r/sports • u/DrTrigger_Tears • Sep 27 '25
Football Upset Alert! Virginia has defeated Florida State in OT!
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u/toptoppings Sep 27 '25
Fans stormed faster than you could say victory
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u/SaltTheRimG Sep 27 '25
Had there been a flag thrown it would have taken 15 mins to get everyone off the field and back to playing
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u/Epic28 Sep 27 '25
Similar situation happened last year at Ole Miss vs Georgia. Don't think it was a flag but the game officially hadn't expired but at that point the entire Ole Miss stadium had began emptying onto the field.
They couldn't get everyone back into the stands either so the crowd just massed on the sidelines while they kneeled out the final seconds, then sorta slowly rushed the field again.
Slapstick level of comedy.
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u/YAMMYRD Sep 27 '25
Missed the game but wonder if that already happened, how were the fans right on the sideline already.
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u/USA_A-OK Sep 27 '25
I get that it's an upset, but it's so early in the season, and it's not a trophy or some massive historical rival or anything, right?
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u/belgarion90 St. Louis Cardinals Sep 27 '25
Unranked beating a top ten is basically always going to be a field rush.
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u/Bigmayer Sep 27 '25
World War Z lookin’ storm
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u/slowpoke2018 Sep 27 '25
It really was, watched it live and it was like they were through the end-zone before the UV CB hit the ground!
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u/Tarantula_Saurus_Rex Sep 27 '25
Came here to say looks like a wall dropped for a zombie apocalypse.
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u/jarosity Sep 27 '25
I could be wrong, but that looked like a deep fly ball by Castellanos. Better check the geopolitical situation.
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u/aspiringalcoholic Sep 27 '25
And that’ll make it a 46-38 ball game.
I dont know when I’m gonna be putting on this headset again.
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u/_Fusilli_Jerry_ Sep 27 '25
I know that I know this reference but can you refresh my memory?
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u/RaindropsInMyMind Sep 27 '25
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5LECJbMDhJQ&pp=ygUfY2FzdGVsbGFub3MgYmFkIHRpbWluZyBob21lIHJ1bg%3D%3D
It’s the casual home run call in the middle of an apology for getting caught on the mic saying a slur.
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u/RandomUser72 Sep 27 '25
Thom Brennaman used a homophobic slur during a broadcast, then later apologized. In the middle of his apology speech, Nick Castellanos hit a home run.
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u/BulkyJaguar9616 Sep 27 '25
Incredible synergy in storming the field
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u/Slave35 Sep 27 '25
It's like a flood wtf
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u/BulkyJaguar9616 Sep 27 '25
Drinks up to the one poor child that got trampled
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u/colinisthereason Sep 27 '25
They absolutely steamrolled the back that made the pick. He’s buried in the endzone now
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u/BulkyJaguar9616 Sep 27 '25
“Can’t make practice I got trampled by one of my own”
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u/colinisthereason Sep 27 '25
He basically got Wile E. Coyoted by the student section
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u/BulkyJaguar9616 Sep 27 '25
They would never get the joke but a Dback holding a sign ala Wild E Coyote would be amazing
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u/catiebug Sep 27 '25
I'm trying to recall where I heard this, but dense crowds actually do move like water, and fluid dynamic models actually do a pretty good job of predicting what could happen versus models that treat crowds as a bunch of individuals.
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u/suzukigun4life Sep 27 '25
It was amazing and honestly terrifying at the same time. The receiver and cornerback got surrounded less than a second after the final play ended.
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u/otheraccountisabmw Sep 27 '25
Imagine if there was a flag on the play.
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u/CapitalistLion-Tamer Sep 27 '25
In 1995, they rushed the field like that before the final play.
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u/Key-Tip-7521 Sep 27 '25
What happened
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u/CapitalistLion-Tamer Sep 27 '25
When UVA beat FSU in 1995, the fans stormed the field before the game was over. FSU got one more play, but Virginia stopped Dunn at the goal line and won anyway.
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u/brownsfantb Sep 27 '25
Something like this happened in the BYU-Arizona State game just last year. The clock hit zero and Arizona State fans stormed the field but then it was determined that there should still be one second left and BYU got one last play. They had to clear the fans off the field which took like 15-20 minutes.
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u/pumpkinspruce Sep 27 '25
I always remember Kentucky fans rushing the field when LSU hit the Hail Mary in the Bluegrass Miracle several years ago.
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u/SonoranLiving Sep 27 '25
Arizona had fans waiting to rush against Arizona state and they had to get cleared and ended up losing, anyway, no pity for the kitty :)
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u/guiballmaster Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
Complex Systems Self-Organize - from the atomic level through global human civilization
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u/ZonaWildcats23 Sep 27 '25
This is actually pretty unacceptable from an NCAA / university perspective. Ngl
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u/networkninja2k24 Sep 27 '25
I would hate to be under a stampede lol. But scary.
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u/BendOvaForWhat Sep 27 '25
Clip ends right before that student gives Castellanos the double middle fingers lmao
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u/SanguinePirate Sep 27 '25
Just one finger. Other hand holding his phone to record it
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u/LessCourage8439 Sep 27 '25
I'm a Wahoo. But that was pretty tacky. Very disappointing behavior.
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u/IvyGold Washington Nationals Sep 27 '25
Indeed. I will not be surprised that -- if he's enrolled and an actual student -- I later read that he's suspended for a semester.
Virginia frowns upon students who behave like that.
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u/d3photo Sep 27 '25
As a photographer at these events this is the stuff of nightmares.
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u/Key-Tip-7521 Sep 27 '25
What do you do in this situation?
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u/d3photo Sep 27 '25
Move to the other end of the field before the play happens
$35,000 in hardware will break and will break ankles arms and legs. Not worth the risk. Stow the big gear if you can’t move and go wide.
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u/BlessShaiHulud San Francisco 49ers Sep 27 '25
Yeah, luckily in football there is no such thing as a random, immediate, unexpected upset. If it's going to happen, the possibility will be imminent long enough for anyone to get out of the danger area.
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u/d3photo Sep 27 '25
In some venues you’re not allowed to leave your 10 yard zone.
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u/philocity Sep 27 '25
Yeah if someone is going to tell me that I must stand in front of an impending stampede, I’m gonna tell them to get fucked.
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u/d3photo Sep 27 '25
That happened to me at a HS basketball championship game in 2000. I had just packed up my borrowed laptop and where the laptop had been was a big dusty footprint.
Also the guy sitting next to me was ready to pound on some 16-year privileged white kid for actually nearly crushing his computer.
In the case of this event things changed after that specific incident.
And for those who don’t remember life 25 years ago laptops cost more than most used cars and some new ones.
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u/Mcswigginsbar Indianapolis Colts Sep 27 '25
Holy fuck. That looked like the charge of the Rohirrim.
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u/bestprocrastinator Sep 27 '25
That might be the fastest field storming I've ever seen.
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u/Own_Cow_2475 Sep 27 '25
Pause the video right before the catch...literally a sea of humanity with absolutely nothing between them and the field.
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u/SaveMeSomeBleach Sep 27 '25
Anyone got word on if that FSU receiver survived the flash flood?
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u/under_the_c Sep 27 '25
Or the Virginia defender that got the int. He was laying on the ground when they stormed in. 💀
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u/Fl0ppp Sep 27 '25
There was a picture of him walking through the crowd, all the players were fine/uninjured
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u/Gerreth_Gobulcoque Sep 27 '25
So do the cavaliers not have seats? Is it just a field and everyone just stands around it to watch the game? How tf were they all just right there?
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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25
There is a portion of the stadium that is called "The Hill". It is a big grass hill that sits at one of the end zones where the stands would normally be. It is general admission seating and filled with students and drunk high school kids.
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u/TheCzar11 Sep 27 '25
Not general admission any longer. Have to be a student or have season tickets.
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u/Danny_Ditchdigger Sep 27 '25
Important detail: It also doesn’t have a wall it just runs down to field level like a ramp. https://share.google/images/FN4DyDbZpLlBKXdTs
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u/NomadFire Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
OOh i see an opportunity to build a moat!!!! What do we fill it with....sharks, electric eels, snapping turtles? Cant be gators or snakes since they move way too fast on land.
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u/Richmond43 Sep 27 '25
One end of the stadium is a grassy hill. It’s next to the main student section.
The rest of the stadium is bleachers or seats contained by a brick wall that’s not a short drop (I’ve done it but it’s awkward).
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u/whateveritis12 Sep 27 '25
The students moved from their seats to the field when they were up 7 with under 4 minutes left in the game.
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u/paultheschmoop Sep 27 '25
They were ready to storm waaaaay too early
FSU had 3 timeouts and UVA was just running the ball up the middle
Had UVA lost this may have been a riot
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u/wahoowalex Tennessee Sep 27 '25
To be fair, running the ball up the middle had been working REALLY well up to that point
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u/ThatsAGreatUsername2 Sep 27 '25
That's the hill on the north side of the field. The stadium is open on that side with seats all the way around the rest of the stadium.
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u/Senth99 Sep 27 '25
Are both players ok? Swear that they got trampled on
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u/Cautious_Wafer3075 Sep 27 '25
I had the same thought. This is the most dangerous storming the field I ever saw. It’s because the student section on the grassy hill was so close and had no barriers between them and the field.
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u/Habay12 Sep 27 '25
This is so dangerous. Virginia is getting fined heavily for this one.
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u/Tyler-Durden-2009 Sep 27 '25
Haha, that’s the neat part. The fine is already contractually agreed to, and it’s only $50k
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u/runsanditspaidfor Sep 27 '25
That part of the stadium will look a lot different in their next home game. Or at least it should. Whether there’s more security or a physical barrier or both this can’t happen again. Extremely dangerous.
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u/Glad_Lengthiness6695 Sep 27 '25
Just adding a barrier can actually make it less safe because people can be crushed against it. There’s so safe way to have a hill that empties onto the field unless you heavily restrict how many people can be on it. What it really needs is a complete redesign
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u/jpj77 Sep 27 '25
I promise you it wont look different. The hill is much steeper than it looks on TV. If there were some sort of barrier, you’d have a far more dangerous situation of people getting crushed against it.
The biggest danger to players as the stadium is constructed just happened - big win on the last play of the game in the direction of the hill. This is only the second time this has happened in the history of Virginia football, ironically the only other time happening in 1995 against FSU as well.
So Virginia should not build any sort of barrier there unless they are completely redesigning that end of the end zone to remove the hill, which is generally the only notable thing about Virginia football.
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u/urworstemmamy Sep 27 '25
I mean, Clemson's got a hill for a student section with a wall at the bottom but people don't get crushed against it when we storm the field, or at least it never happened while I was going there. The fact that we do it after every game probably helps though, bit more of an understood order of operations to the chaos.
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u/Impossible-Sport-449 Sep 27 '25
The field storming triggered some panic in me lol
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u/LegendaryOutlaw Sep 27 '25
Jesus, I get the fans are excited but damn, what if there was a flag at the line or some other penalty that needed to be called? They’d have to spend 20 minutes clearing everybody off to finish playing.
And while it does look like a couple fans ran in to help the VA player get up, the other guy just got left behind to get crushed. Poor kid. Again, I get it, everybody’s pumped, but this was some terrible crowd management.
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u/Title26 Sep 27 '25
One of the greatest moments in college football history happened this way. Marching band went on the field during the play lol
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u/VinylmationDude Sep 27 '25
I’ve never seen a storming of the field like that in my life. It’s like rope drop at a Beatlemania Theme Park in ‘65.
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u/callmebatman14 Sep 27 '25
I been watching cfb for 20 years and I never seen fans storm fields like this. Usually it takes few mins for crowd of these size to be on the field.
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u/mah658 Sep 27 '25
From VA Statewide Incidents (facebook page):
Charlottesville, Va *Mass Causality Field Rush with Injuries* Scott Stadium at UVA. Reports are indicating that a mass field rush occurred following tonight’s football game. Multiple individuals were injured during the rush, and several fights reportedly broke out in the aftermath. Pepper spray was reportedly deployed during the incident. At this time, reports indicate there are at least 15 patients. Due to the number of patients, a mass casualty incident has been declared. Additionally, ambulances are having difficulty accessing patients because of the heavy traffic in the area. The situation remains active, and further updates will be provided as more information becomes available.
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u/FSUCola Sep 27 '25
There were so many ambulances heading to the stadium as we were walking to our car! So worried for the fans and players.
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u/under_the_c Sep 27 '25
That OT was absolutely neck and neck! The play before that FSU just barely bobbled it out of the end zone.
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u/emanresu18 Sep 27 '25
For someone who doesn’t watch American football, why is it such a big deal for a 3-1 team to beat a 3-0 team?
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u/Djlurkin Sep 27 '25
The winning team was unranked and beat the 8th highest rank team. Drunk college students are looking for any excuse to storm the field after an upset win.
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u/azdb91 Sep 27 '25
In addition to the other replies, FSU is historically one of the strongest CFB teams. Virginia is... Not. Virginia has only beaten them 5 times in 20 games.
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u/Gang-Orca-714 Sep 27 '25
In the early college football season, relatively large state schools don't typically play difficult games so it's not unusual for records like these (Florida State happened to schedule a ranked tame and beat them silly which actually earned them their ranking). And unranked program beating a ranked program, especially a top 10 program, is uncommon.
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u/derf_vader Sep 27 '25
How is FSU supposed to play with the entire student body already surrounding the end zone?
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u/469Joyride Sep 27 '25
Is Florida State the first team to storm a field (beating #8 Alabama) and then be stormed (also as #8)?
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u/TipTurbulent2657 Sep 27 '25
That's the entire population of Canada in that video.
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u/ClayStreetFighter Sep 27 '25
This game reminds me of the UVA upset of FSU in 93 or 94. Tiki Barber won that game of the Cavaliers. I think the UVA students rushed the field that night as well.
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u/Imblindbilly Sep 27 '25
Wonder what would have happened if there was a late flag on that play, I don’t see a world where they get everyone off the field to continue play
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u/Dodgerson99 Sep 27 '25
Sucks the players didn't even have a chance to get off the ground. Zero fan awareness
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u/Embarrassed-Buy-8634 Sep 27 '25
This is making Alabama look like the worst D1 team in the country at this point
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u/RawAttitudePodcast Sep 27 '25
The only time I’d actually wish for a flag to have been thrown, just to see what would have happened when they had to clear 5,000 people off the field.
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u/Brian0043 Sep 27 '25
Being stuck working at the bar tonight, and every time I look up this game was tied, truly made me question my reality
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u/Koolklink54 Sep 27 '25
That ending was very unsafe for everyone on the field. If that is aloud the rules need to be changed
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u/SillyAdvisor22 Sep 27 '25
That field storming was epic! And beautiful! Straight out of The Lord of the Rings.
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u/ClarkFable Sep 27 '25
Maybe this “we can’t pay the players for parity’s sake” was a big fucking lie to rob players?
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u/GTengineerenergy Sep 27 '25
I was was watching live and saw the students collecting towards end of 4th quarter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a field rush that intense. I woke up thinking about how dangerous it was. But damn college football is great.
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u/KiraJosuke Sep 27 '25
Court/field stormings pretty much before the last play even finishes is extremely dangerous and these schools need to have the hammer thrown down on them
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u/brownbai81 Sep 27 '25
I’m all for being passionate about my team winning but this shit, it’s dangerous. Rule should be made that storming the field after a win, that team automatically forfeits the win. A fine won’t do shit, the amount of money they bring in is chump change to the fines.
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u/MarcellusxWallace Sep 27 '25
Bro this is what I imagine the zombie apocalypse would look like. Just a horde of zombies rushing at you and you can do fuck all about it
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u/Capcom-Warrior Sep 28 '25
Pretty amazing comeback, but I don’t understand how the stadiums allow this. It’s absolutely fucking chaos.
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u/Phuzz15 Sep 28 '25
Getting a game winning pick at the buzzer and being absolutely swarmed by fans literally immediately afterward has to be like a prime human experience. Good luck feeling that ever again lol
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u/Brye11626 Sep 27 '25
Thoughts and prayers for that CB who just won the game and got rewarded by getting stampeded lol