This is the kind of thing that makes the rest of the country look at the Yankees-Sox rivalry and shake their heads:
Ian Ferris, 30, a Bombers fan in the heart of Red Sox Nation,
green-thumbed his nose at Boston by planting Yankee Stadium grass in
the Fenway infield during a May 31 Phish concert. Yankee Stadium grass
seeds went on sale this year. Ferris hid the seeds in his pants as he
entered Fenway, filled the bag with water and tossed it onto the
infield. “This is payback,” said Ferris, who manages a Hooters in
Vermont. “If even one blade of grass sprouts on the field, I feel it
was a success.”
Not that I can be too judgmental about this. I live in
Columbus, Ohio, and this sort of thing — and stranger things — are
par for the course in these parts when college football season rolls
around. And It’s not even the weirdest thing in the article. Tell me:
if I had bet you $1000 that there was a Hooters in Vermont, you
probably would have wanted in on that action, wouldn’t you? As a
kicker, if I had told you that a guy would bring a clandestine bag of
grass to a Phish concert and that bag contained actual turf as opposed
to something illegal, you would have bet the exacta, wouldn’t you have?
Anyway, three cheers for derranged fan fervor, even if the non-Yankees and Red Sox among us have a hard time understanding it.
