"If you ever get so happy that you land in jail ... "

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("Friendship" Cole Porter )

You know it looks like one of the worst things that can happen to a city is to win a basketball or football championship*; or in the case immediately at hand merely advance to the finals.

http://news.yahoo.com/fans-burn-couches ... --spt.html

What is it that makes people en masse whose teams have played well and won want, as a result, to go out and tear shit up in their own home towns like that? Light things on fire I can see, its cheerful, warming, you can cook over it, at night it lights the place up and makes it seem more special. But rioting? Throwing bottles at police? Looting (ok that's more an NBA championship kind of thing, these are just college students.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMHyq79itj0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMn-ZZmt ... re=related


Bizarre


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[dales]

I don't recall there was any carnage after the SF Giants won the world series in 2010.

(Perhaps it's just an NBA thing?)

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I thinks its mostly a basketball - football thing.

What would it be like if fencing, ultimate frisbee, and ice dancing* fans all got into it?


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* Just a little joke there. Ice dancing fans are all shut-ins who get over-stimulated by Leonard Cohen records and watching "Jeopardy".