I’ve tried to not get into this too much, but I think something needs to be said. By now, I’m sure a lot of you have seen the video from Saturday’s PSU-OSU game in Happy Valley. At a tailgate party, Penn Staters throw beer cans and shout obscenities at Buckeye fans. The video made it’s way to Youtube but has now been taken down, probably by the kid who put it up in order to attempt to stay clear of any charges. It’s too late.
First thought: This is a perfect example to throw back at Penn State’s face. Look at their fans, acting classless and stupid, throwing things at opposing fans.
Second thought: Take a step back and look at it a little bit more. There’s no way this represents their entire fan base. Sure they might all be elitists, but they can’t all be the jerks the video showed them to be. When I want to see something involving Penn State, I always turn to Black Shoe Diaries. In Mike’s post with the original video:
This is Penn State, bitch.
No, son, that is not Penn State.
To the Ohio State fans featured in the video, I’m sorry. On behalf of the 99% of Penn State fans that are nice people capable of showing respect to opposing fans, I’m sorry. This is not the Penn State I know and love.
See, they’re not all bad people.
One point that many people noticed, though, was that the cameraman (who, if you saw the video, was worthy of a sucker punch to the jaw) mentioned his beer-slinging friend was from Pittsburgh. It didn’t necessarily mean he was a Pitt student though.
Today (via Mondesi’s House), I saw a link to an update on the story: the kid you see below is, in fact, a Pitt student.
Oh no! A Pitt student did this! Now there’s someone to blame! Whoa, hold on…
A Pitt fan did this? No, not a Pitt fan, but a Pitt student. If he is a Pitt fan, there’s no way in hell he’s up in Happy Valley helping Penn Staters to throw beer at innocent OSU fans. Also, this does not let the other 100 PSU fans involved get off the hook. A lot of them threw beer (but most completely missed) and all should be charged. Hopefully when this is all over, that Pitt student is no longer a student at our school.
That said, it’s absolutely true about WVU. They’d do that to us at games in PITTSBURGH. I recall they beat Pitt in a tight game in the late 80s at Pitt Stadium and their retarded hoodlum hoard (there’s no nicer way to put it) simply went beserk. They shut down Fifth Avenue in Oakland, just flat out squatted down there, attacked Pitt fans trying to get back from Cardiac Hill back into lower Oakland, and vandalized numerous cars trying to get through. Pittsburgh cops had to send about 2 dozen paddy wagons.
But lowlife behavior is hardly exclusive to them. The same is mostly true about other schools I’ve traveled to for Pitt games … all had their share of idiots. Toledo, for example. I was up there for that notorious loss (03? 04?). The majority, and I mean just about all of them, were truly scumbags no matter where we went, and the women were more foul than the guys. It was Morgantown-on-the-cesspool up there, and you can just imagine how they acted after Pitt blew that game and gave them their most (and only) impressive victory ever. We went through a gauntlet of drunken violent jackasses, taunted and threatened with violence, to get back to our car and felt lucky to escape that disgusting hellhole (the campus and the city, easily the ugliest city I’ve ever been to…and I’ve been through Newark).
But you might expect that at places like WVU and Toledo. Yet Notre Dame had it share of morons too. Not quite as bad as in that video, but a fair number of foul-mouthed trash. And I’m sure there are Pitt fans who have set their own lows (God knows Steeler fans do it to opposing fans, and they’re glorified for it).
“In citations filed today before Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia, Richard Eisenberger Jr., age 20, of Easton, PA, was charged with Disorderly Conduct and Harassment. The information charges that Eisenberg, a University of Pittsburgh student, did strike the victim with a beer can about the neck and that he also created public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm by engaging in fighting or tumultuous behavior.”
Just have to put in a last name…
According to the Pgh. media, the Steelers and their fans can do no wrong…part of the reason I can barely stand them.
link to wjactv.com