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You guys are looking at this as a point of principle and law.

I read the story and envisioned the plethora of high school games I've been to. All of my sons were players on highly successful teams in a state where more people go to high school football games than go to church.

The guy was wrong. It was not the time or the place. A high school football game is a place for school colors, silly chants, marching bands, awful concession food, and leaving the world's troubles at the gate.

What he did was a political faux pas, sort of like Ford crashing the Corker press conference in TN. It has nothing to do with free speech, but rather with respectable behavior.

There is a time and a place for everything. Forgetting that generally makes one look foolish and irritates the masses, arrest or no arrest.

You guys are looking at this as a point of principle and law.

Well....yeah!

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The guy was wrong. It was not the time or the place.

Your opinion that the venue was inappropriate for political commentary doesn't negate his right to speak when and where he chooses.

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A high school football game is a place for school colors, silly chants, marching bands, awful concession food, and leaving the world's troubles at the gate.

If that's how you like to pursue your happiness...hooray!

(IMHO, football could disappear from the face of the earth and I wouldn't miss it a bit.)

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sort of like Ford crashing the Corker press conference in TN.

Huge difference. The press conference was held for a specific political party and the football game was a public event.

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There is a time and a place for everything.

True, but it is not within my authority to dictate that time or place to anyone else, just as it is not within anyone else's authority to dictate such things to me.

I'm not saying he couldn't have picked a more appropriate time or place, but I doubt seriously he was forcing the fliers on anyone. It was their choice to take or refuse it.

The guy was wrong. It was not the time or the place. A high school football game is a place for school colors, silly chants, marching bands, awful concession food, and leaving the world's troubles at the gate. What he did was a political faux pas,

One of Senator Richard Burr's major campaign strategies in 2004 was campaigning at high school football games.

Never heard about any complaints, and obviously it worked.