Whatever happened to the days when fans poured onto the field when their team won the World Series?

[bluestateguy]

How come that doesn't happen anymore? It used to be pretty common well into the 1970's.

Your team wins, and the fans storm the field.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Pre-9/11?

[NightWatcher]

2. we do for the big upsets in football

the teams frown on it. too many crazies

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. you'd probably be tasered with cattle prods nowadays

those were the days!

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. D'OH dupe!

stupid slow DU!

[billyoc]

5. That only happens when the home team wins. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. My first recollection of the New Era was 1984

Game 5 in Detroit. In the top of the ninth there were cops all around the field. Must've been a hundred of 'em.

[HERVEPA]

15. 1980 - Phillies - Cops on horseback lining the stands

[JVS]

7. Tasers

[bluedigger]

8. Kinda helps to be at home...n/t

[edbermac]

9. Lawsuits no doubt. And a woman was killed in Boston in 04.

The cops tried to break up some rowdy fans when the Sox came back to beat the Yankees in the AL finals and this innocent bystander was killed with a rubber bullet fired by the cops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Snelgrove

Also the management wants the winning team to enjoy the moment with their families, which is hard to do with thousands of fans running all over the place.

[regnaD kciN]

10. But that wasn't at the stadium...

I assure you, if you want to see the fans storm the field, let the Sox win the Series at Fenway some year, instead of on the road!

[abq e streeter]

11. Can't prove this , but I have a pretty clear recollection

of the Frank Rizzo-led Philadelphia police ringing the field after the Phillies won; has to be 1980 I guess? I remember watching and thinking what fascist bullshit that was; and correctly predicting that this would quickly become the norm everywhere. May have been before '80, maybe the Phillies just winning the division sometime in the 70's...gotta be a Phillies fan here who can provide more info....

[DS1]

12. It would have probably happened at Fenway

but even more so if it had been a 7th game.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. They're hanging out with the days when I used to bring shampoo on an airplane

;-)

[Connonym]

14. lol