When 12-year-old Kayla Blessinger went to the Broncos-Chargers game in September, she just wanted to enjoy the action on the field. She didn’t expect to leave in an ambulance.
Kayla, her brother, their grandmother and a friend were watching from very steep Section 515 when the Broncos scored a touchdown just before halftime.
Fans jumped to their feet. So did Kayla and a man sitting behind her. He fell onto her, shoved her into the next row and landed on top of her.
“The guy fell on me, and I saw the field kind of falling in front of me and I thought I was going to fall onto it. Then I fell into the row ahead and landed on the stairs, and he fell on top of me,” Kayla said.
She broke her finger in three places. Her face smacked into the concrete stairs.
Paramedics and security responded immediately. But police were never called. Kayla and her family still have no idea why the man fell on her or who he was.
So the Blessingers are stuck with the $500 portion of the medical bill not covered by their insurance because they don’t have the name of the man who fell on Kayla.
Kayla’s story is a good reminder for people attending most public events to check the back of their tickets. They’ll find that they’re responsible for their own safety.
Text on the back of Broncos tickets states, “The Broncos are not responsible for and the ticket holder assumes all risks to the game or related events . . . including . . . personal injury.”
According to the director of Invesco Field at Mile High stadium operations, “Security uses its own judgment as to whether to call police.”
