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So everyone has his or her favorite sport teams. You have the fans that go to games every once in a while, fans that have season tickets and never miss a game, and then you have fanatic fans where their sport team becomes part of them. In this case, Bryan Stow encountered those extreme-type fans. While at a Dodger-Giants game, Stow was walking back to his car in Giant’s apparel when two men decked out in Dodger apparel approached him and started beating him to the pavement because he was a Giants fan.
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This wasn’t just a simple punch and be done with. They punched his head until he fell and continued the beating on the ground by kicking him unconscious. Stow was rushed to the hospital by friends. But he didn’t just walk away with some bruising and scars. Almost a week after the incident, he remains in a medically induced coma with brutal skull fractures and bruising to his brain. His doctor predicts a slow and long recovery process for him. Friends and family back home are rushing to do fundraisers and collect donations for his family to pay the medical bills. He was never known to be an aggressive man, hence the reason why he didn’t fight back (granted it was a sneak attack when they first started punching him in the head).
I can understand being a proud supporter of your team but going to the extremes of beating an innocent man in the parking lot is ridiculous. It would be one thing if it were a group of drunken men arguing back and forth antagonizing each other, taunting for a fight. But he was just walking back to his car with his children and friends and he was snuck up upon and was punched from the back of his head until he fell down and was kicked unconscious. Its so unfair to Stow and his friends and family that now he is suffering in his coma and everyone else back home is just waiting and hoping until he wakes up all because of some stupid, drunken fanatics that just went too far to an inappropriate level.
(PS-this isn't the a fight from the article, just a baseball fight in general between rivals Yankees and Red Sox fans)
(PS-this isn't the a fight from the article, just a baseball fight in general between rivals Yankees and Red Sox fans)
It goes to show how life can be so unexpected. This man expected to go to a baseball game with his friends and his children to enjoy the day and it ended up as a nightmare—beaten until unconscious and fell into a coma in which he still has not awoken almost a week later. The strain this must be putting on his wife and children must be so extreme and upsetting. Who knew that going to a simple baseball game could end in such disaster?
It astounds me people can't hate on another just for being fans of another team. It reminds me of the white-out game where I saw Penn State fans cursing at Michigan fans. We're usually only fans based on where we're born or where we went to school, so how can you hate another person for the same?
ReplyDeleteA little rivalry is great, but when it gets violent it's gone too far. Although when you're in the moment, it's a lot of fun. I remember when the Rays were in the world series how the fans would be on the brinks of fighting Phillies fans.
ReplyDeleteThat's just insane!!! American sports have such a great reputation in the world for the fairness among fans. I mean yes, soccer fans will do that to each other in Europe but here??? And I guess even Europe the emphasis is on 'to each other'. Sneak attacks no matter where are unacceptable and I hope they get charged with attempted murder.
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