Banned items at Sun Devil Stadium

Security issues have always been a concern for any college campus. Ensuring the safety of all on campus and at college football games is of upmost importance to a university. You also want to make sure that all the fans have an enjoyable time whilst they are at the game.


Now days it's common to get searched for things that they do not want inside the stadium. Those items include open containers, opened food, guns (duh), inappropriate signs,  and now you can add to that list, tortillas. Yes, you heard me, tortillas.


When Sun Devil fans now enter their stadium, tortillas will now be part of the list of banned items the security personnel will be trying to find. In the past, Sun Devil fans would have tortillas and hurl them toward the stadium field. Some of these tortillas find their way to the sideline of either team and some will be hurled with such drunken force that they will make it onto the field and possibly interrupting play. What is a security force to do? Well, they are taking the bull by the horns and not allowing said food into the arena of play.


I say, phenomenal! Why you ask? One, its pretty annoying to be hit by one of these tortillas while watching football, and I have been hit twice. It is not fun. My kids have even been hit once. Trying to negate these simple annoyances will make the game more enjoyable for everybody. Even the "tipsy" kids in the student section. They can concentrate on rooting for the Devils instead of throwing food around the stadium and onto the field. Secondly, when people go to a Sun Devil football game they want to enjoy the game and cheer on their team. They do not want the game to be interrupted by anything except huddles and tv timeouts. When food is thrown on the field of play, it slows the game down, causes disruption in play, and just makes the experience of college football less of an experience.


Now, some of you may be thinking, but it is a tradition for a while in Sun Devil land. It's been a tradition at ASU for a number of years. However, it is a tradition that has no real origin. Rumor even has it that this "tradition" of throwing tortillas around started down in Tucson. Yikes, a tradition that Sun Devil fans do that was started with their hated rivals to the south?! Blasphemy.


In the end, this tortilla tradition is one of those things I am glad that is going away. To me it just does not make Arizona State look at that sophisticated, it can interrupt games, and can actually be an annoyance when you get pummeled in the head or body by one of these tortillas. Lets focus on the game and the players, instead of flying food. Just saying...