Something similar happened to me once…
BC game 95 or 96. My GF and future wife were at the game. Section 124 was were I used to sit. Not a nice day out I recall.
She is a teacher and at the time also a cheerleading coach so we were checking their sideline routine out. Win/win for me, right? 😉
End of the aisle couple drunks (3 or 4, maybe more) were really starting to get out of hand…language, saying things to others, really loud.
Not my problem…or so I thought. While I assumed both of us were still checking out the cheerleaders an older gent confronts the drunks and it gets ugly. Real ugly. I was still looking at the routine and unbeknownst to me my wife gets involved. I only noticed when I turned to ask her what that move was the cheerleaders just did and realized she’s right in the middle of it yelling at the group who pushed the old guy down the stairs.
I run over to try and get her away and they turn on me. One of the guys has one of those long plastic horns you get at a parade as a kid. He has it raised so I grab it out of his hand and toss it a few rows down. Didn’t hit anyone because of the weather and a Terry Shea era crowd.
This apparently enraged all of them so they jump me and I turtle up as I take haymakers from the group. But they are so drunk or just don’t know how to throw a punch that none of them really hurt.
Finally some yellow jackets arrive to get them off of me. They got tossed.
We went to the old Rutgers Club after the game for dinner. While in the parking lot and still in our car I told her to NEVER DO THAT AGAIN.
Ended up being a nice dinner and good ride home.