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  • #31
    Two things:

    1) Rushing fans tearing down goalposts is massive numbers of people causing vandalism. Massive numbers of people causing vandalism is another way of saying "riot".

    2) Riot gear is more for the protection of the police attempting to gain order of a situation where they are out number 10-100 to 1.
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    • #32
      When we won the league in 2004, for the first time in 16 years!


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      • #33
        Originally posted by reds4ever


        They used to...
        Someone should tell Reading fans...



        That was this year when winning the Championship.

        I was disappointed because in the playoff game against Wigan a few years ago we got to see the horsies on the pitch.
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        • #34
          I was forgetting the lower reaches.....

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          • #35
            Originally posted by MikeH


            Someone should tell Reading fans...



            That was this year when winning the Championship.

            I was disappointed because in the playoff game against Wigan a few years ago we got to see the horsies on the pitch.
            There's obviously a lot of violence and vandalism going on there.
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            • #36
              The field rush in question (big image alert)...

              The coaches and players...


              The student section starts joining in with the players...


              All on the field...


              Looks like perfectly harmless good fun to me.
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              • #37
                They all have the same tasteless white garment though.
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                • #38
                  Here's a proper field rush. Miami and... ?

                  Although as a Notre Dame fan, I know that Miami fans are about the worst behaved, most brutish lot.
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                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
                    They all have the same tasteless white garment though.
                    Sadly, that's what passes for team colors in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania.
                    Last edited by DanS; June 23, 2006, 13:32.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #40
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                      • #41
                        There was a guy that was crushed a year or two ago by a goalpost.

                        Any time you have that many people all going to one place you have the threat of trampling. Think about the mad rush at the Who concert in... Toronto? A few people died and quite a few were injured.

                        Personally, I don't really like it, but I know why they do it and I understand the liability and injury concerns.
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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
                          cal
                          Here's a representative sample of the Cal student section.

                          Vandals.
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                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #43
                            The evidence of their criminality. The Big Game 2004.
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                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by DanS
                              Were those occurences in the stadium? If not, then the research seems inapposite to me.
                              Why would the exact location of the disturbance matter?

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                              • #45
                                You're posting pictures of student sections and trying to use that as proof that they wouldn't do anything wrong. In that case I feel it's necessary to remind you of the many 'riots' that occur after sporting events at colleges. At Purdue there were disturbances for three years running during the basketball season. I remember watching the helicopters track groups of people down and seeing the fires from people setting couches on fire. There was property damage and there were riot police out. As normal as students seem there is such a thing as mob mentality and I completely understand why schools would want to curtail certain activities that concentrate students into a small area where they could do damage. They would probably be better off directing that energy instead of stifling it, but schools don't think that way.
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                                New faces...Strange places,
                                Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
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