myfoxkc.com - 7/2/2008
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One little word has some Chiefs fans more riled-up than a Hail Mary pass. The NFL asked the Chiefs, along with the league's 31 other teams, to make their fan rules more "accessible."The rules haven't changed, but this year the Chiefs went with the NFL's wording. So the 2008 Chiefs fan guide now reads: "standing and/or obstructing the views of other fans" is prohibited. That's not the message ...
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CHIEFS CLARIFY STANDING RULE
ProFootballTalk.com —
The Kansas City Chiefs would like to clarify that their rule against standing while watching games at Arrowhead Stadium is only a rule against excessive standing. Tammy Fruits, the team’s vice president of sales and marketing, tells Fox 4 News in Kansas City that the team’s guidelines for fan behavior — which drew criticism for listing standing among the activities that “the stadium staff will proactively intervene” to stop — are not intended to stop fans from jumping up to cheer spontaneously.“We want Arrowhead loud and proud like it’s always been,” Fruits said. The team will, however, intervene when a fan’s excessive standing obstructs the view of other fans. Now if we can just get a ...
Chiefs PR Takes A Stand On Sitting
RealClearSports - Blog —
... about the Chiefs fan policy of no standing during the game. The Chiefs VP of Sales and Marketing, Tammy Fruits, attempted to clarify the policy to the local Fox affiliate in Kansas City: ...
Kansas City Chiefs Clarify Rule Against Standing: No Excessive Standing
FanIQ Blog —
Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City is home to some of the loudest fans in the NFL. Although, I've never experienced it first hand, the Chiefs offer arguable one of the best game experiences the league has to offer.
Earlier this week, we caught wind of one experience that will no longer be tolerated inside the Arrowhead gates: standing. Yes, the terribly disrespectful act of standing up from one's seat was listing under the Fan Code of Conduct as being prohibited:
• Standing and/or obstructing the view of other fansAs you can imagine, this has caused quite an uproar amongst Chiefs and NFL fans alike. Local radio stations have blitzed ...
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Other NFL teams following Chiefs lead
thesportshernia.typepad.com 7/3/2008 — It didn't long for the understandable new rule out of Kansas City that calls for "no more standing" during Chiefs home games to inspire several other NFL teams to chime in with their own new provisions, cracking down on the...
Chiefs to Fans: Sit on It —
Hugging Harold Reynolds
Chiefs to ban standing at all football games ...good luck trying that at Jets games. It is probably embedded somewhere in every NFL team's rules for fans, but only the Kansas City Chiefs have decided to take a stand and make people sit down (how about that ironic wordplay). This is one of the more ridiculous things I have ever heard of. During any type of big play or closing minutes of a ...
Chiefs Fans Can Still Stand at Arrowhead Then? —
KC Chiefs Football
If you are reading this then you have probably heard all the buzz about the Kansas City Chiefs’ stadium policy that has been going around the internet, including here on this very site . I really wanted to believe that this no standing policy was just a bunch of hype, I was even fairly certain that this rule had always been there, just never enforced. My concern lies here: If this no ...
NFL Stadiums Ban 'Displays of Affection Not Appropriate in a Public Setting' —
FanHouse
NFL teams have been posting fan codes of conduct on their web sites recently in an effort to make sure that everyone who goes to the stadium knows what will and won't be tolerated. Nothing wrong with that. But there have been some unusual rules posted. The Kansas City Chiefs caused a controversy when they posted -- and then revised -- a rule against standing. And then there's this rule, which ...
CHIEFS PERMIT STANDING —
ProFootballTalk.com
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 [...]
