That’s Lucas Oil Stadium where the Indianapolis Colts play. That specific picture is from Super Bowl XLVI which took place in 2012. There was another sniper and spotter in the opposite corner.
But as others have said, most major events, including every regular NFL game have snipers in attendance.
They also have cops dressed up at fans to see if they can get through security checkpoints. They’ll have the wrong ticket, play dumb, or try to sweet talk guards to get to places they shouldn’t. An IRL pen test.
An IRL pen test.
It’s referred to as “physical pen testing”
“physical pen testing”
oh I’ve seen that on the ButtSharpies subreddit
I forgot about that, thanks for the reminder
and people are angry at this… props to these procedures cause if we didn’t have them it would be a nightmare
That’s what the funny red light on my forehead was for!
Too bad it doesn’t help them play any better.
Can they sell the name to a brand for advertisement?
“The stadium sniper is presented to you by Bud Light!”
Nah, those snipers are paid by taxpayers.
Those fuckers volunteer for this shit
This… sounds wrong. You’ll need a source for that there comment sir
Is this real?
Every major gathering has stuff like this behind the scenes. Not just in America.
It’d probably udually only be for high profile diplomatic/political events, or when a threat is specifically called in, outside of America, not just your average sports team needs a sniper on thier payroll 😅
Well the police would generally do it. That’s how it generally is in the US too
It seems so. Here’s an article with some more information and a higher resolution image (though the image still looks like CGI to me).
Something about a sniper in Dallas sounds familiar…
He is perched at the top of a grassy bowl.
Just one though?
Soo, does this have 360 degrees view or will only the guest team’s fans be shot?
The seats without coverage are somewhat cheaper, for those who don’t want to pay for the premium security package.
Just pump a noobtube up there. Problem solved.
How do you feel about your team’s execution?
As an Eagles fan, I’d appreciate if they don’t use our name in their sniper nest. If they could call it something more Cowboys appropriate like a trash nest, or little bitch nest, that would be great.
Hell ya dude. That sports group scores points WAY better than the second organization you mentioned. Whenever they compete, I loudly encourage those ones to accrue points just as you surely do. Teams, am I right?
Go sports!
Disagree, first organization is shady and just hires the best people with money, which is unfair. You should support organization C which might not accrue as many points but has the moral upper hand.
Wholeheartedly agree, my friend.
Considering all 20,000 people standing next to you can go buy an AR15 in like 3 seconds for the price of a used iPhone, I’d say its a pretty damned good idea.
With how the season is going, the snipper may be there to stop someone shooting Dak
Or call him the 12th man and have him help against the pass rush
So the cowboys have a Eagles nest huh? Guess even dallas knows they suck and the birds are better.
GO BIRDS!!
This is how you can tell the national character is terminally diseased. If you really think you need this then you should realized you don’t need the sports activity nor the stadium. Just go live in a buried sewer concrete pipe because this is where you belong.
Plus, a literal underground rave is going to be a much better time than a sporting event, as well as having better people.
