{"id":1917,"date":"2006-12-20T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_only_thing_worse_than_an_iggles_fan_is_an_iggles_fan_that_used_to_be_from_new_york.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:13:45","slug":"the_only_thing_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_only_thing_4.html","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing Worse Than An Iggles Fan Is An Iggles Fan That Used To Be From New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eagles fans can be such huge pains in the ass<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The son of the legendary late Giants owner Wellington Mara tackled and choked a fellow broker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday after the man mocked the team, sources said.<\/p>\n

Veteran floor trader Bob Tomasulo, a 57-year-old grandfather, was assaulted and barraged with obscenities in front of stunned co-workers after kidding with Stephen Mara about the Giants’ embarrassing 36-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, witnesses and Tomasulo told The Post.<\/p>\n

“Mara started screaming, ‘I’m gonna f- – -ing kill you! Don’t f- – – around with my family! Don’t insult my family!’ ” one broker said.<\/p>\n

“Bob was like, ‘Hey, what is your problem? It’s just a game!’ And Mara yells, ‘No, it’s not just a game, it’s my f- – -ing family!’ ”<\/p>\n

Tomasulo said the bizarre broker brouhaha broke out at around 10:30 a.m., after he walked past Mara and pretended to do a basketball jump shot, mocking the celebratory on-field routine performed by Big Blue players after touchdowns and sacks.<\/p>\n

Tomasulo, an Eagle fan, said that he and Mara, 47, had enjoyed a friendly sports rivalry for years and that last week, the son of the former Giants owner kiddingly told him, “We’re gonna kick your guys’ you-know-what.”<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘Yeah, probably,’ ” Tomasulo recalled.<\/p>\n

“[Yesterday] morning, I just did that stupid little jump shot, and I said, ‘Maybe you have a basketball team instead of a football team.’<\/p>\n

“[Mara] just snapped. He charged me like an animal. He charged me like he wanted to sack me.<\/p>\n

“At first, he got me in a bear hug and bent me over a trading post. At first, I thought it was a joke. Then he proceeded to choke me. I passed out for a minute.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

An NYSE official called the trading-floor rumble “nothing major, a slight disagreement between a couple of people.”<\/p>\n

But Tomasulo said NYSE lawyers contacted him and “to them, this is a very serious incident.”<\/p>\n

“The doctors told me I have a bruised larynx. My blood pressure spiked to 260 over 140,” said Tomasulo, adding that he was treated by NYSE medical staffers.<\/p>\n

He said he didn’t take Mara’s apologetic phone call because “I wasn’t in the mood to talk to him.<\/p>\n

“I’m 57 years old. I’ve been bullied and pushed around a lot in life. I grew up in Brooklyn. I’m just sick of taking it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Tomasulo — who became an Eagles fan when he moved to Bucks County, Pa. — said he’s unsure whether he will hire a lawyer. But “if they told me [Mara] was suspended from work for ‘X’ amount of days, I wouldn’t be upset,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eagles fans can be such huge pains in the ass: The son of the legendary late Giants owner Wellington Mara tackled and choked a fellow broker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday after the man mocked the team, sources said. Veteran floor trader Bob Tomasulo, a 57-year-old grandfather, was assaulted and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}