slipe
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Sunday night was bedlam, Monday there was a rally with 60,000 in the stadium and yesterday there was a parade with 100,000 people in attendance. There were the usual DUIs, but there were no major confrontations or damage of any kind.
There were social scientists on PBS radio yesterday trying to explain why it is so different here than in Philadelphia or Oakland. One suggested that we had never won anything and didnt know how to act. But the Tampa Bay area is always like that. It is a Southern and Mid-Western culture as opposed to the North-East culture of the Palm Beach Miami area.
From an editorial in todays paper:
The Tampa Bay Bucs showed the rest of the world how to win, and Buc fans showed the rest of the world how to celebrate victory.
Unfortunately, our society has gotten to the point that it makes news when fans of victorious teams don't smash store windows, don't torch cars, don't assault opposing fans and don't use the results of a ballgame as an excuse to act like all-around jerks. Some Oakland fans did all of that and more after Sunday's Super Bowl, and they didn't act up just because they lost. In the past, they've celebrated victory in much the same way.
While a handful of jerks disguised as Buc fans tried to ruin things, the overwhelming sentiment throughout Tampa Bay has been one of good-natured celebration. Monday night, more than 60,000 people converged for a hastily arranged welcome-home rally at Raymond James Stadium. Most of them waited patiently for hours for the gates to open and the team to arrive. In another community, such an unorganized event could have been a recipe for trouble. In Tampa Bay, the Monday night pep rally and Tuesday's parade turned into love-ins.
There were social scientists on PBS radio yesterday trying to explain why it is so different here than in Philadelphia or Oakland. One suggested that we had never won anything and didnt know how to act. But the Tampa Bay area is always like that. It is a Southern and Mid-Western culture as opposed to the North-East culture of the Palm Beach Miami area.
From an editorial in todays paper:
The Tampa Bay Bucs showed the rest of the world how to win, and Buc fans showed the rest of the world how to celebrate victory.
Unfortunately, our society has gotten to the point that it makes news when fans of victorious teams don't smash store windows, don't torch cars, don't assault opposing fans and don't use the results of a ballgame as an excuse to act like all-around jerks. Some Oakland fans did all of that and more after Sunday's Super Bowl, and they didn't act up just because they lost. In the past, they've celebrated victory in much the same way.
While a handful of jerks disguised as Buc fans tried to ruin things, the overwhelming sentiment throughout Tampa Bay has been one of good-natured celebration. Monday night, more than 60,000 people converged for a hastily arranged welcome-home rally at Raymond James Stadium. Most of them waited patiently for hours for the gates to open and the team to arrive. In another community, such an unorganized event could have been a recipe for trouble. In Tampa Bay, the Monday night pep rally and Tuesday's parade turned into love-ins.