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Superbowl XL Terrorist Attack?

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I have been worried about this since the tape came out. Detroit has a huge Muslim population. If there ever was a city with a sleeper cell it would be Detroit.
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Stole my post. Good news is we know that and I would like to think we would be focused there. If such a plot was underway I would hope it would be ripe for last minute disruption.

If he wanted maximum effect, Bin Laden would be better served to have an attack during the Olympics.
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I have always felt that if you want to get inside the heads of the American people you attack a major sports venue. It would totally disrupt any sense of security. Osama's primary audience is America. We don't really give a s*** about the olympics. But don't screw with football.

Screw the terrorist...i know what to look out for, i'm not going to live my life in fear. If you do that, they win.
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Dead on. Keep on keepin on.
 
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detroit seems rather tame to me from detroit back in the day but anyways if i was a terrorists id go for a high capacity nationally televised football game. sounds intelligent to me because your killing at least 105K people if its at the shoe and that doesnt count the various others at home that would view the catastrophe on tv. that would be a massive loss. about 3000 died on 9/11. 105K is unspeakable. not to mention if they took out the shoe we would have our own militia of millions of buckeye fans alone wanting to ring their neck.:oh: :io: but i doubt its a big deal even though it would be most effective for them to do so. i wouldnt leave it in the hands of the government to stop them but i would go to the game regardless of what rumors are going around.
 
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I just cannot see an attack at the Super Bowl. Any attack at any sporting event will automatically become a high-profile attack simply because it is an attack at a sporting event. Even if a billion people are watching the Super Bowl live a billion will see an attack at a Michigan football game after it is all over the news.

How many of us saw the attacks on the World Trade Towers within minutes of it initially hitting the news? I didn't as I was in a meeting, but I probably saw as much video as the average person within 30 minutes after I found a TV.

For all the reasons mentioned previously I just do not see it happening. The high concentration of people from the Middle East in Detroit has made that whole region a higher-profile target (from a law enforcement perspective) than before. Also, the security at the Super Bowl will be much more intense than a Saturday college football in the middle of America.

Ultimately, I hope another attack never comes. Realistically, it will. None of us can let that stop us from carrying on with our lives.
 
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BuckinMichigan said:
I just cannot see an attack at the Super Bowl. Any attack at any sporting event will automatically become a high-profile attack simply because it is an attack at a sporting event. Even if a billion people are watching the Super Bowl live a billion will see an attack at a Michigan football game after it is all over the news.

How many of us saw the attacks on the World Trade Towers within minutes of it initially hitting the news? I didn't as I was in a meeting, but I probably saw as much video as the average person within 30 minutes after I found a TV.

For all the reasons mentioned previously I just do not see it happening. The high concentration of people from the Middle East in Detroit has made that whole region a higher-profile target (from a law enforcement perspective) than before. Also, the security at the Super Bowl will be much more intense than a Saturday college football in the middle of America.

Ultimately, I hope another attack never comes. Realistically, it will. None of us can let that stop us from carrying on with our lives.
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Yes, there are easier targets, but no other sporting event carries the symbolic nature and attention of the SuperBowl. It is represents American culture more than every other sporting event combined. Yes, people would watch the coverage of a terrorist attack regardless of the sporting event. But with the SuperBowl, people would watch it happen live while surrounded by their family and friends. They would already be emotionally invested in the event.

There are a lot easier targets to fly planes into than the Pentagon, too.
 
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I was in Detroit a few weeks ago for my grandfathers funeral. One day while I was there i was scanning through the A.M. stations and I came across two stations that were completely in arabic. As much as I hate do admit it I'm originally from Michigan (although the very same area as Craig Krenzel so you can't hate me too much) and Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, might as well be Palestine with the concentration of middle easterners there.
 
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There's a pretty good chance of an attack tomorrow, too. And the next day, and the day after that, and yesterday. We've got to live now as though evey situation on every day is a potential threat. It fucking sucks, but that's how it is.

I think that big events like the Superbowl are too obvious. Granted, there are a lot of people there, and you'd certainly get a big effect, but everybody in law enforcement and security is anticipating trouble.
 
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scooter1369 said:
If we live in fear of this shit, bin Laden has already won. I think about it everytime I step into Ohio Stadium. But if I die there, I'll have died in my own Mecca, and will have died doing what I love.
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Bingo. At the Fiesta Bowl a month ago, the first time they set off fireworks, I wondered for a fraction of a second if it was an explosion. But I wasn't going to leave the game.

The fireworks were from a small mountain just behind the stadium, and they were about as close to me as the field was.
 
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I think there would be a greater chance of terrorists hitting another high profile target during the Super Bowl than hitting the actual Super Bowl. So much security is going into the game that it would take huge resources for an attack on Ford Field. Terrorists would rather use less resources to attack someplace else that isn't expecting it. Every time I hear something like this I think of The Sum of all Fears.
 
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exhawg said:
I think there would be a greater chance of terrorists hitting another high profile target during the Super Bowl than hitting the actual Super Bowl. So much security is going into the game that it would take huge resources for an attack on Ford Field. Terrorists would rather use less resources to attack someplace else that isn't expecting it. Every time I hear something like this I think of The Sum of all Fears.
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Bingo. There very well may be an attack planned, but it isn't aimed at the Superbowl in particular, just during that time, when so many Americans will be watching television. Same goes for the Olympics...these terrorists are fucking ignorant, and are not smart enough to get through Olympic or Superbowl security...but unfortunately, they are smart enough to use these things as distractions and hit somewhere else.

You have to remember that terrorists are the biggest pussies in existence. That don't have the balls to take their "war" against armed resistance, and so choose to target the innocent women and children, and any other unarmed person they can find. But as long as America is a country, and I'm an American, these tactics will not work. All it serves to do is strengthen my resolve...of course, the liberal left will just say the attacks never would have happened if Bush would have pulled out of the middle east, but that's for the political board...:wink2:
 
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