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Cincinnati Reds 2020 Season (useless twatwaffles in the playoffs)

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Fan who nearly went over railing when Reds played Braves alive and thriving

When Kobman, then a teenager, flopped over a railing in Riverfront on April 22, 1981 and was left hanging on for life, former Braves announcer Pete Van Wieren remarked on the air, “Oh my!”

Broadcast partner Skip Caray said, “He’d be a very dead person, I think.”

Nope, Kobman’s still in Ohio, where Deadspin writer Dave McKenna caught up with him.



From the fascinating story, “He is alive and 54 years old and has a wife and two kids in graduate school and runs a shipping business in the Cincinnati area, where he still resides.”

Kobman’s memory remains sharp.

“I got the ball! But I forgot where I was,” he told Deadspin. “And that railing hit my legs right around the knees and flipped me, and all of a sudden I’m over the rail. At that point, I know something’s going to happen, and it won’t be good. I’m thinking, ‘I’m going to fall.’ ”

Which he did.

But he hung on . . . to something.

“I have no idea,” he said. “I’ve slowed it down, looked frame by frame, and I still have no idea how I grabbed on. I hit that wall and I’m banging around like a Volvo crash dummy, but I didn’t fall.”

With the help of surrounding fans, he climbed back up and over the railing.

This is a long, riveting read about almost happened, and Kobman still marvels from time to time about his fate.

“At Riverfront, I didn’t make a choice to take a risk. I wasn’t like a guy who chooses to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel,” he said. “I didn’t choose to go over that railing. It just happened, and I was very fortunate. Nobody knows why.”

Entire article: https://www.daytondailynews.com/spo...es-alive-and-thriving/uWgBGKDjGZSeYVVaTLHEbN/
 
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Fan who nearly went over railing when Reds played Braves alive and thriving

When Kobman, then a teenager, flopped over a railing in Riverfront on April 22, 1981 and was left hanging on for life, former Braves announcer Pete Van Wieren remarked on the air, “Oh my!”

Broadcast partner Skip Caray said, “He’d be a very dead person, I think.”

Nope, Kobman’s still in Ohio, where Deadspin writer Dave McKenna caught up with him.



From the fascinating story, “He is alive and 54 years old and has a wife and two kids in graduate school and runs a shipping business in the Cincinnati area, where he still resides.”

Kobman’s memory remains sharp.

“I got the ball! But I forgot where I was,” he told Deadspin. “And that railing hit my legs right around the knees and flipped me, and all of a sudden I’m over the rail. At that point, I know something’s going to happen, and it won’t be good. I’m thinking, ‘I’m going to fall.’ ”

Which he did.

But he hung on . . . to something.

“I have no idea,” he said. “I’ve slowed it down, looked frame by frame, and I still have no idea how I grabbed on. I hit that wall and I’m banging around like a Volvo crash dummy, but I didn’t fall.”

With the help of surrounding fans, he climbed back up and over the railing.

This is a long, riveting read about almost happened, and Kobman still marvels from time to time about his fate.

“At Riverfront, I didn’t make a choice to take a risk. I wasn’t like a guy who chooses to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel,” he said. “I didn’t choose to go over that railing. It just happened, and I was very fortunate. Nobody knows why.”

Entire article: https://www.daytondailynews.com/spo...es-alive-and-thriving/uWgBGKDjGZSeYVVaTLHEbN/
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If had been 1982 he might very well have just jumped
 
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