FDNY/NYPD Football Game Devolves Into Fisticuffs
Source: Gawker
Members of the NYPD and FDNY football teams were supposed to line up and shake hands after playing in the Fun City Bowl (a charity game) this weekend. Instead, because everyone involved is very big and tough, there was a shoving match and some punches thrown and a lot of yelling.
I think one of the FDNY guys exchanged words with the NYPD player and then from there, I couldnt see what was happening, I just saw the crowds come around the player, Angel Zayas, a freelance photographer who captured some of the fighting on video, told NBC New York. I heard it happening before I saw it happening.
They hit our quarterback out of bounds, and thats how things started, FDNY coach Steve Orr said. There were a lot of hotheads there.
Read more: http://gawker.com/fdny-nypd-football-game-devolves-into-fisticuffs-1778385596
video at link. it's pretty amazing.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)They said that it was crazy.
packman
(16,296 posts)Well, the firemen got hosed - the cops won.
tazkcmo
(7,286 posts)I played rec league flag football for about 15 years and the police and FD each had teams. Both groups fielded decent, competitive teams. Only one team knew anything about sportsmanship and only one of those teams lost every game due to fighting. Care guess which were which?
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)the peace the next game they have!
Hilarious.
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fbc
(1,668 posts)Steroid testing for police departments would screen out a lot of the bad apples.
ripcord
(5,084 posts)I used to run the Friday night softball leagues for a city and they were nicknamed the beer leagues because many players had been drinking. It wasn't uncommon for me to get a call saying a fight had broken out, because the world lives or dies on rec league softball.