control round correctly, just not what type).

There was also in incident when the Sox lost a few years before I believe where some fans killed a man who was wearing a yankees hat.

Every country seems to have riots at times. Maybe in the U.S. our lives are so good that we have nothing else to riot over anymore, but still have a primeval need to riot. So we riot over sports.

Scott
 
Oh Lauren, you missed the best part. In the 2000 freshmen orientation, the chief of police spoke and literally said "You can flip over cop cars. You can light couches on fire, but please do not but the burning couches on the flipped over cop cars."
 
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