He Can't Kick . . .

August 15, 2003 11:23 AM

A Real Fan (as in Fanatic) "A former minder of Cardiff City Football Club owner Sam Hammam was today banned from attending football matches for five years after setting off a hotel fire alarm to disturb opposition players on the night before a vital game." A bit extreme, surely (although his side did win, 1-0, in overtime). What's the worst thing you've ever done to an opposing team?
posted by LeLiLo (9 comments total)

Liquid heat on their jockstraps. Works every time.
posted by trondant at 11:39 AM on August 15, 2003

Being an American & boring at sporting matches, just: boo!
posted by thomcatspike at 11:40 AM on August 15, 2003

Annihilated them. Got out my death ray and vaporized them all.

No wait.

Haven't done anything nasty but there are lots of things that occur to me to do.

Like, adding salt to their drinking water (but that's out now in the wake of the heat exhaustion deaths of recent news).
Like, sneaking into the ski shack and loosening up their binding before the big race (damn, that was in Hot Dog, the Movie, not real life).
Like, giving them a false time for the game or false location.

But hey, sportsmanship prohibited me from pulling any serious stunts. Besides, its more fun to play pranks on your own team mates.
posted by fenriq at 11:51 AM on August 15, 2003

I wouldn't shed any tears for Neil MacNamara if I were you. He was/is a leading member of Cardiff City's Soul Crew hooligan firm. Good riddance.
posted by squealy at 12:00 PM on August 15, 2003

Worst thing I've done? Me and a friend did the very same thing, in a college football game, five or so years ago. Most of the opposing team was staying in a particular hotel. We pulled the alarm and exited like mad. They went on to trounce our team's ass, tho'.
posted by jmccorm at 12:52 PM on August 15, 2003

i threw some rocks at a bus from Immokalee once.

does that count?
posted by shadow45 at 1:34 PM on August 15, 2003

Well, there was that time I poisoned Michael Jordan's pizza (scroll down to #5), but that backfired.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:45 PM on August 15, 2003

I once broke a guys leg by slide-tackling him (legally) during a soccer match. It was a fluke, though, and I couldn't duplicate that again no matter how hard I tried. And there were times when I really wanted to break a guys leg, too!

Otherwise: what's the worst I'm going to be able to do? Shout "pitcher has a wienie arm" from the right-field bleachers?
posted by jdroth at 9:54 PM on August 15, 2003

can i just say, as an english person - extra time.

thanks.
posted by triv at 1:26 AM on August 16, 2003