NFL wants to get in on the TSA's action

Maybe off-duty TSA agents can moonlight at NFL stadiums on Sundays and Mondays. NFL wants pat-downs from ankles up at all stadiums:

The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety.

Under the new "enhanced" pat-down procedures, the NFL wants all 32 clubs to search fans from the ankles to the knees as well as the waist up. Previously, security guards only patted down fans from the waist up while looking for booze, weapons or other banned items.

The stricter physical screening policy impacts the 16.6 million fans expected to attend live regular season NFL games this season. The more thorough searches will spell longer lines for ticket-holding fans seeking entry to games. It's sure to raise the ire of some fans who consider it an invasion of privacy.

The NFL recommended the new guidelines before Week 1 of the season, says spokesman Brian McCarthy. The league hopes fans will be "patient" -- and arrive earlier to games to avoid long, punishing lines.

You knew in your heart that this was inevitable. As I pointed out in 2008, football stadiums would make a dream killing field for terrorists. And at the same time, as I explained in that post, patdowns of fans would be entirely ineffectual in preventing it -- Link.