The strangest thing I ever saw at a game......

Just wait for my book....

Watching the Brighton Bears coach go absolutely nuts at Mike Shaft during a game at the Sheffield arena (the guys name escapes me, but it was the year Wil Johnson played for the Bears and we beat them all 7 times we played them), accusing him of announcing a call before the ref had blown it. Something of that nature. Anyway it got to the stage where the guy got so mad that he marched over to Shaft, took the microphone out of his hand and dismantled it into its various constituent components and threw it on the ground. Mike then wandered over to the table, picked up another mic and carried on commentating, which drew the biggest cheer of the night from the home fans

Then of course there was the time that Justin Phoenix punched Rico Alderson square in the face as hard as he could at Ponds Forge - got himself suspended of course, but the crowd gave him a standing ovation (Rico was a league wide detested player for the uninitiated on here) and I believe the Sharks office had more then a few requests to see the footage of the incident in question, for their own sense of satisfaction! That's not so much a strange story, but enormously fun nonetheless!

Don't doubt it, wasn't anywhere else though!

Justin Phoenix breaking the record for the longest made shot at the Sheffield Arena.

Also Justin Phoenix, the most mild mannered player I've ever seen, punching Rico Alderson in the mouth and knocking him to the floor.

Yes. Chester Jets v Derby Storm. I think it lasted 28 seconds, and ended with a full-scale brawl and a female Jets physio nursing a broken jaw.

Rico & Yorick both went on to have a season with Leopards (not together) and when we went to the Northgate the atmosphere was absolutely toxic.

Someone really old should know this

How on earth did I forget that!! His first attempt from what I remember. Hadn't Ian McKinney broken a similar record at Ponds Forge the week before?

Doubt it, I'm sure the Derby fans thought he was great, he was part of an amazing (but underachieving) team, this highlight reel from his season really brings back memories:

Thanks, even as a Riders fan, i enjoyed that video. Kind of miss have some local rivals!

Iain McKinney did have the previous record but I don't recall it being at PF the week before. 

But yeah Phoenix hit it on his first attempt from way behind the other basket. 

I recall that shot too - fantastic!

WOW. I've never seen that video. Since Derby Storm died, I've never supported another team. I couldn't...

Motorways was packed every week. On paper Nate, Joel, Yorick, Rico and big Mo Robinson didn't seem like it would be as good as it was but Bob D was a coach and a half.

After the Uniball Final, Bob took Suzanne Dando out for a meal but the team thought it would be funny to hate crash his date!!! We were winning that final at half time u till we ran out of legs missing Rico and Yorick.

McKinney was holding the record at the time, but think it was from a year earlier. He was going to get the full 15 minutes allocated by Guiness World Records but they changed so every Sharks player had one shot each - so that's why Justin only had one shot.

Game was at the arena, you'd just beaten Derby (our last season, wasn't difficult that year) and there 3 to 4 thousand there.

No idea if that record still exists?