Obviously, empty bright yellow seats stick out like 35,000 incandescent suns and inevitably lead to attendance jokes that teams who play in stadiums with more neutral seat colors are not subjected to. So that, in conjunction with being an hour north of a state full of neanderthals with nothing better to fixate on (well, besides meth) and two hours west of a bunch of attendance nerds who can scream "108K strong!" but couldn't tell you how many points a touchdown is worth... well, we all get it.
And let me also be clear that this is simply a hypothetical I am asking about, so don't go do this and then call me the Ray Epps of Paintgate. But if everyone took a small container of dark gray matte Rust-Oleum Paint For Plastic (I don't know if the seat material is polypropylene or polyethylene, but Google tells me this should provide good coverage with either) and painted 3-4 nearby seats, what could they really do? You can't charge 25,000 people with weatherproofing, can you?
I feel like history is wildly inconsistent with how it views this type of behavior. In the interest of not delving into politics, I'll leave it at that. But sometimes things such as moderate resistance/vandalism (if you would even consider this to be that, as I'm talking about doing a reasonably professional job with the paint rather than some slop-glob Mook fest) is looked back upon as being heroic; other times it's completely vilified.
Common sense would dictate tarping off sections 538-541, 528-531, 518-527, 514-517, and 504-507, but we know that isn't going to happen. And the paint thing isn't going to happen either, but let's just say it did. What could they do? I believe a matter such as this would be more of a civil one, no? And would the stadium really want the PR hit of going after its own patrons? Kind of seems like one of those weird loopholes where, yeah, you technically shouldn't, but you probably could do it.
And let me also be clear that this is simply a hypothetical I am asking about, so don't go do this and then call me the Ray Epps of Paintgate. But if everyone took a small container of dark gray matte Rust-Oleum Paint For Plastic (I don't know if the seat material is polypropylene or polyethylene, but Google tells me this should provide good coverage with either) and painted 3-4 nearby seats, what could they really do? You can't charge 25,000 people with weatherproofing, can you?
I feel like history is wildly inconsistent with how it views this type of behavior. In the interest of not delving into politics, I'll leave it at that. But sometimes things such as moderate resistance/vandalism (if you would even consider this to be that, as I'm talking about doing a reasonably professional job with the paint rather than some slop-glob Mook fest) is looked back upon as being heroic; other times it's completely vilified.
Common sense would dictate tarping off sections 538-541, 528-531, 518-527, 514-517, and 504-507, but we know that isn't going to happen. And the paint thing isn't going to happen either, but let's just say it did. What could they do? I believe a matter such as this would be more of a civil one, no? And would the stadium really want the PR hit of going after its own patrons? Kind of seems like one of those weird loopholes where, yeah, you technically shouldn't, but you probably could do it.
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