teams punished for fans?

[Randy]

Should sports teams should be punished for the behavior of their fans?


Discuss.

 

[DrLeftover]

So, if you own or play for a team, and you go and win, say, your sports championship, for instance, the NBA finals are coming up, and your team wins, and then your fans do something totally unheard of, say, go out and riot and loot and set a bunch of cars on fire....

Lakers’ Big Win Sparks L.A. Rioting
June 18, 2010

At this point it’s a tradition: the Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA Championship, the fans riot downtown.

Despite a heavy police presence, which was publicized yesterday by Mayor Antonio Villagairosa and police chief Charlie Beck, fans who were ecstatic over the Lakers’ Game 7 victory over the Boston Celtics met near the Staples Center, throwing bottles and debris at cops, and setting fire along arteries leading from the arena.

This marks the third time violence erupted after a Lakers championship win.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/18/l-a-s-rowdy-post-championship-ritual-continues/


The team should do what? Forfeit the title? Pay a big fine? Be disbanded?

It sounds like an interesting idea, but I don't see how the Lakers did anything to encourage the behavior other than winning.