How boring can your sport be that it creates this amount of pent up aggression? We're all lucky baseball fans just fall asleep. Story out of Cologne, Germany:
German authorities are investigating after up to 200 men attacked police at Cologne's main train station in what authorities called a "massive riot."
A spokesman for the federal police says fans of the German soccer club 1. FC Kaiserslautern threw fire extinguishers and metal bars at officers on Saturday afternoon, injuring two of them. Rail traffic was halted during the attack.
Police spokesman Jens Floeren said Sunday the attackers were traveling home from Duesseldorf, where Kaiserslautern had lost a match. Floeren said alcohol may have played a role but "one can assume that a large share of them were proper hooligans." Cont.
Story from - Business Insider/AP
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