Raining Snowballs - New England Patriots Forums

nepatz11 · 12-16-2007, 08:10 PM

Honestly throwing snow up in the air is a lot of fun and it is harmless. It is now a New England Tradition. But I could not believe the amount of snowballs thrown on the field and in the stands. I would say there were literally hundred of snowballs thrown today that hit the field. I swear as Mangini walked off the field somone threaded the needle and snuck a snowball through the wall of security people surrounding the colossal DB and it hit him on the head. Yeah it is kind of funny that Mangini got hit but I felt bad for the cops and security guards who got pelted with hundreds of snowballs all day. I mean it was completely redicoulous and surprising that this could happen in Gillette. I guess the wine and cheese crowd doesn't fully own the Razor yet. Anyways any thoughts?

***danny88*** · 12-16-2007, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by nepatz11

Honestly throwing snow up in the air is a lot of fun and it is harmless. It is now a New England Tradition. But I could not believe the amount of snowballs thrown on the field and in the stands. I would say there were literally hundred of snowballs thrown today that hit the field. I swear as Mangini walked off the field somone threaded the needle and snuck a snowball through the wall of security people surrounding the colossal DB and it hit him on the head. Yeah it is kind of funny that Mangini got hit but I felt bad for the cops and security guards who got pelted with hundreds of snowballs all day. I mean it was completely redicoulous and surprising that this could happen in Gillette. I guess the wine and cheese crowd doesn't fully own the Razor yet. Anyways any thoughts?

Any fanbase would throw snowballs if they had the ability to. Im glad someone whaled the rat with a snowball.

sebman2112 · 12-16-2007, 08:12 PM

Thoughts? It's ******ing pathetic!

The fans are lucky they didn't cost the Patriots an unsportsmanlike penalty, especially after at least one official got hit by an iceball.

SmokeShowin · 12-16-2007, 08:14 PM

A guy called the post-game show on WBCN bragging that he was sitting 6 rows behind the Jets bench and that he hit Mangini.

Security came up and warned the kid next to us 3 times to stop throwing snowballs. We're 2 rows from the top and he's trying to hit the field. Then he started randomly throwing them at people in our section. He nailed a girl coming up the stairs with food in the side of the head, nearly knocked her down the stairs.

***danny88*** · 12-16-2007, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by sebman2112

Thoughts? It's ******ing pathetic!

The fans are lucky they didn't cost the Patriots an unsportsmanlike penalty, especially after at least one official got hit by an iceball.

The refs would penalize the pats because the fans threw snowballs? It is 100 percent impossible to stop a massive crowd from hurling snow balls when it is all over the stadium.

Few idiots are always going to be idiots. That sid Im glad Mangini got hit with a snowball.

brady199 · 12-16-2007, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by nepatz11

Honestly throwing snow up in the air is a lot of fun and it is harmless. It is now a New England Tradition. But I could not believe the amount of snowballs thrown on the field and in the stands. I would say there were literally hundred of snowballs thrown today that hit the field. I swear as Mangini walked off the field somone threaded the needle and snuck a snowball through the wall of security people surrounding the colossal DB and it hit him on the head. Yeah it is kind of funny that Mangini got hit but I felt bad for the cops and security guards who got pelted with hundreds of snowballs all day. I mean it was completely redicoulous and surprising that this could happen in Gillette. I guess the wine and cheese crowd doesn't fully own the Razor yet. Anyways any thoughts?

on TV they only showed one snowball on the field.
so it didn't look that bad.
I thought the stopage was ridiculous, but if there were alot of snowballs then i understand.

SmokeShowin · 12-16-2007, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by danny88

The refs would penalize the pats because the fans threw snowballs? It is 100 percent impossible to stop a massive crowd from hurling snow balls when it is all over the stadium.

Lighten up

They could stop the game for player safety, in which game the Pats forfeit.

Those weren't snowballs, they were iceballs.

SmokeShowin · 12-16-2007, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by brady199

on TV they only showed one snowball on the field.
so it didn't look that bad.
I thought the stopage was ridiculous, but if there were alot of snowballs then i understand.

It was literally raining snowballs.

bpeter17 · 12-16-2007, 08:18 PM

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Any fanbase would throw snowballs if they had the ability to. Im glad someone whaled the rat with a snowball.

i disagree. you will always see a few snowballs when it snows, but it seemed like things were a bit out of control today. They had to halt the game until it stopped - i've never seen that before.

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Thoughts? It's ******ing pathetic!

The fans are lucky they didn't cost the Patriots an unsportsmanlike penalty, especially after at least one official got hit by an iceball.

agreed. I wonder if it had anything with the fact that a lot of people probably gave their tickets away for the game and there were more yahoos there than normal.

ten (?) or so years ago the giants took away a whole bunch of season tickets when some fans did that - curious if anything will come of it.

nepatz11 · 12-16-2007, 08:22 PM

Yeah i dont know what TV showed but there were a lot of snowballs that hit the field. Most of them made it to where the security, cops, and camera guys were and those were the people who got the brunt of it but many made the field and definitely the back judge got hit. They stopped the game for good reason. They warned the crowd 2 times before they stopped the game. There were a lot of snowballs.