Ok, I've shared the grossest moment I've ever witnessed at a football game (see post below). Now it's your turn. Tell us (that's the royal "us," of course, BBiB) the lowest you've ever seen fans behave. Just make sure you tell it so it's printable and I don't have to get the filter police out.
Looking forward to some good horror stories, and they don't have to be limited to football. Black N Gold, surely you have some good ones from your days at Three Rivers.
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You haven't REALLY tailgated until you've seen an almost-full port-a-john tipped over with someone sitting inside of it. That'll ruin your morning.
Brilliant! Gridder Tom, thanks for getting the ball rolling.
Did the door fly open and did you see the poor soul inside?
The lowest we've seen fans behave? Bob, that could fill an entire book!
In the interest of saving time this morning, I'll share some lighter anecdotes.. the long stories will have to wait until this afternoon.
Steelers game? Of course it would be against the Browns but this time we're not talking Three Rivers or Heinz Field but Cleveland's old Municipal Stadium.
I was at Steelers Browns a game there on a very cold day in 1982 and watched a Steeler fan walk past a line that snaked out of the mens room and down the corridor. Half time was almost over and I guess this guy really wanted to get back to his seat before the second half began. He ducked in between a couple of old Steel Girders and pee'd over the railing, right into a crowd of Browns fans gathered two or three levels below...
My own worst moment, and I can't believe I'm sharing this with you, was not at a football game but at a hockey game in Pittsburgh in the early 90's. On May 5th 1988 the NJ Devils suffered a crushing 6-1 defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins in the Conference finals. Devils coach Jim Schoenfeld blamed the loss on the officiating of Don Koharski (the overweight Koharski was always out of position and very lethargic) After the game Schoenfeld offered a word of advice to Koharski - "Have another Donut you Fat PIG!".
Well the next year Jimmy Schoenfeld and the Devils came to Pittsburgh where I had season tickets in the third row beside the visitors runway.. as the Devils, who were getting blown out by the Pens, came off the ice between periods... I called out to Schoenfeld "Hey Jimmy, your coaching stinks, but you could always get a job selling donuts". Well, Jimmy, who was already really pissed off, stopped and stared into my row demanding to know "Who said that?", I stood up, in my highly inebriated condition, maybe 10 people between myself and this angry former hockey enforcer and said "I did". (Thinking there was no way Schoenfeld would jeopardize his job by doing anything)
Jimmy literally came three seats into the stands , sending the patrons in those seats scattering, before his assistant coaches grabbed him and pulled him back.
Two years later I'm sitting in the same seats at the All-Star Game and when I get up between periods I turn around and who's sitting on the aisle three or four rows behind me? Schoenfeld! I had to walk right past him. As I went up the stairs he stopped me dead in my tracks by sticking out his hand and saying "You don't think I'd forget you did you?" I don't know what was shaking more, me or my hand as it disappeared into Jimmy's huge 'Mitt'. He just laughed and said "Pittsburgh has some of the greatest hockey fans in the league" and I mumbled "Thanks, Jimmy" and hightailed it to the mens room before I wet my pants.
Not exactly my best moment, but one I'll never forget.
Black N Gold, you have outdone yourself.
That is absolutely, positively priceless. That is breaking new ground on one of the classic coach-referee altercations ever. I had no idea about the followup, and who knew all these years later you'd be sharing it with the world?
No, the darned thing landed door-side down so the "poor soul" had to have his friends set it upright for him to come out.
Giants vs. Eagles, Wild Card Playoffs, Veteran's Stadium, 1981.
My brother and I were able to buy tickets at the box office days before the game.
Diehard Giants fans, we were decked in Blue for the first playoff game either of us could remember in our then brief lifetimes.
Scott Brunner -- Rob Carpenter -- Joe Danelo (those Giants).
Eagles KR Wally Henry fumbles two kickoffs, and Giants win handily.
By the 4th Quarter, all GIant fans have formed a protective perimeter in the 100 level behind the Giants' bench. Assault and battery is in the air. Suddenly, an Eagles fan smashes an empty bottle of Jack Daniels over the head of the Giant fan behind me, knocking the man unconscious and causing him to bleed profusely. EMT took the man away, and near as I could tell the attacker suffered no consequences. A security guard allowed us on the field after the game for our own protection, where we were left alone and we talked to Brent Musberger after he was done announcing on the sidelines to a chorus of "You suck Brent!" and my brother caught his attention by instead saying, "good job Brent".
We were also chased in the parking lot.
True story.
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