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betty crocker
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 9:57AM - in reply to rabbittruns Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

rabbittruns wrote:

ACC indoors at clemson back at 2004 had an awsome fight! An fsu kid pushed a clemson kid off the track in the 400 and got dq'ed. after the race finished he started walking back down the track and the clemson guy got up and walked towards him, where they started a shoving match. the stands quickly emptied and an all out brawl between FSU and Clemson ensued. i was talking to ian hornabrook of FSU at the time so i got a great seat to the festivities!

It was awsome!... the fight delayed the meet over 30 minutes as there was little security on hand to deal with it. the following week i voted for clemson and FSU on the top of my ballot for the ACC's sportsmanship award.


You missed the part about Tye Hill (the Clemson guy...now an NFL 1st round draftee) shoved a UNC guy off the track earlier in the race before trying to show Antonio Cromartie (FSU guy...also first round draftee to San Diego [whale's vagina]) out of the way so he could win the race. The fight was pretty cool though, I guess.
JUCO
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 10:14AM - in reply to betty crocker Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Wasn't there a decent fight at the JUCO meet this year on the awards stand about a 4X4 DQ involving Flo Valley?
i love running
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 10:19AM - in reply to wejo Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
So, a couple of years ago at regionals, our 4x8 team got in a fight in the exchange zone. Some one cut in front of us in trying to get off of the track, so our third runner hit him with the batton and then handed it off. Needless to say, there was quite the brawl at the finishline, lots of battons being swung around.
Lalia Ali
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 10:38AM - in reply to i love running Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You're girls, right?
dean moriarty
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 10:54AM - in reply to betty crocker Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
At New Englands my junior year of college I was so wound up before the race that when some dude started shoving my teammate in the first 100 meters I just punched him in the face.

I thought it was a killer punch, but the kid looked far more startled than pained.
I. Wuz Thar
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 10:57AM - in reply to wejo Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Brawl between the 4x100 relay teams of TCU & UT Arlington at the UT Arlington Open in 2000, give or take a year or 2.
natell
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 11:33AM - in reply to wejo Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I saw one at Mt. Sac in 1999 - my boy Milton was a 190 lb. 800m runner.....got elbowed during the first lap by Gruber from Kansas. A few meters later got elbowed again - thought it was the same guy - except it was a Stanford runner this time. So he elbowed him back not knowing it was a different guy. Stanford runner went flying off the track and into the metal bench that is on the infield by the jump runways.
defender
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 12:17PM - in reply to natell Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I've run with Said a few times and he always struck me as being really, really nice. This being said, he's not a master tactician. I think that sometimes in tactical races when he switches from running 65 to 55 per 400m pace he gets in the way without meaning to.

I think he deserves a reputation as a great guy who sometimes doesn't know what is going on and in the process of running hard does stupid stuff. He's not an ass on purpose. He'll probably learn.
eddiebarajas
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 12:22PM - in reply to defender Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
As most of you know at the start of a meet its a mad dash and some jostling for position is usually involved. Well this one guy on our team got pushed onto the infield by another runner. On the second lap of the 1600 when our guy caught up, he proceeded to punch the kid in the middle of the race then turned to those of us on the infield and said, "He pushed me!". It was a good time had by all, really was.
Buttlick
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 12:36PM - in reply to eddiebarajas Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Lunn is not an asshole by any means.

He is, in fact, a really nice guy.
Raubrey
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:03PM - in reply to news?? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

news?? wrote:

one of the Downin brothers swung at Lunn in a bar one time. Lunn caught his fist in mid air, and did not spill a drop of beer. Then, the older Downin bro beat the tar out of his little brother in the back alley.


Ha, was there for that one. NCAA's south carolina. I totally remember that. I can't remember what the argument was over but that was hillarious. Andy then almost drown Matt in a fountain.
Rosey O'Gradys
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:05PM - in reply to Jhort Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Indoor nationals in the early 80s at a bar after the meet. Tiny Kane, a rep for Adidas who was a known troublemaker when he got drunk, was harassing the New Balance rep, Kevin Ryan. Ryan was well versed with Tiny's penchant for drunken sucker punching then dashing so he was ready. When Kane finally make that fateful swing, Ryan unloaded a blinding flurry leaving Kane sprawled on the floor. Fight was over at 0:03 in the 1st round.
starmiler
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:37PM - in reply to Rosey O'Gradys Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Kenny Moore once told me about winning the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon in Quantico despite a number of very annoying events that happened during the course of the race -- and just afterwards a race official came up to him and said something Kenny didn't like and he had to stop himself at the last moment from decking the guy... This anecdote became an occasion for Kenny to talk about the wild toxins your body produces in the course of extreme exertion, some of which produce irrational surges of anger. It's no surprise that highly-competitive situations produce violent behaviour. It's chemical.

When I was a freshman at Stanford I got nosed out in the Big Meet mile, a race I had been looking forward to all year. I was crying openly afterwards, and the team captain, a senior, came up and said, "Take it somewhere else, now!" He was a good friend, but I got up in his face and was ready to punch him out, if he'd laid a hand on me.

It's metabolic, dudes.
Old Pro
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:46PM - in reply to starmiler Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

starmiler wrote:
It's metabolic, dudes.


No it isn't. You're a psycho.

One of the funniest sights I can imagine - Kenny Moore in fisticuffs! LOL.
starmiler
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:50PM - in reply to Old Pro Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Exactly! That was what was so funny about it.

My point is that under stress and bio-chemical extremity you find yourself doing things you wouldn't ordinarily do.

I'm Psycho? Tell me that to my face, old-timer. :)
A_Goofy_Runner
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:51PM - in reply to starmiler Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
There's no crying in track - he should have decked you.
starmiler
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:51PM - in reply to A_Goofy_Runner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
No crying in track? What playpen have you been sitting around?
Gotta Run Fellas
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 1:53PM - in reply to dean moriarty Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Cmon Dean...fess up
Old Pro
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 2:02PM - in reply to starmiler Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

starmiler wrote:
My point is that under stress and bio-chemical extremity you find yourself doing things you wouldn't ordinarily do.


I want to see the scientific literature on that?
Howard (The Duck)
RE: Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets 6/24/2006 2:21PM - in reply to Old Pro Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Old Pro wrote:

[quote]starmiler wrote:
It's metabolic, dudes.


No it isn't. You're a psycho.


One of the funniest sights I can imagine - Kenny Moore in fisticuffs! LOL.[/quote]


That would be funny...can't imagine myself how eloquent & obviously an intelligent writer K.M. is getting into some bop action....but it is true though I'm prepared to believe it about the adrenaline etc. getting the better of rationality especially while running a race....

..still no excuse, I know...

Some explanation I WILL STAND BY concerning the Mary Slaney outburst....news interview I WILL STILL SAY NOW was so poorly timed!!!
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