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A day after one of our commenters accused drunken, rowdy US Open golf fans as being meatheads needing to go somewhere with the Yankees out of town, in comes a video of just what some of the Yankee fans who did make it out to the weekend's games in Florida were up to.
A YouTube commenter who claims to be the guy who mouths "Oh shit!" says that the trouble began when the Marlins fans cut a line of folks waiting for autographs near the Yankee bullpen and then had some nasty words for the Yankee fan and his wife.
The blogger who discovered the clip, Toasted Joe, calls it "the Citizen Kane of stadium fan fight clips." It does seem to have many of the classic elements of a stadium fight: the brawler who inexplicably takes his shirt off as if his six-pack abs will intimidate his foe, the instigating wife who never stops screaming throughout and the late-surging dude who clearly feels so left out of the hijinx that he flashes his aggression by letting security know how it really happened. And of course, deviant sports fan or not, we can all empathize with the crying young girl whose first Father's Day memory will be watching her Dad get clocked in the grill.
After the jump, you can contrast the action in Miami to some video clips that illustrate the way things go down when fights break out up in The Bronx.
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That was amazing.
The evidence speaks for itself. Yet another meathead Yankee fan representin'...
Class class class!
I like the guy in Yankee Stadium who fell down one level on his back. It looked like jumped the other guy and then he definitely wound up with the worst of it.
That cop in that last Yankee Stadium clip didn't handle it so great. Her body language was all in-your-face ghetto shit. The other woman deserved to get busted but that cop could have done a better job of defusing the situation.
NY- that fat douche didn't represent. Take off the yankees gear, punk.
I enjoyed his Cobra Kai jump and scream. The Yanks fan landed the best blow. The moron Marlins fan who cannot fan let his left arm get clenched and was almost calling to get a shot to the face.
cannot fight*
I can't see the video yet, but just a tip: whenever some gymrat imbecile decides to take off his shirt to confront you, use that opportunity to lay him out. There's a reason why hockey players try to pull their opponents' shirts over their heads in a fight.
If you do watch it, you'll see that it didn't happen. No one pulls his own shirt off; one guy's shirt gets pulled up by the other guy while they're grappling, and when they separate he just pulls it back down.
That is, the above play-by-play is a little like a John Sterling call.
Burn Notice. But check out 0:47 my fact-checkin friend.
Ah, didn't notice that brief glimpse. But the fight was already over, there was no more intimidation going on. And the Sterling joke is funny enough to stand on its own anyway -- even if the shirt removal had been part of the fight.
I mean, why should a crack about Sterling be held to a higher standard than he holds himself to?
Finally saw the video. My suggestion applies more in theory than direct application related to this video.
Also, that Marlins fan is a douche.
What cracks me up about stadium fights is no matter how close or important a game is, the second that fight breaks out fans can give a crap about what's happening on the field. Could be the last seconds of a tie game, all eyes on the fight.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=mets+fans+fight&aq=f
Nice try with the Mets link. I saw plenty of brawls at Shea. However it takes a true meathead to don the most recognizable logo in all of sports and act like a complete caveman...
Much better camera work than what I'm used to seeing in these type of videos. Well done, Sir or Madam!
there is nothing worse than some lady that attempts to get between two huge dudes in the middle of a brawl thinking there is something she can actually do about it.
here we go again with gothamist's anti-yankee bias ... truly an embarassment.
It's more like an anti-meathead-yankee-fan bias, no?
proving once again that sports fans are savages. that's why i prefer kickin' it at home with my grams, crochet it old skool, you know what i'm sayin'?
the little guy does land a surprising flying punch. got to give it to him.
All trash
Too much beer and wanting to be macho in public.
Nothing like making your child scream like a banshee at a public sporting event. Stay Classy NY.
Upper deck in 1999 above third base when a major section-clearing brawl broke out to our right in the upper deck behind home plate. Some hispanic guy got tossed down a couple rows on his ass before around 20 cops descended. 15 Japanese business men in suits sitting in front of us all seemed to get a big kick out of it.
Video is gone, anyone saved it?
Video is gone, anyone saved it?
yeah I want to see it too
all this is still nothing compared to football hooligans... Italy
Another version of pornography.
the little guy totally removes his shirt post fight. What a bunch of tough guys!
he is a bytch