Why “Storming the Field” NEEDS to slow down

Why “Storming the Field” NEEDS to slow down

Here’s Brody Brazil. You know what’s crazy about this video is that it’s a topic I didn’t even realize I had such a strong opinion on until I really started to think it through. It all started with a conversation among co-workers. And by the end of the talk, I’m realizing how ridiculous storming the field is here in 2025 because it happens so frequently. Like literally every weekend, once or multiple times, we’ll see college students rushing the football field, storming the field after their home team wins the football game. I don’t want to sound like an old man here. I promise I’m not trying to be that guy. But just looking at this photo and soaking it in for a second, it’s dangerous. It’s, dare I say, even selfish. At the very least, it’s ridiculous the frequency of how much this is happening in current times. I’m not totally against this once in a while. I realize the traditional aspects. I realize it’s been going on for decades. I’m just saying here and now it seems like it’s gotten a little bit out of control. So, let me set what I think are some some personal ground rules here on the overall situation. I am saying that storming the field is not warranted after every home win. Clemson, I’m looking at you. Do Clemson students and Clemson fans, do they really storm the field after every home football win? Is that really a thing? Because that’s too much. Like that’s totally taking away the special aspect of this happening once a decade for a college team, a football program. It’s also probably not really necessary. Like the matchup doesn’t really dictate it. The storylines don’t really dictate this, I think, more than like five times in a college football season. A team that’s nowhere near the rankings, beating a top five team. Okay, but how often does that actually happen? Or a rivalry where one team, one school has dominated it forever and then all of a sudden it goes the other way. Okay, there are some situations. I do agree with that. I’m not against this entirely. I just want to point that out. We’ll get into the dangers, by the way, and some examples in just a second. If you think I’m just being overprotective, that’s not it. There’s some real life examples here, but I’m just saying this should probably happen a small handful of times every college season. Not literally what seems to be every weekend now. So, I’m not against it entirely. And I’m also here to say that monetary punishments to schools, that’s not not going to stop college kids who think mommy and daddy are going to pay for it. And I don’t mean to to be cruel in saying that, but like if it’s the school and they’ve got a lot of money and so what if they got fined $50 or even $500,000, the school and the athletic program, they’ll pay for it. We’re just going to do what we want to do and let them deal with it. So, I want to set those as ground rules before I get into what am I actually worried about here? like why am I all of a sudden I don’t want to say so against storming the field but why am I so aware of why this is really a bad thing to be happening at such this frequency somebody or many people can get trampled it’s literally as simple as that I guess I don’t mind students on the field maybe 5 to 7,000 students but all at once it’s the effect of that rush where people have no regard and they’re not thinking properly and they’re so jacked up off of adrenal and whatever else they’ve been doing that they’re literally causing a potential to trample each other to get on this football field. Also, when the students are out there now, the barrier is gone between fans and players on the field. And I’ll make this point later, but I’ll also just say it now. How can we let this happen in college football? But there is no chance this would ever be allowed to happen in the NFL. And I know NFL fans are equally passionate. Maybe there’s more of a school pride thing, but Why do we allow this to happen? Because oh, it’s just college kids having fun. But it’s also not the safest thing in the world. Now the barrier’s gone on the field between fans and how about opponent players. And don’t you think someday an opponent player is literally going to take their helmet off and just bash a student over the head who’s taunting them with it? Like nobody’s thinking properly or straight in these moments. How about the goalposts? The ones that aren’t instantly collapsible. A lot of schools now have the goalposts that instantly fold down because they don’t want students to rip them down and then have goalposts falling on people. And it’s also when you get to a situation like this where it’s um you know it’s a potential injury situation and 20 people are injured at once and there’s so many people there’s a mass of humanity. It’s hard to actually treat and locate people who need immediate assistance. And if you don’t believe me that people can get hurt right you think I’m just making this up. Watch this recent clip from the University of Virginia. Whoa. Like the game wasn’t even officially over yet. And those students were already running down that hill into the end zone. Now, at this point, okay, they’re congregating. That’s more of a safer situation. Whoa. It was just that immediate rush. I don’t want to play too much of that video. I don’t want to get this channel in trouble, but I did feel like I had to show you that example to understand like, did you see that? Go back and rewind it if you need to see that one more time. Did you see that initial rush of students down that hill? And so, nothing happened, right? Everything was fine. They just had uh what from the Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper on campus. One week later, one week on, some students are still recovering after a field storming hospitalizes 19. That’s the storming you just witnessed. Broadcast in double overtime on ESPN. I get it. Very emotional game. Hospitalized 19 people. If any sporting event hospitalized 19 people, you’d say maybe we shouldn’t be doing that. But this was the aftermath of that win. students describe being trampled and unable to breathe in the thousands large crowd which emerged after Friday’s win against Florida State. And if I’m just doing the math, by the way, there were 50,000 people in attendance. I’m going to estimate that crowd you saw on the field was at least 5,000 fully baked by the end of end of it all getting down there on the field. This is more from that piece in the Cavalier Daily. Well, no fatalities were reported, but the fact that we’re even considering that, right? See, I’m not crazy here. Like the fact that even somebody sensible would say, “Well, it could have been worse and it wasn’t.” While no fatalities were reported, 19 students were hospitalized and dozens more injured. Many students were crushed or trampled as the crowd surged down the steep hillside adjoining the student section. Event staff and university police pulled students from beneath the pile and several were carried out on stretchers. One student who preferred to remain anonymous because of their experience. And so they didn’t want to get in trouble and they also don’t want to be embarrassed. Was carried out on a stretcher after being pinned in the rush and unable to stand. Unable to stand. The student later described the storm as quote being crushed into a human pretzel under the weight of all these students. End quote. Fourthyear Batten student Caitlyn uh Winston, who ran down from the hill, also recalled the danger she felt and said she did her best to remain on her feet but eventually fell. Quote, “It was like dominoes. Everyone started falling and I fell on my friend. I was sandwiched between my two friends and we were all yelling, “Help! Help us!” Winston said. University event staff, police, and EMTs were on site to maintain order, but the rush unfolded so immediately that Florida State players had not even yet cleared the field. Well, of course not you saw it. They weren’t even they they were not even on the field of play like they were on the proper dimensions of the field. Players were in the end zone still. had not yet cleared the field when the fans surged forward. The ACC later finded the university. Oo, $50,000. But again, kids don’t care about that. That’s somebody else’s money. These are not people with financial responsibilities, so to speak, yet they’re also not fully developed as adults. 19, 20, 21 years old, you’re really more like 25 when you’re fully coherent about this type of these types of things. Find the school. find the university $50,000 for violating its prohibition on field storming. In the immediate aftermath, staff focused on aiding students who could not stand on their own, even as others sustained injuries, according to the anonymous student. So, I’m also going to show you another event here. This was from about a year ago, October 2024, in Nashville. Like, this is Broadway. There’s Bridgestone Arena, like the heart of the honky tonks. Vanderbilt wins a football game a couple hours prior. Vanderbilt fans, they stormed the field. They took the field goal posts, one of them at least. After beating Alabama, they carried the field goal post nearly three miles from the football stadium right down Broadway and they threw it in the Cumberland River. So, on one hand, like I could say all this stuff about, well, it’s not safe. I’m scared. I’m worried. Like, can we do this a little bit less? Can we tone this down and and minimize our risk? I don’t know that I ever want to stop a story like this from ever happening. Now, I I I can’t say I’m condoning this or I’m promoting this, but like this is a sports story of legend right here that fans were so excited they they took the field goal post and threw it in the Cumberland River. That sounds like a story you’d hear from 1927. You know what I’m saying? Like that that can’t even be true because we don’t have the pictures. Well, no. Like, we’ve literally got the video. that actually happened. Here’s the proof. So, I don’t I don’t want to stop cool things and like, oh my gosh, type storytell things from happening. And I guess this was safe. It’s a little more controlled, I suppose. But I just feel like the storming the field part, we do not have that under control. I don’t want to lessen fun of college football, but this happening so frequently isn’t so safe. Five times a year, maybe that’s once every second or third week. Okay. But I’m watching last weekend, Colorado beats, was it Iowa State, huh? And and that necessitates storming the field. And to some degree, maybe it was less amount of people, not 5,000. Maybe I hope nobody got hurt, but I don’t know. But it’s just like the reasoning, we’re coming up with any reason, any game that feels like, oh yeah, we feel good about that. Let’s storm the field. It’s just happening too frequently. Again, this would never happen in the NFL for security risks, for safety risks. What’s our excuse here? Oh, because it’s college kids. They’ll be fine. They’ll recover. They’re just kids. Let let kids be kids. I mean, they are adults. I don’t think they’re fully like fully responsible adults yet. Clearly not. But why do we allow this to happen in college football? And again, we there are ways around this. You could you could you stop this? That’s another part of it. Can you legitimately stop this? Or can you make the penalty so severe? Can you say, “All right, if you do this, forget $50,000 to your school, it’s $500,000 to your athletic program.” And you know those free tickets you got? Yeah, you’re not getting those anymore next time. So maybe that’s what you hang over their head to to get it to stop. And I know people are going to say, I can already hear this excuse. I I know some people have been thinking this the entire 10 plus minute video so far. Well, they’re doing it. They’re not hurting anybody. They know the risk. These kids who do this, they’re taking the risk. They they’re the ones who will have to pay for it in the end. Oh yeah, that might be true. But what about all the hundreds of other people on a football field? The home team who didn’t necessarily ask for this. The visiting team who definitely doesn’t want this. How about media members, referees, conference officials, you name it. Trainers, doctors, medical staff, police, firefighters, anybody on the field. All of a sudden now they’re in the middle of like, “Please don’t kill me.” Kids, any kid on the football field having to get stormed by a 19-year-old full of um whatever testosterone and you name it. And it’s like you have to you have to let that happen around you. It just it doesn’t it seems selfish, right? And that’s the last point I want to make here. Storming the field like the team just did something. I know it’s about the school. I know it’s about the fans. the team just did something and now the students have to make it about them. Oh, we’re going to rush the field. And again, I’m not totally against it’s not my favorite thing. I’m okay with this once in a while, but storming the field all the time. I I feel like it’s it’s dangerous. We that’s been established, but I do feel like it’s selfish because it it kind of takes the moment away from the team and the players. We can’t even get shots of the players high-fiving or hugging because everybody’s not trying to get trampled by that. I this I mean I that that picture is a little bit blurred. It’s not completely in detail there for the thumbnail, but look at the faces. Like do they do they look like they’re thinking right? Not exactly. Sorry if you don’t agree with me on this one. You don’t have to. It’s just my position. It’s my take. Maybe it’s just me becoming an old man. But what I’m saying is that I’m okay with this to a certain degree. We just have to scale it back. Keep it under control a little bit. Let me know what you think about this in the comments section below. Also, thumbs up while you’re down there. Helps me the video and the channel. Don’t forget to subscribe, please. I would love to see you back here next time.

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