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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've always wondered why we don't really have hooligans in the US. Not just for soccer/football, but any sport. I wonder if Hockey fans' thirst for violence is quenched by the fights in hockey, and that's why there is no Hockey hooligans or something.

We got Raiders fans who are pretty close, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a university not far from me that regularly burns couches for big games. Two years in a row, fans have taken uprights from football stadiums and thrown them in lakes/rivers. There's usually a game or two per year that cars get flipped or other vandalism.

The NFL is really good at killing reporting, but fights among fans are fairly common and people have died this year from them.

The US has hooligans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair points. Yea I guess we just got our own breed of them. I think the only reason it's really different is that most of the fan bases are too separated to do the gang fight thing like they do in some places.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like you don't even believe in Philadelphia sports teams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao you are right. It's the same thing just dumb drunk fans doing dumb things. The difference is that our obnoxious fans are spread out enough that they don't meetup and have gang fights too often. Ours mostly just fuck their own cities up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A man was recently killed in the Patriots stadium after an away fan sucker punched him. US sports definitely have "hooligans".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While horrible that still sounds nothing like hooligans that will literally contact each other and arrange a meeting somewhere near the stadium before/after the match to beat each other up with home made weapons.

I think the true reason is that in the US that would just immediately devolve into gun shootouts and that's probably too much for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is more what I was getting at. I think we don't really have the hooligan type gang fights because we are so much more spread out than most of the countries with soccer/football hooligans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bruh Philadelphia burns down every time they win something big

Plenty of college football stadium goalposts are designed to be easily replaced because fans will storm the field and take them down/home with them after big wins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I know all about this. It's still a different thing than gangs forming around teams and then meeting up to have a large scale fight. I guess guns and the fact that the fan bases are spread out kind of keep everybody from considering that idea in the US.