[Leica] Don's weekly PAW; American Football

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

The violence is on the playing field instead (ice hockey, American
football, at least)?(-:

As far as crowd/spectator violence is concerned, save for soccer, it seems
to be quite rare in all other sports that I can think of. Even
India-Pakistan cricket matches ( as close to institutionalized war and
jingoism as you can get) usually have pretty well behaved crowds.

Which reminds me, as an aside to Aussie cricket fans on the list, I am
really sad to see Punter (Ricky Ponting) retire - he has given me more
pleasure watching him bat than most. Definitely one of the all time greats.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> The nice things about US sports is that the kind of violence we see in
> soccer matches in many European countries is largely absent. I have been to
> many Gator football games, also against hated opponents like Georgia or
> Florida State, and to pro football and baseball games--all thoroughly
> enjoyable family events.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> YNWA
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Don Dory wrote:
>
> > This week was pretty intense if you were an Atlanta based football
> > fan(which I am not)  The professional team was playing for the playoffs
> and
> > the local college team was playing essentially the quarter finals for top
> > rankings.  My wife won some highly desirable tickets and could not pawn
> > them off on her boss(who is a fan) so we went to the professional game.
> >
> > You know it is going to be a party when the people on the train are
> already
> > very expressive.
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/On+the+way+to+the+game.jpg.html
> >
> > I noticed that the fans were more interested in photographing the events
> > than actually participating:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/recording+the+festivities.jpg.html
> >
> > Just like in high school the players come in with a fanfare:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/Grand+Entrance.jpg.html
> >
> > Strange people wandered through the stands:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/Spectacle.jpg.html
> >
> > Of course fine dining:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/Fine+Dining.jpg.html
> >
> > This gentleman was a fan of the opposing team leading derision when his
> > side scored;
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/PAW2012A/December+1/fans.jpg.html
> >
> > I did have a great time photographing the events around our seats.  It
> has
> > been a long time since we went to any professional sports event.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Don
> > don.dory at gmail.com
> >
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