US Open Yesterday (Mastic, Mastic Beach, Glen: home, living, bars)

[LocalX]

Once again it showed LI in bad light. Why do the need to serve beer at all sporting events? What a bunch of drunken &$%*

[rocafeller05]

I totally agree. I wasnt there but I heard from friends that the crowd was being such a-holes. Even hurling insults to Tiger Woods. A bunch of drunken loud mouths indeed. They will ruin it for everyone else.

Tiger Woods taunted at 10th hole; Fred Funk's name becomes obscenity -- Newsday.com

[LongIslandCitizen]

LOL...Typical Long Island antics. The Mastic Beach of the U.S

[rocafeller05]

I personally done find it funnny at all. The pic. on the Newsday website is worth 1000 words. 9 out of 10 of those Moderator cut: language are between 24-34 and have beer and their hands. Dont get me wrong...I love my beer and partying, but the heckling is just b.s. Its like the guy at the bar that drinks a few to many and runs his mouth...he usually gets a Moderator cut: language kicking.
I bet a buck that when the opne comes again to LI they wont sell beer. Its being ruined for the rest of us.

[Egobop]

Golf is not my sport but I have been to a number of other sporting events; such as baseball games, football games, basketball games, hockey games and NASCAR races. I have always noticed that there are always a number of people whom seem to go to these events more for the "partying" aspect rather than to see the event. I can see having a few beers during a sporting event but getting drunk there just makes no sense to me. These people should really just go to a bar and watch the event where they can't bother the people at the event that are actually trying to enjoy it. The only sporting events where I have not seen or heard drunken idiots are the NASCAR events I have been to. Say what you want about people who are into NASCAR but I go to Watkins Glen, NY every year for the NASCAR race and have never seen rowdy behavior. I actually take my young children there and have not yet encountered the screaming of profanities that I have seen at other sporting events. This is not just a Long Island thing.
One more thing; this is not just on Long Island. This is a normal thing in the United States at sporting events. I sometimes think that a lot of the regular rowdy drunken idiots at sporting events go to party since maybe their wives will not put up with them going to bars so they use the sporting event as their way of getting out and getting bombed with less hassle. A lot of wives probably would not put up with a husband saying "I'm going to go to the bar each Sunday for numerous hours so I can get blasted with my friends and act like an ass." whereas them saying "I have season tickets for the Jets games with some of my friends so for the whole football season I will be gone for the day for the home games." which actually becomes a multi-case "tailgate" party so they can be good and drunk before they get into the stadium.

[zulu400]

I do not care what anyone thinks about the game of golf.... but this behavior is unacceptable.... this is not the first US open ever played.... thanks to those fans or the security (or lack of) that has made us all embarrassed !!

[Cardiff Giant]

Originally Posted by Egobop

One more thing; this is not just on Long Island.

These incidents may not only happen on Long Island but it is definitely more likely to happen on the East coast in general IMO. I've seen fights break out at the Garden, Giants Stadium, Fenway and on and on. I've heard/read horror stories of people bringing their kids to Redskins or Eagles games having to put up with loutish behavior.

Go to a sporting event in Denver, Detroit or Dallas and it's much more civilized.

[Egobop]

Originally Posted by Cardiff Giant

These incidents may not only happen on Long Island but it is definitely more likely to happen on the East coast in general IMO. I've seen fights break out at the Garden, Giants Stadium, Fenway and on and on. I've heard/read horror stories of people bringing their kids to Redskins or Eagles games having to put up with loutish behavior.

Go to a sporting event in Denver, Detroit or Dallas and it's much more civilized.

I can't say this is or is not true since all of my experience with sporting events have been on the East Coast.

[OhBeeHave]

This is all very sad; a few beer-fueled jerks make all LIers look bad. My sister and BIL attend the TPC @ Sawgrass every year. They have never seen anything like this down there.

*hangs head in embarassment*

[twingles]

It's embarrassing. Living on Long Island is all about putting up with people who like to be the lowest common denominator - the more loutish they can behave, the better time they have, and the cooler they look to their friends. Age doesn't matter either. This is the thing I have always hated the most about living here.

My DH went to the Open in 2002 and people were yelling at Vijay Singh to "go drive your cab home". My DH was so embarrassed. It ruins the fun for normal people.