Societal degradation. Like South American soccer stadiums. I stopped taking my son to Cardinals (NFL) games. Trying to leave the stadium sometimes seemed like Thunderdome - with all the beer muscle fights over who gets to turn right to leave the stadium.
They were empty water bottles for crying out loud and 1 golf ball and 1 mustard "dispenser".
Simply zooming in on the photos or thinking about the physics of it would tell you that the water bottles weren’t all empty.
I can tell ya first hand who the unlucky fan is as That’s EXACTLY what happened to me a few years back front and center on syracuse.com with a front page article on rowdy troublemaker tailgaters!
Wow , another great post.
How bout they just announce that this is unacceptable behavior before getting congress involved.
Great Idea, I’m sure the P A system wasn’t telling fans to stop throwing things , and as we all know angry drunken fans are always very responsive to requests from the PA !!
Before the next game. People who are caught throwing things will be banned from attending games. I'm sure the administration at Ut is embarrassed and will stop that.
knoxville is one of the strangest towns on the planet
I think discouraging the culture of people drinking alcohol from the time they wake up on Gameday would probably do more. Maybe, don’t let people that are completely bombed in the doors in the first place.
That’s what should happen, the point being this is deplorable, your earlier post you implied this is no big deal. It is, by the way getting hit by objects from high n the stands is dangerous, be it golf balls , full water bottles , beer, your trailer keys ….whatever.
Ive been to hundreds of games . Saw a few Oranges thrown over the years , none recently, there was the backboard incident with Ewing shooting free throws. JT pulled his team from floor and JB told fans to quit it. Never heard of “frozen” oranges. They would hurt somebody .
People would throw snowballs, more like iceballs, at Archibald.
Again I was at Archbald games throughout the 70s. Don’t remember many games when there was snow, a few. Never saw snowballs hurled in large numbers. You will never completely stop every single moron. We are talking about mass hurling sessions like yesterday.
They tried to take mine Friday, but I said, "those aren't golf balls, buddy!"
Im not sure who suggested getting Congress involved, but the UT admins sure ought to come down hard on this.
Were they throwing stuff on the field or at people, not counting Kiffin because who doesn't want to throw stuff at him?
