By Miguel Rapetti
Dec 24, 2023, 11:47 PM EST
The 68th edition of the NCAA Venture Bowl, the defining game of American college football between South Alabama and Eastern Michigan, ended in the worst possible way and all thanks to a scandalous brawl that occurred at the end of the game.
In the events following the match, which ended with a crushing 59-10 victory for Alabama against Michigan, in the formal awards ceremonies a beating broke out after one of the losing players attacked a male player with a vicious blow from behind. rival.
The perpetrator of the hit, an alleged Hispanic named Korey Hernández, threw a punch at Jamarrien Burt, unleashing a wave of pushing, kicking and hitting.
After the attack, all of Burt’s players and teammates in Alabama ran to defend him and look for the perpetrator, which caused the brawl that continued for several minutes.
It was not until the stadium staff along with members of security forces intervened to end the fight that both teams stopped hitting each other.
Subsequently, both teams were sent to the locker rooms and the awards ceremony was provisionally suspended until tempers calmed down.
The incident quickly went viral on social networks and was widely commented on by users, with the majority of them criticizing Hernández’s actions and calling him a “bad loser.”
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