Andrea D.
Yelp
This review is based solely on the 3rd party reprobates that Lumen field hires for their security, company called Axis Security & Event Staffing. Me and my fiance are in the process of filing a lawsuit against the Seattle Sounders, Lumen field & Axis Security.
Me, my fiancé, my brother in law, nephew, brother and sister in law were all attending the June 3rd double header match, we had been looking forward to this for months and before this day, was avid sounders fans! We just bought season tickets & were ready to be ticket holders for life. The June 3rd match was against the Timbers and as any Sounders fans know..there is a huge RIVALRY! We got to our seats, saw other ticket holders that we have become friends with and was ready for a great day. About 20 minutes into the game a female timbers fan, her 14 year old daughter, small son show up. She was standing next to my fiance and my fiance engaged in small talk and said "Timbers fan huh" to where she smiled and said "I sure am" Fine..we had no problems with that. At one point the chatting started taking place with one side of Lumen saying "Seattle" with the other side saying "SOUNDERS".... so of course with all the other sounders sitting in our area, we stated chanting. My fiance who is 6'5 cupped his hands and started to chat, ALONE WITH 42,000 OTHER FANS. He was chatting in her direction, but not at her or towards her. She apprently did like that and started screaming back TIMBERS.........so my fiance along wtih everyone else kept chanting Seattle Sounders. Well this woman didn't like that, and here is where our day went south real quick. She starts saying that my fiance is screaming at her, SPITTING ON HER.....EXCUSE ME. She starts screming at my fiance, then screaming at everyone around her saying "look he's making my son cry, i did't drive 3 hours for this".....I heard her 14 year told daughter say "Mom, stop".... There were many sounders fans and one genetlement said to her "You are making your son cry"....She wasn't getting the response she wanted, so she grabbed her kids and left...WE THOUGHT. We continued to watch the game. About 15 minutes later, this KID who looks like Redfoo from LMFAO comes barding at us, screaming saing to both me nad my fiance "YOU ARE EJECTED, WE HAVE YOU ON TAPE, FOLLOW ME NOW"...we both looked at each other like we were having an out of body experience. This kid by the name of Nico tried to put his hands on my fiance, and my fiance real quick said..DO NOT TOUCH ME. Nico radio's in that we are not adhering to him and they needed further help to eject us. 4 sounders frieends behind us said "This is garbage, we are following you, this is not right, do not give them your name, just follow them, we will go with you" So myself, fiance, brother in law and nephew, all follow this kid to what seems like the depts of hell to the bottom level of Lumen Field. 4 Seattle police officers are waiting for us. They asked for our ID and I said "Absoltly NOT, YOU TELL ME WHAT WE DID WRONG, WHAT ARE THE ACCUSSTIONS.... they just continued to say "We have him on tape and it's been decided that you are to be ejected. We called our local sales rep who was down there with us who said "I have never seen anything like this". So finally, we left.............we weren't going to get anywhere with them, so we left.
Fast forward now after weeks of silence from the sounders, I finally was able to talk to Sales & Service director Rachel Ekanger. Explained the situation in detail, thought I was going to get somewhere with her. Well needless to say after weeks of going back and forth, tons of witness statements in our favor, they came back and said " We have reviewed the video, found your fiancé did harass this woman, and you are penalized one game.........WTF...........
I am in shock, but tis is far from over. Our rights were violated, we were publicly EMBARRASED, HUMILATEFD, DEGRADED....yelled at like we were children. Again, far from over, but will never support any sporting event, concert, or anything that is put on at Lumen field, and will continue to tell everyone about our experience