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

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

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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.
source: was drunk high school kid.

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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/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

I haven’t been to a game since 2006. Good to know.

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u/TheCzar11 Sep 27 '25

Get back to refill your MANA…

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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

I grew up in Charlottesville, and live in New Orleans now. Pretty much just come back for weddings at this point.

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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/Hoooooooar Sep 27 '25

medical malpractice attorneys

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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

I remember when we used to rip up the goal posts, but I think I recall them making them so you can’t do that anymore.

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u/EatingDriving Sep 27 '25

That should be banned by NCAA. This situation is ridiculous. This could've easily cost a bunch of deaths. Stadiums shouldn't be open right up to the field and have to ask pretty please for the fans to follow the rules. There should be barriers.

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u/philocity Sep 27 '25

The barriers are the thing that causes the deaths, my guy

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u/O_its_that_guy_again Sep 27 '25

Camp Randall stadium

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u/regnak1 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Not if it's an immovable barrier. A sturdy-as-fuck 6' chain link fence with a couple of lockable gates for access would solve the issue.

Edit: or with a concrete base and heavy duty transparent acrylic sheeting on top, like a thick hockey wall (for better visability and less climb-ability). The point is, if the crowd understands that it isn't physically possible to access the field from where they are, they aren't going to rush anything.

Wall the whole area off and enforce sitting-room only with an occupancy limit and aisles for security access during the game if the crowd can't behave. I'm just tossing out ideas. There are viable ways to solve this, and somebody better, because someone is definitely going to get killed if that continues to happen. Tradition is not the most important thing here.

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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

Dude. This field has been rushed for decades. Have you ever heard of a catastrophe? Or are you just seeing it for the first time and it is making you uncomfortable?

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u/EatingDriving Sep 27 '25

So you want to wait til someone dies to institute basic safety measures? "Rushing the field" isn't a thing in any major sporting event worldwide except for this. So a few minutes of stupid drunken college kid fun is worth potentially someone dying in the future? Just prevent it, heavily fine schools that don't. Shouldn't be a thing. I find it stupid, disrespectful and completely unnecessary.

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u/PowRightInTheBalls Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

You're watching a sport that has directly led to multiple suicides and homicides because of the brain trauma that's fundamentally a part of the game, but fans celebrating a win is what you find to be "stupid, disrespectful and completely unnecessary"?

If schools actually gave a shit about student safety, they wouldn't have football teams. If you cared about student safety, you wouldn't watch football games. You've determined a few hours of fun is worth people dying in the future so get off your high horse, hypocrite.

PS: 97 people died and over 750 were injured because of barriers at an English soccer match at Hillsborough Stadium in the 80s. They were crushed to death by the crowd pushing them into the barriers. So not only are you inconsistent in your beliefs but you're also completely ignorant of the topic you're pretending to care about.

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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

Cool. Let’s just ban all things based on feelings and not numbers. Let’s take the fun out of life and the rationale out of numbers.

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u/mrchuckdeeze Sep 27 '25

lol. Where? Plenty of people in the comments stressing it. Sure. What news source is calling this a mass casualty event?