It Took A Bench-Clearing Brawl To Make Me Watch Women’s Basketball

ItalianStallion8 years ago

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Oakland Raiders used to suck. This year they kinda suck too, but in the pre-Derek Carr era they used to suck so bad an All-Star team of Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Steven Hawking could have run circles around them.

The point I’m trying to make is that there used to be a running joke: “The Oakland Raiders can’t beat you on the field, so their fans will beat you after the game instead.” Well, one New Jersey women’s college basketball team decided, in the voice of that little girl from the taco shell commercials, “Why not both?!?!”

From NJ.com:

A brawl at a women’s basketball game on the New Jersey City University campus last week left a York College student with a concussion and led NJCU to suspend its team’s coach.
The accusations surrounding the Dec. 13 fight include that an NJCU coach attacked a York player and bit the student’s finger. The Jersey City-based school canceled the team’s subsequent two games.

Sounds like you walked into a women’s college basketball game and saw a Ronda Rousey fight instead. Sounds like a bloody time was had by all.

The fight started at about 9:15 p.m. on NJCU’s Coach Charlie Brown Court, in the fourth quarter of a game where York’s Cardinals were up by nine over NJCU’s Gothic Knights with just 26 seconds left. Video from the game shows an NJCU player shove a York player, who shoved back, starting a fight between them and four other players standing nearby. Others soon joined in the brawl, which broke up after about 30 seconds.

A simple shoving match became a bench-clearing brawl? Wow. Rare stuff! LET’S CHECK IT OUT!

This is probably the most exciting thing to happen at a women’s basketball game ever, let alone the most exciting thing to happen at a basketball game in New Jersey since Jay Z bought the Nets and ditched us for Brooklyn. I’ve seen this school before, and this is their most exciting athletic achievement by a long shot; literally the only reason they’re D-3 is because the NCAA doesn’t have a level low enough for them.

Bottom line: if you wanna fight while playing a sport, stick to hockey..

[via NJ.com]

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