The nonsense going on at the airports in America will continue to grow elsewhere unless the sheeple stand up and say ‘No More!”.
The nonsense going on at the airports in America will continue to grow elsewhere unless the sheeple stand up and say ‘No More!”.
nothing new . . . Toronto Leaf fans have been “taking it proctologically” for years.
This is not about fan safety. It is to make sure no one is smuggling in dangerous contraband — drinks, snacks etc. — that might lower concession sales.
JMD,
I think you have it right.
Unlike flying, nobody really -has- to go to a hockey game or a football game. And as these morons ratchet up the physical oppression, ticket sales will fall and fall.
Which I’m absolutely sure the NFL brass knows full well. Which means they have been -told- that this is how its going to be, and they better get on the bus or be thrown under it.
Personally (and I’m quite aware of being in the minority here) it is my feeling that anything which diverts money away from professional sports can’t be -all- bad. Professional sport is a full-up waste of time, and life was better when people played the games instead of watching them on TV.
I include my favorite sport, off road racing. I do not want to see racing. I want to go -do- some racing. Between land closures, licensing bodies, insurance regulations and the ever escalating cost due to PROFESSIONALS ratcheting up the technology every year, opportunities for The Phantom to go play race cars with the other kids on Sunday afternoon are getting pretty thin.
Fun to be had driving around an empty field by yourself is fairly limited, I must say.
Robert is right. As long as we’re going to take it, they’re going to give it to us.
The NFL and the NHL provide perfect opportunities to vote. Simply stop going to the games. They’re all on television and you get really good replays of the good stuff.
But, that won’t happen.
Bang-on, Phantom. It’s harder to justify not flying, if you have to travel long distances with limited time.
Boycotting sporting events on stupidity like this is much easier. Wonder if the order would be rescinded if the stands were only half-full this year? Vote with your wallet: it’ll hurt far more than any letter writing campaigns or blog posts.
mhb23re
This procedure is bing undertaken ” in accordance with the league’s Best Practices policies.”
I think that qualifie as “Orwellian”,or in other words “shut up,it’s for your own good”.
I’m going to a football game,albeit the CrazyFootballLeague,in about 7 hours. I’ve yet to be searched. The day that I am frisked will be the end of my support,goodbye season ickets.
Abe’s thought that it has to do with concession sales may be why some organizations will accept this policy,but I don’t think it is the motive behind the policy.
BTW,beer at Calgary’s games,$6.50 a can,Coor’s light or Canadian only. I fully understand the reasoning behind a plastic mickey of rum tucked into the small of your back, that can be mixed with the $3 bottle of Coke.
JMD’s thought,not Abe’s. Sorry.
The nonsense going on at the airports in America will continue to grow here in Canada if Stevie signs his ridiculous border deal with Obama.
This will happen unless the sheeple stand up to Stevie and say ‘No More!”
Right AFTER games are sold out and seasons tickets are bought.
How convenient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95yplgnZY84
Thanks Cowboys fans.
The Phantom
Has the right of it. After ticket sales plummet, than young people stop going, will there even be a Football League?
I know in Edmonton people are going to minor hockey leagues. More than the NHL ones. Most good seats are bought up by companies now , plus the unreal price to see a game. Doing this kind of garbage only make people mad. You treat folks like criminals, they vote with their feet. I know I don’t even use pre-pay gas stations from the implied insult. Guilty before innocence. All your customers are crooks menatlity.Something we have forgotten in the modern World. Id the dignity of the individual over herding people into brands.
JMO
Revnant,I concur.
I despise them also,pay up front to pump your own gas.These aren’t the good old days.
My first encounter with pre-pay was in a bad(?) area of Detroit back in the seventies. The stations cut down on their robberies. However,the more entrepreneurial of society’s most vulnerable took to robbing the people on their way up to pay.
Personally (and I’m quite aware of being in the minority here) it is my feeling that anything which diverts money away from professional sports can’t be -all- bad. Professional sport is a full-up waste of time, and life was better when people played the games instead of watching them on TV.
Right on the money. Professional “athletes” are no different than hollywierd celebs. The amount of money they make is obscene, and how many of them give significant amounts to amateur sport?
As long as the sheeple buy into this insecurity exercise then governments will use it as an excuse to curtail your liberty. The people let this happen.
I have no problem with prepay for gas, just put my credit card in pump, no need to go to clerk.
As for professional sports, I’d rather spend my entertainment money on live theatre like the Arts Club in Vancouver.
I have no problem with prepay for gas, just put my credit card in pump, no need to go to clerk.
Yeah, same here… what’s the problem? Way faster and a lot more convenient.
The terrorists have won. What a pile of chickens. It’s time to stand up to this crap.
Just emailed the commissioner of the NFL. Wife and I have been to 4 NFL games in last 5 years. Told him to take his hands off of me or we will just stay and watch games on TV.
Won’t fly anymore thanks to Obama admin (Janet Incompitano) wanting her goons to feel me up either. See when more driving anyway and even McDonald’s is better than airline food.
Look, you can boil slowly like the frog or tell the statists to kiss off.