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The Arizona Cardinals apologized to a fan due to an incident at State Farm Stadium that led her to tossing her MAGA hat into the garbage.
The incident occurred during the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
“The team says a misunderstood policy was the reason a fan had to throw away a MAGA hat before being allowing into a recent Cardinals game,” 12 News stated.
The team says a misunderstood policy was the reason a fan had to throw away a MAGA hat before being allowing into a recent Cardinals game. https://t.co/IFvnJ5ZLB2
— 12 News (@12News) September 18, 2024
Per 12 News:
Susan Rosener and her husband were making their way through the security checkpoints when she heard a female security member shout, “You can’t bring that in here.” She was referring to her black MAGA hat.
Rosener asked the security member, who works for a third-party company, why she couldn’t wear the hat to the game, she was told it violated the stadium’s policies on prohibited items.
“She’s like, ‘no political hats or shirts.’ And I said, I haven’t heard that at all. And I said, that doesn’t make sense to me. And she goes, ‘I said, Take your hat off,’” Rosener recalled.
Her husband then posed a question to the security person, “If she takes it off, can we get in?”
They were told the hat had to be discarded in a nearby trash can, or else they couldn’t enter State Farm Stadium.
WATCH:
Arizona Cardinals security made a woman throw away her MAGA hat in order to get into the stadium on Sunday…
The Cardinals were quick to backtrack on this and apologize… because they know what an NFL boycott does for their business…
She shouldn’t have complied. pic.twitter.com/Xzkv5JgR2o
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 18, 2024
“But as it turns out, political attire is not prohibited at AZ Cardinals games. The team issued a statement saying a member of their security team misinterpreted their policies on prohibited items,” 12 News noted.
The team’s statement read:
In an isolated incident at Sunday’s game, a stadium security member misunderstood a policy on prohibited items. Like most venues, “signage, posters, flags, or displays that are….political in nature” are not permitted. However, that did not apply in this instance. Moving forward we will work to provide clarity to all stadium personnel in these situations. We have also reached out to the individual involved to communicate that their experience was not consistent with our policies and practices and to apologize for that.
“A friend of friend went to the @AZCardinals game yesterday in her very tasteful black Make America Great Again hat. As she goes to enter the stadium a female security guard proceeds to stop her and tell her she can’t enter the stadium with her hat,” Alyssa Goncales said.
“The security guard then proceeded to get very confrontational and told her she wasn’t going to be allowed to go in no matter if she took it off or not. The only way she was allowed in was if the security guard watched her throw her hat in the trash!” she continued.
“There is nothing on their website stating that she can’t wear something like this in the stadium. Is it seriously offensive for a hat to say that we want to make America great? That’s insane!” she added.
Goncales shared the list of prohibited items inside State Farm Stadium.
A friend of friend went to the @AZCardinals game yesterday in her very tasteful black Make America Great Again hat. As she goes to enter the stadium a female security guard proceeds to stop her and tell her she can’t enter the stadium with her hat.
The security guard then… pic.twitter.com/5nLeYTKUgI
— Alyssa Goncales (@AlyssaGoncales) September 16, 2024
“Happened to others as well,” Goncales said.
Happened to others as well pic.twitter.com/wjDCRqHtoB
— Alyssa Goncales (@AlyssaGoncales) September 16, 2024
Fox News reports:
While the Cardinals do have a list of banned items for entering State Farm Stadium on game days, “political hats or shirts” are not on that list.
Sunday’s incident is not the first time that an American sporting event attendee carrying pro-Trump merchandise had to face orders from security.
In the spring and summer of 2021, a man was removed from MLB games at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Citizens Bank Park for hanging banners from the stands that read “Trump Won! Save America!” The man, Dion Cini, now a conservative political influencer on X, posted bodycam footage of his police escorts out of the stadiums multiple times.
On June 27 of that year, Cini posted images on X (then known as Twitter) of an alleged letter from MLB informing him that he had been barred from MLB games until further notice.
Cini commented on the recent incident involving Rosener in an interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“That’s just the country that we’ve become, and the fact that she did it and put it in a can is the reason why they asked her to do it, because they know that she would probably comply. And that basically sums up the whole state of America right now,” Cini said. “You’d have to kill me for me to take off my MAGA hat without force! I’ve never taken off my MAGA hat for anybody.”