Bloody hell. Makes me ashamed to live in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and even more ashamed to say I was a Canucks fan. Damned idiots.

Do you mean real football, as in played by most of the world by kicking a ball with your foot?

Or the American Hand-Egg, where foot play is incidental, and the egg is carried or thrown more often than not?


:P

this is laughable..they should kick asses of opponents suporting team.this is just childish.im a big man,i can brake window with a stick

Indeed

And this topic made me think of Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot. Awesome.

Soccer's great, but the fans blow, form the riots to the flares.

Just in case it's not clear, this is a HOCKEY riot. It's actually a rare occurrence, even in Canada. Hockey is an entertaining sport to watch, so hockey fandom doesn't revolve around the sideshow stuff that soccer fans use to keep interest in their insanely dull sport. Hockey rioting is kind of a tradition in Vancouver though. I'm sure they'll go back to using the fear of causing one as an excuse for why they lose in the first two rounds.

On a somewhat related note: I can't tell you how much fun it was to see Bobby Lou humiliated.

I would say the show part belongs more to the american way of view. I know from some canadians that hockey is special to them, closer than football is for us europeans than like the other sports for your americans. While there is a closer connection and tradition there are also more emotions involved. This doesn't mean that riots are tolerable, of course not.

About the dull part we better don't start a discussion ;-) You really don't want to know what most europeans think about american footbal, baseball or basketball.

Edit: Ok, I must add that basketball is also popular in south europe, especially in greece. But this basketball is absoluety different to yours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiT72i0-0NE

LOL *THIS IS HOCKEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
(*this is sparta voice)

Hockey is awesome. Unlike in some sports like Soccer, if the action gets too one sided, they go out and fight so that you don't have to lose your beer when somebody starts a riot.

Plus, you don't have to pretend like you don't like it so that the cool kids will stop dunking your head in the toilet.

Plus, the action is crammed into such a tiny rink that there's always something going on. But the scoring is infrequent enough so as to be interesting.

I just wish we hadn't let our hockey team move to Tacoma. Now, I have to choose between Thunderbirds and Silvertips. Screw the NHL for not having any actual teams within some sort of sane driving range.

I know that hockey is big up there (I'm rather fond of it myself). Still, only Vancouver and Montreal ever seem to riot over it.

Also, I'm aware of what Europeans think of sports other than soccer. Specifically, from hearing Europeans talk about them I'm aware that they've rarely actually watched them. Also, I wasn't the first to start in on soccer vs North American sports. Not surprising really, as it breaks out whenever ANY sport is mentioned on an international message board.

The last thing I'll say on the soccer subject is that the amount of stuff soccer crowds have time for is NOT a good sign. It doesn't resemble anything that goes on during American professional sports. It does, however, look an awful lot like American college sports, where many of the fans are notoriously more interested in the rituals and rivalries than they are in whatever sporting event is actually taking place.

Ok, that's all. I've insulted both soccer AND American college sports, so I don't think there is anyone left to piss off.

Call the Adeptus Arbites. They have the proper answer to insubordinary citizens. Some nice riot control shotgun shells.

Have a nice day

I'm aware that different local sports are popular around Europe. I'm a hockey fan, so it would be hard not to be.

Your original comment was about what Europeans think of North American sports. I should have made it clear that I meant those.

I wouldn't be too harsh on Vancouver.

Things have been similar in Montreal and probably in other cities that are serious about their hockey.

Surely, there is something we can do to prevent those incidents, but I'm unsure what.

My first reaction is neutering or placing snipers on rooftops before big hockey games, but that's just the anger in me talking.