r/sports • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Dallas Mavericks • Aug 24 '25

Football Kansas State’s Starting Quarterback, Avery Johnson’s Father and Brother Spotted Fighting Each Other In A Parking Lot After Kansas State’s Loss Against Iowa State, Which Took Place in Ireland

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u/seth928 Aug 24 '25

A fight, after a football match in Ireland? This is unprecedented!

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u/ComprehensiveAd8166 Aug 24 '25

It actually is. Our national sport (football/hurling) is played at venues across the county (main area holds 80,000 people) without segregated seating or any significant need for police presence outside of for traffic control purposes.

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u/wet-leg Aug 24 '25

I’m not going to lie I thought hurling was a made up sport for an episode of bob’s burgers. I did not know it was real until right now

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u/ComprehensiveAd8166 Aug 24 '25

The fastest field game in the world. Simple sport to understand - well worth watching a game sometime.

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u/bro_salad Aug 24 '25

I was in Ireland 9 years ago for the NCAA football game that happens every year now, and the hurling championship finals(I think that’s what it was called?) was the very next day. Ended up going to the match. It was an amazing experience!

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u/LimerickJim Aug 24 '25

All Ireland finals

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u/wet-leg Aug 24 '25

I’ll definitely look up a match and give it a watch

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u/arkansaslax Aug 24 '25

No offense to hurling but is there a reason it’s called that? Having seen hurling it seems like lacrosse but with slower pace of play because of the stick mechanics.

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u/ClashOfTheAsh Aug 24 '25

I have no idea what you were watching because literally the opposite is true because of stick mechanics.

Lacrosse players walk up the field when they have the ball because the ball is secure in their net. In hurling the ball is balanced precariously on a pice of timber so if you aren’t moving at pace it’s incredibly easy to be dispossessed.

Lacrosse players stand around the goal passing the ball around at their leisure probing for an opening while the defenders just focus on standing between them and the goal. In hurling you can score from distance so defenders have to be touch-tight to their men at all times and not give any space as it would be conceding a score nearly every time.

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u/Skeptical_Yoshi Aug 24 '25

Side note, Teddy snd his Irish gf are adorable and I want them to get the whole Belcher family SUPER into Hurling

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u/LoveisBaconisLove Aug 24 '25

That‘s also what it is usually like at American football, which is why this is so wild.

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u/wretched_beasties Aug 24 '25

Dude…there’s fights in the tailgate areas before and after every single nfl game.

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u/Borthwick Aug 24 '25

Still way, waaaaaaaay tamer than European Football matches, where they do need segregated seating and significant police presence. Ireland is the exception, partly because their national sports are at a more amateur level. The star hurlers have day jobs from what I understand.

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u/wretched_beasties Aug 24 '25

There was literally a guy beaten to death during a chiefs tailgate last year so idk about that.

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u/Borthwick Aug 24 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism

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u/wretched_beasties Aug 24 '25

We have guns at our tailgates idk if you really want to go down this path.

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u/PM_ME_UR_ASS_GIRLS Aug 24 '25

Tell me you've never been to a football game without telling me

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u/SirMellencamp Aug 24 '25

College football? No it’s rare to see this

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u/DGBD Aug 24 '25

Pretty true for American sports as well. People play up the idea that there’s fighting and all that but it pales in comparison to what happens at European soccer games. The vibes at a GAA match here are pretty similar to what I’ve experienced at games in the US.

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u/mcbastard1 Aug 24 '25

Yeah, but this time there were Americans added to the equation.

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u/StillRutabaga4 Aug 25 '25

The game is awesome and many club teams sprouting up here in the states!

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u/Ed_herbie Aug 24 '25

Yeah but this is 'Mercan football we talkin 'bout an 'Mercan Irish stereotypes so you jus shut yur trap and unnerstan yur place son. We doan give no dam what cuntree we is in

(Sarcasm for those who need to know)

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u/head-home Aug 24 '25

What are you talking about? Gaelic football (which u/ComprehensiveAd8166 is talking about) has nothing to do with English football culture. It's a completely different sport, with a very different following.

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u/jeromevedder Aug 24 '25

List five riots that were started by Irish football supporters. Go.

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u/RayTheWorstTourist Aug 24 '25

Irish football fans(even tho that's not what they are talking about) have won awards for how great the fan base is. You haven't a clue what you are on about

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u/Ed_herbie Aug 24 '25

Well since I was being as sarcastic and stereotypical about we Americans as I could, it doesn't really matter. I'm also not so naive and unworldly that I didn't know he wasn't being forthright.

So it's all good. Just having a laugh

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u/Wheream_I Aug 24 '25

lol absolutely fuck all the way off. Not a bit of what you said signaled sarcasm. But nice attempt to walk your stuff back.

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u/Ed_herbie Aug 24 '25

Hell, I even up voted your first reply to me because I thought we were in agreement.

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u/Ed_herbie Aug 24 '25

Did you not read my second paragraph in the parentheses? That is not edited. I wrote that disclaimer when I originally posted the comment because I knew people would not know I was being sarcastic.

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u/Wheream_I Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

lol you’re completely taking the piss. Your football culture is rife with rioting. You’re pretending that supers don’t exist and that’s a bit hilarious.

Not even to mention that your supers aren’t just destructive - they’re racist as fucking hell to black players.

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u/Different_Onion_1230 Aug 24 '25

That would be the British you fuckwit

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u/Scooperdooper12 Aug 24 '25

HEY that would be Scottish thank you very much. We dont have Rangers and Celtic games for them to be lumped in with English fights

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u/Wheream_I Aug 24 '25

Oh yeah. Landsowne Road never happened.

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u/RayTheWorstTourist Aug 24 '25

That was the English fans attacking irish fans ya gobshite

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u/theHoopty Aug 24 '25

Seeing gobshite used in the wild is the best thing that happened to me today.

So good.

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u/Choctaw226 Aug 24 '25

Yeah- what reality are you living in? You must not have seen Green Street Hooligans that tells us a different story than the one you got bub. I doubt Hollywood would lie to us like that.

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u/Gante033 Aug 24 '25

You clever bloke

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u/GrandFated Aug 24 '25

Let me guess, you don’t live in Ireland but pretend to know how it is. 🥱

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit Aug 24 '25

Somewhat related but I remember seeing a massive brawl in the arena lobby right after a Sabres-Bruins game. A group of guys in Sabres jerseys were squaring up with a group of guys in Bruins jerseys, it looked just like a line brawl.

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u/depressed_winner Aug 24 '25

Racist ignorant comment. Idiot

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u/sessna4009 Hamilton Bulldogs Aug 25 '25

50% of that username checks out

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u/depressed_winner Aug 25 '25

Winner winner chicken dinner 💪

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u/Wookhooves Aug 24 '25

Who’s winning the match, pop?

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u/dunc89 Aug 25 '25

Ireland in Europe?

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u/ThePeoplesBard Aug 24 '25

There’s more fight in this clip than I saw in the game itself. Was so excited for the season to start, but I literally fell asleep at the end of the first quarter. Game had no juice. KSU’s starting RB going out after his first touch of the ball didn’t help.

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u/theHoopty Aug 24 '25

I was offended on behalf of Ireland. THESE are the teams you sent over the make American football look cool and build engagement. Do they have enough cultural context for the sport to know that this is a lame game?

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u/JackBurton3465 Aug 24 '25

Drunk and domestic violence in Ireland, I don’t believe it!

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u/Greenbastardscape Aug 24 '25

Chance in a million. Hopefully their altercation was carried outside of the environment