When a sporting spectator receives a lifetime ban from a stadium for racism, vandalism, violence, streaking, etc. how is that enforced? There are tens of thousands of people who attend each game. What is a stop them from coming back? How does the banning process and enforcement work?
In: Other
Very much so depends. An nfl team is very different from a local minor league soccer game or whatever. They follow the same basic guidelines tho:
1. Ban your name and card from buying tickets. Pretty easy to get around but is a deterrent
2. Identify you at the door or in the stadium. For big stadiums they have some form of facial recognition that will give them an alert. Smaller venues will usually have someone watching the cameras. The list of banned people and the number of people entering are much lower. If they do get in a lot of times they are the kind of people that like attention so they do something that makes someone notice them
3. If they do come back in or if they did something especially bad, the stadium will pursue charges. If you’ve been banned and come back that’s trespassing. The threat of criminal charges does most of the work but then when people fuck around and find out it really discourages them from doing it again
4. How strict they are on it also depends a little bit on what you did and where you are. A lot of smaller places may have banned 10 people in the past but only really watch for one or two cause those are the ones that are likely to show up and will be issues. Most of the time if you come back 10 years later and look a little different and don’t cause an issue this time they won’t care. With facial recognition that might be changing some tho. I know stories about a good couple people that were banned from places when they were younger and now either come back unnoticed or even in the case of one group they got banned at a local stadium for being idiots when they were younger and now they are friends with the owner and joke about it
Latest Answers