Tear Up The Pea Patch Meaning

(idiomatic) To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage.

Example: 1970, Red Barber, The broadcasters‎, page 52:
  Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.
1964, Stewart Alsop; Thomas Wardell Braden, Sub rosa: the OSS and American espionage‎, page 244:
  In the words of one who knows him well, "on a matter of principle, John McCone is quite capable of tearing up the pea patch."