Storming the court/rushing the field

Anyone see the Miss. Valley State court storming the other day when they won their first game of the year?
Watch: Mississippi Valley State fans storm court after team picks up first win of the season

 

She doesn't suck at having a bodacious set.

 

Well, Phil Mushnick is now decrying court storming, so it can't be that bad after all!

https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/sports/espn-deserves-much-blame-for-boosting-court-storming-mayhem/

This is actually one of his most lucid pieces in years. "Condescending House Genius Jay Bilas" is a fantastic line. And props to him for actually criticizing Fox idiot Colin Cowherd and his fellow latent right-wing everything-a-phobe Dan Dakich.

 

Well, they're typically not showing the court storming for the sake of showing it. It's happening at the end of a game, and you have players celebrating, too, and TV people probably trying to round up someone to interview. If you're not in commercial . . . you show the court. What else is there?

 

And then show it a dozen more times on Sportscenter and the next day’s panel shows.

 

Have to plead ignorance on that. It's been forever since I've watched either.

 

Loved every word of that delicious Bilas takedown.

 

Bilas is calling the Doook game tonight, which shocks me. I’m watching Star Trek instead.

 

Mushnick is right - ESPN shows them again and again, guess what, they happen again and again. ESPN shows a one-arm catch on its top plays? The next week, nothing but one-armed catches by receivers (whether necessary or not). Its almost become that the court-stormings are more interesting than the upset/kind of upset/vanquishing of long-time rival that inspired them, people love seeing bodies get mashed together.

I see most of these, and they look pretty orderly. But schools should be advised to keep students in one general area, with limited access to the court. I would love to see a case where students jumped the gun and stormed before the final buzzer - resulting in two ts for every student, and allowing the apparently losing team to come back That would be hilarious.
Of course, I LOVED when the Stanford Band started celebrating before the game was over.

 

Let's be clear.

If the same scene happened at a rock concert, we'd all be breathlessly warning about the probability of disaster, a la The Who in Cincinnati. Nothing different here. Nothing.

 

The only thing crazier than students storming the court are the camera people running out there holding the expensive 40 pound piece of equipment high in the air, like they are going to get a great shot.