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on the point of sports without fans,
how do you think sports get made. people invent them, then play them. no fans, no money, etc. look at the olympics, its full of sports that have no proffesional system and virtually no fans, except a few friends of the players. but people still play, and get quite good. and they can become olympic events.
on the point of the riot,
someone said earlier that you can celebrate your team winning without rioting, i believe he used a canadian team example. and that is the absolute truth, there is no requirement for riots. And as far as ive heard, the girl that got killed was at the wrong place at the wrong time. yes the police should take some responsibility, but she was in a riot, she was most probably in a standoff with the police. it is sad that her life was lost, but if she was thinking straight, she wouldn't have been there.
at the start of this thread, someone remarked that he was surprised the mayor mentioned young people. I'm sure if you look into the statistics of sports riots in the USA, a vast majority of the rioters will be below the age of 30, and almost all will have been affected by alcohol
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