Fight at the Armory - Track Meet Excitement, Finally

That's awesome!

Look for both teams to be banned from the armory for the rest of the season

One of the teams - Mt Vernon - had a league championship meet today and were not allowed to take part

Ha Ha Ha. Awesome

I'm glad both teams were banned. As soon as it happened, a coach and other runners ran to the fight, getting in the way of the actual race. And who the hell reacts to a bump in a race like that? I hope that fool in blue gets kicked off his school team. Making society (a specific part) look bad. It's a shame.

Both teams get banned?

An accidental bump and the guy in blue went ballistic. The yellow guy tried to get back on the track until blue came after him again.

I would sure hate to see his reaction when someone steals one of his french fries on his lunch plate.

Was the white kids DQ'd for stepping off the track after receiving the baton?

This guy is not an athlete. If he can't handle a little bumping on the indoor track, he wouldn't last 5 minutes in a basketball or football game. What a pussy.

Look at the poor guy in green (last place)! And then the guy who climbs down from the upper level gets in his way too!

Believe it or not, this is not the way to attract sponsors.

Wossamotta wrote:

Believe it or not, this is not the way to attract sponsors.

Track probably should have acted sooner to fill the void left by the NHL lockout.

playing devils advocate wrote:

Look at the poor guy in green (last place)! And then the guy who climbs down from the upper level gets in his way too!

I watched it again while paying special attention to the green guy and you know he was like "Man, WTF!?" Every single person who jumps on the track gets in his way. Even the marshals.

Also, they needed to have the balcony guy on that relay because he gets over there so damn fast. As the green guy is rounding turn #1 you see balcony guy going over the balcony and you're like, "There is no way he will get down to the track before these runners pass," yet he moves like lightening and is there before green guy.

Willard wrote:

Was the white kids DQ'd for stepping off the track after receiving the baton?

They were actually DQ'd for being too white in the Hispanic games.

Monkeys typing wrote:

Track probably should have acted sooner to fill the void left by the NHL lockout.

nicely played

And going off on a tangent I'll add that some friends had a mother named Puck.

Why would they be banned when hockey, baseball and football players are not.

It's good to see a bit of passion in t&f.

My guess is that this could have been the case where there was trash talk before the handoff and then a bump was the final straw so the fists started flying.

Uhhhh wrote:

Both teams get banned?

An accidental bump and the guy in blue went ballistic. The yellow guy tried to get back on the track until blue came after him again.

I would sure hate to see his reaction when someone steals one of his french fries on his lunch plate.

Yeah seriously. What did the yellow guy besides an accidental bump? Just dq the yellow kid from the race (which they would have done anyway, I'm sure). I'm not even sure that I'd ban the whole blue team either. I mean, what if they had a guy doing the weight throw while this was going on? Should he get banned from a meet because some other kid on his team is a moron?

qwewer wrote:

Yeah seriously. What did the yellow guy besides an accidental bump? Just dq the yellow kid from the race (which they would have done anyway, I'm sure). I'm not even sure that I'd ban the whole blue team either. I mean, what if they had a guy doing the weight throw while this was going on? Should he get banned from a meet because some other kid on his team is a moron?

For the banned nonparticipating team members this just reminds them that there IS an I in TEAM.

LDOPA wrote:

Willard wrote:

Was the white kids DQ'd for stepping off the track after receiving the baton?

They were actually DQ'd for being too white in the Hispanic games.

Now that you mention it. When are the White Games or the Black Games? Would either of those fly?

GTFO with no pics wrote:

I watched it again while paying special attention to the green guy and you know he was like "Man, WTF!?" Every single person who jumps on the track gets in his way. Even the marshals.

Oh man, you're right, he has to go all the way to the outside lane and jump through the line of runners waiting for the next leg just to get through the mess and just when he gets going again, Balcony Flyer gets it his way and almost trips him again.

The amazing thing too is the race actually finishes after all that.