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Yesterday, we went to the big “cross-town rivalry” game between the University of Miami and Florida International University. My friends know I’m not much for sports, but my fiancee is studying at FIU, so I went to root for FIU. Before the game, they were 0-6 this season, so hopes weren’t very high. We were thrilled, actually, that FIU managed to keep UofM from scoring at all for quite a long time. I think they even made it to halftime with no points on the board. That’s impressive when you’re up against a team of the level that UofM is.

The game, actually, was a little boring until the third quarter when something happened that sent both teams down a steep spiral to an all-out brawl. All the benches were emptied, and players from both sides were sucker-punching each other. I saw one guy get thrown. Kia saw a UofM player go after an injured FIU player, who took a strong defense and hit the UofM guy with his crutch. When they finally got the whole thing broken up, a few fan fights broke out in the stands. The whole thing was crazy. 13 players were ejected, 8 of which were FIU players. The whole thing was seriously nuts.

It’s not great, and I missed the initial blows of the fight, but I did get part of it on video. For simplicity’s sake, I uploaded it to youtube. I can’t embed it below, so you can see it here.