Get A Fucking Grip, You Shitheads Of Sports

[Madeline]

I like a sports rivalry as much as the next person. I like a beer as much as the next person. But this story makes me so goddamned mad I'd like to dip some people in tar and feather them....

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tuesday's edition of The Plain Dealer included a letter to the editor from Danielle Brennan of Painesville Township.

WEWS Channel 5 has telecast an interview with Brennan, and ESPN.com has reported the story, which developed after the Cleveland Browns lost to the New York Jets, 26-20 in overtime, on Sunday.

Brennan's letter to the editor, published in Tuesday's The Plain Dealer:

Our family has made Cleveland our home for almost 12 years, and we tell everyone we know it is a wonderful city full of great people. Today, I'm ashamed to live here.

As a birthday gift, my husband and 8-year-old son attended the Browns-Jets game. The Jets are their favorite team. What started out as an exciting day ended with an injured little boy.

We knew there would be hecklers, but never would I have thought that my son would be called an expletive to his face or have hot dogs thrown at him. But the worst was when he was tackled by a drunken adult male in the parking lot. Yes, tackled! Can you imagine the fear that went through his mind as this buffoon landed on him with full force? It makes me sick to see the very large scrape and bruising he received.

Shame on you, Browns fans! No matter how intense the game or who the opponent is, kids are off limits. End of story. I wonder if those repulsive fans were able to sleep Sunday night, knowing they assaulted a child. I know I didn't.

-DANIELLE BRENNAN

Painesville Township

WEWS now reports that the Jets have offered to fly the Brennan family to New York to watch a Jets game from a suite. WEWS adds:

The family said they appreciate the offer, but they've graciously declined and they are done with the story. They said they just want the Muni Lot to be safer.

8-year-old Jets fan tackled by Cleveland Browns fan in spotlight after mother's letter to Plain Dealer; family declines Jets' offer | cleveland.com

If you do not pause for a moment at a game to see whether there are small children near you; if you do not make every effort to assure those children feel safe near you; if you have the stupidity and criminal mindset to hector, throw things at and assault a child over a football game.....you are a shithead and I hope to God they arrest and convict you shortly.

Get. A. Fucking. Grip.

 

[HUGGY]

I like a sports rivalry as much as the next person. I like a beer as much as the next person. But this story makes me so goddamned mad I'd like to dip some people in tar and feather them....

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tuesday's edition of The Plain Dealer included a letter to the editor from Danielle Brennan of Painesville Township.

WEWS Channel 5 has telecast an interview with Brennan, and ESPN.com has reported the story, which developed after the Cleveland Browns lost to the New York Jets, 26-20 in overtime, on Sunday.

Brennan's letter to the editor, published in Tuesday's The Plain Dealer:

Our family has made Cleveland our home for almost 12 years, and we tell everyone we know it is a wonderful city full of great people. Today, I'm ashamed to live here.

As a birthday gift, my husband and 8-year-old son attended the Browns-Jets game. The Jets are their favorite team. What started out as an exciting day ended with an injured little boy.

We knew there would be hecklers, but never would I have thought that my son would be called an expletive to his face or have hot dogs thrown at him. But the worst was when he was tackled by a drunken adult male in the parking lot. Yes, tackled! Can you imagine the fear that went through his mind as this buffoon landed on him with full force? It makes me sick to see the very large scrape and bruising he received.

Shame on you, Browns fans! No matter how intense the game or who the opponent is, kids are off limits. End of story. I wonder if those repulsive fans were able to sleep Sunday night, knowing they assaulted a child. I know I didn't.

-DANIELLE BRENNAN

Painesville Township

WEWS now reports that the Jets have offered to fly the Brennan family to New York to watch a Jets game from a suite. WEWS adds:

The family said they appreciate the offer, but they've graciously declined and they are done with the story. They said they just want the Muni Lot to be safer.

8-year-old Jets fan tackled by Cleveland Browns fan in spotlight after mother's letter to Plain Dealer; family declines Jets' offer | cleveland.com

If you do not pause for a moment at a game to see whether there are small children near you; if you do not make every effort to assure those children feel safe near you; if you have the stupidity and criminal mindset to hector, throw things at and assault a child over a football game.....you are a shithead and I hope to God they arrest and convict you shortly.

Get. A. Fucking. Grip.

A family moved to C"leave"land 12 years ago? Now THAT is the real crime in this story!

 

[Madeline]

I like a sports rivalry as much as the next person. I like a beer as much as the next person. But this story makes me so goddamned mad I'd like to dip some people in tar and feather them....

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tuesday's edition of The Plain Dealer included a letter to the editor from Danielle Brennan of Painesville Township.

WEWS Channel 5 has telecast an interview with Brennan, and ESPN.com has reported the story, which developed after the Cleveland Browns lost to the New York Jets, 26-20 in overtime, on Sunday.

Brennan's letter to the editor, published in Tuesday's The Plain Dealer:


WEWS now reports that the Jets have offered to fly the Brennan family to New York to watch a Jets game from a suite. WEWS adds:

The family said they appreciate the offer, but they've graciously declined and they are done with the story. They said they just want the Muni Lot to be safer.

8-year-old Jets fan tackled by Cleveland Browns fan in spotlight after mother's letter to Plain Dealer; family declines Jets' offer | cleveland.com

If you do not pause for a moment at a game to see whether there are small children near you; if you do not make every effort to assure those children feel safe near you; if you have the stupidity and criminal mindset to hector, throw things at and assault a child over a football game.....you are a shithead and I hope to God they arrest and convict you shortly.

Get. A. Fucking. Grip.

A family moved to C"leave"land 12 years ago? Now THAT is the real crime in this story!

Cleveland has no "exclusive" on assholes. They exist everywhere, and for some reason, everyone expects a moritorium on drunk driving and public drunkenness laws at sports events, especially football. Fuck that. The law is the law for everyone, everywhere.

You want to get tanked and act the fool? Stay home, where hopefully you will frighten and assault nobody but yourself.

 

[xotoxi]

I hope that the other people in the parking lot gave that man a good beating.

However...the kid IS a Jets fan...so...

 

[Madeline]

There are many, many comments on cleveland.com about this, xotoxi. A lot of people are in denial that this happened because no one else has stepped forward to say they witnessed it, no arrest was made, etc.

What really chaps my ass is, we hear bellyaching around here all the time about young adults creating a hazard when they exit nighclubs in the Warehouse District at closing time on the weekends. Most of the bitching is racially motivated....but nobody can accuse our young people of battering children at what is supposed to be a family event in the middle of the fucking day.

For that, we need old white guys wearing Browns' jerseys. Makes me absolutely furious.

 

[xotoxi]

There are many, many comments on cleveland.com about this, xotoxi. A lot of people are in denial that this happened because no one else has stepped forward to say they witnessed it, no arrest was made, etc.

What really chaps my ass is, we hear bellyaching around here all the time about young adults creating a hazard when they exit nighclubs in the Warehouse District at closing time on the weekends. Most of the bitching is racially motivated....but nobody can accuse our young people of battering children at what is supposed to be a family event in th middle of the fucking day.

For that, we need old white guys wearing Browns' jerseys. Makes me absolutely furious.

To tell you the truth, I like the Browns' uniforms.

 

[Madeline]

There are many, many comments on cleveland.com about this, xotoxi. A lot of people are in denial that this happened because no one else has stepped forward to say they witnessed it, no arrest was made, etc.

What really chaps my ass is, we hear bellyaching around here all the time about young adults creating a hazard when they exit nighclubs in the Warehouse District at closing time on the weekends. Most of the bitching is racially motivated....but nobody can accuse our young people of battering children at what is supposed to be a family event in th middle of the fucking day.

For that, we need old white guys wearing Browns' jerseys. Makes me absolutely furious.

To tell you the truth, I like the Browns' uniforms.

And that comment is responsive to the Op how exactly, xotoxi?

 

[Mad Scientist]

I seem to recall a game a few years back when the Denver Broncos were in Cleveland, was it a playoff game? Anyway, I think Denver was close to the goal line and was gonna' score but the fans were throwing things at the players to include "D" cell batteries! The Referees had to move Denver to the other side just to get the game moving again and protect the players!

A few years ago I was on the D.C. subway and it just so happened that the Dallas Cowboys were playing the Washington Redskins on Monday night football the next day so lot's of people were wearing Redskins jerseys. Well, this one guy got on wearing a Cowboys jersey and you would have thought a riot was gonna' break out! Many people were yelling and swearing at him, I kinda' felt sorry for the guy. I said to this guy next to me who was wearing a Redskins jersey, "Man, you guys take your sports seriously don't you?" and he said "Oh yeah. What's your team?". I told him I used to be a Raider fan until they went back to Oakland. He just said "Well, you should wear your colors man". "Colors", like the Crips and Bloods wear colors. I just thought to myself, "Umm, no. That shit aint that important".

I love watching sports as much as the next man but hey, if the NFL folded tomorrow my life wouldn't change one god damn bit! And until some NFL team sends me a check, I don't care if they lose all their games.

 

[Madeline]

Down south, it's SEC not NFL. The babygirl, being a direct descendent of my let's-be-a-pain-in-the-ass-in-HS family, wore UF gear to HS in a VERY Seminoles town and even some of her teachers gave her shit. (I did not know this until years later, or I would have ripped the teachers open and left them to bleed to death, BTW.)

Cleveland needs to close the Muny Lot, where all this tailgating goes on, until a couple of hours before the game and make all the arrests warranted for public drunkenness and drunk driving. The stadium needs to stop selling alcohol, period.

We dun need to hold a taxpayer-sponsored riot every weekend here in the fall and winter.

 

[HUGGY]

Woah.!!!..there cupcake!!!!

All this angst over one itsy bitsy kid gettin accidently "bumped into" by a Browns fan that probably was just defending his teams honor after the brat in question most likely sashayed through the crowd yelling at the locals with the insults and how do you know the tyke wasn't drunk? You don't do you?

Stop selling alcohol at football games!!!???? BLASPHAMY!!!!!!

Do you even know how long it takes to get set up for a decent tailgate?? It takes a couple of hours JUST TO GET PARKED!!!! Then there is the grill set up and waiting on friends for ice and extra beer ...and the tv satelite hookup... then ya gotta cook the brats nice and slow... THEN...ya need a couple of hours to talk about stuff like the latest trades and injuries and build up enough/dink up enough courage to go watch your shitty Browns team get thier asses handed to them..

Where was I? Oh ya the "kid".. It's a football game sugar"T's" ...Kid gonna remember this little scrape ...walk it off .. and work on his form...as it should be. Then when the Browns come a visitin.. He'll have a few of his buddies all lined up and the tide will turn..the tables switched and he can call the shots.. Why don't ya think they call it HOME FEILD ADVANTAGE??????

CHRIST!!!!!!!! This is the stuff RIVALRIES are made of!!!!! This kid will be in a bar 20 years from now in "New Jersey" or some god forsaken town just like yours and the story will be exaggerated ....It's beautifull...It's American...

ARE YOU SOME KINDA COMMUNIST??????????

 

[topspin]

I say it's child abuse by the dad. He knew ahead of time the dog pound is full of drunken morons. Take the kid without the jets gear and all is well.

 

[Si modo]

Down south, it's SEC not NFL. The babygirl, being a direct descendent of my let's-be-a-pain-in-the-ass-in-HS family, wore UF gear to HS in a VERY Seminoles town and even some of her teachers gave her shit. (I did not know this until years later, or I would have ripped the teachers open and left them to bleed to death, BTW.)

Cleveland needs to close the Muny Lot, where all this tailgating goes on, until a couple of hours before the game and make all the arrests warranted for public drunkenness and drunk driving. The stadium needs to stop selling alcohol, period.

We dun need to hold a taxpayer-sponsored riot every weekend here in the fall and winter.

It's "Muni Lot, fool. And, I only lived in Chagrin Falls for eight months.

 

[Revere]

80,000 people should not be allowed to buy beer at a football game, bumpkin?

 

[rightwinger]

I blame stadium security. The idea that just because a fan pays the outlandish price of an NFL ticket does not give them the right to act like idiots in public. Fact is, there are young kids all over the stadium. If you are using profanity, throwing things, acting rowdy....you should be warned and then escorted out if you do not stop.

If you eject one fan from a section for abusive behavior, nobody else will say a word. If you let him get away with it, everyone else will join in. People paying $500+ to see a game should not have to put up with this

 

[GHook93]

I will admit back in the day I rarely watched my language and always drank too much before Bears games! Now that I have kids, I still drink too much, but I am considerate of other little ones around. I still playfully heckle Packers fans (nothing like tossing things at them or touching or threats, rather just you drove all that way from Green Bay to watch your team get their asses kicked!), but NEVER when there is a child with them, NEVER!

But word to parents going to any sporting event. If you are going to root for the other team, there are always drunk assholes. Wear a jacket until you get inside. Don't take too much offense if you are playfully heckled. But if someone is excessive, then get security!

 

[Revere]

The parents punted a trip to New York to watch a Jets game in a suite?

They are bigger assholes than the guy who tackled the kid.

If the really cared about the kid, they'd take him to New York to see a game.

 

[GHook93]

I say it's child abuse by the dad. He knew ahead of time the dog pound is full of drunken morons. Take the kid without the jets gear and all is well.

You're WRONG! Say Cleveland won the Superbowl (that'll be the day), what would any fan really get! Some joy, pride maybe, but financially or personally they get nothing. People have to remember its a game and to have fun! Belittling, fighting or threatening a fan of the other team is well STUPID!

I personally wouldn't go to a game with little kids wearing the opposing team, but that is just me.

 

[HUGGY]

In Seattle if a fan does something that is truly aggregious... like throw a dangerous projectile or show up wearing a Cardinals or Raiders jersey they can and will and HAVE had thier season tickets yanked and if the "incedent" is bad enough..banned for life... That has happened when alcohol has a factor..

 

[GHook93]

The parents punted a trip to New York to watch a Jets game in a suite?

They are bigger assholes than the guy who tackled the kid.

If the really cared about the kid, they'd take him to New York to see a game.

That is exactly what I thought! You get a chance to take your son to the team he loves in their home stadium. In fact they would be in a suite! It almost makes me think that the bitch made up the story!

I mean I have been one Yankees game. Game 6 of the World Series in '98 when they beat Atlanta! Talk about rowdy fans. I saw a mob of people surrounding a family of Braves (and I truly mean BRAVE) fans, a hushand, wife and 3 young kids, yelling A-S-S-H-O-L-E all the way to the gates. However, there was not touching or physical acts of any kind!

During Bears and Packers games, the Bears fans get rowdy and rude, but I rarely see anything escalate into a fight and you never see people attack or touch kids. In all honesty if a Bears fan attacked a kid wearing a Farve jersy, I have no doubt other Bears fans would be right on the side of the Packers fan!

 

[Granny]

Yes, and 80,000 fans should still be "conscious" enough to make a sane judgment about pelting or tackling any child. And those 79,999 other fans should be conscious enough to bring the situation to a halt.

Today's fans' unleashed passion for their sports are not a whole lot different than Romans screaming for the blood of the gladiators.

It's a sport. Enjoy the game. The earth will not stop turning based on the losses of your team.