How do stadiums enforce bans

Related: Fan who was arrested for bottle throwing is likely to face lifetime ban from TD Garden. Boston Globe video. Squires, a former stadium manager. The NFL has instituted a policy wherein someone banned from one stadium is banned from all of them, thanks to a shared database between all teams and stadium officials.

MLB has not gone to a policy like that yet. And truth be told, every team and stadium is still different. For instance, the Nationals issue about four to six severe bans every season, though local laws limit the length of that ban to five years at the max. A racial epithet? Starting a fight? Cussing too loudly? Generally, teams get to decide this themselves.

Stadium deals vary by jurisdiction, but it is common for teams to enjoy tremendous freedom in operating their buildings, no matter how much taxpayer money went into building them. That means they can usually decide who can stay and who must go. This produces some quirky outcomes. The Jazz did not just ban fans from Utah games; they banned them from all events at Vivint Arena, including concerts.

And Watershed is still free to watch his beloved Yankees in 29 major league ballparks, just not their home. After the infamous Malice at the Palace at the end of a Pistons-Pacers game, Detroit banned fans John Green and Charlie Haddad from all Pistons home games for life for their involvement in the melee.

Green and Haddad can attend Red Wings games there, but they remain banned from Pistons home games for life. It saved me some money. Fans do not have to show ID upon entering arenas. Teams could run checks on all the credit cards to purchase tickets to see whether any belonged to banned fans, but those fans could easily have a friend buy the tickets. But most venues did not take that step.

Banning fans for life sounded good, but the penalty was difficult to actually enforce. The technology is still being adopted, but some arenas like Madison Square Garden have started to use it, and more are expected to do so.

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