People are mad at the Arizona Cardinals for making a season ticket holder take off her Trump hat in order to get into State Farm Stadium.
Susan Rosener has had season tickets for 34 years. She told a reporter that on Sunday, stadium security stopped her and told her she couldn’t get in with her “MAGA” hat on.
Rosener said that security told her that she couldn’t bring any political items into the stadium.
The die-hard fan said she asked the security guard why the hat wasn’t cool.
“She says, ‘Don’t wear party hats or shirts they said, I told them I hadn’t heard that at all. I told them that didn’t make sense to me. The lady said, ‘I told you to take off your hat.’”
The security guard told Rosener she could get into the stadium if she threw the hat away. That’s what she did, even though she now feels bad about it.
Rosener said, “Looking back, I wish I had stood my ground a little more, but I wasn’t sure what the consequences would be, and my husband would kill me if I did something with the season tickets that put them at risk in any way.”
“I love freedom of speech,” Rosener said. “It doesn’t bother me if someone is wearing a Kamala Harris hat or T-shirt. I think that part of the problem was that this security guard had a bias against my hat.”
But since Rosener told her story to the media, the Arizona Cardinals and State Farm Stadium officials have said that the security staff “misunderstood a policy on banned things.”
The team made a statement to address the mistake:
“In one rare case at Sunday’s game, a stadium security guard got a rule about banned things wrong.” Like most places, you can’t put up signs, posters, flags, or displays that are “political in nature.” That did not work in this case, though. From now on, we will try to make things clear for everyone who works at the stadium in these scenarios. In addition, we contacted the person concerned to let them know that their experience did not follow our rules and policies and to say sorry for that.”