OT: 10¢ Beer Night: A story of Flashers, Streakers, Fireworks, Brawls, General Mayhem & a Swat Team

[NCPATSFAN1971]

It was the MNF game versus the Jets in 1976 that was actually the worst one. That was the one in which a drunk swiped a cop's gun and started dancing around and waving it in the air like a goofball before being taken down. Plus another idiot pissed on the back of an off duty nurse who was giving CPR to another fan who had just suffered a heart attack. They had paddy wagons filled with drunk fans that night.
I went to the Broncos MNF in 1980 and the Cowboys MNF in 1981. I don't recall hardly any fights in the Cowboys game (just the Cowboys dominating the game) but there were a TON of fights in the Broncos game. There was a brawl a couple of rows in front of me that lasted at least ten minutes that started over a fan returning to his seat with two beers and tripping over another fan's feet and spilling one of his beers on that fan. What started as those two fans jawing turned into a haymaker being thrown and eventually winding up with at least 15-20 people slugging it out. I never saw so many sucker punches thrown in my life. I stopped watching the game and just watched all the drunks fight each other. The cops let the fighters tire themselves out and then they moved in and they dragged them out like they were rag dolls. I know the drinking got so bad at the stadium that they used to sell low-alcohol beer for a while...

Love your Avatar! I was able to see Plunkett to Vataha happen live at the old Shaeffer Stadium.

I'm pretty sure I was at that Cowboys MNF Game in 81. If I remember correctly, that game wasn't sold out and a couple of friends and I decided to ride up to Foxboro and buy our tickets at the stadium. This was not a good idea because even though we got there on time, we had to wait in line so long that we didn't get into the game until close to the second quarter. One of my friends also had a bottle of booze get confiscated at the entry point.

I'm pretty sure they lost and the next day was a work day so not a good idea all around. . .