Videos: U. Massholes Rage In Amherst After Patriots' Super Bowl Loss

('Topes lose... 'Topes lose... 'Topes lose...)

"Why are the people at our school fucking retarded?" wonders one University of Massachusetts-Amherst student as she videotapes the wild scene on campus from the safety of her dorm room last night. On the quad below, an estimated 1,500 students had gathered so express their outrage at billionaire Robert Kraft's devastating Super Bowl loss. Students set off fireworks, threw bottles, and chanted "Fuck the Giants" until riot police arrived, at which point the chant segued to "Fuck the police." Here's a bird's eye video from the dorm room, complete with co-ed commentary:

Police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the sore losers, and arrested 13 students during the melee. There don't seem to be any reports of property damage, so some might say it's "wicked retahded" to call this a riot, but there were some fisticuffs. Check out this ground-level video of the pandemonium as the cops swoop in:

And here's one more from a woman's dorm room located above the quad. As in the other video, the young ladies' voices are either irritating or oddly attractive, depending on where you're at in life:

Meanwhile, in Boston, Patriots fans took their medicine somberly. The AP reports that the "hundreds of officers who lined the streets of Boston had little to do as fans quietly mourned their team’s Super Bowl loss." Boston-based sports fan Molly Mackenzie said simply, "We’re really sad right now."

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By John Del Signore in News on February 6, 2012 10:24 AM

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tig bitties

PATRIOTS SUCK ASS HAHAHAHH

Fluxgirl

Note to self: don't hire anyone from that f'd up school. They obviously let anyone in.

Michelle Wright

Dear Massholes:

It's only a game, and whenever Boston plays any game vs NY, it's a classic. I heard that last night's game was a damned good one and that NY won fair and square.

Grow the fuck up.

Very truly yours,

A fellow Masshole

napalm2

Look at these losers.
What a waist of tuition and life.

A bunch of kids from other states helping destroy property where they don't even live.
There must be nothing else going on in mass if people out there have nothing else to worry about other than sports, especially in these times.

ImperialStout

I'm going to riot whenever something in the sports/entertainment industry doesn't go my way. If the next Jonathan Franzen book is disappointing or a new Radiohead record gets a bad review, I'm burning a car and throwing potatoes at old people.

Dennis

frozen potatoes or boiled spuds?

ImperialStout

Fresh from the bag. Red skinned... more accurate throwing spuds than a russet, for instance.

Newhce

The girl's commentary was great. Made the video.

BJ

"What the hell's tear gas?" Does this school actually have any admissions criteria? How the hell in 2012 can you not know what tear gas is?

billeguerriero

Might wanna ease up on the use of the term "Masshole" fer crissakes.

kevd

what do you have against accuracy?

randomtransplant

"Get a job and stop ruining our country you good for nothing (legacy student) bums".

What a bunch of bitches. There are a million things to care about in the world. These here kiddies care about a city they don't live in's millionaire's coming in second after a really good, close game.

strayrats

You call that a riot? To the girl who asked why people at her school are so retarded, its the same reason youre retarded. Volume must be off to watch these videos.

2BklynNative2

I guess they focus on the HIGHER rather than higher education.

For each one of these dopes enrolled and getting any funding, that should be pulled and they should be thrown out.

ToastNYC

"ALL DAY! ALL WEEK!! OCCUPY Wait-a-minute..."

SonnyBobiche

How sheltered a life have you lived when you don't know what tear gas is? Other than that, the girls commenting in the first video were particularly entertaining.

St. Move

Ever wonder if college degrees just aren't worth what they used to be? In two years, when these people are walking about with useless BA's and complaining about there being no jobs available for them, we'll care even less.

GentleGiant

This ain't the UK!

mattbrooklyn

it would have been awesome if the reporters covering this were threatened with arrest for trying to cover it.

also perhaps would have been awesome: cops corralling people, pepper spraying them and then charging them with resisting arrest.

special extra awesome touch: grabbing random passersby and arresting them.

oh well. at least the cops make political protests awesome by doing these sorts of things.