San Francisco’s preseason atmosphere at Levi’s Stadium turned ugly fast Sunday, and the latest video to surface adds another messy chapter to the day’s chaos.
The new footage, shared on Tuesday, shows a confrontation between Raiders and 49ers fans that starts with a man in a Charles Woodson jersey facing off with a woman while another Niners fan tries to calm things down. The exchange doesn’t stay verbal for long. After the two keep pointing at each other, the woman appears to spit in the man’s face.
From there, the scene only gets more heated. The pair keep jawing, pointing, dropping F-bombs, and flipping each other off as the tension hangs in the air. The woman again flashes the middle finger, and the Raiders fan swings a punch at her companion, catching the woman in the process.
After that, the man in the 49ers jersey goes down. When he tries to get back up, he falls again. It’s not clear from the video whether that moment sparked anything further, but the situation was already boiling by then.
That clip was only one piece of a wild Sunday around the stadium. Earlier footage showed two female fans fighting in a parking lot before kickoff, and other videos captured a Raiders fan getting knocked out in a huge brawl with Niners supporters, along with a 49ers fan suffering the same fate in another fight. More clips have since shown multiple fans from both teams trading words and blows in scenes that turned far uglier than anything happening on the field.
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