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Chiefs fans, you can rest easy. You won’t be ejected from Arrowhead Stadium by one of the guys in the yellow CSC Event Staff windbreakers for standing up and rooting for your team.
The Chiefs, per AOL’s FanHouse, have changed their Fan Code of Conduct to outlaw “continuous standing.” Previously, as we pointed out, the rule simply prohibited “standing.”
So you can stand. Just take a seat from time to time.
And kudos to the Chiefs for implicitly recognizing that their prior version of the Code of Conduct made no sense.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I would stand to applaud the Chiefs but if I do it too long I may get thrown out.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
This is all just a clever marketing ploy by the Chiefs to sell PSLs, Permanent Standing Licenses, to people who want to stand continuously.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Whoever’s in charge at the Chiefs seems like a bunch of fogeys. You can’t stand up for extended periods of time, and they (Herm Edwards) was the one who wanted players to cut their hair.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I doubt that many people stand at Chiefs games there really isn’t much of a reason for it.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
what chodes would want to stand a a chief game, let alone go to a chief game in general. get a real team KC and then we can talk.
go stillers!!!
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
From inane to confused to ridiculous. Weren’t teams instructed to CLARIFY policies?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
after watching a herm edwards coached team perform,
i surprised there’s any body awake in the second half
that could stand.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I think this is all prettyfreakin overblown..
When I first heard about the policy, I assumed that it was directed at people standing for looooooooooooooooooooooong periods of time, NOT at people being the 12th man or at involved fans in general.
Once again the media blows something way out of context and, like lemmings, a bunch of idiots take it as gospel.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
“chiefs permit standing”….oooooooooh.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Maybe I would rather go to a wake…..than a Chiefs game.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Teams have to write policies like that because most people do not know how to act at a professional sporting event. Here’s some other suggested policies:
1. Cheering for the opposing team is permitted. Some of these fans are actually intelligent if you take the time to speak to them. Try it, it might be fun.
2. Fans are not permitted to sit throughout the entire timeout and then get up and go to the mens room or concession when plays are being run.
3. Violation of rule 2 more than once per game is subject to ejection and/or revocation of future tickets.
4. Cell phones should be used before the game, at halftime, after the game, or outside the seating area. Standing while talking on cell phones is covered under rules 2 and 3.
5. You paid more than $100 to watch the game. So STFU and watch the game. Get falling down drunk at home. Thanks to you, no one else can get a beer in the 2nd half.
When I started going to games, my father explained how I should act and called me out if I stepped out of line. Nothing major just little things about when to get up, when to return, and how to not disrupt others from enjoying the seats they paid for. And at that time, the seats cost $7 and there were no PSLs. If more fathers did what mine did, policies like the Chiefs and behavior like I am describing in my “policies” would not be necessary.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
As a season ticket owner at Arrowhead, I’m glad this has been clarified. Getting the thousands of Red and Gold faithful to stay seated during ANY given game would’ve been impossible anyway. And to those of you who say you couldn’t be paid to go watch the Chiefs, I invite you to come to Arrowhead and see how amazing the atmosphere is both before and during the game. It’s hard to find better tailgating - and it’s truly a college like atmosphere.
Go Chiefs.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Tammy Fruits is Da Bomb! She a Bad Biddy! You know…?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
…and for those who will still act selfishly (will not be respectful toward other patrons by practicing the rules) other patrons WILL help you to remember & to do so- as many times and as gently or intensely.
Count on it…don’t tread (stand) on (in) me (my sitting view.)
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July 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Furthermore, the team is no longer allowed to play in such a manner that might encourage continuous standing. Whereas this policy has been informal in the past, it is a formal policy today.
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July 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I prefer the other native american NFL football team.
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July 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
There should be a rule against continuous standing in every stadium. Sure, in every game there are times you stand, when your team makes a great play, when your team is at the goalline (offense or defense), when cheapshot artist Rodney Harrison gets injured, you know the great moments. Real fans can recognize the key moments when you should stand and cheer
But there is nothing more annoying than the guy who refuses to sit down at any point, thus forcing whole sections of the stadium to stand just to see a 2 yard run on 2nd and 8 from your own 30.
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July 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
“…when cheapshot artist Rodney Harrison gets injured”
Has it become PFT policy that EVERY article requires a Patriots related comment. Obsessing much?
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I thought it was SRO at all KC games…
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