You stay classy Vancouver.

[chance1]

Nice try, but you used punctuation.

Again, but with more scolding and a bossy, know-it-all attitude.

Don't forget to try and impress...

You're not gonna mention that Mitt Romney got in a car accident and imply it was his fault?

U have a new friend

 

[JayHawk]

Keep drinking

Childish to not answer the question... so Americans NEVER riot after wins and losses do they.... nope just them Canadians.

 

[MystikWizard]

It's because Canadians, in general, have such an inferiority complex with how they are viewed by the rest of the world. It's rather ridiculous. There is very much an unusual sense of nationalism up there, as I've seen first hand from visiting there and interacting/reading comments from people from Canada on the Internet.

Way too much of a Nationalistic outlook, imo.

They think of hockey as "their sport" and were embarrassed by their loss ... so this is the result. Ridiculous.

 

[JayHawk]

Oh I agree it is ridiculous but Canada is hardly the first to do this and they will not be the last. Start with rowdy drunk jocks... add the bitter feeling of loss.... meh...whadda ya expect.

 

[CowboyBob]

You're not gonna mention that Mitt Romney got in a car accident and imply it was his fault?

U have a new friend

Glad to see you found the apostrophe button!

Next time we'll go for the comma.

baby steps
baby steps

 

[chance1]

Childish to not answer the question... so Americans NEVER riot after wins and losses do they.... nope just them Canadians.

This week .......... Major Mofo incident in BC - in 1994 after last Stanley cup experience similar

It's news

Your answer is like saying about wiener ....... "vitter did it"

Canucks should take their lumps and zip it

Just saying

 

[rareboy]

San Francisco

After the Giants won the 2010 World Series, San Francisco erupted in what the Chronicle called “joyful mayhem.” Close to 7,000 of the city’s normally peacenik residents decided the city by the bay had to burn. Keep in mind that this is the city has seriously considered banning circumcisions and Happy Meals.


The normally painfully boring sport quickly became painful for anyone caught walking down the city’s famed Market St.

The “joyful mayhem” consisted of looting, fires and destroying perfectly good cars, although this time it wasn’t because the vehicle wasn’t up to emissions standards.

Los Angeles

California again. Ugh.

The only thing good about Los Angeles is that the residents are constantly trying to burn it to the ground. So in that regard, it really is the city of angels.

Riots broke out after the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship this past June. And they did the same thing back in 2000 because Shaquille O’Neal was named the series’ MVP. None of these outbursts of “joyful mayhem” compare to angry mayhem, however. (POST UP: Mavericks champion arrested for being drunk in public)

In 1992, the city almost crumbled in the the sea after sanity was shutout in the Rodney King finals.

University of Maryland

It’s not always the fans who are responsible for shocking displays of violence.

After University of Maryland beat Duke in 2009, its students got in trouble for public exuberance. That’s when the Prince George’s County police force came riding in to keep the cheerful, but not riotous, crowd in line.

As U of M student John “Jack” McKenna celebrated on the sidewalk, several officers on horseback surrounded him before their reinforcements charged in, slammed McKenna against a wall and viciously beat a fetal-shaped McKenna at least 12 times. All the police brutality was caught on the new-fangled technology the damned kids carry around with them these days.

The incident sparked an investigation, particularly after McKenna was originally charged with disorderly conduct. iPhones and flipcams might offer enjoyable YouTube clips of riots, but they also help document the abuses of police when it’s claimed that order needed to be maintained among mindless sports fanatics.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/16/the-best-worst-riots-in-sports/#ixzz1PX4OF5Vq

Good lord. you'd think that all of Canada converged on the city to riot over losing the game. We've gone from branding a whole city as crazed hooligans to now painting an entire country as out of control.

The fact is, the usual group of anarchists seized upon the event to create mayhem.

But Canadians are nothing if not good students. After seeing how it was done in various US cities including Boston in 2008....I guess that Vancouver can now take a place among the great sports cities of the world.

Is there anything to defend? No. It was criminal behaviour by drunken, angry and destructive idiots. Would the idea have occurred to them without the precedent of the Soccer riots and the sports riots in the US? Who knows.

But if this event gives Chance and Springer some sense of enjoyment...let's let them have their moment, because these days they get so few.

 

[chance1]

Chance would never miss an opportunity to post something self-righteous.

Defending the riot or rather deflecting .........

Take issue with that

Better use of ur time

 

[rareboy]

^ And......... cue more finger wagging.

We must be only one post away from Chance telling Max how he has changed and has disappointed him now that he has become part of the 'club'.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I thought Vancouver was on the wealthy west side of Canada

 

[chance1]

^ And......... cue more finger wagging.

We must be only one post away from Chance telling Max how he has changed and has disappointed him now that he has become part of the 'club'.

Earth to Canuck

"To do's" after winning championships is unfortunately the norm or at best common- see Detroit

i guess sometimes after losing too

Part of life - an ugly part but part

My entry here has only been to say to "defenders" ....... zip it

as there is no defense other than, you're right

have you paid ur club dues this month?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Canada riots over a hockey game.

Something seems wrong with that.

Very European.

I never understood why right-wing demonstrations are mostly not allowed in Western Europe, but that the authorities are perfectly okay with sports supporters periodically trashing their inner cities.

 

[landers]

I thought Vancouver was on the wealthy west side of Canada

Someone still has to clean the wealthy's sheets.