While that would have truly been miserable, and I don't think it would be worth pressing, it would have been awesome if you had pressed them on that one. If they arrested you for talking you could make a serious stink. Probably would have gotten the press interested. 'Family kicked out and arrested for cheering at Gophers game'; wow would a reporter have a field day with that one. The poor performance of the team would have put all the more spin on it. Maybe even some dollar signs for you.
An arrest would be just blatantly illegal, but knowing cops, I'm hardly surprised.
My god...are we this effing stupid????
I am so sick and tired of being the laughing stock of college football and the big ten.
Having attended games in about 20 other D1 stadiums...we are effing clueless about how to run a college football game.
Concessions, security, band, stadium PA announcer...u name it.
Can we hire someone that isn't a fricking idiot to run our stadium?
Who complains about fans standing and cheering? That is pathetic!!!!
The University should practice what they preach.
I went to the USC game ( my first game in 10 years ) & paid good money to sit in the first row, so I wouldn't need to stand the whole game.
Well guess what, I had Goldy standing on some box in front of me, 1/2 the game.
People in our section complained & nothing changed.
I ended up watching the most important parts of the game, in between Goldy's legs.![]()
There are almost certainly records kept of this kind of thing and you should force someone to have to research it. At the very least the head of security or someone will have the unpleasant experience of having to defend a bogus act. They may have to resort to lying, and then you got them.
Please. Anybody with a brain working at least half-capacity knows this idiot poster did not get removed simply for cheering. I'm all for standing "in the moment" but what about other people? I had a young boy in front of me today who constantly had to stand on top of his seat, then perform minor feats of acrobatics to see in between the adults standing in front of him. No problem, because they stood when expected and then sat down. Had they remained on their feet for long periods, they simply would have destroyed another fan's game experience. Not your right to do. Grow up.
I know the tickets that we all buy say "This ticket is a revocable license to attend the athletic event. If the holder's conduct endangers or disrupts the players, coaches, officals or other patrons, the University reserves the right to remove the ticket holder from the premises."
What i did not know was that "disrupting other patrons" meant standing and cheering when your team was up 21-20.
The U of M just lost 8 season ticket holders and 8 lifetime fans. That might no matter to most people here or to the University of Minnesota but to 8 lifetime fans getting kicked out for standing and cheering is never going to be acceptable.
Oh these 8 never were obscene and never swore. Well maybe in MN terms they were obscene by cheering for the team they have loved thier whole life.
Ok I am going to be obscene here and say... Go Badgers! (yes I know they lost today) Yep just got kicked out of my home stadium for cheering (no swearing at all!!!). Just standing and cheering. I am no longer a Gopher fan... and yeah I know most dont give a rats what I have to say.
Delta,
We asked for a reason in writing and all of the names associated with escorting us out... they just told us that if we kept talking that we would be tossed in jail. Trust me I am going to try to get a written report on this but they dont seem to want to help on Saturday night at 7:30pm.
Same fans who ratted out the poster 2 weeks ago for having a flask at the game. Liberals.
Get ahold of those witnesses and have em call the AD too otherwise this will happen to others TAKE EM ON!!! don't wimp out like the gophers coach!