The $10,000 Snow Ball
Jets' defensive end Shaun Ellis was fined ten grand for playfully heaving a giant snowball into the Qwest Field stands after Sunday's game (which the recipients, by their reaction, were totally cool with, by the way). Boling and Hughes at the TNT have their say on the matter, thinking that it was a poor reflection on our city.
Our take? If the exact same situation were to occur at the Meadowlands, does anyone actually think that the New York fans wouldn't have tossed a few snowballs themselves? Our seats are directly behind the visiting team bench, and until the final minutes of Sunday's game, we guess that maybe a dozen snowballs total were tossed into the bench area.
In the final minute, when the game was decided and the Jets were futilely burning their final timeouts in vain, the fans showed their disapproval in the form of snowball chucking. But it was all pretty much in good fun and without "meanness" as Hughes puts it.
Trust us, we've seen our fair share of ice-balls and dirty tricks in the realm of snowball tossing from our days in snowier regions. The worst of which is to make two snow balls, lob one snowball high into the air over your target's head, causing said target to look up and prepare to playfully whack it away, leaving you to fire away at the now distracted and unsuspecting target with the other snowball. But we saw none of that at the game Sunday. And let's not get any bright ideas, okay?
