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Riots Due to Sporting Events and the Reasoning Behind Them
Riots Due to Sporting Events and the Reasoning Behind Them
Top 5 Most Costly Sports Riots in History
NUMBER 2:
NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls vs. Portland Trail Blazers (1992)
– $10 Million in Damages
- 95 people injured
- 25 properties burned, looted or vandalized
Riots Due to Drinking?
Riots Due to Youth?
Youth. If this were a matter of "young people will burn cars with little or no provocation if you give them a chance," wouldn't they burn cars on New Year's Eve? The same would apply if you assume it's young people who are drunk. There are campus parties that involve just as much alcohol as sports celebrations, and they don't all turn into campus-burning riots.
NUMBER 5:
Egyptian Premier League: Al-Masry vs. Al-Ahly (2012)
– $3 Million in Damages
- opposing teams brokw out into fights
- 87 stabbings
- 42 deaths
- 21 of the attackers were sentenced to death
NUMBER 1:
FA Cup Semifinal: Liverpool vs. Nottingham Forrest (1989)
– Damages Incalculable
- 96 People Killed
- The whole stadium had to be rebuilt ($35 million)
Top 5 Most Costly Spots Riots in History
NUMBER 3:
European Cup Final: Juventus vs. Liverpool (1985)
– $8 Million in Damages
- 39 people killed
- 600 injured
- 24 fans convicted of manslaughter
Yes, obviously, alcohol plays a role in many incidents that involve loss of judgment on a grand scale. And drunk sports fans don't actually need a game of any particularly pitched significance at all in order to start acting like idiots, as you will see if you read up on Ten Cent Beer Night, probably the worst promotion anyone in baseball ever dreamed up. (The ESPN remembrance of the evening does a fine job of noting how goofy behavior transforms into violent behavior: "The jovial, frolicking nudists had disappeared," it notes as simple chaos turns into a dangerous explosion of fighting.) But there are lots of bars where there are a bunch of drunks every night of the year, and they don't wind up overturning police cars.
Riots Due to Sports are Due to Exactly that.... Sports Themselves
Top 5 Most Costly Sports Riots in History
One of the explanations that makes some inherent sense is that sports already play on some of our more warlike instincts — sporting events get people really, really wound up, so there's a spillover of excess brutish energy that turns into violence, whether the outcome is positive or negative.
NUMBER 4:
Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins vs. Vancouver Canucks (2011)
– $4.8 Million in Damages
- 29 Establishments burned to the ground
- 15 vehicles overturned
- pepper spray, tear gas, police dogs and flash bombs were used to subdue the mob
Riot in Vancouver
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