In the headlines today is news of American tennis fans screaming from the stands and interrupting play.
A fan using language from Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime was thrown out this year. Last year two men were engaged in giving one of them a haircut. That was considered unruly.
So I guess there are people over-involved in the game and those under-involved. Somehow, they are at the game - who knows if they are there to watch the players play.
Everyone seems to have unruly fans. Adele had the problem in July. At a baseball game in Washington, unruly fans were pulling up chunks of grass.
What was the unruly fan doing at a Maple Leafs game in April? The young fan was spotted eating "liquorice with mayo" during the game. I guess he was dipping liquorice sticks into a jar of mayonnaise. Supposedly fans were left in "shock". I guess they weren't at the CNE this year with its special food fare.
It seems to be a part of sports - one can go to Wikipedia to find a year by year listing of unruly/violent incidents at sports games. It goes way back to the 1800s. It is HERE. Its most recent entry is December 17 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. There are other articles ranking the NFL's rowdiest/most annoying/obnoxious, and most arrested fans.
And hop over to the Guinness Book of Records. What do you get for a search on unruly fans? You get the loudest crowd roar in a sports stadium. Would that be unruly? It was 142.2 dbA in Kansas City in 2014.
Here's a view that could only be from a plane - between the clouds at sunset.
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