Weiner warfare! Phillies fans ignite stadium-wide food fight on $1 hot dog night in Philadelphia after waiting in EXTREMELY long lines for franks
- Fans stood in extraordinarily long lines for $1 hot dogs on Tuesday in Philly
- But instead of eating the dogs, many tossed them onto the field in a food fight
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Philadelphia Phillies fans lived up to their rowdy reputation on $1 hot dog night by igniting at massive food fight at Citizens Bank Park.
The fracas took place during Tuesday’s 8-4 loss to the visiting Miami Marlins – a game that began innocently enough.
Encouraged by the fan-friendly prices, Philadelphians stood in egregiously long concession lines for their chance to buy a $1 hot dog.
‘Dollar dog night, where people wait in line all night for a cheap hot dog and miss the entire game,’ joked one fan on Twitter.
But instead of sustenance, the hot dogs instead served as ammunition for spectators in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
While many fans were excited to chow down on their $1 dogs, many others used them as ammo
Hot dogs and other trash were tossed by fans from the upper deck down to the lower bowl
Those seated in the upper deck were naturally in the best position for the friendly fire between Phillies fans. Some seated in the lower bowl attempted to return fire, but often failed to reach the upper deck.
As one fan pointed out on Twitter, the Phillies were having their ‘here come the pretzels’ moment, which is a reference to a Simpson’s episode in which Hall of Famer Whitey Ford is pelted with Marge’s complementary homemade snacks.
In all, fans bought more than 58,000 hot dogs on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park, although exactly how many were consumed remains a mystery.
As bad as food fight is, Tuesday’s promotion was far from the worst in MLB history.
In 1979, Disco Demolition Night turned into a riot at Chicago’s Comiskey Park when White Sox fans were asked to bring disco albums to be destroyed between games of a double header.
Large patches of outfield grass were damaged as fans piled into the field, where disco records were being loaded onto explosives.
Another notorious incident occurred in Cleveland five years earlier, when the then-Indians hosted 10-cent beer night, leading to a number of alcohol-related incidents.
Lines for $1 hot dogs snaked around the concourse of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia
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