With seemingly every citizen carrying a smart-phone which doubles as a video camera, you can guarantee that if you do something stupid, somebody is filming it.
And as a result, some Dolphins season tickets holders are out, for good. And as with a lot of controversies in the NFL this year, Colin Kaepernick is involved.
Via Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald, the Dolphins used crowd-sourced video to identify the season ticket holders who were involved in an ugly fight in the stands of Hard Rock Stadium. Their tickets have been revoked and they are banned from returning to the stadium.
“We conducted an immediate internal review of the situation and have identified the season ticket members who were involved in the incident,” the team said in a statement. “We work hard to remind fans that we want this to be a safe environment and this type of behavior and conduct is not acceptable.”
The team didn’t identify those involved in the fight, but it couldn’t have been hard, after it went viral. It showed Dolphins and 49ers fighting, with a woman holding a small child nearby.
CBS-4 reported that it broke out when a man in a Dolphins jersey started yelling derogatory comments about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who angered many local residents with his pro-Fidel Castro remarks in the days before the Cuban dictator’s death.
According to the man who shot the video, the Dolphins fan who instigated the fight said: “Go back to New York. Leave, go to another country. You know, take your Muslim quarterback.”
The fan who shot the video said he was disturbed at the amount of time it took security to respond, particularly since he was at the game with his young daughter.
