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Niners
Retreat!
Like the rest of
the ranters
here at DumpYork.com, I am amazed and angry and amused about the
T-Shirt ban at Monster Park,
or what-ever it is called lately. My
experience wearing the shirt last year (yes – I have not been to
a game
this
year) at the stadium was VERY positive. Hey
check out the photos from the game – link here
When I first heard
late last
week about Todd’s
experience at the Seattle game, I
was amazed. Then Hunter went to
the Arizona game and had
the same experience, I was angry. They are
picking on kids now! O.K., so he is a tall
kid, but still under 18. Then I heard that
a Dump Yorker had problems
inside the stadium, and then I was amused.
How dumb are the
Yorks and
the Forty Niners?
I am amazed that
some one in
a position of power made a decision to not allow the shirts in the
stadium. I was angry that some one is a
position
of power did not realize that this was a bad management decision. I was amused that some where in the Forty
Niners
organization that they had a meeting about Dump York.
I guess we now know what all the Vice
Presidents do all day.
Then I woke this
morning
(Dec 8) to find in the San
Jose Mercury a nice article on the 49ers decision
regarding the “Dump York” T-Shirts. The
Mercury
was nice to the Forty Niner organization when it stated that allowing
the
shirts in the stadium is “actually a sign
of
humor,
humility and, dare we say, progress under John York.”
This is
progress?
The
article states that the T-Shirt ban “was an overzealous security
guard,
not
team policy that led to the first two incidents.”
I don’t
buy it. If this was true then why was more than one security guard enforcing
the ban at
the last game (Arizona)? What is interesting is that there
had not
been any reported problems from fans wearing the shirts until the Seattle game, and then reports started popping
up.
These shirts have been around for more than a year (see pictures from
last
years Dump York
game protest:
http://www.dumpyork.com/game_dec182004.html
). I know of at least seven people who reported issues at the Arizona game. And not all of the problems
were at Gate
A, some were in the stadium.
As one of the
founders of
Dump York, we took great pains not to make our shirts
offensive.
Link to pictures of the shirts: http://www.dumpyork.com/shirt.html
While I will agree
that by
allowing the shirts in, the 49ers organization is heading off a
potential
problem, it also shows me that they realized that they had no legal
grounds to
stand on. Their claim of “private property” was
easily challenged
due to
the fact that the City of San Francisco owns the park; charges that the
shirt
are indecent are laughable and any attempt to ban the shirts presented
them
with a First Amendment issue that no organization, no matter how poorly
run,
want to face.
Stay tune, the Texas game could get interesting…..
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December 8,
2005
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