Kunlun

Another classless act by a Pistons fan. How many more incidents will have to occur in order for the league to come down hard on that team? They should just take away all the Pistons home games for a season to teach them a lesson. What a disgrace.

Full article here:
Pistons' fan arrested for throwing coin at opposing player

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Marshall_42

A Coin? A Coin? we talkin about a Coin?

I'm the MVP and we talkin about a COIN?

Brian

Disgraceful would be a bunch of eagle fans cheering when Michael Irving is lying injuried on the field. While I won't defend what the fan did ask any major league outfielder if they have ever been hit by a coin or battery. Credit AI for not going Artest and making it worse then it was.

Kunlun

So it's okay to throw metal objects at players of the opposing team?

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Kunlun

What's the point of asking baseball players if they've been hit by a coin or battery? Does that make it okay to do that?

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rocketeer

those eagles fans are pathetic, but they really did no harm. cheering for an injury is just that, cheering. there is no physical contact between them and the players. now there's this coin incident after the huge artest thing. it doesn't look good for piston's fans and the league needs to be something about it before something huge happens again.

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Brian

No it doesn't but when you say this

I don't think many if any teams in baseball would have any home games. A better solution would be no alcohol at games not banning some team from having home games.

Kunlun

While we're talking about a basketball game, let's stick to basketball. Detroit has had more than one incident regarding a fan or fans throwing objects at opposing players. What does that say about your fans? They are out of control and something needs to be done. Not all your fans are messed up, but sometimes the action of one will affect the greater masses. That's just how it is.

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Dez24

I know I shouldn't stereotype, but, doesn't shock me at all that this incident took place at the Palace of Auburn Hills. What classy people!

DetBNyce

When you have a group of thousands of people, you're bound to have at least one idiot. It was classless, but it was one fan. You shouldn't punish the entire fanbase because of a couple idiot fans. The individual is being taught a lesson by being arrested. Why punish thousands of innocent fans?

Having a season's worth of home games taken away is beyond ridiculous. I bet you this would not have even made the paper if it wasn't for the brawl. The media just likes to keep things like this going.

Kunlun

Exactly how I feel, this is a place we can definately expect this type of behavior from. They always seem to have a few crazies in their crowd.

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Kunlun

True, every team's fanbase has it's fair share of fools. But, every team controls it's fools pretty well I'd say compared to the Pistons. It doesn't matter whether it was one fan or 100 fans, the fact is that it happened. And it happened even after a terrible fight broke out among fans and players and changed the NBA season all because of practically the same thing (throwing items at players).

Let's compare this to a real life situation. If there is a group of workers working on a project and one of them fails to complete his end of the project then the whole groups fails and gets fired. That's how it is. It's not fair, but it gets the message across. That's how the Pistons' fanbase in Detroit should be handled.

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DetBNyce

Like I said, if it wasn't for the brawl , this probaly wouldn't have even made the news. What happened was unfortunate, but it's not exclusive to Detroit fans. There was hardly any news or attention payed to a fan throwing somethng in Miami at Bulls' players a couple weeks ago.

Bad comparison, It's not entirely true and you make assumptions with it. What group of real life workers consist of millions of people? Yes, there are millions of Pistons fans. You can't compare a group of 6 people or so, who were assigned to do a job in the same company as people going to a basketball game. That makes no sense at all.

And I'll repeat having all your home games taken away is beyond ridiculous.

Kunlun

Well, this did make the news and we all know what these fans are more than capable of. You can't say that it wouldn't have made the news if it didn't involved Pistons' fans because you don't know for sure. Just the fact that a big time player and household name like Iverson was attacked by a deranged Pistons' fan might make it news.

It's still a group of people. Every team is stuck with it's own fools, they just seem to deal with it better or the fools aren't as crazy as ones the Pistons' fanbase generates.

What's ridiculous is having players not feel safe in a playing enviroment. If players are being attacked a couple times a year you would not feel safe playing in that place.

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Coatesvillain

FWIW, Eagles fans never got into a fight with players of an opposing team on the field of play. So when it comes to generalization of a fanbase, Pistons took the smeared banner from them. It's one of those things that'll be there for years on end, even if the Pistons rehabilitate their image, so you guys are going to know what it's like for Eagles fans to hear the same things brought up years after they aren't relevant. In both situations, it's unfortunate that the actions of a few, casts a negative image on fans who love their team, and don't do anything wrong.

Now I don't think anything should be done widespread to the Pistons, since it's one person. They host the game, but aren't responsible for the actions of the thousands of people who were watching the game. I hope they make the punishment for throwing objects onto the field of play pretty harsh to try and prevent fans from doing this in the future.

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