Nov. 10, 1997, couldn’t have gone worse for the Philadelphia Eagles.
In front of a national television audience on "Monday Night Football," quarterback Steve Young and the 49ers were taking them to the cleaners. As the Eagles made mistake after mistake, the 67,000 fans in attendance at Veterans Stadium grew angry. Near the end of the game, Philadelphia doomed to a 24-12 loss, an Eagles fan pulled a smuggled flare gun out of his jacket. He aimed it across the field and shot, arcing a flare directly into a crowd of fans. Thankfully, no one was hurt.