The Kid that Didn't Die At Riverfront Stadium
On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. The ball caromed off the the press box and headed back toward the field. Kobman, sitting in the front row of seats in the stadium’s second deck, moved toward the aisle to make a play for the bouncing ball. He caught it. Then he flipped over the railing.
Thanks to some combination of fate and bench pressing, Kobman saved himself. As he was falling toward the field, Kobman tossed the souvenir ball away, reached back, and grabbed the railing he’d just cartwheeled past with his right arm. His body slammed against the facing of the upper deck, but he never lost his grip. He braced himself against the wall with his legs as his body swung around and held on. It was as clutch a play as Riverfront Stadium, or any stadium, had ever seen.
“I remember it clearly, just seeing the guy hanging up there, way up there,” Ray Knight, the Reds’ third baseman that day, tells me. “The rails at Riverfront were built so that they had an angle in toward the seats, so I saw him hanging up there, but I never knew how he actually grabbed the dang rail, the way it’s built. That was an unbelievable thing.”
The unbelievability of what was witnessed came through in the Atlanta broadcasters’ call. “Oh, my!” Braves TV color commentator Pete Van Wieren said over the crowd’s gasp, as cameras caught the fan swinging from the upper deck.
“He’d be a very dead person, I think,” added Van Wieren’s partner, Braves play-by-play legend Skip Caray, as spectators hauled the hanging fan over to the safe side of the railing.
http://deadspin.com/the-kid-who-didnt-die-at-riverfront-stadium-1796882505
Guess what the owners of the stadiums still have not fixed the problem, but they can shun football player because he will not stand up during the racist national anthem, go figure
= new reply since forum marked as read
He listed numerous reasons he wants it to be banned. "Not liking it" wasn't one of them.
Seems irrational to argue against a point no one made. But I realize we as humans often do that to better validate our biases and maintain a pretense of cleverness, regardless of whether you realize your participation in doing as such or not... 
Other than that, SPOT ON.
I mean we have a traitor in the White House who's about to unleash a nuclear fucking apocalypse, and they're worried about tarnishing their image by hiring a guy who takes a knee during the national anthem? This is why we can't have nice things! 
