Child chugs beer at phillies game
During the Phillies-Padres baseball game on Sunday, the television broadcast showed a young child in the stands at Citizens Bank Park drinking from a beer bottle. Phillies blog TheFightins. The video went viral, sparking plenty of outrage, even though it's not clear whether the bottle was empty. Patrick Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball, said videos of the boy posted on YouTube were quickly removed because it was "unauthorized use of in-game footage.
It's the latest in a string of controversial moments for the Phillies. The latest incident at the Phillies home ball park comes after two nationally publicized confrontations, where one fan vomited on six people, while another fan had to be Tasered by Philadelphia police on camera.
Click here for more from MyFoxPhilly. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. They were unranked, coming fresh off of a close loss to Minnesota. On paper, everything pointed toward this being a lopsided game in favor of Iowa. As a result, they began throwing things out onto the field, among which them several cans of Bud Light. So, Greg Long did what any logical person would do in that circumstance.