Most unusual events you have ever seen at a live sports event.

[dfirest1]

Over dinner last night, my friends and I, who are all big sports fans, were talking and sharing sports stories over dinner. The discussion turned to unusual incidents at sports games, since my friend had been to the Cubs game when Shane Victorino had the beer porn on him. I'd like to hear some of your stories, and I'll add a few of my own.

1) During a Blackhawks game I attended some years ago, the power in the stadium went out and stayed out for some time.

2) During another Hawks game, this time vs. the Predators, Boris Mironov dumped the puck into the Preds zone, so that the Hawks could make a line change. Tomas Vokoun went behind the net, expecting the puck to stay along the glass. The puck insted deflected off the divider on the glass, and went straight into the net for a goal. I just started laughing, and even the announcer sounded confused.

And probably my favorite, I went to the 2006 Crown Royal 400, and had a blast, and during that race Kevin Lepage's car had an engine problem, and caught fire, thus ending the event for him. I've since purchased the driver's side door from that car! I will post a photo.

[Dewey2007]

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I seen a fan at an Oakland A's game catch foul balls on consecutive pitches. They were both fouled straight back into the second deck. I think the odds of that happening have to be pretty high.

[NYCrulesU]

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Game at Yankee Stadium where some knucklehead kid jumped from the top tier, landing in the netting between home plate and the 1st baseline. Had the netting given way, he could have easily killed someone and perhaps himself.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050810&content_id=1164624&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

My wife and I were directly behind home plate, a few rows back. We literally had a front row seat.

[gatorcollector]

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In the mid 80's at The Swamp in Gainesville, the Gators were playing Kentucky. I heard a plane approaching and thought it was one of those planes that trails an advertising banner behind it. All of a sudden, a WWII plane appears over the south end of the stadium, flies into the stadium, and then out over the north end zone. Scared the bejeezus out of me and about 85,000 other people. If I remember correctly, they tracked the plane back to Ocala and eventually took away his pilot's license.

[FENWAY]

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HA! I was at that Yankee game where the kid fell onto the screen too. Too many $9 beers.

I saw Chris Morris break a backboard at the Meadowlands.

[corsairs22]

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I saw Dock Ellis hit the first three Reds batters and throw at and behind the fourth and fifth, until he himself was thrown out of the game. I don't expect to see that again.

[gingi79]

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I was at an Islanders game a few years back when a guy spent a ton of money to propose to his girlfriend. He contacted the team, had the Jumbotron read "Our first date was at an Islanders game Will you marry me at this one" It was was an aww, that's romantic moment. The camera was turned to him on the Jumbotron, everyone is watching as he gets down on one knee......She laughs at him, says no and walks out of the stadium. I heard second hand (as this was waaaaaay more interesting than a late 90's Islanders game and everyone was talking about it) that she dumped him and had been cheating on him.

I figured she was just looking for a Rangers fan.

[dcgreg25]

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I was at the Browns game when the ref threw the flag that hit Orlando Brown in the eye. It was strange because at the game nobody could really tell how bad it was and just saw Brown go after the ref and attack him.

[bigtruck260]

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During Cards games there is the KISS CAM - a camera that is put onto couples who are supposed to smooch in front of the stadium.

I have been waiting for them to focus on a brother/sister or father/daugher - since it all seems totally random (though in conservative MO, you can bank on them NEVER showing two men - or two women kissing)

Anyway, there was this one mid-40's couple who you could tell had talked about what would happen if the KISS CAM zoomed in on them - and when it happened, they got a little dirty - like groping dirty for as long as it took the producers to find another couple and shut the camera down. I am willing to wager that she probably would have removed some clothing had they been allowed to continue.

I fully expect to see a flasher on the KISS CAM before I croak.

[frikativ54]

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[quote=bigtruck260;157032]During Cards games there is the KISS CAM - a camera that is put onto couples who are supposed to smooch in front of the stadium.

I have been waiting for them to focus on a brother/sister or father/daugher - since it all seems totally random (though in conservative MO, you can bank on them NEVER showing two men - or two women kissing)

Anyway, there was this one mid-40's couple who you could tell had talked about what would happen if the KISS CAM zoomed in on them - and when it happened, they got a little dirty - like groping dirty for as long as it took the producers to find another couple and shut the camera down. I am willing to wager that she probably would have removed some clothing had they been allowed to continue.[/qupte]

Speaking of the kiss cam, when I have attended games, I have seen it put on a couple of players. Not sure they saw it, but it's pretty funny. Not sure which stadium this was in, but it was either in Seattle or Arizona - probably in AZ.

[sox83cubs84]

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I could list a book of these but will start with one: September night game at the real Comiskey Park, c. 1982. The scoreboard video camera takes random fan shots at various times during the game. During one half-inning respite, the camera zeroes in on two kids tthat were about 10-12 years old leaning on the wall in the front row of the box seats. Aware that they're now on camera for the whole stadium to see, the two rugrats proceed to insert their finger into their nostril up past the first knuckle!
Gross, but hilarious!

Dave M.
Chicago area

[dfirest1]

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Speaking of the Kiss Cam, I forgot about this one. At another Hawks game, the Red Wings were in town, and the kiss cam zooms into a guy in a Wings jersey and a hot number next to him, she looks up, sees this, and kisses her boyfriend next to her ON THE OTHER SIDE, who is wearing a Hawks jersey! The crowd reaction was a loud cheer, and I just started laughing.

[Fnazxc0114]

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the first set of boobs i saw in real life was at a texas rangers game. i was about 10 and this drunk women got kicked out in the section next to ours. as she was being escorted out of the park she decided to show us her boobs. no bra and all.

[Fnazxc0114]

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pudge was in the bullpen here in the ball park last year and they put him on the kiss cam. he kissed the guy next to him. pretty funny.

[staindsox]

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I was at a Twins Yankees game in 2001 when Knoblauch had just been moved to LF for NY. I think it was college/school ID night with really really cheap seats.; you could show up the day of a game and get the best seat in the house for a few bucks. There were tons of college guys were drunk out in left field seats and Chuck is probably the most hated former Twin in the franchises history. I saw a lot of stuff being thrown at him, but was too far away to see what it all was. I heard things like coins, batteries, golf balls, hot dogs, etc. They stopped the game twice. Bob Casey, the PA guy scolded the crowd and Tom Kelly, the manager, went out to leftfield to plea with the crowd to behave or the game would be called.