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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Crime / Sports Hooliganism: Now for Seattleites!

Posted by on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM

"The men were wearing their Sounders scarves over their faces as they approached him."

A Portland Timbers fan who thought he got into "friendly rivalry banter with several Sounders fans" after a preseason game last week was beaten by those fans and dragged around the sidewalk, according to police.

The incident happened Thursday about 10:30 p.m., shortly after Portland beat Seattle 1-0. The victim, a 27-year-old man, was bantering with the three Sounders fans near the intersection of Second Avenue South and South Main Street — about two blocks from Qwest Field.

"According to (the victim), the men were wearing their Sounders scarves over their faces as they approached him," Officer Aaron Parker wrote in an incident report, released Wednesday. "He felt one of the men grab onto his scarf and pull it backwards."

The victim grabbed the scarf so it wouldn't be stolen, fell to the ground, "and was punched in the head several times by all three men," according to the report.

 

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Will in Seattle 1
Training for the 2016 World Cup takes time, you know.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on March 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM
wisepunk 2
I want to bring a flare to a sounders match.
Posted by wisepunk on March 17, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Fnarf 3
Oh, Lord. This Sounders-Timbers shit is ridiculous. They fucking started it, with their "ACES" (Any Club Except Seattle) and the "Keller: Do The Cobain" banner (with pic of shotgun), but it's stupid and needs to stop.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 17, 2010 at 4:13 PM
4
OH NO MY SCARF ANYTHING BUT THAT
Posted by Reader1 on March 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 5
Hmph. Because soccer fans have such a long-standing tradition of being civilized, right?
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM
6
I'm sitting at an open air mall in east San Diego right now. I just got back from the beach and the zoo. San Diego is like Seattle -- only with year round sun shine. From what I can see, you can rent a 2 bedroom apartment around here for $1200.

I'm not really seeing the advantage of Seattle over San Diego at this point.
Posted by Tell Me Why on March 17, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Hernandez 7
Oh, the indignation expressed by the P.I. commenters is just precious. Come on, one incident doesn't mean that we're headed for Brazillian soccer riot territory. "Friendly rival banter" probably means "drunken assholes swearing at each other". It's gonna happen occasionally. The best thing any one of us can do is not contribute to it ourselves.
Posted by Hernandez http://hernandezlist.blogspot.com on March 17, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Abby 8
Fnarf, I highly doubt that it's going to go away anytime soon, particularly since Portland is going to be joining our division in a year's time. It's as stupid and not stupid as any sports rivalry.

wisepunk- March to the Match at night is all I'm going to say.

Our guys should be ashamed, though. 3 on 1 is no way to fight.
Posted by Abby on March 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM
merry 9
And lovely timely usage of the word 'Hooligan'! It's thought to come from the surname 'Houlihan', for a particularly rowdy Irish family living in London around the turn of the previous century...

Lord luv the Irish!
Posted by merry on March 17, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Baconcat 10
Didn't this guy learn anything from Liverpool FC?

You shall never walk alone!
Posted by Baconcat on March 17, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 11
Wait a minute - isn't Savage a Houlihan? That would explain a lot.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM
12
I'm with #7
Not saying it was acceptable, but I'm sure the "friendly Banter" wasn't quite as innocent as they are framing it.
Posted by I'm OK, You're OK on March 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Fnarf 13
@2, @8, I looked long and hard for green flares, but apparently they only have the nautical kind you shoot 300 feet in the air with a gun, which is a little more show than I'm interested in.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM
pissy mcslogbot 14
oh fnarf grow a pair, like these guys woulda balked at that kind of flare:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs…
Posted by pissy mcslogbot on March 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM
15
I'd be angry too, if I just watched a 90 minute game with only one goal. And was compelled to stand throughout the whole thing. Booo-ring.
Posted by joykiller on March 17, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Fnarf 16
@14, yeah, those guys weren't really football fans, they were violence fans. And they're all fat fiftyish old men with bad knees now, peddling their "ooh, I'm hard, really I am" memoirs. Fascinating book, but those days are long past in England.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 17, 2010 at 5:36 PM
17
I absolutely don't agree with assaulting anyone, and I'd be pissed if I or a friend were the victim.

But from a soccer culture perspective, IMHO, this is kind of great.

(Fnarf, if you think MLS isn't about things that are "long past in England," you haven't checked the rosters lately.)

Plus, it's not like we have to be afraid of Portland's retaliation (disdainful hipster shrug?)
Posted by Nick H on March 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM
pissy mcslogbot 18
@ 16, yeah those were some classy gents, though some of 'em were fat and fifty at the time... I figured you'd know the book and just wanted to give you some ribbing pleasure.
Posted by pissy mcslogbot on March 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM
laterite 19
Well, at least this more interesting than the pissing contest over which city is better at enriching the art of coffee-making.
Posted by laterite on March 17, 2010 at 6:03 PM
laterite 20
^this is
Posted by laterite on March 17, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 21
"Fat, fifty-ish men with bad knees." Hmm, sounds like Fnarf is describing himself there. :p
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 22
Fuck a duck, laterite, close your Goddamned tags.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM
wisepunk 23
That is some high quality code the stranger is running, when a comment changes things outside the comment window.
Posted by wisepunk on March 17, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 24
Aw, shit, the whole thing's held together with chewing gum and bailing wire.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2010 at 7:38 PM
25
Woah, woah, woah.
The Timbers won a game?
Posted by funkathrusta on March 18, 2010 at 2:06 AM
BLUE 26
You wear a soccer themed scarf you deserve to be strangled.
Posted by BLUE on March 18, 2010 at 7:45 AM
laterite 27
Well shit, that's the last time I post from an iPhone. And while drunk.
Posted by laterite on March 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM
biffster 28
they watched "Green Street Hooligans" one too many times...
Posted by biffster on March 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM

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