police on the field at a football game? why????

[niyad]

just caught something about police (on bicycles??) being called onto the field for some football game? police on a football field?? WHY??

[IDemo]

1. Publicity crazed fans running onto the field

This was the second incident in a short time period.

[niyad]

4. has this sort of thing happened before?

[IDemo]

7. In this game? This was the second time in just a few minutes.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. LOL, clearly you are not a sports fan

I'd say someone runs on the field at least once a week in pro sports. Probably more overseas.

[niyad]

12. you are correct. most definitely not a sports fan.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Fan ran onto the field just before the kick...

[shenmue]

3. Yep

I hate stupid idiots.

[Brother Buzz]

8. I like how the broadcast booth automatically cuts away from this crap to discourage future idiots

Smart

[delrem]

13. Hopefully the fan was stark naked.

[LeftyMom]

19. No, he was wearing an old Harbaugh jersey.

Harbs had his head in his hands on the sideline.

[Warpy]

5. It almost makes me think we're being trained

to expect heavily armed Robocops where ever we go, bored stiff and pushing people around because nobody likes to be armed to the teeth and bored stiff.

[niyad]

11. it does make one wonder

[enigmatic]

6. Tim Tebow was trying to play QB

[msongs]

9. then the interruption was god's will lol nt

[dembotoz]

14. we have police at a number of high school hockey games

some teams and PARENTS hate each other

[skippy66]

15. Most awesome video.

Having that happen every time would discourage people from running onto the field!

[grasswire]

16. the other day there were two cops at my small-town farmers market!

Strolling through the stalls of beets and pears, fully armed, chilling the whole happy atmosphere that people have in that space once a week.

[niyad]

22. chilling indeed. wonder if the folks putting on the market had to pay for them?

[alp227]

17. I saw that 49ers game live.

A dumbass fan (wearing neither team's colors!) ran on the field, and NBC cut to an aerial view. The SFPD then brought in extra officers on patrol. No need to panic.

[LeftyMom]

21. It was an old Harbaugh jersey.

[bhikkhu]

18. We have police at the local high school football games

I imagine it makes for an easy shift, they seem to enjoy it and nobody minds that they're there. Mostly they are good people who grew up here and probably went to school here.

The only trouble I ever saw was a couple of kids "streaked" through the field during half-time once, and two cops had to go run (jog) after them. I don't remember hearing that they caught them or that anything came of it.

[LeftyMom]

20. Some of the local sports talk guys were making jokes about getting fans to run on the field,

saying that if enough people did it at once or in sequence some of them would get away with it.

Apparently some of our local folks are a bit too impressionable.