Rowdy Fans

I was at the Phillies game last night with Nate, Paul, and his dad for Paul's birthday. We got seats 20 rows up behind third base for just 40 bucks. That's one thing the Phillies have on the Yankees: cheap tickets. Plus, once a week they have this 1 dollar hot dog night. I guess that makes up for the 8 dollar cheesesteaks and the 3 dollar bottled waters.

Anyway the mets completely dominated the game, winning 8-1. The hurricane like weather, accompanied by the miserable Phillies performance led to most of the Phillies fans leaving after the 5th or 6th inning.

But there were still plenty of Mets fans there, and they were going nuts. They completely took over the stadium. And if you know anything about Philadelphia sports, the Philly fans that were still there did not take too kindly to this behavior. There were several fights and verbal altercations, leading to that famous scene where there are a thousand yellow coated security guards escorting 2 guys out of the stadium with everyone around them yelling the classic ASSHOLE chant. I love sports.

One thing I noticed about fights though is that they never EVER happen near where I'm sitting. If I'm in the top row, it's the CEOs fighting about whose wallet is fatter, if I'm down with the business men it's the fat drunks in the nose bleed section fighting about which team fuckin' sucks more. Another thing I hate is when I look over to try to see the fight, I can never actaully see it. Like last night there were about 4 different times when everyone in my section was looking to try to see the fight and all we could see was a bunch of other people standing up and a lot of yellow shirts surrounding them.

Anyway, the scene last night got me thinking about other rowdy fan situations. The first thing that comes to mind is the infamous right field bleacher creachers at Yankee stadium. Here are some examples:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TwBa3XA3Sl4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7rWh654214&mode=related&search=
(make sure you watch this whole thing; i love the guy just giving him the finger the whole song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8IttUXf_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THCv99YubHI&mode=related&search=