Isn't it time to reconsider your patronage of professional entertainment NFL football?

Editor's note: Perhaps even a boycott? The professional football NFL entertainment games are scripted and rigged. The NFL changed the rules on kickoffs and to not allow professional entertainment football players to use their body weight to make tackles. They call it a "hip drop tackle" but professionals say they have never heard of this kind of a tackle. After all these years the NFL suddenly decides to make it "more exciting and safer" for the entertainment stars by banning "hip drop tackles?" This indicates the NFL will implement these new rules to further hide the scripted and rigged professional entertainment football games. More and more Americans were catching on compromising the NFL's business. It will be easier to script and rig games now by preventing these professional entertainers from tackling. NFL professional entertainment football is big business worth billions of dollars every year. Does anyone actually think the people who run this huge business model would leave anything to chance? Now the NFL is installing facial recognition equipment in their stadiums for all the fanboys who attend who think these professionally scripted and rigged NFL entertainment games are real.

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NFL Deploys Facial Recognition Tech at ALL 32 Stadiums

By Ben Bartree | August 8, 2024 

"And I'm proud to be an America

Where at least I know I'm free"

- Lee Greenwood, God Bless The USA

America, fuck yeah!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

[All-American guitar chords]

USA! USA! USA! 

Via The Record (emphasis added): 

"The National Football League is the latest organization to turn to facial authentication to bolster event security, according to an announcement this week.

All 32 NFL stadiums will start using the technology this season, after the league signed a contract with a company that uses facial scans to verify the identity of people entering event venues and other secure spaces.

The facial authentication platform, which counts the Cleveland Browns’ owners as investors*, will be used to ‘streamline and secure’ entry for thousands of credentialed media, officials, staff and guests so they can easily access restricted areas such as press boxes and locker rooms, Jeff Boehm, the chief operating officer of Wicket, said in a LinkedIn post Monday."

*What a wild coincidence.

Continuing:

"'Fans come look at the tablet and, instantly, the tablet recognizes the fan,'** Brandon Covert, the vice president of information technology for the Cleveland Browns, said in a testimonial appearing on Wicket's website. 'It's almost a half-second stop. It's not even a stop — more of a pause.'

'It has greatly reduced the amount of time and friction that comes with entering the stadium,' Covert added. 'It's so much faster.'

The Browns also use Wicket to verify the ages of fans purchasing alcohol at concession stands, according to Wicket's LinkedIn page.

The use of facial recognition or authentication technology, particularly when applied to thousands of people who are scanned in the course of doing their job or entering a sports stadium, has long concerned privacy advocates.

In addition to concerns about the technology being used to track people's locations, privacy advocates and academics say that facial recognition technology intensifies racial and gender discrimination because it is more frequently inaccurate when identifying people of color, women and nonbinary individuals."

**“Bend over and spread your cheeks so the nice man can insert the tablet for safety, Billy." Cowboys fan Bob tells his boy. "We're here to watch America's Team so you can learn what it is to be a real man and a patriot." 

It took ten paragraphs for The Record — I'm happy they reported on this at all, so credit where it’s due — to ever mention any privacy concerns or potential for this technology to violate civil liberties

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