Matthew Greeene

Thinker of my own thoughts, doer of things. Developing Web3 one dApp at a time. Miami 🏡

[John Brennan @brennanjp]

I just got home from Hard Rock Stadium.

One of the worst parts about tonight: as @ManagerTactical and I stood around watching "fans" bum-rush the entrances, scale walls, and crawl through vents to get into the stadium, we talked to a couple of mom's and dad's who were there with their young kids.

Around 8:30/8:45pm ET, the gates were "opened" and thousands of fans stampeded into the stadium. Stadium staff didn't even attempt to check tickets, and there was legitimately no security. Crazy as it sounds, it seemed as though they were told to let in a bunch of people just so the stadium would fill out for TV, and then arbitrarily close the gates once they felt they had let enough people in and that was that — our tickets no longer mattered.

What was so awful about this besides the obvious was none of those fans with young kids were comfortable going inside, even if they were given the opportunity to. I can live with missing the game tonight as I work in sports (@ACMomento) and have been lucky enough to attend games of this magnitude before but cannot begin to imagine having to explain to my kid why we couldn't go inside and instead have to leave and listen to the game on the car ride home.

CONMEBOL and whoever else had a hand in organizing this tournament and the Final in particular should be deeply ashamed of themselves for this reason and countless more. It is an absolute disgrace that this game was not postponed. #CopaAmérica