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a few years in? Not really.

no but it may not be a need bringing these specific options in. It could just be the next round of depth auditioning in case of injury/covid.

Not sure. having attended bad college games in pro stadiums. It’s a very uncomfortable presentation to have 10-20k, yet alone forcing them to actually spread out and not just bunch in the lower bowl as close as possible. something like this only goes so far for energy: https://www.google.com/amp/s/sportsnaut.com/2017/11/look-levis-stadium-pretty-much-empty-49ers-game/amp/

13k in a stadium that size may as well be. Once you start skipping seats and rows it’s going to look ridiculous even by their standards and won’t be any noise with maybe 6k total in the lower bowl (if that with the first several rows also under tarp)

I think the questionable part is the huge escalation. Nothing wrong with asking for the pass. No ones saying that’s an issue. It’s that he approached the guy so aggressively as an adversary.

I guess warrants maybe overstates. Justifies? I think it’s fine to ask, but don’t think you have to. Especially in this particular clip. I don’t think it’s super productive to hyper analyze every interaction but I do think broad strokes understanding that junk behavior and racist actions happen are generally better than pretending it’s not a thing. Plenty of folks out there pretend racism is dead and I think that’s likewise not good. So there’s a middle ground where we can see and acknowledge it and hopefully grow.

I definitely think it’s too much to declare it definitively racism. I do think there are red flags that warrant the question. i do think the two arm shove instead of simply breaking his path with an arm or stepping in the path a bit earlier is a pretty big flub here. It was far to confrontational for the moment and setting. He’s guarding a section of seats that were very high dollar, not trying to stop an advancing angry mob. You can lead with some tact.

But it’s just his opinion!

No you aren’t. You are a dude with a computer giving his opinion. and if you believe something outlandish than disagree people will.

rarely do these incidents happen if even one party is diligently following protocol. That much we agree on. and rarely do we have the whole story so I’m always a little hesitant to push the chips all in on the specific incident. but always interested in the broad strokes debate of things like the societal norms and expectations and how people react. I admittedly err on the side of high expectations for those in positions of authority, and trying to apply common sense to what’s normal behavior... so this is a bit of a honey pot for me.

I did VIP event security for a multi year stretch once upon a time and will say I have never personally or seen a colleague lead with a 2 arm push to a guy pulling out credentials. I on the other hand saw dozens of VIPs not wanting to wear a lanyard with a fat name tag on it (both for privacy and vanity). short of something egregious being off tape- one party behaved very normal (even if a bit outside the rules) and one was very abnormal (despite having much higher training as a professional officer)

there’s blocking and then there’s aggressively shoving while turning around and claiming you were attacked and going on disability for over a year while suing the guy you aggressively shoved. unless something drastic missed video, we don’t always have to hyper analyze every error of both sides when one is so far over the line And yet here we are with people defending him

I don’t think you and I are wondering about it in the same way at all.

Honestly, more power to you. Even if I think it’s dumb, I think you are well within your rights!

I think many would consider at the right price. i think unfortunately no matter how big the slice is, the pie will be too small to start with

Wildly irresponsible sounds wildly dramatic. Also 5 minutes in the d line should look better, with less coordination required

I read 1930-something and 1950-something earlier today

Neither look terribly intimidating. It feels mostly like the spectacle of them being close is the only real interesting part. never know how it goes though, so will prep accordingly just in case

yea the updates seem to be converging. Being here in Nola I feel like a fat kid trying to squeeze through a small gap.

With all this going on, I’d obviously never want to fight cancer, but it’s got to be a particularly worrisome time for a guy getting back to work

ready for the double hurricane hitting the gulf next week. Very on brand for 2020

false positives, uncertainties around immunity and of course the challenges of only being able to buy a ticket with presentation of proof of Covid positivity.

if you control the facilities and transportation it’s at best semantics

touche. Habit. point remains that you’d only be managing half in a single location, potentially.

4 division winners plus 2 wild card means you can have 2 bubbles of 6 teams. With only 2 games per weekend, and possibly no fans, it’s not crazy to manage with an nfl and college stadium and a couple big box hotels that are sitting empty. NOLA for example has the Hyatt with like 200,000 sq ft of meeting space adjoining the super dome, and could use Tulanes stadium as an extra practice field for instance. I can imagine what you could do in Southern California, or Houston/Dallas being even more extensive.