Originally Posted by Crusader
Since the opening of the newly built "Friends Arena", the new Swedish national arena, a reccuring problem have been people running onto the pitch and getting all the way to the players during soccer games.
To combat this SvFF (Svenska Fotbolls Förbundet - the Swedish football (soccer) federation) has hired a bunch of players from the Supeperserien (Swedens american fotball major leauge) to basically tackle the **** out of anyone dumb enough to try getting down on the field.
I think that is pretty cool.
A pretty creative way to address the crowd-control issue, IMO. Instead of hiring security that may or may not have training in running someone down & tackling them, get some guys who do,
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I'm gonna' start looking for videos on this,
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