šŸˆ A really good quote from a very interesting article on ESPN.com

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When ESPN surveyed campus police at the nation's largest public college football stadiums to see how many people they eject, ticket and arrest for rude or illegal behavior on game day, the responses were far from uniform. University of Michigan officials, for example, provided a precise breakdown of hundreds of arrests, citations and ejections cross-tabulated by game and offense at "The Big House" for the past several years. But University of Alabama officials couldn't produce a single number for Bryant-Denny Stadium.
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this made me giggle.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4603176

Really good article though.
 
oh by all means, I know many get arrested or just simply escorted out. It just makes it look like Michigan is worse, which made me giggle because I can certainly imagine the difference in atmosphere.
 
i went to a meeting where Lee County's EMA Manager was speaking and we got on this very subject. The system is pretty high tech. When they get a text with a seat number, they can simply type that number in to their system and the video cameras automatically zoom in on that exact seat. They can quickly verify the incident and get video proof of all involved.
 
I guess I was flying underneath the radar (cameras) at the LSU/Auburn game in Jordan-Hare '04, because no one caught a Georgia fan and I passing a bottle of Crown back and forth throughout the whole game.... we were not in the student section, nor were we causing too many problems... a few "Roll Tides" and "Go Dawgs" did slip out, but it was a fun experience.... What were we to do?:smile:.... Come to think of it, the barn probably didn't have any cameras.... A free ticket and a hot date was the only reason that I was attending.... oh, yeah and the free booze from a foe :lol:
 
bama29fan said:
i went to a meeting where Lee County's EMA Manager was speaking and we got on this very subject. The system is pretty high tech. When they get a text with a seat number, they can simply type that number in to their system and the video cameras automatically zoom in on that exact seat. They can quickly verify the incident and get video proof of all involved.
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Interesting. I hadn't heard that before.
 
In 2005 Condoleezza Rice brought the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, to the Alabama/Tennessee game. They sat in the front row of the President's box directly behind our seats. Our grown children and their friends used the tickets that day. And all throughout the game our daughter's drunken date frequently screamed curse words at the team or the refs, including a particularly common Anglo-Saxon vulgar: the F word.

There were families seated nearby, with children who shouldn't have been exposed to that. But there's no describing the depth of our humiliation when a guest in our seats behaved in that manner in front of the most powerful woman in the world and her guest, a foreign dignitary. At least one of the most offensive words he used belonged to Jack Straw's people first.

I'm not in favor of censoring free speech. But surely there ought to be a standard for decent behavior in our stadium. We don't want an environment in Bryant Denny where children are exposed to violence or vulgarity. Seems to me texting/video security aids are a pretty good idea. If they'd been available in 2005, my daughter would certainly have made use of it to get rid of that troglodyte who would not sit down and shut up.
 
cartag said:
In 2005 Condoleezza Rice brought the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, to the Alabama/Tennessee game. They sat in the front row of the President's box directly behind our seats. Our grown children and their friends used the tickets that day. And all throughout the game our daughter's drunken date frequently screamed curse words at the team or the refs, including a particularly common Anglo-Saxon vulgar: the F word.

There were families seated nearby, with children who shouldn't have been exposed to that. But there's no describing the depth of our humiliation when a guest in our seats behaved in that manner in front of the most powerful woman in the world and her guest, a foreign dignitary. At least one of the most offensive words he used belonged to Jack Straw's people first.

I'm not in favor of censoring free speech. But surely there ought to be a standard for decent behavior in our stadium. We don't want an environment in Bryant Denny where children are exposed to violence or vulgarity. Seems to me texting/video security aids are a pretty good idea. If they'd been available in 2005, my daughter would certainly have made use of it to get rid of that troglodyte who would not sit down and shut up.[/QUOTE]

Wish I had been there to do something about it. Fellows, please join me in my habit of addressing this behavior. Seldom have I had to, but I have confronted this behavior at games, pointing out the presence of children, and then telling them that I would now begin dogging them verbally (no profanity and no physical contact) until one of three things happens, until they choose to express themselves with acceptable words, until they start something physical that would allow me to use my military training in self defense, or until we were both ejected...and that I was happy either way as long as the issue would be resolved. This has always worked and honestly has received applause from those around the jackhole.

Second, regarding the reporting: The University is under no obligation to records these events in a format that ESPN prefers, which means that ESPN will never get an Apples-to-Apples comparison. Any journalist worth his salt will recognize this and see that any conclusions would be jaded. THAT is the only story that can come from this. Further, who actually does the arresting? In Bama's case, with 92,000 there, the University, City, County, and State all have arresting Official there. Who consolidates that information?
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cartag said:
In 2005 Condoleezza Rice brought the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, to the Alabama/Tennessee game. They sat in the front row of the President's box directly behind our seats. Our grown children and their friends used the tickets that day. And all throughout the game our daughter's drunken date frequently screamed curse words at the team or the refs, including a particularly common Anglo-Saxon vulgar: the F word.

There were families seated nearby, with children who shouldn't have been exposed to that. But there's no describing the depth of our humiliation when a guest in our seats behaved in that manner in front of the most powerful woman in the world and her guest, a foreign dignitary. At least one of the most offensive words he used belonged to Jack Straw's people first.

I'm not in favor of censoring free speech. But surely there ought to be a standard for decent behavior in our stadium. We don't want an environment in Bryant Denny where children are exposed to violence or vulgarity. Seems to me texting/video security aids are a pretty good idea. If they'd been available in 2005, my daughter would certainly have made use of it to get rid of that troglodyte who would not sit down and shut up.
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Putting that in perspective. I'd say the chances are very high he had heard the same, perhaps worse, at football (soccer) games in the United Kingdom.
 
I know, Terry, but still. It was Condoleezza Rice and her guest. And they were in Alabama. If they'd been in Tennessee. . .

I wish you'd been there too, LBS. In fact, I wish I'd been there to see you there. Good man.
 
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