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Article: Brotherly love on ice. (snowball disruption of Philadelphia Eagles football game) (American Survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1989
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SNOWBALLING is supposed to be fun. Not in Philadelphia, where, on December 10th, a barrage of icy balls disrupted a football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys. The referee was knocked down, the doctors trying to look after him were battered, the Eagles' cheerleaders were driven from the field and the visiting Cowboys were cowed. Sports reporters huddled into the back of their open-air booth. It had been a dull game, but this was absurd.
Recriminations flew thick and fast. Some blamed the stadium for not shovelling out the four-inch snowfall; others called for the offenders to be stripped of their season tickets. And-probably because the ...