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Video: Yankee Fan Turns Stadium Brawl Into A Parenting Lesson

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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  • iamdmg

    the little guy totally removes his shirt post fight. What a bunch of tough guys!

  • felixthecat2

    he is a bytch

  • drewo

    Another version of pornography.

  • all this is still nothing compared to football hooligans... Italy

  • sexisicilian

    yeah I want to see it too

  • justinleon

    Video is gone, anyone saved it?

  • justinleon

    Video is gone, anyone saved it?

  • JenChungsBaby

    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.

  • emilydickinson

    Nothing like making your child scream like a banshee at a public sporting event. Stay Classy NY.

  • Steven

    Too much beer and wanting to be macho in public.

  • All trash

  • books

    the little guy does land a surprising flying punch. got to give it to him.

  • hotstepper

    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'?

  • Jail_Bait

    here we go again with gothamist's anti-yankee bias ... truly an embarassment.

  • dr zippy

    It's more like an anti-meathead-yankee-fan bias, no?

  • shiptoshore

    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.

  • Vertigone

    Much better camera work than what I'm used to seeing in these type of videos. Well done, Sir or Madam!

  • jm1975
  • whitecastlerock

    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...

  • jambi

    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.

  • Rocknrope

    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.

  • Rocknrope

    Finally saw the video. My suggestion applies more in theory than direct application related to this video.



    Also, that Marlins fan is a douche.

  • jaycjay

    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.

  • BillyParker

    Burn Notice. But check out 0:47 my fact-checkin friend.

  • jaycjay

    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?

  • Bottomless Chips

    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.

  • Bottomless Chips

    cannot fight*

  • sharpshoota

    NY- that fat douche didn't represent. Take off the yankees gear, punk.

  • JenChungsBaby

    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.

  • Sleepy

    Class class class!

  • whitecastlerock

    The evidence speaks for itself. Yet another meathead Yankee fan representin'...

  • hoodlum

    That was amazing.

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