Former Estevan Bruin involved in bench brawl, announcer turns into Charlie Brown
Someone in Mississippi must have done some cross-border shopping on Boxing Day and bought the last Angry Birds shirt in all of Alabama, because I’m certain there’s no other explanation for what you are about to see. (The officiating couldn’t possibly have been that bad, could have it?!?)
All hell broke loose with five minutes to play in Friday’s Southern Professional Hockey League game between the hometown Huntsville Havoc and the visiting Mississippi Surge – home to former Estevan Bruins forwards Payden Benning and Anthony Collins. (Fight starts at the 3:00 mark. Collins makes his debut around 5:15, throwing punches from the bench at Huntsville’s Corey Fulton. Benning somehow managed to keep his nose clean during this debacle.)
You decide what’s more amazing about this video:
- That there were only 130 penalty minutes assessed from this mess
- That there were allegedly over 5,000 people at a hockey game in Alabama
- Or that the game’s play-by-play man wasn’t immediately thrown into the melee by a member of Charles Schultz’s family for permanently ruining the phrase “Good Grief!”
d) He thought 50 players were dressed for the game