EASTON, Pa. – After a brawl and a slew of arrests at a previous home game, Easton is tightening the rules for Friday night football.<\/p>\n
The district has made changes to how fans enter the stadium, where they can sit, and how they can move once they’re inside.<\/p>\n
“Past games we didn’t have to scan IDs, we didn\u2019t have to bring anything in,” Easton student Noah says.<\/p>\n
“The stamps are new, too. Can’t get in the student section unless you have stamps, that type of stuff, and you can’t walk around, really,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Spectators must also stay in the designated seating areas unless getting concessions or using the bathroom.<\/p>\n
“I get it, how there would be fights, but I think it’s just overkill how nobody’s allowed to walk around,” Easton student Carter says.<\/p>\n
“Like, if you came back here, what, two weeks ago, everybody would be walking around. There would be people everywhere, and the student section would be filled,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
The changes come after what the Superintendent calls an extraordinary number of arrests following a brawl at a game last month.<\/p>\n
But many say the energy feels different.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s, like, smart to make new rules,” Carter says. “I just don’t think they should emphasize them this much.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t know, it’s helping behavior, but it’s making it really boring,” Easton student Alec says.<\/p>\n
“It’s just like, there’s no energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
One Easton parent says she already noticed a difference.<\/p>\n
“I think you can tell the difference from, like, the last games I’ve been at,” Marilis Ramos says.<\/p>\n
“Less rowdy, more calm, you know, there’s more room, no more fighting. It’s an improvement,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n
District leaders say the goal is to keep the game safe while still allowing fans to continue enjoying the games and the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – After a brawl and a slew of arrests at a previous home game, Easton is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-303562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}