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Genki Hikari

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15. Sports is not exempt.

Reply to randr (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 25, 2022, 07:16 PM

Nov 2022

England and the football hooligans. Philly and drunk Santa. Brian Stow. Philly fans booing seriously injured players. Pacers vs Pistons vs arena attendees. Philly fans throwing up on innocent bystanders during a game. Assorted CA rivalries gone berserk (49ers v Raiders; Giants v Bums). Philly fans assaulting another teams mascot enough to break his leg. Rival players attacked, even stabbed and shot, while playing their games. Philly fans throwing a beer bottle at one of their own side's players.

And that's the short list of the times sports was a means to divide and hate.

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Huge Respect [View all] babylonsister Nov 2022 OP

The adults in the stadium. 70sEraVet Nov 2022 #1

Bingo! +1000 paleotn Nov 2022 #6

Indeed. A big thank-you to all of them! calimary Nov 2022 #7

Definitely respect worthy judesedit Nov 2022 #2

No beer in stadium, lots of energy left! Alexander Of Assyria Nov 2022 #4

lol judesedit Nov 2022 #14

Teach,, your children well... Prairie_Seagull Nov 2022 #3

A fine example of the goodness that sports bring to our collective table randr Nov 2022 #5

Sports is not exempt. Genki Hikari Nov 2022 #15

Reminds me of Congressman Andy Kim, who famously helped clean up the Rotunda after the MAGAT riot peppertree Nov 2022 #8

I thought of Andy, too NJCher Nov 2022 #9

Thanks for sharing that! It's great to hear he was re-elected by a comfy margin. peppertree Nov 2022 #10

yep, exactly NJCher Nov 2022 #11

Happy Thanksgiving to you too! peppertree Nov 2022 #12

A sobering context for this. Pacifist Patriot Nov 2022 #13

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