Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets

Wasn't there a decent fight at the JUCO meet this year on the awards stand about a 4X4 DQ involving Flo Valley?

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.

You're girls, right?

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.

Brawl between the 4x100 relay teams of TCU & UT Arlington at the UT Arlington Open in 2000, give or take a year or 2.

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.

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.

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.

Lunn is not an asshole by any means.

He is, in fact, a really nice guy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. :)

There's no crying in track - he should have decked you.

No crying in track? What playpen have you been sitting around?

Cmon Dean...fess up

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?

Old Pro wrote:

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.

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!!!