How does overturning cars and burning shops help your football team?

[Recursion]

I mean, really, it just makes your team look bad, you know?

[CatWoman]

1. um

what?

[Recursion]

2. After high-coverage football games there are often riots

I'm simply applying the same logic to those riots that several DUers have applied to what's happening in Ferguson.

[CatWoman]

8. ah, I see

good point

[Travis_0004]

15. most people will call out those people as idiots and not claim they are peaceful.

I dont hear people defending riots after sports, yet people are trying to defend these riots.

[Recursion]

16. Really? I haven't seen that (nt)

[Capt. Obvious]

20. And the police will usually tear gas and maim the sports rioters

[Recursion]

22. That does kind of get ignored here

Police are in fact happy to brutalize football fans, pumpkin fest revelers, or whomever.

[UglyGreed]

3. it's all about the pumpkins

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/19/us/new-hampshire-pumpkin-festival-riot/

[Recursion]

9. My mom lives in Keene

In fairness, she was pretty scared this year (of both the partiers and the cops).

[UglyGreed]

14. I don't blame her at all

it is a part of our culture now it seems. I may be right or wrong but IMO People are very tense these days and need to blow off steam. Be it a pumpkin fest, football game, in response to killing of young men in the streets, carrying a BB gun in a park or walking down a staircase with your girlfriend.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Let me know, when you get an answer

I can't figure it out, either.

[el_bryanto]

5. When I went to college our rivals were nearby geographically - the first year I was there

They won a game in our stadium - first time in a long time - and in celebration they went to tear down our goalposts, but we stopped them. And spend a few pleasant days patting ourselves on the backs, safe in the knowledge that even though we had lost the game - we had shown real class - unlike those classless jerks who were our rivals.

Then Tuesday word got round that someone broke into their stadium and tore down their goalposts. And the same people who talked about how classless they were for trying to tear down our goalposts were talking about how they got learned a lesson.

That taught me everything I needed to know about Football love.

Bryant

[TBF]

6. Same with black friday -

I'm gonna go watch in the Wally's parking lot at midnight and see if they bring the tear gas.

This has been a horrible week. I knew what was coming when they leaked that they had homeland security gear in the area etc. One big dog and pony show for the elites. Keep the plebes fighting ...

Absolutely appalling.

[Kurska]

7. Indeed, it makes you look like an absolute idiot and tool when you do it.

I lose a lot of respect for fanbases when they riot.

[hack89]

10. Not only that but it reflects poorly on the people overturning cars and burning shops

sports riots are near the top of my list of idiotic things people do.

[Brickbat]

11. If only their leaders would speak up and say something.

[pinboy3niner]

12. See markpkessinger's thread about this...

What is NOT particularly helpful with regard to Ferguson
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025866537

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13. My issue is that much more privileged people also riot

Ostensibly over things like, well, football games.

[cwydro]

17. It's wrong no matter who does it.

Period.

[moondust]

18. Be careful not to jump to conclusions.

Don't assume that protesters are guilty of starting all those fires. Anybody such as the KKK could start fires knowing the protesters will be blamed and smeared for it.

[Recursion]

19. Yeah, I've been shouting that for a while

Anyone from Black Bloc to the KKK to simple opportunists may be doing this. We don't have the facts yet and it's ludicrous to make judgments this early.

[bigwillq]

21. It doesn't. It's uncalled for.

There is no excuse for violent protests or celebrations, imo.

[azmom]

23. From another op

Martin Luther King once insisted, "is that a riot is the language of the unheard." Recourse to rioting, he suggested, is seldom a marker of irrationality or mob psychology. More often, it is an attempt by marginalized people to find their voice, to gain a hearing, to assert their refusal to be silenced or ignored.

[Recursion]

24. But then there weren't NFL or pumpkin fest riots in his day, that I know of

Or maybe there were and we just never hear about them.