Montreal hockey fans run wild
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Durka
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and I'm sure you've heard of the riots that have surrounded soccer matches for decades...?
Tennis, volleyball, lots of sport don't involve contact Durka and which do you suppose are the most popular?
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and I'm sure you've heard of the riots that have surrounded soccer matches for decades...?
Tennis, volleyball, lots of sport don't involve contact Durka and which do you suppose are the most popular?
Mikey, that's what happens when you allow booze to be sold throughout the game, from begining to end. I can't buy a beer at a pro lacrosse game after the end of the second period. :x
Mikey, of the non contact sports I would think Golf would be the most popular.
Durka
So the elixer of the mob is to blame and not their fanaticism for a particular team or nation?
Have there ever been any indicdents of spectators swarming the tennis court or the vollyball court? My point is that if we (I) concede that violence is an inescapable component of team sports, then I have to also believe that we continue to harbor the most primitive of instincts and given the opportunity to actualize these instincts for violence is what's behind so much of what passes for "sport" particularly of the team variety.
Comparison of plays and position function within the team effort in a "sport" is frequently made to that of a war-plan and when sport is embraced as substitute for aggressive behavior living-out the battle plan and triumphant shredding of the goal posts we revel in our barbarism. Sport that doesn't involve a return to our more barbaric primitivism is less attracting don't you think? Isn't this why the "goon" and the "enforcer" became fixtures in team sports? Many people throng to automobile racing in anticipation of horrendous accidents and firey crashes.... I go to drag races and different kinds of auto and machine races to watch as a collective effort on the multitude of associated tasks is undertaken to achieve the best performance by machine and driver. If we want to watch a demolition derby we go to that kind of entertainment...but everything in its time and place. I suppose your affirmation that rampant testosterone and unchecked aggression is critical component to hockey and some team sports befits the archaic and bestial in us while we pretend that we're "civilized"....?
So the elixer of the mob is to blame and not their fanaticism for a particular team or nation?
Have there ever been any indicdents of spectators swarming the tennis court or the vollyball court? My point is that if we (I) concede that violence is an inescapable component of team sports, then I have to also believe that we continue to harbor the most primitive of instincts and given the opportunity to actualize these instincts for violence is what's behind so much of what passes for "sport" particularly of the team variety.
Comparison of plays and position function within the team effort in a "sport" is frequently made to that of a war-plan and when sport is embraced as substitute for aggressive behavior living-out the battle plan and triumphant shredding of the goal posts we revel in our barbarism. Sport that doesn't involve a return to our more barbaric primitivism is less attracting don't you think? Isn't this why the "goon" and the "enforcer" became fixtures in team sports? Many people throng to automobile racing in anticipation of horrendous accidents and firey crashes.... I go to drag races and different kinds of auto and machine races to watch as a collective effort on the multitude of associated tasks is undertaken to achieve the best performance by machine and driver. If we want to watch a demolition derby we go to that kind of entertainment...but everything in its time and place. I suppose your affirmation that rampant testosterone and unchecked aggression is critical component to hockey and some team sports befits the archaic and bestial in us while we pretend that we're "civilized"....?
Mikey, the liquer part was meant mostly in humour, but it probably encourages some of the behaviour. Fanaticism for a club/country can certainly be part of the equation as well.
Mikey, contact sports might very well bring out those primitive instincts within us all, satisfying our need for breaking people and whatnot. it's not everyone's cup of tea but it sure beats watching golf!
Mikey, I wrestled competitively for 6-7 years when i was younger, most people who watched it did so because you they admired the technical moves and the pure athleticism of it, but I was every bit as competitive and willing to pull a guys head off as when I was paying hockey, I would just do it in a different manner.
Mikey, contact sports might very well bring out those primitive instincts within us all, satisfying our need for breaking people and whatnot. it's not everyone's cup of tea but it sure beats watching golf!
Mikey, I wrestled competitively for 6-7 years when i was younger, most people who watched it did so because you they admired the technical moves and the pure athleticism of it, but I was every bit as competitive and willing to pull a guys head off as when I was paying hockey, I would just do it in a different manner.
I don't know why they weren't prepared. It's not like it's the first time the Montreal "fans" have rioted or anything.
Pretty pathetic really. Rioting over a hockey game? That you won?? They should be glad that they had their "fun" in Canada, as I think in some other countries they would use lethal force if they tried something like that.
Shows how much you know about hockey or any sport for that matter....perhpas boxing is bad because sometimes someone gets hurt. The fun police are looking for new recruits perhaps you should apply, they need some good pussies.
I had someone try to tell me that Newfie's equivalent to the actual N word recently. My Newfie friends and relatives have all gotten chuckles out of that one. And I think that my frog family would find the assertion that frog comes anywhere near to those Avro equated it to, more than a little insulting on the behalf of Chinese and black people everywhere.
I believe Walt already gave me the answer I was looking for.
At least he admits being a racist bigot and you seem to think that is okay....perhaps even funny, worth a chuckle.
So...you stand in front of the mirror and call yourself names? Strange, very strange, but not surprising coming from a racist bigot like yourself.
That would have been me Karrie and I still stand behind my comments. Your friends can chuckle all they want. So they're blind...what can I say.
From the radio report I heard, they were mostly teen agers 14-16 yrs olds, doing the
damage, so we should keep it accurate, as a bunch of no mind kids, who have nothing
better to do than cause trouble, shouldn't cause everyone to paint all with the same
brush. They're not even hockey fans, just punks.
damage, so we should keep it accurate, as a bunch of no mind kids, who have nothing
better to do than cause trouble, shouldn't cause everyone to paint all with the same
brush. They're not even hockey fans, just punks.
? if they have that many 14-16 year olds running loose that they can overpower their police force, they've got even worse problems than I thought. They're not just bad hockey fans, they're a city full of negligent parents! lol.
Maybe so. I wish I could believe it was an improvement, but at least it's provable by any reasonable standard that heroic athletes actually exist. ;-)
I have no understanding of what happens in Montreal when things go very well (e.g. winning a playoff series) or very badly (e.g. the Richard riots) for the Habs. I live in Regina, and when the Riders won the Grey Cup last fall there was a lot of partying in the streets, public inebriation, and similar predictable things, but it seemed to me to be mostly good spirited fun and the local police, being no fools, generally turned a blind eye to it and let people celebrate. There was some minor damage of course, there are always at least a couple of morons in any crowd, but there was no smashing of store fronts and burning of cars.
I've visited Montreal. It seemed such a civilized and cultured and beautiful city... This is a complete mystery to me.