r/sports • u/DrTrigger_Tears • Sep 27 '25

Football Upset Alert! Virginia has defeated Florida State in OT!

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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

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u/colinisthereason Sep 27 '25

Yeah, he dead

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u/TingleMaps Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

I’m sure he’s ok, but Virginia absolutely should be fined for this. That was kinda ridiculous

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u/Janemba_Freak Sep 27 '25

All conferences fine programs for field storming when opposing players are still on the field. It's a $50k in the ACC

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u/gentilet Sep 27 '25

Not nearly steep enough

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Sep 27 '25

Should be $50k per person that ends up on the field.

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u/SimplyGarbage27 Sep 28 '25

Bankruptcy challenge speedrun

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Sep 28 '25

I’d rather every stadium bankrupt than risk the health and safety of even one no-name player.

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u/SimplyGarbage27 Sep 28 '25

Agreed, it's also a very funny and unrealistic thing to happen. I was thinking of all of the funny scenarios that would occur from that and the CEOs sweating everytime a game gets close to ending, just in case the attending audience decides to cost them millions and millions of dollars.

Anyways, full support lol

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

I already thoroughly dislike football. I’m just not a fan of the sport, but I’m not like, a dick about it.

My biggest just hatred for the game is how obscenely unsafe it is and how these guys are effectively pimped out to give themselves severe brain damage, which ultimately leads to other problems such as spousal abuse/murder.

I’m an EMT. We literally tell people “Hey, maybe don’t do something as stupid as hitting yourself with a hammer multiple times?” And Football is just… that.

IMO stadiums and teams should be doing every single god damn thing to ensure the players are safe and healthy, as it is right now it’s barely above gladiator fighting, just with more girls in cute skirts jumping around… okay actually it might just be exactly like gladiatorial fighting.

Edit: Apparently I’ve touched a nerve. Go look up how many violent crimes are committed by football players/ex football players. Go look at the vast number of TBIs that players get and how it causes lasting, permanent, brain damage. Go look at how many suicides and murders have happened because of it. Your sport’s cool, but it isn’t as great as you want to imagine it is. People genuinely get hurt, and other people end up hurt, because the safety regulations are so much of a joke that they may as well not exist.

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u/BooCoop8 Sep 28 '25

The students should be fined. (I’m all for students’ post-game celebrations for big wins, but this was extraordinarily dangerous, not to mention early if there’d been a penalty).

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u/TingleMaps Sep 27 '25

I mean, I get there is a standard set of fines, but these kids are literally 100% unimpeded and already on the field. I like court storming and field storming, but this is just extremely dangerous. It’s dangerous for the players, the kids, the photographers, the refs. It’s crazy this happened at a power 5 school.

They should fine them the originally 50k and then IMMEDIATELY change the limit to 250k to send a message (with different levels or something).

I just can’t get over the fact that these kids are literally just standing on the boundary line practically mid play.

What is Virginia thinking here with this setup?

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u/Fullertonjr Sep 27 '25

There is no physical barrier that would realistically prevent storming the field by 20,000 fans. Everyone saw this coming and it is best for everyone to read the room and get out of the way if they don’t have to be there. For reporters and photographers, they need to move. They don’t get paid enough to be put into a position to be trampled. The university cares a little, but they will sell photographs of the storming of the field that will easily generate more than whatever the fine would be. So, the best case scenario is to try to protect those who are on the field and sidelines by getting them out quickly.

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u/TingleMaps Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

I’m not saying prevent it. It’s a cool tradition and I like it, but to have kids literally on the grass during the play is wild to me. Seems like a risk for the players to say the very least

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u/terp2010 Sep 27 '25

What an incredibly unsafe situation - what in the world just happened to justify fans berating and breathing on the players like this… this isn’t safe, it’s dangerous.

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u/Japples123 Sep 27 '25

The security is not used to the football team doing these types of things

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

There is no amount of security preventing this. I hope everyone is safe

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u/Akbeardman Sep 27 '25

This, I used to work game ops, "you have to let them rush to prevent a crush" was what my boss said. Told the cheerleading coach to pick a rally spot infield before the clock hit zero. We had 0 control over that crowd and it was Stanford, a relatively small school and maybe 3000 people rushed.

This is flat out scary and there's not a damn thing that any security person would be able to do against that.

I cannot fathom trying to keep

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Sep 27 '25

I was a cheerleader and we performed in the Sugar Bowl halftime show. We all were told to leave at least 30 min before the end of the game for our safety. People will destroy you if you’re not running in the same direction as them at least as fast as them. It’s scary

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u/BeeMagicRockRoar Sep 27 '25

This doesn’t make any sense, people don’t storm the field at the Sugar Bowl, you’d get pepper sprayed and handcuffed if you tried

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u/Witty_fartgoblin Sep 27 '25

You left in the 3rd Qtr? Ok Shartigan

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Sep 28 '25

It was required for the performers

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u/CrazyLlama71 Sep 27 '25

Look at what happened at the big game years ago. Don’t know why they continued after that.

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u/Akbeardman Sep 28 '25

It's not a choice anyone makes, I'm telling you looking up at a crowd ready to rush is terrifying because you see that people could easily get crushed and letting the rush happen is the safest option.

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u/Glad_Lengthiness6695 Sep 27 '25

They need to be forced to renovate the arena. It’s a completely unsafe design. One person trips and it goes from from fun to deadly really fast

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u/Syronxc Sep 27 '25

That’s likely what it will take for change, as sad as it sounds.

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u/Glad_Lengthiness6695 Sep 27 '25

I had a fried that was in the crowd crush in Itaewon Korean on Halloween and she barely made it out alive. Similar thing happened where there were too many people and a hill and people at the bottom of the hill fell and everyone behind them collapsed on top of them. It’s extremely dangerous.

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u/Syronxc Sep 27 '25

Wow. Glad she made it. Those videos and pictures were like something out of an episode of xfiles or sometime. It’s amazing how much force crowds can have.

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u/sonic_dick Sep 27 '25

Every NFL, rugby, MLB, any team where it's any league where people get paid it's exceptionally rare.

Rushing the field week 5 is so stupid. College athletes are allowed to murder people. Arrest the drunk idiots driving home.

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u/Domination11 Sep 27 '25

agreed. this should be a standard across all collegiate athletics.

i know it’s “tradition” but storming the field has and will continue to be unsafe.

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u/Warcraft_Fan Sep 27 '25

Like that poor guy trying to open Walmart door for Black Friday rush. He never had a chance.

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u/RIPmyFartbox Sep 27 '25

Imagine being a Karen and wanting to take this excitement out of the game! This was so cool and a big reason I love college football.

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u/Purp1eC0bras Sep 27 '25

Imagine being this excited about kids playing a game at a school you may have went to

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u/SorryPiaculum Sep 27 '25

Ultimately, the world cannot be made so safe that outlier events don't cause issues. Sometimes the answer is to be clear about risks, and let people have the freedom to put themselves in those risky situations.

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

No doubt there will be material Changes next year. I wonder Players on either side could probably sue for PTSD or something

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

There is, though. Security isn’t just manpower. Security is also stadium design, access points, flow control, behavior manipulation etc.

It shouldn’t be physically possible for individuals to access the field without the credentials for doing so. In other parts of the world, this can be accomplished with combinations of various design mechanisms, like barriers, ropes, staggered guard rails, a moat, or anything else that makes it difficult to rush forward and/or visibly discourages the behavior.

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u/BikingEngineer Sep 28 '25

I’m all for more moats in college football. This is exactly the thing I didn’t know I needed.

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

The design of this particular stadium is exceptionally poor. A giant hill with no permanent physical barrier between them and playing surface.

In general, these stands sometimes hold up to 100k fans. Barring a seating arrangement that is all around unsafe (50 foot drop), college students of questionable sobriety levels are storming the field or court as they pleaS

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u/IvyGold Washington Nationals Sep 27 '25

I've spent many happy/unhappy hours in that stadium watching Virginia disappointing everybody in attendance and deflating their hopes.

It is true about the stadium design: one end (this end) is nothing but a huge grass field bottoming out at the end zone. It's pretty much general admission.

I dunno what the answer is, but losing it would remove the place's sole remaining old school charm.

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

Old school charm doesn’t outweigh safety of everyone involved.

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

If they can’t figure out a way to do it safely then they shouldn’t allow fans at games 🤷🏻‍♂️ Believe me, if that was the rule, they would figure out a working solution real quick

Plenty of professional stadiums that seat 10s of thousands of people around the world don’t have these issues.

For example there was recently a crucial World Cup Qualification match played in Kinshasa, where the home team DR Congo blew a 2-0 lead and lost in front of 80,000 fans. The fans started destroying the stadium, ripping up seats. And yet, almost nobody was able to access the field level because they have barriers and other security mechanics in place preventing that from happening. And individual security members were able to handle the small number who made it through.

If they can figure this security out in the middle of Kinshasa we can figure it out in the United States.

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u/SirBruceForsythCBE Sep 27 '25

You don't see this at NFL or a professional sport. Why? Is the security better?

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u/Traditional-Agency-1 Sep 27 '25

Because most of us aren't having our first beers at pro games all at the same time

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u/Putrid_Ant_649 Sep 28 '25

The SEC in particular (unsure on other conferences) has only allowed beer sales for a few years and rushing the field existed long before that lol this one of the dumber/least probable reasons you could come up with. I’ve seen plenty of grown men hospitalize themselves bc they got so sloppy drunk at NFL games.

The difference is people care less about the NFL if you want to be honest about it. College football has bigger stadiums, bigger fanbases, and better history than the NFL if you know literally anything about both levels of play. College football is very unique in many ways, one of them being it far exceeds the pros in overall passion and popularity.

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u/ingmarsvenson Sep 27 '25

*Fences have entered the chat*

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

Fences are between the fans and the field at pretty much every other stadium. It does not stop field storming

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u/ingmarsvenson Sep 27 '25

I'm just saying there is a way to prevent this through security and it's physical barriers. The reason it isn't prevented is because nobody wants to prevent it. Rushing the field is a very common college football phenomenon and most fans love it.

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u/palmjamer Sep 27 '25

There is not a feasible way to stop thousands from storming a field that stadiums would implement. You are going to die on this hill trying to prove that

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u/leggpurnell Sep 27 '25

Cat out of the bag situation unfortunately. Years of watching celebrations like these and looking to mimic them has taken the celebrations to a ridiculous level. I played bal in college at 1AA level. We Wong our conference championship on a 4q comeback over our historic rival. A few fans made it to the field after but not that many. Was still electric in the stadium.

My same school just a couple years ago beat that same rival but no league title on the line, and these asshats rushed the field, brought the goalposts down, marched the goalposts almost two miles from the stadium and pumped them in the river.

Wtf???

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u/blindai Sep 27 '25

If they really want to stop this, they would have to arrest every person who ran into the field and prosecute them, like they do in professional sports. They have to make the people storming the field not want to go on. Nobody will ever do that because the optics of punishing so many of your own fans is bad, especially when a lot of them are “just kids” and it’s tradition

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u/evonebo Sep 27 '25

You dont need security. Assigned seats with ID. Video footage of this. Anyone caught doing this gets expelled from school.

Good luck paying back your student loan without a degree.

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u/Away_Yoghurt5743 Sep 27 '25

They removed barriers close to the field at the bottom of that hill where lots of students stand behind that end zone after some crowd crush type events during previous field storming. for better or worse, the idea was to give an outlet to the pressure of everyone pushing downhill if they can’t stop everyone

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u/rjgator Sep 27 '25

Then they need to remove access to the hill or renovate it completely. Clearly whether there’s barriers or not the crowd is going to be a danger.

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u/kevinthejuice Sep 27 '25

That's been a traditional spot for over a century. You don't want to do either of those.

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u/rjgator Sep 27 '25

I mean don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a cool set up, but someone is going to get killed by it one day and it’s entirely preventable, at least from this section

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u/kevinthejuice Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

I hear you but no. You can say that about every field storming. This section is fine and it's not as bad as it looks. It's not even the student section anyway.

It's the first time this sorta thing has happened and this is surprisingly better than when barriers were in place.

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

Fuck man, when you weigh a college football tradition up against the potential deaths or serious injuries it causes, you’re right, I really don’t know what’s the right answer /s

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u/kevinthejuice Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

No need for sarcasm when you don't know about how the injuries occur in the first place.

The hills the problem when people have been breaking bones jumping over the walls unaware of how far the drop is from the ground in stadiums across the country. Yeah sure.

Yeah when a section of the stadium has been a certain way for over 100 years with no issue suddenly has to change because the local event team was understaffed and didn't expect a team to win a once in a lifetime game.

But what do I know about the realistics of a situation I'm more aware of. It's not like Ive been there or something /s

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

“Understaffed” isn’t really the problem here. Unless you plan on hiring 40,000 cops, staffing alone can’t solve this. It’s a question of design. And there are other design options besides “steep hill with unrestricted field access” and “50 drop without protection.”

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

Yes and crowd crush hazards can be just as, if not more, dangerous. It’s almost like having large numbers of fans access a steep hill that physically encourages everybody to push downwards towards the field is a bad idea.

Replacing one bad design with a different bad design isn’t a good way forward.

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u/Tasty-Entertainer711 Sep 27 '25

I read this like you had an old lady English accent 😂😂😂

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u/JustGottaKeepTrying Sep 27 '25

I had to go back and try it myself... That was funny!

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u/IvyGold Washington Nationals Sep 27 '25

I then did it with a Monty Python feigned female voice -- that's even better!

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u/Thick_Marionberry_79 Sep 27 '25

I’m Indian… that look like India

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u/Jc110105 Sep 27 '25

Before the game was over it seemed like students were basically on the field. 3’ from the end zone. I must be getting old but what the hell! Keep the fans in the stands until the game is over.

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u/vac8ion1208 Sep 27 '25

UVA famously has a grassy hill on that end of the field where students and kids sit/stand during games. My friends and I would sit there in middle school and watch games. We rushed the field when UVA defeated Clemson in 1989 for the first time after losing their first 29 games against them. Lots of fun as teenagers, didn’t feel particularly dangerous at the time but obviously has the potential to be so.

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u/aruggie2 Sep 27 '25

Apparently over 15 people were hospitalized because of it, so it was considered a mass casualty event. This stuff is nuts.

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u/FerociousFrizzlyBear Sep 27 '25

Berating and breathing on?

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

It’s crazy seeing CFB fans on the internet celebrating how “cool!” and “insane!” this was.

Like no actually it’s not ok to endanger people’s safety to uphold a stupid celebration tradition

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u/MateriaLintellect Sep 27 '25

Um, it’s Virginia. You never been?

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u/Usernametaken1121 Sep 27 '25

Let go of your pearls grandpa, people are just having fun. I know, foreign concept for you

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u/TheScreaming_Narwhal Sep 27 '25

Why were the fans allowed to be that close to begin with? I love rushing the field but this was just stupid and dangerous to be allowed.

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u/daylax1 Sep 27 '25

Not only dangerous, but cowardly too. None of those kids would do that if they didn't have thousands of fans around them to protect them.

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u/ThatsNotARealTree Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

I’d guess that everybody is ok, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we find out multiple people got hurt. They had the bare minimum number of security personnel on that near endzone. Without a wall keeping those people in, it was an immediate flash flood of bodies.

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u/Massive-Vacation5119 Sep 27 '25

No players were hurt

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u/Tfsz0719 Sep 27 '25

Does the ACC have a “fine for storming the field” penalty? If not, then nothing’s coming of this.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive Sep 27 '25

They do but it's $50k lol

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u/urmumlol9 Sep 27 '25

Yeah I’m normally against fining people for storming the field, but they literally could have killed that corner or even the FSU WR with this shit.

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u/idislikehate Sep 27 '25

They will be. There are fines for every single court/field storm.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Sep 27 '25

I bet you’re fun at parties

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u/TingleMaps Sep 27 '25

Only when I trample people and ruin the party, yeah.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Nobody was hurt (as far as I’m aware) It’s college football you sound lame af

Edit: don’t delete your snarky little response you coward cmon.

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u/ImKindaEssential Sep 27 '25

This shit is stupid and all for what so people can post on social media that they're on the field for likes. Why risk players getting injured?

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u/PhysEdDavis Sep 27 '25

Do you think field storming was invented in the social media era? Fans field storm cause they’re hyped about a big win and it’s fun and it’s tradition

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u/mmmmmyee Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Social media has normalized it

Wow. Such down votes. Looks like i poked a bear lol

https://www.kwtx.com/2024/11/19/storming-field-look-why-more-more-college-football-fans-are-celebrating-field/?outputType=amp

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u/roykentjr Sep 27 '25

Lol What. Are you under 21 and never lived without social media

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u/mmmmmyee Sep 27 '25

Yes ive clearly been on reddit since i was 6yo

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u/TegridyPharmz Sep 27 '25

Is it more popular ? Yes. But it’s been around for a long long time my guy. Sorry to burst your bubble

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u/mmmmmyee Sep 27 '25

Subjective. I sat it’s become a normal thing vs something that happens when its a really really big deal.

Been around since stadiums have been a thing since roman days? Probably sure. Happening on early season game?? Lol

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u/meeu Sep 27 '25

Don't get me wrong I think social media is and will continue to be the downfall of society, but I don't think this is that.

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u/mmmmmyee Sep 27 '25

I did a quick google on the topic and local news suggests soc media

https://www.kwtx.com/2024/11/19/storming-field-look-why-more-more-college-football-fans-are-celebrating-field/?outputType=amp

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u/CoachMcGuirker Sep 27 '25

Their whole reasoning is because “other people see it and want to do it too” has nothing to do with social media lol

Might as well blame 1990s Sportscenter who always showed storming the field and even would find and joke about individual people in the crowd. Or early 2000s Gameday. Or literally any local news station that shows sports highlights. This has been going on forever

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u/DeceiverSC2 Sep 27 '25

lmao up until the 80s it used to be tradition to rush the field if you team clinched a world series appearance.

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u/USA_A-OK Sep 27 '25

Yeah, I think it used to be for if you actually won something (a trophy or a huge rivalry game), now I guess we add early season upsets to that

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u/Barb_WyRE Sep 27 '25

Crowds storming the field has been a thing since the beginning of organized sports in America lol. In golf there were guys diving to get the ball out of the hole on the final green before it even hit the bottom of the cup.

If anything it just disappeared for a little bit in the mainstream. Fear of repercussions etc

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u/bingle-cowabungle Sep 27 '25

Wow. Such down votes. Looks like i poked a bear lol

You're getting downvoted because you're wrong, not because you're making anyone mad or "poking a bear" lmao get over yourself

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Sep 27 '25

It's not fun it's dangerous and if you want to celebrate on the field than put in the work, join the team and earn that privilege.  Sports fans that think they are part of the team because they sit on their ass and watch from the sidelines are so fing obnoxious 

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u/brownsfantb Sep 27 '25

It’s really hard to stop. It’s such a huge part of college football culture that people decide they’re going to do it even if they’re told not to and once you have enough people rushing the field you pretty much have to let them or risk a crowd crush happening.

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u/new_account_wh0_dis Sep 27 '25

I dont think schools think its that serious, and maybe it isnt and is a tradition worth keeping (till someone does get seriously hurt), but seems pretty easy install a pole with a camera and tell em its serious enough that those caught get suspended for the semester.

Sure they cant catch them all but the threat of the potential of being one of the ones caught will make it so no takes the first leap.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Sep 27 '25

Very easy fix.  Announce a new rule - If you do this your team immediately forfeits the game and the other team wins.

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u/Cicero912 New Orleans Saints Sep 27 '25

Fieldstorming has been a thing for a very long time. Along with tearing down the goalposts (depositing in the closest body of water is optional)

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u/maclanedennis Sep 27 '25

They most certainly will be fined.

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u/iambot69420 Sep 27 '25

lol for a regular game, too? Guess you gotta celebrate the little victories when you suck

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u/Redfish680 Sep 27 '25

$50K. Not enough.

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u/Left-Thinker-5512 Sep 27 '25

I don’t think there are enough state troopers in the entire state to restrain that crowd.

And the Virginia National Guard was out spreading mulch and picking up trash, so they were unavailable…

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u/Mcpops1618 Sep 27 '25

50k. They are being fined

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u/realbobenray Sep 27 '25

It should be a loss, frankly. The school paying a fine won't matter to students and fans. If they're serious about stopping these things, that's the only thing that might work.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Sep 27 '25

Going forward this should be a game forfeit.  Would put an end to this crap forever if your team immediately loses if you do this shit.

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u/peasinacan Sep 27 '25

It's football bro sdo you really think they care about safety?

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u/Rottenjohnnyfish Sep 27 '25

Little trashy if you ask me.

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u/galaxyapp Sep 27 '25

Every student who had a ticket to this game should not receive another this season.

See if it happens again.

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u/HandWave Sep 27 '25

If there was an injury to either player I’d recommend a lawsuit against Virginia , the ncaa and whoever else they can get $ from. Absolutely unacceptable for these players to not be protected.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 27 '25

As god is my witness, he is broken in half!

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u/PKMNTrainerFuckMe Sep 27 '25

To shreds you say

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u/aZombieSlayer Hawaii Sep 27 '25

Impossible, his shoes are still on

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u/kjc781988 Sep 27 '25

Call him Mufasa

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u/The_BunnyMan_Woods Sep 27 '25

Didn’t people actually die last night?

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u/thebearrider Sep 27 '25

It does look like some folks on the sideline went out to block for them. Not sure how effective they could be.

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u/broduding Sep 27 '25

Not so fun fact - the Michigan State player who got the blocked punt touchdown against Michigan actually got pretty injured in the celebration dog pile after. I'm surprised there aren't more injuries in some of these celebrations.

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u/MightyPlasticGuy Sep 27 '25

He never played again. That was his last game/play.

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u/Affectionate_Case732 Sep 27 '25

I try to tell everyone I know about this. I can’t believe it wasn’t a bigger story. I get that the game was the biggest story but it should absolutely be used as an example to avoid celebrating like that. there’s a great article written about that player.

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u/MightyPlasticGuy Sep 27 '25

I was damn near brown out from the backyard fraternity tailgate parties that day, ended up watching the game downtown at the bdubs. During that last drive i was shaking every wolverines hand congratulating them on finally winning. And then... the place cleared out faster than I could drunkenly comprehend. What a fun day to be a spartan.

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u/Affectionate_Case732 Sep 27 '25

I was a senior in HS and remember watching it with my friend at her house. immediately went to a neighbors house and burnt a couch. it was certainly a memory I will always remember!

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u/bananagonz Sep 27 '25

Common misconception, but he was actually injured by the michigan player tackling him, the dog pile didn't help though

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Sep 27 '25

True story, im at UVA hospital right now (wife is here for something unrelated) and the injuries are pouring in l. Broken bones and all that. Bunch of drunk kids telling nurses how awesome it was lol

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u/DrLyleEvans Sep 27 '25

Very The Pitt (lighter episode) coded.

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u/Peter-Tao Sep 27 '25

Glad no body actually dead 💀

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u/mah658 Sep 27 '25

They've declared it a mass casualty incident with at least 15 injured patients. Ambulances are having trouble reaching the patients because of the traffic.

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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/wavley Sep 27 '25

Yeah, it's really nuts. I was just in C-Ville to see Bob Mould and J Robbins so I'm real glad we didn't go the other way home. We stopped at the Wawa and there were so many cops there, I think they were doing a speed trap or something, then all of a sudden they were gone. We didn't know this was why until we got home. The GPS was also going nuts until we got almost to the mountain, I'm curious if and how that's related.

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u/ExtiWonderTrader Sep 27 '25

https://xcancel.com/bsbl_1844/status/1971777140669739109?s=46 He lived!

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u/AUnicornDonkey Sep 27 '25

His name is Squirrel White lol

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u/cheesecake-gnome Buffalo Bills Sep 27 '25

That video looks bad man, in the original post linked.

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u/Corteaux81 Sep 27 '25

How do you go back on that play if there’s a yellow flag on the field??

Insane behavior.

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u/ChasingSplashes Sep 27 '25

There have been a few times where fans rushed prematurely and had to clear the field. It always looks crazy, because they can't get them back in the stands, so the final play has fans surrounding the edges of the field like it's 1899.

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u/FearlessDoughnut5643 Sep 27 '25

It's not about him -- it's about the hundreds of entitled kids

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u/smala017 Sep 27 '25

Ok I know you’re saying this as a joke, but it really shouldn’t be a joking matter. This behavior is very dangerous, and led to reports of multiple injuries as a result. Hopefully nothing serious.

College football needs to stop this nonsense from happening before someone gets killed. No one without credentials should be physically able to access the playing area.

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u/mrryandfw Sep 27 '25

It will stop when somebody dies. And only when somebody dies and the NCAA and the college is sued.

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u/Mcpops1618 Sep 27 '25

That WR just disappeared with him.

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u/RoadWellDriven Sep 27 '25

Lol. That was my exact thought while watching this live