Seat hopping gone bad

[I Should Coco]

Perhaps someone had a few too many namesake products at "Busch Stadium":

HED: Fan falls from Busch Stadium upper deck

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 30-year-old man fell headfirst from the upper deck at Busch Stadium on to the concourse below before the St. Louis Cardinals played the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Witnesses said it appeared the man fainted in the 92-degree heat. Joe Walsh, director of stadium operations, said the fan fell on to an empty seat after grazing a female fan nearby.

The man was conscious as he was being taken to a hospital for observation, Walsh said.

The fan apparently toppled over a front-row railing and fell about one story to the concourse while a youth choir was singing "God Bless America." The fan was strapped to a gurney and wheeled away shortly after the game began.

And what exactly does AP mean by "grazing a female fan nearby"?

Now, I could see if he was "gazing" at a female fan that he might forget where the railing was ...

 

[EagleMorph]

"Grazing a female fan nearby" means that the fan didn't land on anyone, but simply made contact with a woman next to the empty seat in which the fan dropped into.

 

[doubledown68]

^^^^^ unavailable for comment.

Best fans in baseball, etc.

 

[YankeeFan]

The guy fell head first from the upper deck and he's conscious?

I can't believe he's alive.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Honestly, I'm shocked this doesn't happen more often considering the BAC of some fans and the way stadiums are designed.

I saw a guy fall out of the upper deck at Arrowhead when the Steelers played there one year. He hit the first row of the second deck, bounced off those people and landed in the loge seats. He very drunk and sustained minor injuries. I think the woman on the second deck was partially paralyzed (don't remember for sure).

 

[I Should Coco]

Honestly, I'm shocked this doesn't happen more often considering the BAC of some fans and the way stadiums are designed.

No doubt. I remember when "New Comiskey Park" opened with that steep upper deck, and I remember SOBER people being scared they would fall out of the upper deck as they gingerly walked down the aisles to their seats.

And yeah, there's a bit of drinking that occurs among fans at Chicago ball parks.

 

[Firstime Caller]

Honestly, I'm shocked this doesn't happen more often considering the BAC of some fans and the way stadiums are designed.

No doubt. I remember when "New Comiskey Park" opened with that steep upper deck, and I remember SOBER people being scared they would fall out of the upper deck as they gingerly walked down the aisles to their seats.

And yeah, there's a bit of drinking that occurs among fans at Chicago ball parks.

Yeah, that place, especially in the far up there rows, was quite scary even sober. I haven't been up there since they redid it and I think took a few of the highest rows off. The first time I went up there was scary enough.

 

[Batman]

Did he land on Ryan Ludwick and save the Queen of England?

 

[Bubbler]

Did he land on Ryan Ludwick and save the Queen of England?

Awesome.

 

[Bullrog]

Did he land on Ryan Ludwick and save the Queen of England?

Unavailable for comment:

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Well, at least he wasn't making a bet with his buddies, like that guy at the old Yankee Stadium who jumped out of the deck on purpose and landed on the netting.

I think that guy got some jail time as well.

 

[brettwatson]

Ever wonder how much attendance at major sporting events would be cut if alcohol was verboten?

50 percent? 75 percent?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Ever wonder how much attendance at major sporting events would be cut if alcohol was verboten?

50 percent? 75 percent?

Not anywhere close to that high. Mainly because it would be offset by people who'd be willing to take their kids now that the brawling, cursing drunks are gone.

 

[deskslave]

Ever wonder how much attendance at major sporting events would be cut if alcohol was verboten?

50 percent? 75 percent?

Not anywhere close to that high. Mainly because it would be offset by people who'd be willing to take their kids now that the brawling, cursing drunks are gone.

I can't imagine too many drunks are getting loaded AT the game, not for 8 bucks a beer. Pre-gaming has to play a role for the worst of the worst.

 

[Bubbler]

****. Unruly behavior is nothing now compared to the way it was when I was young in the 70s.

You'd see knockdown drag out brawls in the stands at County Stadium complete with cops pulling people out of the stands. When I was a kid I thought it was normal.

Bill James wrote about the phenomenon of improved fan behavior (which he says started in the 80s and seems that way to me too) in one of his historical abstracts.

 

[Det. Jimmy McNulty]

Improved security, improved stadium design to allow for improved security, no more 10-cent beer nights, nor $1-2 beers at stadiums.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

And yeah, there's a bit of drinking that occurs among fans at Chicago ball parks.

No ****

 

[Oggiedoggie]

The game score should have been higher up in the story.

 

[doubledown68]

And yeah, there's a bit of drinking that occurs among fans at Chicago ball parks.

No ****

Ah yes, the family Ligue. Of the Joliet Ligues. It remains one of the rare occasions when the Royals have hit as a team this decade.

 

[highlander]

I remember the first day at the new ballpark in Arlington. I stupid woman kept sitting on the rail in the home run porch following the game. Ushers and security kept telling her she couldn't that and she eventually fell.

In the next few days they built new higher rails that essentially blocked the view of people with seats on the first two rows. And then had to reimburse season ticket holders who had essentially gotten screwed by the dumb ******* actions.