This is the kind of thing that makes the rest of the country look at the Yankees-Sox rivalry and shake their heads:
Ian Ferris, 30, a Bombers fan in the heart of Red Sox Nation, green-thumbed his nose at Boston by planting Yankee Stadium grass in the Fenway infield during a May 31 Phish concert. Yankee Stadium grass seeds went on sale this year. Ferris hid the seeds in his pants as he entered Fenway, filled the bag with water and tossed it onto the infield. "This is payback," said Ferris, who manages a Hooters in Vermont. "If even one blade of grass sprouts on the field, I feel it was a success."
Not that I can be too judgmental about this. I live in Columbus, Ohio, and this sort of thing -- and stranger things -- are par for the course in these parts when college football season rolls around. And It's not even the weirdest thing in the article. Tell me: if I had bet you $1000 that there was a Hooters in Vermont, you probably would have wanted in on that action, wouldn't you? As a kicker, if I had told you that a guy would bring a clandestine bag of grass to a Phish concert and that bag contained actual turf as opposed to something illegal, you would have bet the exacta, wouldn't you have?
Anyway, three cheers for derranged fan fervor, even if the non-Yankees and Red Sox among us have a hard time understanding it.
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love the "payback" action for teh Boston jersey in the new Yankee Stadium foundation. A lot more expensive to dig up an entire playing field than it is a tiny piece of concrete.
I didn't know about the jersey until I read this. Hilarious!
Why on Earth would they bother to dig it up? For that matter, I wonder why on Earth they bothered to dig up that jersey. Who cares?
It's not even actual Yankee Stadium grass! It was commercially purchased seeds of the same type of grass used at Yankee Stadium - which may (I'm not going to research this) be the same grass used at Fenway!
All in all, as attempted curses go, I give this one a FAIL.
(For the record, I'm one of the many Americans whose historic dislike of Yankee fans is becoming closely matched by the observation that Sox fans are becoming almost as insufferable.)
This just in: both parks DO use the same type of grass. (I'm not lazy all the time!)
BTW, the seed all likely went bye-bye when the turf vacuum cleaned off the field after the concert.
But hey, dude, you got your name in the papers! Awesome!
Michael#1, you are not alone. I used to half-heartedly root for the loveable losers of beantown. Until I was faced with bandwagon jumpers acting like buttheads during the '07 World Series. I now root exclusively for whichever team is playing the Sox or the Yankees, and like Kissinger, I wish there was a way for them to both lose when they play each other.
How much would you bet that there's not a Hooters in Idaho, Craig? Say $10,000.
I'll bet there is for 10K...Boise
If the Cards/Cubs fans started acting this way I'd become a Washington Expo fan.
The Yanks haven't won this Century and this is the is the extent of the creative zaniness of Yankee fans.
Payback with grass seeds?
LMFAO and Yawning.
Go Sox!
The grass thing isn't working...they are 0-6 vs Bosox