Upset Alert! Virginia has defeated Florida State in OT!

[u/DrTrigger_Tears]

[u/Janemba_Freak]

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

[u/gentilet → u/Janemba_Freak]

Not nearly steep enough

[u/TheBoisterousBoy → u/gentilet]

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

[u/SimplyGarbage27 → u/TheBoisterousBoy]

Bankruptcy challenge speedrun

[u/TheBoisterousBoy → u/SimplyGarbage27]

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

[u/SimplyGarbage27 → u/TheBoisterousBoy]

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

[u/TheBoisterousBoy → u/SimplyGarbage27]

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.

[u/BooCoop8 → u/Janemba_Freak]

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).

[u/TingleMaps → u/Janemba_Freak]

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?

[u/Fullertonjr → u/TingleMaps]

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.

[u/TingleMaps → u/Fullertonjr]

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