Misplaced Red Sox fan surprisingly appears and starts fight at the US Open.
Tennis can reek with boredom as an observer sport. Little has happened to give it spark since McEnroe retired. But this all changed at the US Open last night, when one heckler’s choice of words launched a bleacher-wide brawl.
Naming the athletes would be moot, because most people could care less about tennis athletes, super-models excepted—especially that there are no Americans in the running and everyone’s name is so hard to pronounce. What we want to know is the name of the smack-talking punk in the video below. Without actually dispensing any punches, he manages to receive a tumult for tossing pops down a row of seats and fending off an embittered woman. If the US Open wants to attract the attention baseball and hockey have, they should start by giving this man a life-time pass to any televised match, and perhaps a talk show to boot.
[NY Post]
September 07, 2010 at 5:51 pm, M2 said:
So, Gray, you point is that if there isn't some stupid, drunken teenage drama going on—either on the court/field or in the stands—then a sport is not worth watching? This is what separates tennis from football, hockey, basketball, soccer and pretty much everything else (except golf) in the sports world… it's CIVILIZED. And tennis fans appreciate that. Clearly, you've seen too much terrible behavior at the hands of 'professional' athletes and probably way to much reality TV, and like the rest of the brain-dead country, you find that entertaining. Congratulations.