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A Blackhawks Fan Was So Pissed at the Lightning's Ticket Restrictions She Started an Online Petition

A Blackhawks fan is very upset with the Lightning's policy of only selling online tickets to Florida residents so she started an online petition to address her concerns.
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Prepare yourself for the craziest shit you've ever read regarding 1) the Stanley Cup Final, 2) the Tampa Bay Lightning, and 3) the 14th amendment to the Constitution of these United States.

Some background: for some time now, the Tampa Bay Lightning have tried to preserve a home ice advantage by placing several roadblocks in front of opposing fan bases, most notably requiring a credit card with a Florida zip code for online ticket purchases. They also do not allow fans inside the arena if they are wearing opposing team gear. They have not changed these policies for ticket sales against Chicago in the Stanley Cup.

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The Lightning are allowed to do this because it's their building and they are allowing people (well, some people) to enter via a revocable license, which normal people just call "a ticket." If you're ever bored waiting in line for the bathroom at the next game you attend, go ahead and flip that ticket over and you'll read all the ways that you can get kicked out of the game, or have your "license revoked." You have literally no right, inalienable or otherwise, to go to a sporting event, is what we're saying. What one fired-up Blackhawks fan presupposes, however, is maybe you do?

I believe this is where the NHL needs to step in with some PROFESSIONALISM RESTRICTIONS on how these TEAMS in the NHL treat fans!!!!!! Telling us to remove clothing to support our team? Making us move? Not allowing us to purchase tickets? Would this crap go down well on a plane?

Yes! You also buy a ticket to board a plane. Same deal. Also no one is making you move. Because no one is making you go to a game in Tampa Bay. In fact they are saying quite the opposite.

THIS IS BAD SPORTSMANSHIP AND DISCRIMINATION as well as AGAINST OUR 14TH AMENDMENT RIGHT This is SEGREGATION!!!! DEFINITION: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

It may be a little petty, sure, but it is not segregation. I, like you, wish the 14th amendment were used more to protect the rights of fellow citizens, but again, this is not an equal protection issue. This is an issue of an entity granting individuals permission to be on its property in ways that are pleasing to it. If the Tampa Bay Lightning ever come to your house in Chicago, you should feel free to refuse them entry to your house. Or make them wear penis helmets or something. Go nuts. It's your place, after all, and this is theirs.

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I have family in Tampa that are Chicago Blackhawks fans, my aunt Leona was at the 61 Stanley Cup game! She will be 75 this year and to think that she couldn't adorn her person with her Chicago Blackhawks apparel after being a FAN and supporter for that many years next to these so-called hockey & bandwagon fans of Tampa Bay which is insanity!!!

I… I think my brain is in a knot right now, but I understand you are upset. Have you considered flying to Tampa and buying a ticket in cash?

I AM LIVID!!!!!!!

So, that's a "no" on the cash idea?

I'VE ALREADY GOTTEN IN CONTACT WITH THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION, A UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY AND A CORPORATE ATTORNEY REGARDING THIS MATTER AS WELL AS THE NHL FRANCHISE BOTH HERE IN THE U.S. AND IN CANADA.

Shit. She went all the way to the top. Canada's involved now.

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