Cheap Shots Galore in Basketbrawl at a Delco YMCA (UPDATED)
This was sent to us on Tuesday night:
meantime in Delco pic.twitter.com/Zb1wAzhzVC
— Kevin Kinkead (@Kevin_Kinkead) January 3, 2024
That’s the old Springfield Healthplex off Sproul Road in Delco. The YMCA took ownership of the sports club a few years ago.
But yeah, holy cow. What a fight. There’s too much going on for a proper breakdown, but it’s like we always say – it’s never a fair fight. It’s always 2v1 or 3v1, or worse.
At the beginning of the video, you notice a staffer in the mix. Looks like they’re wearing scrubs and there’s a lanyard with some sort of ID badge, and they go over to defuse the situation, but then they leave, probably saying something like “fuck it, this is wild, let me just go get help.” You then see two people punching a third in the head while he wrestles with someone on the ground. Then a guy in orange throws a left hook while two others are tangled up in the corner. One guy gets stomped on the head a couple of times, and then when it looks like things have settled down, someone in a black shirt throws a ridiculous sucker punch from behind while somebody off camera yells “knock it off.” You hear a “bro holy shit,” from either the video taker or someone nearby, and then the melee finally ends.
Damn. Total chaos. I’m surprised they were all up and walking around after that. The one guy took some vicious boots to the head while on the ground. Cheap shots galore.
UPDATE – A CB Facebook follower shared this letter from the YMCA: