let me slow this down for you and use smaller words....

a reason that the entire stadium wasn't fighting was because they were to far away.

it sure looked like a good amount of people who were in close proximity to the court were acting a fool.

According to some co-workers of mine who were there, MANY had left already (to avoid the well known Palace traffic insanity) and those who hadn't left moved UP and away from the activity if they weren't into acting a fool. In fact, the guy who threw the beer didn't have seats in that section. He moved down after most of the folks in that section had left. Were there a lot of people acting a fool? yes. Was it the majority? no. It was the people who stuck around after things got scary. The Piston's families also sit very close to the area where most of the fighting was occuring and they tried to get out really fast. I don't think anybody is defending those fans who were out of line, but we are defending the 4 million people who live in the metro Detroit area who were appalled by the whole thing and the innocent people who were injured in the chaos. One woman was pushed to the court by crowds who were just trying to get away from the action and she was taken off in an ambulance.

It was a horrific situation, caused by numerous sequential events, none of which could be construed as appropriate behavior. It is hard to not get defensive when people say things like "That guy deserved to have the crap beat out of him" (to paraphrase), because, NOBODY deserves that. People deserve to be criminally charged and held accountable for their actions in court. And they will be. Violence simply isn't the answer.

Dee

Your comment makes no sense at all. Did you NOT see people there scared and moving away? Did you ever see all the tapes at all?

And sorry yeah you gota slow it down for me. Because I don't understand your half ass sentence.

editted cuz I didn't realize ebonics was a "racist" comment since I hear many people speaking the same way here.... all colors.

Thank you for saying what I have been trying to say all along. The reason I am so pissed off is because everyone in this thread is saying Detroit Fans are hoodlums...well just because a few fans got into a fight does not make everyone hoodlums! They are just pissing me off by saying that. And like you said, no one deserves to get beat up, even if they were talking shit the whole game. Like I said before...everyone in this thread can not sit there and tell me that they have not sat a sporting event before and not talked shit about the other team. Hell we are all guilty of doing it. So what you are basically saying is that you deserve to get the shit beat out of you before you talked shit? NO I don't think so!

I agree with what you are saying. I think people are talking crap when they have not even seen the tapes. Either that or they are seeing something other than what other people are seeing.

Some of you all are posting like "hoodlems" (btw- it's hoodlums, with a "u". I'm not too much of a spelling crazy person but this is driving me insane b/c it's being repeated constantly).

As I said earlier, name calling, cursing, and racist comments aren't helping your cause at all. If anything, they're creating a worse image of your city to those of us on GC who have never been there. If you disagree with someone or think they're wrong, that's fine, but do so in a civil manner!

Not to mention that some posters have their letters prominently in their sig while cursing, name calling, and making racist comments.

I was thinking the same thing....

You can defend something without namecalling, profusive cursing, and racist remarks.

This whole thing was a bad PR event for Detroit. But the defense of the city here isn't doing anything to help that. If anything, it's promulgating the image of the city.

it does make sense, it's not my fault you're not intelligent enough to put together any semblance of coherent and cohesive thought. but hey, such is life sometimes. there was no ebonics in my posts, thus further proving your massive ineptitude. i apologize for being on a higher intellectual plane....but like i said, hey....such is life.

anyhow, back to the subject....there are plenty of reasons that many of the fans within the palace weren't acting up. access to the court was one of them. some sort of civility was one of them, but either way....a vast amount of palace patrons were shown showing their ass in the court.

now breathe, focus and get it together.

no one is saying anything about all of the people or a good majority of the people in detroit are piss poor fans. but y'all have idiots in your city who make y'all look bad. such is life, i'm sure if this shit happened in new york, a lot of the same people who are on the defensive would be on the offensive and would be saying the same thing. you people are looking way too much into these comments. it happened in detroit, people are always going to have opinions whether or not they have any validity.

actually, you're just a simple individual who makes idiot comments. like you said, you "ain't neffa scuurrrreedddd!!!"

come on now, this is GC....ignorance and irrelevance fly rampant on this board like beer cups at the palace. watch out, they'll start complaining about how people are being too PC.