Philly 76'ers and obscene violence

[mach1]

'Obscene' used here literally that is "off scene"

any one see the footage? Incredible.

[Texas Carnie Roadshow]

I wish I had. I only saw a small portion on the news yestreday morning.

[mach1]

Youve Got Game.

OK I thought..a few words some punches..no big deal. But then they spliced together a least a full minute of it, it looked pretty intense.

Finally a security guard shows up.

One player had been suspended previously, once for destroying expensive television equipment at Madison Square Garden in New York the LA Times reports.

Quote of the week for sports :

"For 24 hours they've watched that basketball fiasco on TV. That's all they've watched," Bowden said. "On every major news [broadcast] that thing was covered, and they sat there and watched it and watched it and watched it."

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Violence in sports around the world is nothing new
CHRIS LEHOURITES, AP Sports Writer

Sunday, November 21, 2004


(11-21) 12:50 PST (AP) --

The mayhem at the Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons game
was one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history, but
confrontations involving players and fans are not uncommon
elsewhere in the world and often end with far more dire
consequences.

One of the most notorious acts came in 1993 with the stabbing
of Monica Seles in Hamburg, Germany. Seles, ranked No. 1 at
the time, was stabbed in the back on the court by an obsessed
fan of Steffi Graf, a burst of violence that underlined the
vulnerability of pro athletes.

Soccer has been at the center of much of the violence, often
the work of roving, hardcore fans known as hooligans.

Last week, racist fans attacked Bastia's black players
after a French league game against Saint-Etienne. In Peru last
year, fans surged on the field and chased and beat players after
a disputed call, leaving 20 people wounded, including 13 players.

A decade ago in England, Manchester United's Eric Cantona
jumped kung-fu style into the crowd and kicked a Crystal
Palace fan in the chest for taunting him. The Frenchman initially
received a two-week jail sentence for assault but that was
changed on appeal to 120 hours of community service. Cantona
was banned from playing for eight months and fined $45,000
while the fan was fined $750.

At the NBA brawl Friday night, fans and players threw
punches while spectators tossed a chair and beer as chaos
engulfed courtside at the arena in Auburn Hills, Mich. Four
players -- Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal, Stephen Jackson
and Ben Wallace -- were suspended indefinitely by the NBA
for a fight commissioner David Stern called
"shocking, repulsive and inexcusable."

The violence is hardly limited to soccer:

* In 2002, a Canadian Football League fan attacked B.C. Lions cornerback Eric Carter during a game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was promptly kicked and beaten by players.

* In 2002, 10 hooligans attacked a bus carrying a Greek basketball team. Five players and one team assistant were injured.

* In 2003, a spectator attacked South African player Louis Koen during a Rugby World Cup game in Brisbane, Australia. Koen was not injured, but the fan apparently was knocked out when hit in the head by a kick from the player.

Coaches and referees have been the target of violent fans.

During an Israeli league soccer game this year, a disgruntled
Bnei Yehuda fan kicked Maccabi Petach Tikvah coach Guy Luzon
in the face. Luzon was shaken but not badly hurt.

In September, Swedish soccer referee Anders Frisk was
hit by an object thrown by an AS Roma fan, forcing him to
abandon the European Champions League game. Dynamo Kiev
was later awarded a 3-0 forfeit victory.

On Sunday, a game turned violent in Podgorica,
Serbia-Montenegro, although the players had no part in it.
At least 25 people were injured when fans rioted at a stadium
after a tear gas canister exploded before a first division game.
The injured were treated at a hospital for tear gas inhalation,
broken arms and legs and other injuries, doctors said. Two
ambulances were demolished.

Stadium tragedies have had deadly outcomes. They often
are the result of panic, but many are caused by battling
fans.

The Liverpool and Juventus soccer teams were at the center
of one of the worst disasters in Europe in 1985 when 39 people
were killed at the European Champions Cup final in Brussels,
Belgium, after a wall separating fans collapsed.

In 2001, at least 123 people died in Accra, Ghana, in a
stampede after police fired tear gas into the stands in response
to fans who threw bottles and chairs on the field. Forty-three
people were killed and 155 injured earlier that year in
Johannesburg, South Africa, when fans tried to push into an
overcrowded stadium.

And last month, four people were killed and eight others
injured during a stampede at the end of a World Cup qualifying
game in Lome, Togo.

--


EVEN: After leaving the stands, Artest squares off against another Piston fan on the court.
(ESPN)

[Stiv]

Ahhhh mach the sixer's had nothing to do with that. What's up wit dat huh?Iverson always uses or has his posse use a gun ok?

I once saw AI ass end someone in his Bently on I76, and yes it was obscene and violent.

Regards,
Stiv

[el3so]

The Liverpool and Juventus soccer teams were at the center of one of the worst disasters in Europe in 1985 when 39 people
were killed at the European Champions Cup final in Brussels,
Belgium, after a wall separating fans collapsed.

Important to note that those 39 people killed were not hurt by Liverpool supporters. It was all due to the old stadium, inadequate police force and panic. Those people got crushed by their fellow fans.
Was live on tv at the time, match was even partially continued. Frigging shame...

Thought Liverpool fans from then on ccasionaly use the Juve colours in banners and such as a commemoration. Good bout between fans is always fun, a tragic accident such as the Heizel drama definitely isn't.