Tailgating Forbidden For Super Bowl

CBS4.com ^ | Jan 26, 2007

[antiRepublicrat]

Heck, the homeowners nearby should rent out their property for tailgaters.

Now that's a great business idea. I'd be making a bundle if I lived there.

[Recon Dad]

Went to a super bowl at that stadium a while back, just getting in and out of it without getting killed would make it a good event for me.
The area is like a free fire zone.

[GOP_Raider]

Is there no privately owned property within a mile of the stadium?

Here is what surrounds Dolphins Stadium for about more than a mile around. Not sure if there's much in the way of private property.

[mewzilla]

I think they are doing it because they want more money from food & beverage sales inside the stadium.

May have been the hot and juicy lawyers, too. I'm sure they stuck their oars in.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Hot!

Nice pom-poms, too eh?

[Constitution Day]

Yep. It's all about the Benjamins.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Drinking in the parking lot = security issue

Drinking in the stadium = fantastic!!!

[Constitution Day]

What pom-poms?

[Constitution Day]

Heh. Maybe.

[GOP_Raider]

I'm not sure how well you know the Miami area---or the area around Dolphins/Pro Player/Joe Robbie Stadium, but check out the link on post # 43.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I do think that some of the "tailgating" is getting a bit out of hand. When people drive up trailing full kitchens behind their cars, that's not really tailgating, that's more like "yuppie tailgating".

[nascarnation]

I'm not a Colts fan but live in Indy.
You can't make it a Bears home game, LOL
The game should be played at Ross-Ade (Purdue) in Lafayette, ND in South Bend, or Memorial (UI) in Champaign.
JMHO

[Recon Dad]

It's a war zone.

[mewzilla]

And we're at war. I'm not gonna carp about this :)

[NormsRevenge]

maybe it's being done to not inflict the smell of pork ribs and loins on any Muslims in attendance. just a thought.

[ShadowDancer]

This is flat out absurd.

[mewzilla]

I do think that some of the "tailgating" is getting a bit out of hand. When people drive up trailing full kitchens behind their cars, that's not really tailgating, that's more like "yuppie tailgating".

LOL. Don't leave home without it, I guess :)

[tobyhill]

"The Dolphins do not organize and oversee the Super Bowl, Jaquez said. Those duties belong to NFL officials, and due to security reasons, no pre-game partying on (or within a mile of) the premises will take place."
"The no-tailgating rule was confirmed by Detective Nelda Fonticella of the Miami-Dade Police."


The newest level of bureaucracy,"The BBQ Police". The fines will include one slab of ribs and a Bud Light.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well, it's clear everything on the bottom half is houses, plus you could rent out the parking lot at the race track. Heck, I'm guessing it's being used for auxillary parking for the game anyway, because there aren't nearly enough parking spaces in the stadium parking lot.

[EDINVA]

Of course it's a security concern. Super Bowl is one huge target. Literally thousands could be wiped out while billions watched on tv around the globe.

I flew into New Orleans on Super Bowl Sunday 2002, the first following 9-11, with an arrival about an hour or two before game time. You can bet I checked out every passenger on that flight. Fortunately, the crowd was mostly those wild and crazy Cajuns returning from a DC Mardi Gras ball.

If the tailgaiting ban was considered long ago, however, the NFL should have considered renting an equally huge parking area nearby and letting people do their tailgaing thing there, then bus them over to the stadium. Some alternative should have been planned and probably will be in the future.