THE LOVE OF SPORTS comprised a list dedicated to you, crazy sports fan, ranking the top 10 most famous sports fans of all time.
5. Morganna The Kissing Bandit
This buxom blond was famous in the ‘70s and ‘80s for running onto the field at baseball games in a skimpy outfit and planting a big smooch on a player’s lips. Her first “victim” was Pete Rose during a game at Riverfront Stadium in 1971. Some of the other athletes she puckered up to were George Brett, Cal Ripken, Jr., Don Mattingly, Nolan Ryan and Charles Barkley. Morganna parlayed her fame into appearances on both the Johnny Carson and David Letterman shows.1. Steve Bartman
The Cubs led the Marlins 3-0 in the eighth inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS and were just five outs away from advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945. It was then that Luis Castillo hit a pop foul down the left field line. Cubs’ left fielder Moises Alou reached into the stands at “the not-so-friendly confines” of Wrigley Field to make the play, but Steve Bartman, a 26-year-old Cub fan, tried to catch the ball and inadvertently knocked it away from him. The Cubs fell apart after that, losing the game and the series. Bartman was lampooned by the media and became public enemy No. 1 in Chicago. Let it go Cub fans. Blaming this guy for the ‘03 collapse is as ridiculous as attributing 100 years of futility to a billy goat.
Doesn’t George Brett look like Woody (Harrelson) from Cheers in that picture? And I agree with TLOS – Cubs fans need to let the whole Bartman thing go. It’s almost as annoying as Red Sox fans blaming Bill Buckner for everything that has ever went wrong for the Red Sox, their fans or the city of Boston.
