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Sports Fan Violence and the Knicks
from Iran Forever, Belfast Riots, & College Commencement | The Tim Dillon Show #499 · #499
5 min
Tim admits he doesn't share the intense tribal passion of sports fans, riffing on stories of fans beating rival fans to death after games, and says these are the same irrational people we're trying to explain foreign policy to.
- Iran supposedly wanted to detonate a nuke in Manhattan during the Knicks game, which is why we went to war.
- Tim wishes he shared other people's passion for team sports, despite liking when the Knicks win.
- He describes witnessing videos of fans beating opposing team supporters with street signs and breaking their ribs.
- Tim acknowledges it would probably be fun to give a stranger brain damage for wearing an opposing team's jersey.
- The UK shuts down trains during football matches to prevent fans from traveling to opposing towns to kill each other.
- What Tim can't understand is why people delight in the accomplishments of athletes they have nothing to do with, then want to kill someone over it.
- He wonders if he's just being a coward for not grasping what it feels like to kill someone after a playoff game.
- Fans justify post-game violence by saying 'it was all on the line' and 'that was game six.'
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