Now this is a fan! Can you imagine the media coverage if this happened now?
From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
A game to remember:
Sept. 20,1936 BEARS 30, PACKERS 3
The Packers suffered their most lopsided loss in 11 years, but the game was best remembered for a haymaker thrown by 6-foot-4, 230-pound Emmet Platten, a Green Bay radio personality and fan. Platten stormed out of the stands in the fourth quarter and landed a punch to the jaw of Bears tackle Ted Rosequist that drew blood. Platten was incensed over a call by head linesman Gunner Elliott that reversed a Packers' touchdown pass. Platten set his sights on Elliott, but hit Rosequist, who had tried to intervene.
"Can't they do something to restrain him?" an irked George Halas, the Bears' coach, asked after the game. Platten was merely escorted off the field, The next day he wrote a letter to the Green Bay Press-Gazette justifying his actions and stating that as a Packers stockholder he was "looking out for the interests of the corporation." Gene Ronzani, Bill Hewitt, Carl Brumbaugh and Bill Karr scored the Bears' four touchdowns. Jack Manders, who was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in the first half to sew up a bad cut to his mouth, returned and kicked three extra points.
From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
A game to remember:
Sept. 20,1936 BEARS 30, PACKERS 3
The Packers suffered their most lopsided loss in 11 years, but the game was best remembered for a haymaker thrown by 6-foot-4, 230-pound Emmet Platten, a Green Bay radio personality and fan. Platten stormed out of the stands in the fourth quarter and landed a punch to the jaw of Bears tackle Ted Rosequist that drew blood. Platten was incensed over a call by head linesman Gunner Elliott that reversed a Packers' touchdown pass. Platten set his sights on Elliott, but hit Rosequist, who had tried to intervene.
"Can't they do something to restrain him?" an irked George Halas, the Bears' coach, asked after the game. Platten was merely escorted off the field, The next day he wrote a letter to the Green Bay Press-Gazette justifying his actions and stating that as a Packers stockholder he was "looking out for the interests of the corporation." Gene Ronzani, Bill Hewitt, Carl Brumbaugh and Bill Karr scored the Bears' four touchdowns. Jack Manders, who was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in the first half to sew up a bad cut to his mouth, returned and kicked three extra points.
