Tailgaters who remain in the parking lot will be approached by team securityGETTY IMAGES
Arrowhead Stadium tailgaters at Chiefs home games this season will be "asked to move toward one of two places: into the stadium if they have tickets or out of the parking lot if they don't," according to Blair Kerkhoff of the K.C. STAR. Chiefs President Mark Donovan said that the team is "following a best practice recommendation" from the NFL and will "phase in this policy throughout the season." Donovan said, "We're going to continue celebrating tailgating. It's important to Arrowhead and important to the fan experience. And we're going to transition into this. This is not going to be a hard stop." Donovan said that over the next few home games, tailgaters who "remain in the parking lot after the game has started and the toll and ticket booths have been cleared will be approached by team security personnel and informed of the new policy." Kerkhoff noted the policy change comes five years after a fan was "killed in the parking lot during a game." Donovan said, "I'd be naive to say (the incident) has nothing to do with it but I wouldn't say [it] drove the league-wide policy" (K.C. STAR, 8/28).
