The first time I heard about a "sports fan riot" was when I was visiting London in 1985 with my friend Jeanne. We met a man from Germany, while eating dinner in the hotel restaurant, who suggested we shouldn't walk around outside alone at night. He suggested he could walk with us and show us around. We thought he was being chivalrous until we started hearing a bunch of singing and yelling coming down the street towards us about an hour into our walk. He then suggested we go back to the hotel. That's when he explained that sports fans can become rowdy and riotous. I realized then that he had been concerned for our welfare because he knew about the game and what may transpire afterwards. Since then, I've noticed this type of barbaric mentality is worldwide, many times with horrible outcomes, not rooted in any one particular gender or race, and not just sports.
Yes, it may seem strange that sports fan riots have been part of history and I didn't know much about it before then. However, I was never a sports person and television news was limited to certain times and only on three channels. This type of news may have only been a blip of time and then onto other news. It's definitely not like the daily news we have today.
Anyway, being someone who is interested in soul programing, the things that make us who we are and do what we do, I decided to see what history had about this and found the first recorded sports fan riot, etc., was in 532 AD and was called the Nika riots. Not discounting the horrendous riots we still have in our current time period, this one is the worse. I was appalled over what I read about a chariot race, with political issues, and it's outcome.
I also realized that this soul programming, of barbaric rioting for any cause, goes deep into history and our souls, probably way before recorded history. The more I thought about this, I wondered if the world would ever understand this programming and learn to rewrite it, so we can become more civilized. Sadly, with what's going on with our current world, maybe not. Maybe the programming goes too deep to ever recover. It's definitely better, but we still have much to overcome, especially when the feelings of persecution and entitlement are added to the emotional mix.
Lastly, Wikipedia has a list on sports fan riots, for anyone interested, but the link below is about this first recorded one. One that makes me wonder if we're improving or heading back into this darkness.
Wikipedia Excerpt: The Nika riots (Greek: Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα Stásis toû Níka), or Nika revolt, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532. It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots#
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