Not a bad idea for high profile games, like the Superbowl

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Matt Burley — 10/9/2001 11:56:53 AM (archived)

The real problem is the sheer number (100-200 by my estimate) of I-A and I-AA NCAA college football stadiums packed with tens of thousands of fans every Saturday. It would be a logistical nightmare to try to protect all of them. If you set up a defensive system to protect the 100,000 fans at a Univeristy of Michigan home game for instance, the terrorists could hit instead the smaller Eastern Michigan University stadium just 10 miles east and still kill 1,000 people. It's very scary.

This is a classic example of intelligence being more valuable than any military hardware. If we knew which stadiums/games were targets, or potential targets, they could be adequately protected (Insh'Allah!)

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What is probably America's most vulnerable terrorists targets - Matt Burley - 10/8/2001 10:07:18 AM
- Assign a security detail to the stadiums with Stingers - Larry J - 10/8/2001 1:26:49 PM
  - Re: Assign a security detail to the stadiums with Stingers - phil - 10/9/2001 4:45:20 PM
  - Not a bad idea for high profile games, like the Superbowl - Matt Burley - 10/9/2001 11:56:53 AM
    - Every Army division has Stinger units down to the battalion level - Larry J - 10/9/2001 2:05:17 PM
      - Re: Set 'em up -- break 'em down! - D. Spires - 10/9/2001 2:31:57 PM
        
        This is more of what I had in mind - Larry J - 10/9/2001 7:20:19 PM
        
        Re: Yeah, but there's room for the cooler . . . ;^) (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 10/9/2001 8:17:56 AM

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