OT The Lightning Are Banning Some Penguins Fans From Wearing Pittsburgh Gear In Tampa

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    If you’re a Pittsburgh Penguins fan with great seats to one of the Eastern Conference Final games in Tampa Bay this year, you may want to leave your Pens gear at home. The Lightning are not fond of your enemy colors, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

    The Tampa Bay Lightning has barred fans from wearing visiting team gear in select areas of Amalie Arena during the 2015-16 playoffs, including seats in the first two rows and other high-priced sections.

    It’s an effort to increase the team’s home-ice advantage and fend off transplants who moved to Florida in search of sunny weather but never left their home team behind. The policies, according to the team’s website, bar any attire, apparel, clothing, accessories, flags, noisemakers and other gear “branded with the name, logo, or registered mark(s) of the then-current 2015-2016 playoff opponent of the Lightning” — in this case, the Penguins.
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    http://uproxx.com/sports/tampa-bay-lightning-banning-penguins-gear-from-amalie-arena/
     
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    Sure, I don't like seeing Kobe fan boys wearing Laker jerseys at Blazer games but oh well, you paid your money, you should be able to support your team and wear what you want.
     
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    Will be interesting to see if this ruling stands after complaints and knashing of teeth. If allowed, all teams will follow.
     
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    Same team did it last year in the playoffs.
     
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    BS. Lame.
     
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    Seems to me if a team is good enough to win, a few fans wearing jerseys would not have an impact.
     
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    Yeah but let's be honest: people from Pennsylvsnia are the worst people. Anything you can do to remind them of that is good in my book.
     
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    I've always thought I'd give out refunds at the door for opposing fans and tell them to pound sand. Why let opposing fans into your house during the playoffs?
     
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    I just love the "People from Pennsylvania are the worst people" comment. Too funny!
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I had to man a customer service phone line for people from Philly...... awful, awful human beings.
     
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    Further proof that hockey in Florida is unnatural and doesn't belong. It's a winter sport played on ice. WFT is it doing in Florida? Ice in Florida is best used in fruit flavored drinks with miniature umbrellas, not as a playing surface.

    No wonder you don't have any local fans. In a market where the average annual snowfall is 0" and the average low temp, in the coldest month of the year, is 52 degrees, the local kids just don't grow up playing ice hockey.

    If you start banning transplanted fans of Northern teams, your arenas will be empty. You want a home ice advantage for your ice hockey team? Move the team someplace where ice occurs naturally.

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    I woud love to see them do this in Dallas during the NFL season . No more Black and Gold at Cowboy's Stadium. All the Penn tramsplants who still support the Steelers down there? Uncle Jerry says you gotta support America's team now! They'd shit a brick.

    And I wasn't much a Crosby fan to begin with....
     
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    Don't knock them, some of them just aren't electric enough.

    If anyone gets where I'm going with that.... I love you.
     
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    HAHAHAHAH! Well played, brother Stren!
     
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    Here's what I can say:

    When my son and I were so graciously given tickets to the Lillard Time Thunder game, some OKC fans KingSped to the game. They were right next to us. My preconceived notion was that they'd have nothing to say to us LOUD (I root pretty hard) Blazers fans. My son is super cute and just as outgoing as his talkative father. They dispelled that notion immediately by truly being some of the kindest people I've ever met. The wife knew ALL kinds of random KD facts that she shared with my son. The husband and I talked about the Enes deal. And then I got the last laugh and got to experience "Lillard Time".

    Fans who pay their money should wear whatever the FUCK they want.

    Another thing:

    Why the HELL do corporations not have to abide by the constitution? Wearing a jersey is freedom of speech IMHO.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Technically, the arena is private property. So, they can enforce whatever dress code they see fit. Like McDonald's requiring employees wear pants and customers wear shoes and shirts to get service. Walmart, on the other hand, does not appear to enforce any dress code at all, but that's also their choice.

    BNM
     
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    The year before GSW won it all, I went to a late season game at the Rose Garden against them (It was the one that went to overtime, Curry had 48, and IIRC Draymond hit a game tying 3... but we still won.) And I sat next to some GSW fans. Couldn't have been nicer. Had really good conversations about the bay, about Portland, etc. They were really kind. Even in defeat, they stayed classy. But man, it was going back and forth between Lillard and Curry and I would get pumped, they would get pumped... it was a great game to be at, and they enhanced it.

    If someone wants to wear the others' team jerseys and shit, do it. I'll scoff and probably say "fan since this morning" or some snide remark under my breath, but they are wearing it... they paid for it.
     
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    I've worn Blazers gear up and down the coast from Seattle to LA. I've gotten some flack, some good natured trash talking, both of which I expect, and some downright nasty sexist filth. I've had things thrown at me by "fans". I had someone in Sacramento tell security to throw me out; I'd been going there for years and security said yeah, we know this woman and laughed.

    But I've never had an arena tell me I can't wear Blazers gear. Blazers nail colors. Hell, even Blazers underwear.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Because corporations can't throw you in jail for saying something bad about their CEO. Governments in the past have jailed and/or murdered people for saying something negative about their king.

    The whole point of freedom of speech was to protect the people from the government. It's not some blanket principle that allows you to say whatever you want, or wear whatever you want, wherever you want to go, whenever you feel like it. A private business can ask you to leave. Ever seen the sign "no shirt, no shoes, no service?"

    You CAN stand out on the street and say whatever you feel like saying though. That's your freedom of speech.
     
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    I get that whole private property thing. My question is why private organizations can simply ignore our constitution.
     
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