THE RIOT

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Today’s story is about one of the wildest nights in Detroit sports history.

Game 5 of the '84 World Series started in the late afternoon.

Detroit was up in the series 3-1 against the Padres, and Tigers fans were anticipating the team's first World Series victory in 16 years.

Vice President George HW Bush was in attendance along with the MLB commissioner.

As the night wore on, it became pretty clear that the Tigers were going to win the series.

The dagger came in the bottom of the eighth when the Padres decided to pitch to Kirk Gibson and he hit an absolute moonshot.

Towards the later innings, a crowd began to gather outside the stadium.

Soon enough, there were tens of thousands of fans outside the stadium; plus another 51,901 inside the ballpark.

Bush was still inside the stadium and the Secret Service realized it had a problem on its hands.