It’s like deja vu all over again. I remember hearing news reports like this 2 years ago.
Yea, the Pats won the Superbowl! I’m proud. I’m glad. I thoroughly enjoyed the game. And I don’t even like sports!
So I can understand when you are elated that your team won. I can even understand the whooping and hollering in the streets that kept me awake all fucking night.
But jebus k christo on buttered toast, people, do have have to start a fucking riot? According to news reports this morning, cars were overturned, major fires were started, and one man was killed when an SUV ran into a crowd of revelers. We didn’t react like this after 9/11, for the love of Og!
It’s. A. Fucking. Game. Get the fuck over it. We won. Woo hoo. Go home and sleep it off.
(As a side note, why don’t people react like this when we, say, land a probe on Mars? 100 times as exciting, IMnsHO.)
You have to remember that Boston has always had mediocre, underdog, non-championship-winning sports teams. took the Pats 26 years to win their first SB. And I won’t even mention the Red Sox (oh, wait…I just did).
So the Bostonians have a lot of pent up frustrations. Especially after seeing the Sox fall short this year.
I’m sure if the Cubbies ever win the WS, Chicago will have another great fire, too.
Sorry Annie, but I have a scenario that will make you wet your pants. Do a google search on the Minnesota Gophers winning a hockey title, then extrapolate that to a Super Bowl win by the Vikings. This proves that God will not allow the Queens to win as long as they’re in the Twinnies.
I remember the same thing happening in Montreal, in June 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. Riots in the streets, fires being set, shop windows being broken, looting, police cars being overturned (among others). Quite an embarrassment. I think the recipe for this is: 1/4 of a little too much beer, 1/4 thrill that your team won, 1/2 gang mentality. People do strange things when in large numbers. If everyone’s doing it, the chances of getting caught are reduced.
As for reacting like this after 9/11, sure we didn’t. We were hit. (Though I’m Canadian, I still consider it an attack on home land, because of my proximity to NYC). But there WERE people acting exactly this way after 9/11. There’s a picture etched in my mind forever ~ people dancing in the streets, with a close-up of that one woman, shrieking something like “YALALALALALLA!”.
Conversely, I didn’t see anyone dancing in the streets when Saddam was caught. I think that is more than likely due to the fact that we’re much less blood-thirsty and our culture doesn’t groom us with such hatred.
But gang mentality is alive and well in North America, for sure.
Yes, I understand. I’m a Bostonian and I have frustrations. I’m especially frustrated that my fellow Bostonians celebrate a win with property destruction and manslaughter.
Sorry, but normally sucky teams are no excuse for criminal behavior.
I’ll call that a close second to Philadelphia winning the Super Bowl. Eagles fans are (generalization alert) the most obnoxious sports fans America has produced. If the Eagles ever overcome their choking ways, I’ll be really nervous about living 30 miles from Philly.
Well, I’m not a huge fan in any case, but I’m gearing up for the new post-9/11 era of football: The Patriots win every year! yay!
Perhaps they’ll make the Pats into the Harlem globetrotters of football…I can just see the new expansion teams: The Berkley Liberals, the Ohio Jihadis, the New Jersey Flaming Marxists- that exist for no other reason than to get beat up on (a la the Generals).
That said, it was a pretty good game.
As more of a football fan than I consider to be reasonable, and my wife is worse, I still try to avoid mayhem. When the Bucs won the Super Bowl, Tampa was very rowdy, but I don’t remember mayhem. Pandemonium, yes. If any city could have justified insanity over one championship, Tampa would be a candidate. Of course, I would have to think that mob violence is understandable, which I don’t. I understand the concept well enough to avoid mobs.
I’d say that it’s a big city - little city thing, save Tampa has about fourish million people in it. The whole area is developed from Naples to north of Tampa. I’d say it’s a football thing, but “football” fans do it also, not to mention NBA championships. Then you have the “football” assassination, where the guy tipped the goal in accidentally.
No, I’m going straight to alcohol plus some kind of personality disorder, combined with a mob mentality. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking with it.
It is possible that if you tried to start a riot in Florida armed homeowners might put it down. Seriously. This place is packing. It makes for a polite and peaceful, if nervous society.
You’ve got it all wrong. See, I’m a Carolina fan living in NE. That was all me. You filthy Pats fans and your damn kicker!! Hauls your asses out of the fire EVERY DAMN TIME.
Er, sorry about that. I’ll try to be calmer next time.
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You’ve got it all wrong. See, I’m a Carolina fan living in NE. That was all me. You filthy Pats fans and your damn kicker!! Hauls your asses out of the fire EVERY DAMN TIME.
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Uh huh. 'Splain to me, then, how you ran yourself over in the SUV. Then 'splain how you came back from the dead to 'splain it.
