WOW, I love our world today where you can't even go to a sporting event as a woman and be pressured to lift up your shirt and expose your breasts, and if not-be pelted with food and beer. The New York Jets have recently cracked down on fans who yell obscene things at women during halftime. The breakdown goes as follows-fans yell at women crossing the pedestrian path to expose their breasts and yell in approval is she agrees.
Are you kidding me?! If "fans" were egging me on to do so, I woulf flip them the bird and move on and IF I did get pelted with beer or food, there would be some serious consequences.......I hope.
The authority "has assured us that they will address this conduct at all Meadowlands events," Matt Higgins, the Jets' senior vice president-business operations, said in a statement. "We will not allow a small minority of people to ruin the experience for our fans and will be monitoring the situation."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello is disgusted by the fans behavior and demands necessary actions to be taken; although this behavior is not TOO out of the ordinary, lawmakers and officials agree that it has gone too far.
"Where people have been caught exposing themselves, they have been evicted from the stadium and often arrested," Jones told the AP. "Where other fans exhibit dangerous or illegal behaviors including harassment, they have been dealt with in similar fashion."
George Zoffinger, president of the agency that runs the stadium, said that the 370 member stadium security will be increased for remaining games-I sure hope so. Although, I do not think that these problems will be resolved until these fans learn how to act like normal functioning adults.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
This is just another way women are exploited and treated like trash everyday. You did a good job of bringing out officials' comments and actions they are planning to take in the future. My question is, when will the fans be mature enough to not need these restrictions of threats on their behavior? What happened to the days where we could all just go to the game, have a good time, and not have to worry about being verbally or physically assaulted? I'm glad you shed light on this subject, it is important and needs to be changed. Women do not deserve to be treated like they don't matter, and it is good the necessary steps are being taken to ensure they aren't.
Call me naive, but I really did not know that this kind of thing happened at sporting events. Although, it is not in the least bit surprising that it does happen.
I had no idea that it had progressed to the point where action had to be taken to ensure safety and decency for all at sporting events.
About Andy's comment about eliminating alcohol form sporting events, they might as well. At $7 for a beer, they are really trying to discourage people from getting drunk at games. The prices will only continue to go up. I've been told stories of the good old days at the Astrodome when there was dollar beer night. Those days are long gone.
What happened to just going and watching the game? If they want to see breasts they should go to a strip club or at the very least a New Orleans Saints game. jk
It sounds more like Mardigras than a sporting event. Hopefully this problem is taken care of soon, and consequences are administered for that trashy behavior. And, to top it off, so many of the fans are families just trying to have fun and spend quality time with each other. It's really sad when parents feel like they can't even take their kids to a game anymore.
Post a Comment