Current:Home > reviews'Next level tantruming:' Some 49ers fans react to Super Bowl loss by destroying TVs -Capitatum
'Next level tantruming:' Some 49ers fans react to Super Bowl loss by destroying TVs
Charles Langston View
Date:2025-04-06 08:56:15
The Kansas City Chiefs were able to two-peat Sunday night, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl in dramatic fashion with a game-sealing touchdown drive in overtime.
The team's third championship since 2020, the victory was a rousing one for a fanbase than can now rightly consider their team to be a dynasty. But on the other end of that victory was a San Francisco 49ers fanbase left demoralized by a crushing, last-minute defeat after their team led much of the game.
Some 49ers fans took it better than others.
After the game, videos began surfacing of fans reacting, well, poorly after Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes found receiver Mecole Hardman in the endzone for the win. Destruction ensued, fights were broken up, guests at watch parties were left in a stunned silence.
Some televisions didn't survive the night, instead becoming casualties to the raw pain of disappointed fans. Here's a few videos shared on social media of some of them reacting to the loss by destroying their TVs.
SUPER BOWL CENTRAL: Latest Super Bowl 58 news, stats, odds, matchups and more.
'We’ve got a streaker':Two fans arrested after running on field at Super Bowl 58
Televisions, projectors come into 49ers fans' crosshairs
In one video re-posted by Barstool Sports on TikTok, a user recorded his "huge 49er fan roommate" reacting to the loss by throwing an object at what appears to be projector screen, breaking it and sending it crashing to the floor.
"Bro couldn't handle the 49ers loss," the caption reads.
In another video shared by user CBR_Basics viewed more than 192,000 times, a heartbroken fan in a Brock Purdy jersey lifts a coffee table and chucks it at a wall, where the game had been projected, before hitting the wall. Thankfully, there was no projection screen to break.
"Punching the wall is next level tantruming," one user commented.
Another fan attacked his television set with a bottle of Jack Daniels, leaving it cracked and broken as others sat around in what appeared to be horrified silence.
In another video shared on social media site X, user Helzzy claims that "Bro lost $20,000 betting on the 49ers and smashed his TV."
The video begins with a Chiefs fan celebrating the win before a 49ers fan flies into the frame, smashing the television before he had to be physically restrained by others from attacking the other man. As he's dragged outside, a woman appears to attempt to "clean" the cracked television with paper towels.
(Viewer discretion: Language.)
"For those wondering, This is toxic masculinity," one user commented.
Another 49ers fans dispensed with fists and projectiles altogether, instead opting to slam his television set into the ground before stomping on it. DraftKings shared that video on X, along with the caption: "Gonna need a new TV."
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected]
veryGood! (214)
Related
- DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
- Patrick Mahomes can't throw the ball and catch the ball. Chiefs QB needs teammates to step up.
- Ex-New York corrections officer gets over 2 years in prison for smuggling contraband into Rikers Island
- What can trigger an itch? Scientists have found a new culprit
- DoorDash steps up driver ID checks after traffic safety complaints
- Live updates | Timing for the Israel-Hamas pause in fighting will be announced in the next 24 hours
- Retiree records bat sex in church attic, helps scientists solve mystery of species' super long penis
- 'She definitely turned him on': How Napoleon's love letters to Josephine inform a new film
- Stamford Road collision sends motorcyclist flying; driver arrested
- As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land
Ranking
- Nearly half of US teens are online ‘constantly,’ Pew report finds
- Suspected militants kill 5, including 2 soldiers, in pair of bombings in northwest Pakistan
- Escaped inmate facing child sex charges in Tennessee captured in Florida
- Retiree records bat sex in church attic, helps scientists solve mystery of species' super long penis
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- Aaron Rodgers has 'personal guilt' about how things ended for Zach Wilson with the Jets
- Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him, authorities say
- A hand grenade explosion triggered by a quarrel at a market injured 9 people in southern Kosovo
Recommendation
Intel's stock did something it hasn't done since 2022
From 'Blue Beetle' to 'Good Burger 2,' here are 15 movies you need to stream right now
Albuquerque police cadet and husband are dead in suspected domestic violence incident, police say
Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him, authorities say
Macy's says employee who allegedly hid $150 million in expenses had no major 'impact'
What is the longest-running sitcom? This show keeps the laughs coming... and coming
'Scott Pilgrim Takes Off'—and levels up
Stock market today: Asian shares slip in cautious trading following a weak close on Wall Street