NYT: At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment

jake · 2007-11-20
NYT:

At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps at Gate D. Three deep in some areas, they whistled and jumped up and down. Then they began an obscenity-laced chant, demanding that the few women in the gathering expose their breasts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/sports/football/20fans.html?_r=1&oref=slogin It is a rough spin. Jake

SpiritOf68 · 2007-11-21
Re: NYT: At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment

While I don't approve of such behavior, I do take objection to the implication that football games elsewhere are packed with saintly fans that never get rowdy. Allegedly, this is a "tradition", which has gone on "for years", yet no news agency has seen fit to discuss it until we find ourselves in the wake of a stunning win.

SpiritOf68 · 2007-11-21
Re: NYT: At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment

Also, I was at the Buffalo game and in the area during halftime and saw no such thing. Could be because the stadium was dead though.

jake · 2007-11-21
Re: NYT: At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment

It happens at a ton of other stadiums and if that one person doesn't like it, well, they should walk away. Again, if the Meadowlands wanted to change it they could. Jake