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Security Changes Mandated For NFL Stadiums

Cleveland Browns security chief Carl Mayer says new procedures will require fans to pass through metal detectors at the gates to Browns Stadium this season.

(while your bag is being searched, we're gonna search you with one of these hand-held magnetometers. As opposed to in the past, when we used to have to pat you down, this will go quicker. Not only go quicker, but it's gender neutral, so we don't have to worry about separating out our fans from men andwomen.)

Mayer says the changes are part of the NFL's new stadium-security rules. The league says fans should allow more time to get into stadiums this season.  

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.