Snowball missiles at Qwest Field were an embarrassment
Snowballs rained like missiles from the fall bowl of Qwest Field as coach Mike Holmgren made his farewell lap around the stadium, after his hold out win in his utmost home game.
Most of the missiles thrown by the agency of the multiplied idiot inebriates were no added accurate that Brett Favre’s Sunday passes, but all of them were thrown with rascally intentions and some were headed directly for the head of Holmgren.
It was an embarrassing sight. Another black-eye in this shiner sports year of 2008 for Seattle.
Fortunately for the Seahawks coach, his longtime security attendant, Seattle policeman David Duty, was making like goalkeeper Kasey Keller batting away some of the more accurate icy balls. He kept Holmgren from getting hit and hurt.
Marty Lyons wasn’t while lucky. Wearing a green-and-white New York Jets winter jacket that force similar to well have had a bull’s-eye on it, Lyons was pelted viciously, at the same time that the whole stadium erupted in cheers for the reason that if the Seahawks had just clinched a playoff berth.
Lyons, a maker Jets defensive expiration, a member of the “New York Sack Exchange,” and now a respected member of the broadcast network, was hit in the face, head and shoulders. By the time he reached safety underneath the stands, he was cut and bruised.
He was assaulted. There should have been arrests, but none of the bums who threw the snowballs will be punished for their actions, because apparently much of the stadium’session security force couldn’t make it to the game and those who did were helpless to stop the ruckus.
Holmgren and Lyons, certainly two of the classiest men in the NFL, weren’t the only victims of snow-throwing anarchists.
At the close of the game, as photographers and reporters gathered on the Seahawk sidelines to watch and attestation Holmgren’session last moments, they dodged the ice missiles. Several Sea Gals also were targets and whenever unit of the snowballs hit its mark, there were cheers.
This was Seattle at its overcome. These were small-time acts by the several immature thousand fans who thought they were on more unsupervised playground and they were back in third part grade.
It was humiliating to the substantive fans, who mushed through the snow and sat in the subfreezing weather to pay tax to Holmgren one last time.
“The situation in the stadium in indefinite was not a very safe situation for anyone involved,” Jets’ coach Eric Mangini understated to New York writers on Monday.
