Alcohol and crappy character?
I've told this story before, but I don't think on the B10 board, so like an old man repeating himself..... On 1/1/02 at the Illinois vs. LSU Sugar Bowl my buddy and I sat behind an elderly Illini couple and their middle-aged son, three increasingly drunk LSU assholes next to us kept trying to start stuff with them--yes, an elderly couple--and, long story short, we wound up in a fight with them. I'm not some expert fighter or badass, but it probably helped that they were drunk and my buddy was a prison guard at the time.
I bring that up because I didn't understand it then and I still don't. I've really never seen anything like it in person. I've only rarely seen people get that slung off about anything, and never before or since--fortunately--about a freaking football game. But evidently there are stupid, crazy, mean, violent people out there.
Twice that I recall at one of the many Texas games I attended in Austin, some burnt-orange shit in the crowd outside put their hands on me and moved me out of their way without an "Excuse me" or "I need to get by you" or anything. Like they weren't raised to express their needs and get my cooperation.....no, just grab somebody by the shoulders and shove them out of the way. That stuff makes me see red, but it still wasn't enough to make me go off on them....I mean, why bother, it was over and an apology wouldn't have made me feel any better.
I do remember the female Alabama fan who killed another lady 10ish years ago because she didn't feel like the victim was adequately enraged about Alabama not winning by enough.
But Gumps are all crazy, everybody knows that.
