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In Cleveland, Empty Bottles and Hollow Leadership

Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Michael Wilbon
QUOTE: [Carmen] Policy stopped short of totally condemning the guilty parties, which you would think should be in order since the people throwing projectiles were guilty of criminal behavior.

ABSTRACT: Several years ago International Soccer fans in Britain staged a riot and tore apart the field, goals and stadium stands and injuring many bystanders when a soccer match outcome did not go their team's way.  Now, at an NFL game in Cleveland, fans have taken to pelting the field with bottles (empty or otherwise) when outcomes and referee's calls are not to their liking---and Cleveland's management seems not at all to care. Is this allowing a dangerous, and possibly escalatory, precedent to go unchecked?

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