Team Flags

[Alan Anderson]

There are no official restrictions. However...

One year, a volunteer gatekeeper at the entrance to the Georgia Dome floor took it upon himself to impose a four-foot limit on flagpoles. There was no documentation for the "rule", but there was no getting around him. A number of teams hacksawed their flagpoles to meet the restriction, including at least one with a four-foot-tall flag.

Poles that short are much harder to handle than longer ones, and they will not stay in the flag bins by the field without falling out, unless they're stuck in so far in that it's impossible to see whose flag they are.