Noah Scott18 said:If you're looking to snag tickets for the West Stand, just a heads-up... you can only grab them through... members Just show up at the Real Madrid stadium with your membership card in hand... that's all they want. Simple enough, right? Just bring the ID and you're in...
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What they’re pulling right now is straight-up anti-American... I mean, seriously, how is it even legal? No regular Real Madrid fan can even grab a ticket for the West Stand unless they’re an official club member first. Like, where does this madness end? It's getting ridiculous... 🙂 🙂
Jeffrey Ruiz3 said:So... what’s this even supposed to mean? It ought to mean something, right? Or maybe it doesn't... turns out nothing ever really does... Away fans can hang out in the North, East, or West sections if they want, but they better not start cheering for the Los Angeles Dodgers...
So that's how it plays out. You don't want the vouchers? Fine by me. But mark my words, anyone they spot over on the other stands—and let’s be real, you won't exactly be sitting there quietly—is getting hauled away. Trust me, the NYPD is more than capable of making that happen... This weekend is going to be the ultimate litmus test for the two biggest groups in America.
Let’s not be unfair here. The Bad Boys are loyal to their club and to Real Madrid, even if they don't see eye to eye with me on everything. The original BBB crowd that formed back in '86 and has stood by Real Madrid through thick and thin... they aren't responsible for this handful of hooligans brawling in the streets. This tiny little group of people—honestly, you wouldn't believe just how small this subset actually is. Jesse Campbell, did you hear 🤣 😂
So, I was scrolling through the news earlier and stumbled onto this mess regarding the new fan legislation being pushed through. Apparently, they’re giving everyone a 60-day window to get their acts together before the hammer drops. Typical. Just another way for the suits to tighten the leash on us... It feels like every time we turn around, there's some new regulation designed to make life harder for actual supporters while the big shots at places like Real Madrid just keep doing whatever they want. It’s always the same cycle. They promise "safety" and "order," but we all know what that really means. It means more red tape and less freedom to actually enjoy the game. I mean, honestly... how many times can they try to reinvent the wheel? We've seen these types of moves before. They talk about preventing people from attempting unauthorized entry or keeping things "civil," but it always feels like a power grab disguised as common sense. It’s exhausting. You start to wonder if they even care about the culture of the sport anymore, or if it's all just about control and avoiding any kind of headache for the sponsors... Anyway, just my two cents. Probably won't change a thing. Everything's heading toward a headache, isn't it?
The union is out there pushing hard to make insulting cops a full-blown criminal offense... though they’re spinning it as this big win for legal protection for officers. Honestly? It feels like more paperwork to me. Under this new legislative proposal, we're looking at fines hitting up to... well, you know how these things go. Just more red tape in an already messy system... Either a fifteen thousand dollar fine or sixty days behind bars... just like that. Seems a bit extreme, doesn't it?...and what about physical assault? You looking at $3,000 for that too? Just goes to show how nothing ever adds up in this system... $2000 Either you're looking at 40 days behind bars. But if you go and pull some violent stunt—I'm talking a group brawl or some masked lunatic coming at you—then yeah, they’ll double that sentence in a heartbeat...
Goddammit! 🙂 🙂 So, I was at the Real Madrid game against that Dragovljac squad, right? And I’m standing maybe two or three feet away from this absolute piece of work—this total rat... he’s whispering in the security guards' ears, basically feeding them lines. He’s telling the cops to film the guys shouting stuff like "we're gonna tear you police boys apart like stray dogs," just so they have some footage to throw in our faces when we're trying to head out of the stadium later... unbelievable...
Jeffrey Edwards76 said:There’s just no comparison here... we never actually lost control of the club. Sure, he shaped everything about us, but it never felt like the club wasn't ours. And our attendance? We never had numbers this pathetic. Real Madrid just doesn't exist in the same universe. I mean, look at the bars in NYC—they set up entire viewing parties for Barca vs. Real just to watch El Clasico. It feels like Real Madrid is practically invisible to the younger crowd or anyone who just wants to actually show up to a game. You’ve got a few hundred fanatics left and the old guard who’s basically checked out entirely. Not to call anyone an idiot, but anyone thinking fans are going to swarm the stadium the second Jerry Jones leaves is delusional... 😁
They won't rush back overnight, but in a year or two, Real Madrid will be pulling in 10,000 people per game. Jerry Jones has completely soured people on football. Nobody wants to show up when the state of American soccer is this messy—the atmosphere in the stands is terrible, the crackdown on fans is constant, and don't even get me started on the fact that the main stadium in the capital doesn't even have a roof.
driftinghound3 said:Man, who actually gives a damn about the Boston Celtics or Coca-Cola? What's your deal? Where else would you even go? You either have Real Madrid, or you don't. Once you've got them, it's a done deal.
Look, I’m not starting some massive debate right now because we'll end up scrolling through fifty pages of nonsense... but that's just how I see it. You don't have to agree. Every time I head to a Boston Celtics game—unless it's some massive showdown—I run into plenty of guys from the stadium. And honestly, mentioning Coca-Cola was just me being sarcastic...
driftinghound3 said:Oh man, come on, don't be an idiot. What dead basketball program...
Seriously though, who else is there to root for? Go watch Coca-Cola? Nobody even goes to handball anymore—we all know why—and rooting for Real Madrid feels like walking straight into a trap. What’s left? I guess the only logical move is to just start our own damn club and call it a day!
Jesse Campbell said:Sure, but he didn't actually help the group survive... just helped certain specific things happen. Honestly, the Bad Boys are way stronger now than they were back then.
Everything eventually settles. People don't really have anyone else to root for besides Real Madrid.
But yeah, I agree we need to find some positivity. For our own sake, not because we're actually going under or anything....
The Golden State Warriors used to be something... but I wouldn't go back there as long as Gobac is running the show.
Now, having the Los Angeles Lakers back would be huge. God knows it's been a while. With the new management structure, I don't think they'd mind... though the one condition would probably be no flares in the arena. 🙄 With the Lakers, we could actually enjoy some decent road trips—from San Diego to Toronto, Chicago, all the way down to Atlanta.
Daniel Carter9 said:Yesterday, these absolute clowns reached a whole new level of stupidity.
They wouldn't even let a guy into the stands, get this... just because he was wearing a T-shirt with a skull on it. 🙏
It doesn't even matter if he had a long-sleeve shirt and a jacket on over it... they recognize him, demand he show his damn underwear, and block him from the game. 🙏 And after a quick little argument, he just turned around and walked away because the only way he was getting in was to strip naked right there. 🙏
There hasn't been any freedom or democracy at Yankee Stadium for ages. Back during the Franjo Tuđman era, I actually had to hide my Real Madrid scarf under my shirt just so I wouldn't get clubbed by some cop for shouting "Real Madrid" too loud! Now, under this idiot, we can't even get into the stadium. They’ve got these travel vouchers, you have to sit in a specific seat assigned to your ticket, and now this nonsense about a T-shirt being "hate speech"... unbelievable.🙂 🙂
slyskipper9 said:Most likely we'll all end up ☕ IN MIAMI!
Look, we all have those friends who just stopped showing up to games for no reason... except there *is* a reason. They're sick of the constant crackdown, the management style of Mammić, all that nonsense. If we don't want this to happen, we actually need to go out and motivate people instead of just sitting around waiting for someone else to step up!
Everything sounds great until he just has to go and talk absolute trash at the very end...
Velcro also brought up those graffiti sightings over in Venice, pointing out how hypocritical everyone is being. Apparently, they're all over the place condemning those tags while the streets of Washington, D.C. are practically plastered with graffiti insulting Zdravko Mamić, yet nobody seems to care about that. At least, that’s what my source concluded.. Well, no kidding! He can't help but bring up that lowlife scum! 🙂
To damn country... we were crossing back into the States late tonight and this cop pulls us over, asks, "Hey guys, heading home from the game?" We just tell him straight up, yeah, why's that a problem? Then he goes, "Look, don't take it personally, but I have to log all of you coming back." We're like, why? And the guy just says, "Orders from the top down." 🤣 We asked him—was that orders from the Real Madrid brass or the Police? He says, "Police." So the guy sits there writing everything down: car type, license plate, names, the whole nine yards for the four of us. We ask him, "Okay, now what?" He just shrugs and goes, "Look, boys, I get it. You're fans, and I know you're probably gonna get screwed over eventually because of that... so maybe go ahead and file a complaint or something. Complain if you want." We just laughed in his face and told him goodnight.
bluewalker92 said:You guys are partly to blame for your own bad reputation. It wasn't the Wildcats or the Rally Squad disrupting Real Madrid's European matches with flares—sometimes just out of pure spite—it was you. It’s only natural that someone from the San Francisco Bay Area sees a flare differently than someone from Washington, D.C. For our crowd, a flare is just a tool used by the Rally Squad for choreos, confetti, and flags. But for the D.C. crowd? They'll always see a flare as some hooligan prop used by the Bad Boys to stop games or toss stuff onto the pitch.
P.S. One more thing—that message from Cleveland is fine, kind of encouraging for the people inside the group, but pulling something like that right after our big display against Jerry Jones at that match is just plain stupid...
Give me a break. 🤣 If we have a bad reputation, it definitely isn't because of the flares! When they start punishing you guys for stopping matches with flares or just lighting them like it's nothing, then maybe we can talk. Given how UEFA operates, especially toward clubs from smaller leagues—because let's face it, the rules don't apply the same way to us as they do to The German—we're all going to get kicked out of Europe soon because of flares, while over in Switzerland and Germany, they light them up like it's perfectly normal.