Fight In the Stands - What do you do?

[Matty Fridays]

I was recently at a football game. The game had BARELY started when two groups of people (both rooting for the same team) started jawing at each other and got out of hand really fast, with one guy dragging the other's wife into it and berating her.

If you saw this happening in front of you, and the one person looked like he was going to be a problem, what would you do?

Would you get involved in defusing the situation?

Would you do nothing?

Would you tell security but keep it on the down low so nobody knows?

I'm curious.

[booster11373]

I know what I would do but I'm not like other people

[PapaBear]

I'd shoot video and post it on YouTube.

[weekapaugjz]

how did the guy look like he was going to start a problem?

i'd probably mind my own business, unless a woman was going to get hit.

[Marc with a c]

you gotta get in that ass matty.

[Matty Fridays]

how did the guy look like he was going to start a problem?

i'd probably mind my own business, unless a woman was going to get hit.

The agressor who wouldn't let the issue go was an ultra-aggressive gorilla with a shaved head, the faux tough guy who hears a little insult and goes nuts. Typical North Jersey trash.

The guy whose wife was dragged into it kinda looked like Gabe Kaplan.

[Matty Fridays]

you gotta get in that ass matty.

My main concern was for the wife. I didn't do anything, but I basically told her to GTFO and avoid the steps if a fight broke out. (We were on the top row of the section near a walkway)

[weekapaugjz]

The agressor who wouldn't let the issue go was an ultra-aggressive gorilla with a shaved head, the faux tough guy who hears a little insult and goes nuts. Typical North Jersey trash.

i'd mind my own business.

The guy whose wife was dragged into it kinda looked like Gabe Kaplan.

so you were checking him out?

[TheMojoPin]

Mind your P's and Q's and eat your beeswax, mister.

[Matty Fridays]

i'd mind my own business.

Yeah, I just watched, but if it elevated to something physical, I'd get involved mainly to protect people.



so you were checking him out?

How does this gay joke even work? I say he looks like somone and you make the leap to a gay joke? Has this place gone to shit that much since I was gone? Wait, don't answer that, I already know.

[PapaBear]

Mind your P's and Q's and eat your beeswax, mister.
Have you been hanging out with ESD?

[weekapaugjz]

How does this gay joke even work? I say he looks like somone and you make the leap to a gay joke? Has this place gone to shit that much since I was gone? Wait, don't answer that, I already know.

welcome back.

and what difference does it make who the guy looks like?

[TheMojoPin]

Yeah, I just watched, but if it elevated to something physical, I'd get involved mainly to protect people.

Your willingness to present yourself as an irresistable target for a brutal beating is quite admirable.

[Matty Fridays]

welcome back.

and what difference does it make who the guy looks like?

Because I was trying to explain that one guy was a gorilla angry type, and the other one was just a nebbish dude. Hence the Gabe Kaplan reference.

[Matty Fridays]

Your willingness to present yourself as an irresistable target for a brutal beating is quite admirable.

I was the only guy bigger than the aggressor in a 20 foot radius. And it was mainly to defuse, not aggravate, the situation.

[TheMojoPin]

But you're so milky and tender and hittable.

[weekapaugjz]

I was the only guy bigger than the aggressor in a 20 foot radius. And it was mainly to defuse, not aggravate, the situation.

cause angry gorillas love to be defused.

[Fez4PrezN2008]

I'm gonna say it might depend on if its a college game or a pro game and if you feel like some other peoeple would have your back if you tried to get involved.

[Matty Fridays]

cause angry gorillas love to be defused.

by "defuse" I mean "tazmission".

[Matty Fridays]

I'm gonna say it might depend on if its a college game or a pro game and if you feel like some other peoeple would have your back if you tried to get involved.

It was a college game, with non-college age people, and the game was less than 3 minutes in - the whole clusterfuck started over tickets being messed up.

[TheMojoPin]

All I know is I've seen those commercials about that street fighting style taught by those two brothers, like, a billion times, so I can TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS.

[Matty Fridays]

All I know is I've seen those commercials about that street fighting style taught by those two brothers, like, a billion times, so I can TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS.

What if I have Joeybadass backing me up?

[weekapaugjz]

by "defuse" I mean "tazmission".

[insert gay joke about wrasslin' here]

[TheMojoPin]

What if I have Joeybadass backing me up?

I don't know of this person.

[Fez4PrezN2008]

I broke up a fist fight in front of a grocery store many years ago. I think it was just adrenalin and instinct that made me do it because immediately afterwards I thought to myself what a dumb thing to do, one of those guys could have pulled a knife or gun or both could have turned on me. Hard call. I probably would not do the same thing today.

[underdog]

I'd look for Gvac to protect me.

[DarkHippie]

grab him by his shirt collar and choke him out with it

[JerseyRich]

I'd look for Gvac to protect me.

In Matty's case, this may be counteractive.

[A.J.]

Because I was trying to explain that one guy was a gorilla angry type, and the other one was just a nebbish dude. Hence the Gabe Kaplan reference.

Yeah but remember that Gabe Kaplan shocked everyone and beat tough-guy Robert Conrad.

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[underdog]

In Matty's case, this may be counteractive.

Exactly.

[IamFogHat]

I was recently at a football game. The game had BARELY started when two groups of people (both rooting for the same team) started jawing at each other and got out of hand really fast, with one guy dragging the other's wife into it and berating her.

If you saw this happening in front of you, and the one person looked like he was going to be a problem, what would you do?

Would you get involved in defusing the situation?

Would you do nothing?

Would you tell security but keep it on the down low so nobody knows?

I'm curious.

So this is your new revival? Kinda weird. But ok.

[TripleSkeet]

Seriously, I would stand nearby and just watch. If the confrontation actually turned physical with the big guy touching the woman Id just grab his shirt and launch him down the concrete steps. When youre that big balance and gravity are not your friends.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I was recently at a football game. The game had BARELY started when two groups of people (both rooting for the same team) started jawing at each other and got out of hand really fast, with one guy dragging the other's wife into it and berating her.

If you saw this happening in front of you, and the one person looked like he was going to be a problem, what would you do?

Would you get involved in defusing the situation?

Would you do nothing?

Would you tell security but keep it on the down low so nobody knows?

I'm curious.



ask Joe the Bartender, people love to transfer their anger to any 1 who is willing to engage them


unless you or your signifcant other (friends and family included) are directly being e effected, just sit back and enjoy


now if the fight is very 1 sided or weapons are being used, then u call security or physically defuse the situation

[Rockvillejoe]

The picking up of all Wallets, watches, jewelry. All fair game when dislodged from the fighters pockets, arms, etc.

That is the price they pay for imposing on my attention when I'm trying to watch a game.

Cash in my pocket. Wallet and credit cards in the mailbox. Jewelry mailed to "cash for gold". This is legal and encouraged in many areas. At least as far ad I'm concerned.

[TheMojoPin]

I shoot the hostage.

[TripleSkeet]

now if the fight is very 1 sided or weapons are being used, then u call security or physically defuse the situation

Only pussies call security.

[boosterp]

The one time I stepped in to protect a woman I caught a fist to the side of the head and it rang my bell. But, my friend stepped in and beat the mother fucker bloody. The chick said thanks when talking to the cops, but that made me rethink my involvement when I was not directly involved.

So, unless a direct threat I'd stay out of it.