We've been talking in class about how unruly fans are turning to serious violence at profesional sporting events. Ranging from inappropriate heckling (like swearing at kids) to near fatal (and fatal) tragedies. But unfortunately this fan on fan violence isn't limited to profesional sports. As any simple google search will prove, there is an abundance of parents getting into fights at youth sporting events. Suddenly a happy game between kids can escalate to assault by parents who take it a little too seriously. Here's an article covering one such incident.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2013/07/30/parents-fight-youth-baseball-game/2600481/
I'm not condoning the parents behavior in any way, but we shouldn't be surprised to see fans at a packed stadium getting violent over a profesional game when fans will get violent over a child's game. They seem to be acting very similar way to the fans in the videos we watched in class.
Even worse!
ReplyDeletehttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130805/ref-killed-teen-soccer-utah-guilty.ap/