July 16, 2008
THE GAMES ARE ALREADY FUNEREAL ENOUGH:
German football club creates cemetery for fans (Aislinn Simpson, 16/07/2008, Daily Telegraph)
Football supporters in Germany have taken loyalty to their club to a new level by opening a fans' cemetery just yards from their stadium.Supporters of Hamburg HSV will from now on have the option of being buried in their club colours on a football stand-shaped lawn reached via a goal-shaped entrance and, most importantly, within earshot of their team's Nordbank arena.
You could at least make the sport mildly entertaining by putting the graveyard on the field and making them kick around tombstones, check each other into plinths and hurl guys into open graves that seal automatically. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 16, 2008 2:48 PM
Your suggestion reminds me of one of the clips of Bobby Murcer that ran last weekend in his obit stories: in pre-renovated Yankee Stadium, the monuments (which look like grave markers) to Ruth, Gehrig and Huggins were on the playing field in center. Someone hit a deep shot to center over the monuments, Murcer ran behind them to get the ball, but the ball caromed of the wall back in front of monuments, and Murcer squeezed between two of the to pick it up.
Posted by: Foos at July 17, 2008 12:39 PM