[L`enn]

But remember 9-11 final toll was 3k+. Major sporting events have 50K in a concentrated area. Many would be killed by impact, many other by the resulting stampede. They would get their dollars worth.

[azcap]

Hitting a stadium with a jet would indeed be a huge casualty producer but if you could get a crowd of 30K at a regular season game between two relative nobody teams (East Dakota Tech vs. Podunk State) with only a couple dozen cops why hassle with the heavy security and air defense of a bowl game. I'm betting that whether Homeland Security talks about it or not there are some discreet spectators with SAMs at all of those big shows.

[MediaMole]

IMHO, The target most at risk would be the Sugar Bowl at the Superdome. It is the national championship game, so it will have huge TV exposure and it is in a domed stadium.

If the Rose Bowl is targetted with an aircraft, the people who were not directly in the path would have a good chance of survial, but in a domed stadium, the collapse of the roof would kill as many as the initial impact of the aircraft. On top of that, the fireball would be contained in the dome during the moments before the roof collapsed, so the effect of the fire would be magnified.