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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:37 PM Feb 2015

Two dudes from Ireland sneak into Super Bowl stadium & sit in $25,000 seats free.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/lef...super-bowl-and-sit-in-50k-seats-30957675.html

Two Irish fans of American Football showed what an ounce of pluck can achieve when they snuck into the Super Bowl and sat in seats worth $25,000 each.

Paul McEvoy, from Cahir in Tipperary, and Richard Whelan, from Dublin, couldn't afford tickets from touts around the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona so simply walked straight through the front door.

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Two dudes from Ireland sneak into Super Bowl stadium & sit in $25,000 seats free. (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Feb 2015 OP
Normally... gcomeau Feb 2015 #1
I was thinking the exact same thing. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2015 #7
Ha! I can't help it; I say good on the boyos! WinkyDink Feb 2015 #2
I used to sneak into Shea Stadium for Mets games MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #3
How much did they pay you? LeftyMom Feb 2015 #4
*snort* madinmaryland Feb 2015 #6
Does the year *1969* mean anything to you MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #8
I used to sneak into the movies pennylane100 Feb 2015 #22
$25,000 ? Really? That's pathetic. Well did they make the guys pay up? HA! YOHABLO Feb 2015 #5
Luck of the Irish, I suppose. NaturalHigh Feb 2015 #9
thus proving the superiority of the Irish race. Vattel Feb 2015 #10
well said AngryAmish Feb 2015 #18
Sneaked! progressoid Feb 2015 #11
Nobody is going to laugh about this when it's two terrorists... hunter Feb 2015 #12
And if i have to kick you out of my bedroom one more time... cui bono Feb 2015 #13
Uh oh... hunter Feb 2015 #15
Who was supposed to be in those seats? former9thward Feb 2015 #14
It is explained in the article. (nm) Elwood P Dowd Feb 2015 #16
Great. Now I have a earworm. herding cats Feb 2015 #17
If you are white and look like you belong you can go most places. AngryAmish Feb 2015 #19
Go lads! Daemonaquila Feb 2015 #20
White privilege! Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #21
Sadly, you might be right. pennylane100 Feb 2015 #23
No, they didn't just "walk in through the front door" brooklynite Feb 2015 #24
 

gcomeau

(5,764 posts)
1. Normally...
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:43 PM
Feb 2015

...I'd think they were jackasses for sneaking into any event without paying.

But frankly, with the obscenely gouging prices they charge for tickets to that thing, I consider it justified. So good for them.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
7. I was thinking the exact same thing.
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:53 PM
Feb 2015

Several years ago I turned down the opportunity for a New Orleans Super Bowl trip. I been there before for Sugar Bowl games, but I didn't want to pay $300.00 for the extra ticket they had. A few beers at the Super Bowl in today's world probably cost more than that.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
8. Does the year *1969* mean anything to you
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:53 PM
Feb 2015

That was actually a few years before I started sneaking in, but my dad took me to games then.

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
22. I used to sneak into the movies
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:03 AM
Feb 2015

all the time while I was growing up. It was consider a rite of passage among most young people and so easy because the never locked the back doors.

hunter

(38,322 posts)
12. Nobody is going to laugh about this when it's two terrorists...
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 08:09 PM
Feb 2015

... with nuclear bombs surgically implanted in their guts.





That said, I've found myself inside highly restricted venues, sometimes by accident when I was simply looking for a toilet.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
13. And if i have to kick you out of my bedroom one more time...
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 08:13 PM
Feb 2015

I guess I'll have to buy you a porta-potty!

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
19. If you are white and look like you belong you can go most places.
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 08:26 PM
Feb 2015

I sneak into my buddies club about once a month in the summer and have lunch and beers on his tab. To be fair he does the same to me. But the joke is on him, they have better beer.

brooklynite

(94,686 posts)
24. No, they didn't just "walk in through the front door"
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:38 AM
Feb 2015

I worked on last year's Super Bowl. It is treated like a security event equivalent to a Party convention. There is massive security and frequent ticket checks (at last year's event, you couldn't get into the parking lot without proof of tickets and a pre-paid parking pass). Either there was a massive security breach, or the story's not be told as it happened.

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