[PhiKapMom]

My daughter tried to text message someone right after the explosion and her cell phone wouldn't work. It was the 4th quarter before cell phones started going off around us and the lady sitting next to us had six missed calls and none of us heard her cell phone go off. The girl behind us whose sister alerted her told us her sister tried to get her for over half an hour and couldn't get through.

Your guess is as good as mine about shutting down cell phones.

[GummyIII]

I find it interesting that cell phones around you wouldn't work for a specific time.

[penelopesire]

"My daughter tried to text message someone right after the explosion and her cell phone wouldn't work. It was the 4th quarter before cell phones started going off around us and the lady sitting next to us had six missed calls and none of us heard her cell phone go off. The girl behind us whose sister alerted her told us her sister tried to get her for over half an hour and couldn't get through.

Your guess is as good as mine about shutting down cell phones"

Actually, after this happened, I tried to call my son at another big college game here in Texas and his cell phone was not working either.neither was his roomates...???? Strange...

[Smokin' Joe]

Cell phones can be rigged as detonators. When the number is called, the ringer circuit sets off the bomb.

If the authorities believed there was any chance this is a terrorist gig, they would shut down the cell net as a precaution.