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Calista241

(5,584 posts)
Tue May 24, 2016, 11:24 PM May 2016

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 couldn’t 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 that’s 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.
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FDNY/NYPD Football Game Devolves Into Fisticuffs (Original Post) Calista241 May 2016 OP
I had several friends at that game. hrmjustin May 2016 #1
Steroid Superbowl packman May 2016 #2
Played rec league tazkcmo May 2016 #3
Surprising the cops didn't whip out their guns and start shooting the "enemy" firefighters. Dont call me Shirley May 2016 #4
They are going to have to ask the National Guard to keep jwirr May 2016 #5
LOL Douseeme May 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author radicalliberal May 2016 #7
Test them for steroids fbc May 2016 #8
This isn't uncommon in recreational sports ripcord May 2016 #9

tazkcmo

(7,286 posts)
3. Played rec league
Wed May 25, 2016, 09:21 AM
May 2016

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?

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fbc

(1,668 posts)
8. Test them for steroids
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:41 PM
May 2016

Steroid testing for police departments would screen out a lot of the bad apples.

ripcord

(5,084 posts)
9. This isn't uncommon in recreational sports
Wed May 25, 2016, 04:25 PM
May 2016

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.

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