Fan ejected for getting up to pee during 'god bless america'

[sleepyhead]

I posted about this on the old board, but the law suit is official now. My friend Brad (incidentally a Red Sox, not a Yankee fan) was ejected from a Yankees/Red Sox game last year because he left his seat to pee during 'God Bless America'. Apparently the Yanks instituted a policy that you couldn't leave your seat during the 7th inning stretch and that chains would be put up. Anyway his law suit with the NYCLU/ACLU is official now and it's getting a lot of coverage. He isn't suing for any money, just for the precedent of it all. There was a blurb on the Score about it and I called in to give a little more info. They asked me to have him contact them as they want to interview him. It will be really interesting to see how this all plays out.

Me on the Score, 25 min in (I said "America the Beautiful", but it was "God Bless America"):
http://67.72.16.166/wscr2/1692155.mp3

Brad on Colbert Report:
http://www.thedailytube.com/video/12851/ya...the-unpatriotic

Interview Brad did today:
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/974...it/Default.aspx

Video on NYCLU site:
http://www.nyclu.org