Dodgers fans treat Shohei Ohtani bobblehead like an old-school Black Friday sale

Remember how crazy Black Friday sales would get back in the day? They aren't quite as insane nowadays with online shopping being many shoppers' go-to, but they used to be quite the spectacle with consumers doing whatever they could to ensure that they get what they want.

Insane Black Friday events don't really happen anymore, but something similar just took place at the Los Angeles Dodgers game.

Dodgers fans pull out all the stops to ensure they get a Shohei Ohtani bobblehead

Thursday's series opener against the Cincinnati Reds was Shohei Ohtani bobblehead day. Tickets, unsurprisingly, were an absolute fortune. The first 40,000 fans were set to receive bobbleheads, which is a ton, but the Dodgers also hid 1,700 bobbleheads of Ohtani in a road gray uniform. Perhaps that little wrinkle is why the lines wound up being what they were.

According to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez, there was a line that went all the way out to the street at 3:00 p.m. PT, four hours before first pitch. Fans pulled out all the stops to get a bobblehead, and are doing their best to try and get one of the rare road gray ones.

As Dave Roberts said, this kind of reaction from Dodgers fans is not a surprise. There's a reason that the Dodgers gave him a contract worth $700 million over the offseason, and it only partially had to do with his absurd play.

Ohtani is the biggest draw in baseball and one of the biggest draws in all of sports, and he was signing with one of the most popular teams in baseball. This kind of line and these absurd ticket prices for a bobblehead show just how worthwhile the contract was for the Dodgers to sign, even with all of the deferred money. This beats a classic Black Friday sale, and that feels crazy to say.