(I wish there was a way to click and zoom in on this one but the zoom sucks. The rest work though)
Although Boca lost the game, that is how you go to an away stadium, ready to burn that mother to the ground.
And the thing was they looked so calm and nice during the day with their pretty blue and yellow umbrellas.
So Boca lost the game 1-0. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the meeting of these two teams, the Boca coach resigned after the game.
River entrance:
I watched the game on tv, it was hard to miss given it was broadcast on all of the local tv stations. Imagine if the Patriots game was on cbs, abc, nbc, and fox, and the wb56, (but not pax tv or upn38 because dr. quinn medicine woman and star trek were playing on those two channels, respectively).
The highlight of the game was definitely after River scored in the early second half. The place and the players went absolutely nuts. You could just feel it break the back and spirit of the Boca team. However, shortly thereafter when play resumed was the coolest moment of the game, by far. Out of nowhere the Boca fans lit up 100s of bengalas, which look like torches and just started going nuts.
The goal instead of making them mopey re-energized them and gave them a sense of urgency to try and spur their team to the next level. When watching it on tv the whole stadium just turned into an eerie haze of smoke that the camera tried to peer through.
The other crazy part with the bengalas to see was the boca fans begin to throw them down onto the stands below where the river fans were. I read in a newspaper and a couple other places that they were were also throwing seats, but I fail to see how that is possible because the stadium is made of concrete and there are no seats in the upperdeck. You could just see balls of flame hurdling from the upper deck onto people and the field below, after about 20 seconds there was just an empty swath of stands with patches of flames.
How do you respond to your stadium being put on fire?
I see your bengalas and I raise you, a massive motherfucking banner.
Just as mind boggling as the creation of such a banner is the amount of coordination and respect it takes by the fans to carry it in and unfurl it over thousands of fans.
On a different note . . .
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