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From: gates@bdmrrr.UUCP (Al Gates)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: naughty football fans
Message-ID: <479@bdmrrr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 17:52:15 EST
Article-I.D.: bdmrrr.479
Posted: Mon Nov 18 17:52:15 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 21:04:46 EST
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Isn't football for the fans?  What's wrong with a bunch of fans cheering for
their team?  Isn't that what the game is for?

If fans want to interfere with the football being played, that's their right.
Without the fans, football is NOTHING.  The fans pay all of the salaries.
If Seattle fans get extra entertainment out of disrupting a football game with
their noise, what's wrong with that?  That's why they paid to sit in the 
Kingdome. 

The snowball incident is a little more severe.  This is not because the 
snowball distracted Cavanaugh, but because it was dangerous to the players.
Injuries caused by fan disruption are not forgivable.  

Here's a side note about fan noise--on Saturday, the University of Michigan
played at the Metrodome versus the University of Minnesota.  Several Michigan
plays were disrupted because of noise.  What was the final score you ask?
Michigan 48 Minnesota 7.  You can't tell me that fan noise played a major part
in this game.



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Al Gates
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