http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57407761/rowdy-fans-mark-kentucky-ncaa-win/

This is not a rhetorical question - I am genuinely curious if anyone is aware of any studies/analyses conducted to investigate the post-victory rioting phenomena. I could, for example, see the (flawed) logic of the losing team fan base rioting, particularly if there were some bad calls or other allegedly questionable occurrences. But after a win? WTF?

While alcohol definitely plays a role, I've gotten just as wasted and wound up at games as the next guy, but it never occurred to me, or anyone I know, to start fires, flip cars, etc. And it's not just college kids/hillbillys/hooligans or any particular sport or region. You could set your clock to rioting in LA when the Lakers won a championship. There was rioting in Boston for the Sox. Soccer in Europe kind of sets the gold standard of post win riots. It seems to transcend cultures and socioeconomics. Of course, in every case, it makes everyone look moronic. It reflects so poorly on the city/team.

What do you all think? Also, it would be interesting to know (you can reply anonymously) if anyone here ever participated in a post-win riot at any time in their life and how you got caught up in it.

- FC

It has got to be the African American community....them and their damn hoodies!

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Funny me and a friend were just discussing this, just doesn't make sense, mob mentality can take over a situation quickly, only takes one idiot to get it started


Never underestimate the stupidity of a group of humans

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In Memory of Dunn4QB

"We won! Let's trash our city/school/team facility!"

Just don't get it...

- FC

Never did understand this..
Stupid people will follow the idiot that starts it all.


http://murf-seriously.blogspot.com/

...it appears it is easier to get away with bad behavior. That is all it is. Now with cameras, cell phones, recording device everywhere it is much tougher. The brainless ignore this fact and get busted.

Can remember a Seahawk-Raiders game at LA Coliseum in the 1980's. Fans were fist fighting all over the plaza area, jumping into the food booths and helping themselves to beer, tossing chairs, trash cans, lighting fires etc. ZERO ARRESTS...these days, LAPD would review the tapes and their would be 100's of arrests.

USC3 nailed it. People think they can get away w it because everyone is doing it.

It's not that these people are rioting BECAUSE their team won, it's that their team winning is the cue for all the people out there that want to riot to coordinate. People riot because they think it's fun and don't care about the people affected. Vandalism happens every day of the year in every city in America for the same reason, they just don't call the people rioters unless they do it at the same time and in the same place.

"We do do, and we do it at a very, very high level," Lewis said.

I don't think people plan on rioting in most cases, I think its mob mentality and people get caught up in it and you get over whelmed by your own emotions.

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In Memory of Dunn4QB

Especially when everything in the nearby stores become
"free", thats when the fun starts.

I remember someone handing me a beer as I left the place.

I remember in the times of Roosevelt Chapman and Negele Knight--somebody would burn their couch in the middle of the street in the UD Ghetto after Flyer Victories.

Does this still happen?

I remember the last time I partied in the Ghetto--it was still pretty f*cking crazy--I think around 1996?

Who knows--years later--is it still crazy or have they cut down?





"So he got fired? Big deal. It's happened to the best of us. So he got kicked out of his house by his 400 lb'ed wife?!?!? That's probably better for him anyways."-OldSchooler on ChrisMBHater's absence

Post victory rioting? Son, your in the wrong city to be asking that question. In fact, what does this term "victory" mean? I think I recall hearing about it back in the 1980's, but can't be for sure...........

Really, the only time I feel like torching something or tearing up the city is when I watch the Bungs stink up the field. In fact, I don't know why that never happens. That question alone I think trumps your conundrum.