Sports can be great. They can bring strangers together to celebrate something they love, and they can even lift a city up after tragedy.
But sports also can bring out the worst in people, and that was very evident Wednesday after the Washington Capitals lost Game 7 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Capitals fans were walking the streets of Washington, D.C. after the game, and as you could imagine, they weren’t in a great mood. However, one drunken idiot took things way too far when he checked a woman to the ground simply for wearing a Penguins jersey, yelling “Don’t be so (expletive) happy about it.”
Warning: There’s some strong language in addition to violence against women in the video.
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Some Caps fans rightfully called the guy out, but he clearly didn’t care based on his response to them.
“I didn’t hit her, I just walked through her,” he said.
Yeah, sure.
h/t Busted Coverage
Thumbnail photo via Geoff Burke/USA TODAY Sports Images
