Stadium Policy and Personal Seat / Chairbacks

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tl;dr: Anyone have any issue (or success) bringing a personal chairback into the stadium? Looking to maybe bring a couple for the NCST game, but I just have a fear we'll get prohibited from bringing them in (even if they are in compliance).

Bringing my in-laws to the NCST game on 11/21 for their first CFB ever. I am not a season ticket holder (though we probably should have ante'd back up this year - missed this past weekend, but that's it). Anyways, so no chairbacks for us. MIL/FIL are in their mid-late 70s and do well for the most part, but I am thinking it might be a better experience for them to sit with a chairback. I don't own any, but I may pick up a couple ahead of NCST for them.

Per GT website, here is what is permitted:
  • Stadium Seats smaller than 16″ wide (chair-backs/seat-backs/seat cushions) without arms, pockets, compartments, and/or cover
Here is what I am looking at:

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There are nicer models it seems, but I am trying to stay under the 16" W requirement (and no arms, pockets, etc.).
 
samsgt02 said:
You know how Republicans can get the women’s vote, get rid of the clear bag policies at entertainment venues. I hear the disdain for these kabuki theater policies pretty much every weekend.
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Funny story from the Benz. My daughter in law came to the game with a clutch (for you guys that don't know what that is, look it up). Anyway, we're standing in line to enter when the gates open. A Benz security guy comes over and tells her that her clutch is too big (it really wasn't that big, he was trying to show who he was) He pulled a card from his pocket, about the size of a standard note card and said that was the limit. I thought, that's crazy. No lady has anything that small. He kept insisting that she take it to the portable storage trailer near the gate. Finally he left, she simply put it in the bottom of my wife's clear GT bag. We entered with no problems.
 
DinnerJacket said:
Funny story from the Benz. My daughter in law came to the game with a clutch (for you guys that don't know what that is, look it up). Anyway, we're standing in line to enter when the gates open. A Benz security guy comes over and tells her that her clutch is too big (it really wasn't that big, he was trying to show who he was) He pulled a card from his pocket, about the size of a standard note card and said that was the limit. I thought, that's crazy. No lady has anything that small. He kept insisting that she take it to the portable storage trailer near the gate. Finally he left, she simply put it in the bottom of my wife's clear GT bag. We entered with no problems.
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I suppose this is a little why I worry about this stuff. and getting denied at the gate..
  • Wife got a couple of clear bags years ago from GT at the Alumni event(s) on the Tech Tower Lawn, and she's used it several times attending GT games with no issue.
  • Tried to use same bag to enter a Braves game at Truist. Nope. Too big per the MLB rules. We complained to no avail. Ended up tossing the bag and placing the items she did have in our pockets. No issue getting in the game. None of that made sense to me. Clear bag too big, but items A-ok. Meanwhile, plenty of large, duffel sized diaper bags, non-clear, go right on through.
  • Earlier this year, my nephew could not bring a small football he got at the Bookstore (or at a vendor outside stadium) into BDS. To my knowledge, there's no "checked bag" service, but I could very well be wrong on that. My brother and SIL ended up hiding it behind some bushes and picked it back up after the game.
  • My Mom got pulled aside for a re-inspection entering the Benz all due to a can of Altoids located within a clear bag. Wasn't crazy long, but just a hassle.
Anyway, /CSB
 
It is true, you cannot discount the possibility that the Security Profesional you encounter didn't sleep through their rigorous 20 minute training video that morning or decide on their own that they will save humanity by being an asshole.

The Security Theater we have at venues never fails to disappoint.

I few years ago I used to bring a tiny 30 year old stadium seat for my wife (no pics) to use. Decided to live the $80K Lyfe and use Stinger Seats more recently (whick kinda suck but they do help mark your territory). Given the size and bulk some of these newer stadium seats have I am shocked that they are allowed in any venue that has "security".
 
Unrelated question but this seems like the right place for some reason.

I found a set of second row midfield seats for the game in Athens at a price I’m willing to pay. My wife thinks second row is too close to field and our two (small/young) kids won’t be able to see the action. What do you think? I think she’s right but i also just want to sit midfield second row. No picks.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Unrelated question but this seems like the right place for some reason.

I found a set of second row midfield seats for the game in Athens at a price I’m willing to pay. My wife thinks second row is too close to field and our two (small/young) kids won’t be able to see the action. What do you think? I think she’s right but i also just want to sit midfield second row. No picks.
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Athens is NO PLACE for small kids. Period.
 
This is the place for this.

I saw a plastic bag full of bourbon on the sidewalk outside the Clough building on the walk in. Had I not had my 7 y/o in tow it would have become my plastic bag of bourbon. Either that or someone was very dehydrated.

I can’t imagine how much less liquor is tankered in since beer sales started in 2020 but it has to be significant
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Unrelated question but this seems like the right place for some reason.

I found a set of second row midfield seats for the game in Athens at a price I’m willing to pay. My wife thinks second row is too close to field and our two (small/young) kids won’t be able to see the action. What do you think? I think she’s right but i also just want to sit midfield second row. No picks.
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No, second row the kids will not be able to see. You might not even be able to see over the bench.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Unrelated question but this seems like the right place for some reason.

I found a set of second row midfield seats for the game in Athens at a price I’m willing to pay. My wife thinks second row is too close to field and our two (small/young) kids won’t be able to see the action. What do you think? I think she’s right but i also just want to sit midfield second row. No picks.
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I would wait a week. Prices will drop even more after they lose to Tennessee this weekend.

But also, a night game in Athens (as the away team especially) is not a situation I'd recommend for youngsters.
 
I’ve been to several games in Athens. I’ll take my kids to a game in Athens long before I’ll take them to uga@GT where I think the atmosphere is much more vile and violent. My wife graduated from there, so it’ll really just be my son and I in GT stuff. But I’m not at all worried about it. Those bitches are gonna pour out before the 4th quarter.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
I’ve been to several games in Athens. I’ll take my kids to a game in Athens long before I’ll take them to uga@GT where I think the atmosphere is much more vile and violent. My wife graduated from there, so it’ll really just be my son and I in GT stuff. But I’m not at all worried about it. Those bitches are gonna pour out before the 4th quarter.
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To each their own. I went to about 6 or 7 Athens COFH games in a row and lived a mile from the stadium while I was there for grad school for 2 years and the experience was VERY different between day games and night games (one might say "night and day" different). If it was a nooner in Athens I'd definitely take my daughter, but she won't see a night game in Athens until she's MUCH older. And that's coming from a big fan of Athens FWIW.
 
I used to bring one of these to all the games. Invented by a Tech guy. Not sure if still available for purchase

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Also brought it to Clemson and Cesspool successfully.
Comes in a variety of colors, including gold and white, like mine
 
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