What do you think of the NFL's new screening and stadium entrance policy?

[gopiscrap]

[CBGLuthier]

1. Like many things in this country it will never matter to me

I feel sorry for those who will put themselves through such treatment at such high prices to worship a bunch of overpaid athletes. But not much.

[Throd]

2. How about other venues? I fear this i just the beginning.

[gopiscrap]

5. That's my thought also

pretty soon we'll turn into Isreal

[gopiscrap]

4. Wow I like that!

we worship sports way too much. In fact last year I got penalized on this board because I spoiled the results of the Olympic events and announced them before they came on the idiot tube!

[frylock]

30. do you worship the actors you watch in the movies?

or like many sports fans, do you watch for the entertainment value?

[Throd]

3. I'm against it.

[Marrah_G]

6. Doesn't bother me.

[gopiscrap]

7. why?

son we'll have to pass through detectors to go to the grocery store, library, church etc

[Lochloosa]

8. I had to go through metal detectors for a Toby Keith concert.

Walked right into a Prince show the next week at the same venue.

Go figure.

[winter is coming]

9. That could be a comment on either the sort of crowd the management thinks a performer

will draw or a reaction to past events (i.e., stalkers) in the performer's life.

[Lochloosa]

11. I was a lot more nervous at Toby's show. Way to many rednecks.

And I'm a chubby 55 white guy.

[HooptieWagon]

19. Searches at rock concerts have been common for years...

although they're looking for drugs, not terrorists. Interestingly, the concert where I experienced the hugest cloud of marijuana smoke was a George Benson (smooth jazz) show with no pat-downs at the entry gates.

[Lochloosa]

21. After 30 Dead shows I've been through my share of pat downs.

I think at the Toby show they were looking for weapons not drugs. No pat down just had to walk through the detectors.

Now the Prince show they should have done the pat downs. It was smelling very kind in the arena.

[Skeeter Barnes]

10. Sold my PSL years ago and quit going. I can see the game better from the TV at home

and not have to put up with all the drunks.

[winter is coming]

12. I oppose it, and was disgusted the other day when the morning bobbleheads on CNN

were discussing it. Lots of "well, who really needs a bag larger than X" type bullshit. (Diaper bag? Not that I think it's the world's greatest idea to take an infant to a ballgame, but it happens.) It was just a variant of the "well, if you're innocent, then you have nothing to fear" arguments.

[jberryhill]

13. I guess we are supposed to know what it is

I imagine they check to see if you have any money left in your pockets on the way in, and confiscate it.

Sort of like Disney.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. Don't give a crap

If I was to go to a game, I don't drag my whole life with me like other people do because they need rations for a three hour game, and annoy everyone else around me taking up room spilling into other's seat space.

[tabasco]

15. Once a 16 oz. beer at the stadium went to $6,

I stopped going to NFL games.

[HooptieWagon]

16. Kabuki theatre, just like TSA screening at airports.

Its main function is to condition the public into acceptance of surveillence state, and to force peep to pay stadium prices for food, etc, rather than sneak their own in.

[HappyMe]

17. I don't care.

Why would I want to drag a ton of junk with me to a football game.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. What IS the NFL's new screening and stadium entrance policy?

Have not heard of it.

[KamaAina]

24. Clear plastic bags only

You have to wonder who is the Official NFL Supplier of Clear Plastic Bags.

[NightWatcher]

20. Hopefully it will stop all the acts of terrorism & violence at the games

It won't affect me, I live in Jacksonville, we don't have a pro NFL team, just a bunch of losers.

[KamaAina]

26. Why doesn't Orlando have a pro football team?

Because then Jacksonville would want one, too.

[LaydeeBug]

22. I won't be going to any games bc I don't consent to searches. nt

[Redneck_Dem]

23. Not a big deal

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Even more of a reason not to go

I am sick and tired of this kabuki theater.

Goodwin this, (not the OP) but the techniques are more and more like any other police sate including Germany.

[MrSlayer]

27. Nothing is going to change for me.

I don't bring food to a game. I never really got that concept. Nothing is going to change from the same wanding and pat down that's been going on for the past twelve years.

[City Lights]

28. ?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[olddots]

29. then repukian ass mites consider security screening job creation

get used to having no freedom or rights unless you are a 1%er .

[spanone]

31. never heard of it....you got a link?