“The league has a history of being cheap with its fans”.
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The ground crew at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium check the turf after scraping the painted logo off the center of the field before an NFL preseason football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, in Canton, Ohio. The contest was canceled about 30 minutes later. Fans were allowed to enter the stadium after a delay. However, according to a Packers source, one Green Bay employee noticed a label that warned of severe burns when exposed to skin and took a photo of it, showing it to others after the teams later retreated to their respective locker rooms. Workers were spraying around the logo and driving vehicles with what looked like street-cleaning brushes back and forth, in an apparent attempt to break up these clumps.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who sued on behalf of fans who showed up for Super Bowl XLV with tickets that didn’t correspond to actual seats, told Pro Football Talk that he will sue the NFL over Sunday’s canceled Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.
Field problems plagued a Hall of Fame game in 2001 when the Philadelphia Veterans Stadium was installed with a “new” artificial surface.
I post this in order to throw yet another wooden pallet on the bonfire of hypocrisy from all the anti-Patriots zealots out there who have been backing the NFL’s play every time they’ve gone after the Pats, in hopes that the fire burns them to a cinder.
Baker added fans would be fully refunded for their tickets.
“We love the fans, and we love the support we were going to get here tonight”, Pagano said on the air.
Those words probably were echoing in Baker’s mind as he made his decision.
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy has likely already gotten over the fact his team wasn’t forced to suit up for a fifth preseason game, and those not fighting for a roster spot would have hardly been devastated when the decision was made to abandon the game.
That’s not all. Roughly two-and-a-half hours before the scheduled 8 p.m. start, a Packers employee saw a warning label on what seemed to be paint thinner being used which cautioned the substance may cause “severe burns when exposed to skin”, according to the report.
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The cornerback was limited in practice but not in enthusiasm after missing the first 10 days of training camp while he recovered from a gunshot wound to his right leg suffered at a Dallas bar on June 5.
