Comments on Advance Indiana™: CIB Officials Still Don't Know Cause Of Falling Bolts From Stadium's Retractable Roof

If the bolt was sheared off as was originally repo...

2015-09-20T07:19:05.654-05:00

If the bolt was sheared off as was originally reported, I'm guessing that the roof is not opening straight. It's getting hung up on one of the tracks and that's putting tension on it. I'm guessing that one of the fine union crafstman who built the thing probably dropped a nail clipper in the track or something and didn't pick it back out because the job order didn't specify how to do so.

That said, I really couldn't care less what happens over at Circus Maximus. More telling is the general obsessive compulsiuve concern on the part of the average Hoosier with this silly little inconsequential billion dollar toy roof while vritually the entire city outside of the (he said breathlessly) Mile Square crumbles before his or her very eyes. Nobody much cares about any of that. At some point, people need to step up and take responsibility instead of always blaming the media. You're free to ignore the media and their paywalled empires. Many of us do. The rest of us just clear cookies from time to time.

Patriots

2015-09-19T18:10:30.297-05:00

Patriots

It's obvious. They had someone in the rafters ...

2015-09-19T13:32:40.485-05:00

It's obvious. They had someone in the rafters drop metal pieces on a light pre-season crowd to give the team an excuse to keep the roof closed the entire year to protect the Colts from playing outside where they're horrible.

It's a sheltered, protected, coddled team that gets all the calls and can't win without help from the refs and the League Office.

The Colts' fans are also wimps who only want to watch games in a living room, so opening a roof and bringing in football weather will only chase away the frail Colts' fans.

I'm still amazed that it was allowed to be ope...

2015-09-19T12:59:14.245-05:00

I'm still amazed that it was allowed to be open in the middle of a game, while the stadium had fans in it. I liken it to opening a convertible while driving down the interstate.

I think it has more to do with the fact our local ...

2015-09-19T08:09:47.423-05:00

I think it has more to do with the fact our local media is in bed with the downtown mafia that runs Indianapolis and decides what's news and what's not news. There's a reason representatives of each are included on GIPC's board of directors, the city's shadow government.

"Someone from the media should ask the CIB to...

2015-09-19T08:04:26.608-05:00

"Someone from the media should ask the CIB to release to the public those video feed's the stadium's control center received at the time of the malfunction."

I am willing to wager that almost all of our local media must first come to Advance Indiana to learn the important questions to ask.

I've been told by reporters more than once that media company managers are more interested in offering "happy news" over the substantive. The managers don't want to "offend" viewers with hard news that might have an unpleasant aspect to it.