The Mindset List 2016: Cleveland Sports Edition
August 21, 2012Box Score: Indians 1, Mariners 5
August 22, 2012Those huge crowds waiting to get into Cleveland Browns’ Stadium won’t move any faster this season. The NFL has instituted new security measures that will require handheld wanding.
Starting with the preseason home opener this Friday against the Philadelphia Eagles, all fans will be subject to metal detection as they enter Cleveland Browns Stadium. This is a new requirement for all NFL stadiums. This new procedure, using handheld metal detectors, will enhance the current screening process and ensure a safe gameday environment for all fans. Fans will be asked to hold their keys, cell phones and any other metal items in their hands during the wanding process. This procedure will eliminate the need for “pat-downs” of fans. Fans are encouraged to arrive early to the stadium.
Ladies and gents, the little metal flasks of my youth are officially that much harder for people to get into the games. I can still picture the gymnastics that I saw one guy doing to get the little metal flask out of his full body snowsuit on a snowy, cold day on the lakefront when I was a kid with my dad.
No more, unless you can sneak it past the metal detecting wand.
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This is a sensible reaction to the outbreak of terrorist attacks at NFL stadiums last year.
What? . . . There were no terrorist attacks? . . . No shootings either? . . . Hmm. Well, I’m sure they have a perfectly good reason for doing this.
yes, they do. fans complained about the “pat down” so they are replacing it with a wand. sounds reasonable to me (and I’d prefer to be wanded than patted).
craig, may I introduce you to the non-metal bodabag? (or otherwise referred to as the bode-bag):
http://www.chefdepot.net/graphics24/bota.jpg
mg, my man, I’m a little disappointed. You’re waaaaay too sharp to write something like this.
Come on, admit it. You’re arguing just to argue. Which I get. But this topic isn’t worth it.
I’d rather read what you’d think of the Tribe going all in and packaging Choo and Perez in a (hopefully) blockbuster off-season trade.
Honestly in the world we live in, I would rather have them institute something like this as a proactive move. Instead of in response to a tragedy. Then at least they can try to prevent it. But, doesn’t Browns stadium already have metal detectors? or is it just the Q that does?
Sooo.. plastic bottles?
i seriously don’t like people i don’t know touching me (pat down). i understand that some would prefer that to the wand, but the only metal I generally carry is my cell phone and keys, so this would not bother me. that’s all.
agreed that this topic is not really worth much more time.