Is this for real?

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/13830/steelers_fan_adds_injury_to_insult_at_cincy_game

Steelers Fan Adds Injury to Insult at Cincy Game

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Posted By Chris Mottram 4:05 PM

It’s not fun being a Bengals fan right now. It’s bad enough that your team is winless, but you have Carson Palmer on the brink of reconstructive surgery, your head coach laughin’ it up at each Monday press conference when, clearly, nothing is funny about this season, and Chad Johnson is still on your team.

So, not surprisingly, fans started unloading their tickets for the rest of the season last week. And if the horrible product on the field is already starting to drive away fans, stories like Randy’s won’t help.

See, Randy -- pictured after the game in that blurry photo -- is a lifelong Bengals fan who took his daughter to her first ever football game, along with his wife, on Sunday. Some might consider this child and/or spousal abuse, but that’s another story. The family was having a super awesome day of tailgating, playing corn hole, watching their team get ripped to shreds by the Steelers ... and then this happened:

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    My wife and daughter went to the restroom. The [Steelers fan] directly behind me kept going on about Mike Brown and I finally said, "At least he isn't selling our team. You guys might end up the LA Steelers.” I never turned around once or confronted anyone. It was just banter during the game. Let's face it, it's pretty hard to come up with anything to defend this franchise currently. Besides this wasn't a fan on the losing side they were well on there way to victory.

    The next thing I know I felt a crushing blow to the side of my face. I fell, not really sure where since it knocked me out. I woke up in the security office with my face being attended to. I was covered in blood and my face was a mess. When I fell I must have hit a railing and went face first to the concrete stairs. I have a broken wrist and a bruised knee.
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Oh sweet irony. Randy got beat up for defending the owner of a team that has been emotionally beating down Randy for years. But on the bright side, I'm sure his daughter wasn't emotionally damaged at all from her first football game.

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Well I Googled, and I found hisentire  entire story here:

http://forum.go-bengals.com/index.php?showtopic=45443&mode=threaded

and it links the original story off of here:

http://www.thelotd.com/lance

and that guy has an update:

I can hear Lee Greenwoods' Proud To Be An American playing in the background
And you wonder why things are the way they are?
Check out Lot D reaction to this fan being beaten at the game Sunday:

*I'm just saying, there is a 50-50 chance that Randy couldve asked for it.
*I'm hearing that this Randy clown was running his mouth more then he has let us to believe.
*Sounds to me like this guy is just trying to get some FREE TICKETS! What a Mr. FOOD STAMP move this is!
*Randy totally deserved to get punched in the face. This is a gentleman's game, no place for a drunken loudmouth. You disgrace the colors sir.
*Besides the blood on the ground by Randy R's
seat,there were 6 plastic Miller lite bottles that he had been downing at a pretty
good rate. Randy was Drunk also !
*sounds like this Randy clown was drunk and running his mouth too.
*There are always exceptions but I'm beginning to think people are just making stuff up out of sheer frustration.

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I have no idea who/what Lot D is...