GLENDALE, Ariz. — A woman who holds season tickets for the Arizona Cardinals and has been attending their games for 34 years, is expressing her frustration after being forced to throw away her Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap before the first regular season game on Sunday.

Susan Rosener and her husband were going through security checks when they heard a woman shout, “You can’t bring that here.” She was referring to Rosener’s black cap with the MAGA slogan.

Rosener asked the security personnel, who works for an external company, why she couldn’t wear the cap to the game and was told that it violated the stadium policies on prohibited items.

“She told me, ‘No political hats or shirts are allowed.’ And I told her that I had never heard that before. I told her it didn’t make any sense to me. And she replied, ‘I told you to take off the cap’,” Rosener recalled.

Her husband then asked the security staff, “If she takes it off, can we enter?”

They were told they had to throw the cap into a nearby trash can or else they would not be allowed entry to the State Farm Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals game.

“Looking back, I wish I had stood my ground a bit more, but I wasn’t sure what the consequences would be, and my husband would kill me if I did something with the season tickets or put them in jeopardy in any way,” she explained to 12News.

The Arizona Cardinals and State Farm Stadium have a list of prohibited items for entry into the stadium. The items closest to a ban on political attire would be clothing deemed “obscene or indecent in a public setting” or “any item considered inappropriate or dangerous by stadium security.”

But as it turns out, political attire is not prohibited at Arizona Cardinals games. The team issued a statement stating that a member of their security team had misunderstood their policies on prohibited items.

In an isolated incident during Sunday’s game, a stadium security member misunderstood a policy on prohibited items. Like most stadiums, “signs, flags, or displays that are of a political nature” are not allowed. However, that did not apply in this case. In the future, we will work to provide clarity to all stadium staff in these situations. We have also reached out to the individual involved to communicate that her experience was not consistent with our policies and practices, and to apologize for it.

Rosener believes that it shouldn’t matter what political affiliation her cap represents. She asserts that her freedom of expression should not have been limited at a public sporting event.

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