A dress code at a basketball game, Really?


Let me paint you a little picture. Dude buys primo seats to a North Carolina at Virginia basketball game on the street. Keep in my mind buying tickets on the street is legal is most states as long as you are not buying for than face value of the ticket. His legally purchased ticket placed him two rows behind the Virginia Cavaliers bench. When the Tar Heels fan showed up to claim his seat he was wearing a Tar Heels jacket. He was then informed that he could not wear his NC coat in that section and they moved him 17 rows up to a different seat.

OK on the surface maybe this isn’t that big of a deal. On the other hand the dude in this story has seriously had his rights violated. Let us put freedom of speech issues, at a public university mind you, aside for the moment. If this man’s ticket did not inform him that there was a dress code for his seat, then moving him was completely improper.

First and foremost teams should not be setting dress codes for any section of their arena. This is a sporting event and fans should be allowed to sport their team’s colors. That is what makes being a fan fun, and it is how stadiums make profit. There should be no legislation on how a fan is dressed within reason. This man was not naked, nor anything else a public facility should have a problem with. He was simply wearing the colors of his team.

This is a really weird one, this guy tried to talk to a cop during the event but the cop sided with the stadium officials. For now he says he will not take action, but he should because he would win.

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