In the dark 1976 movie Two-Minute Warning, an evil sniper sets up a nest in the Los Angeles Coliseum before a professional football championship dubbed "Championship X". He fires randomly into the crowd, and people are killed both by his bullets and in the panicked stampede he causes. What many people don’t know is that after 9/11, a sniper’s nest is set up at all Super Bowl events. Precision law enforcement special operation shooters are deployed with the ability to observe and, if necessary, intervene to stop the threat from their final firing positions. Police spotters typically use binoculars and not their rifle scopes to watch the crowd, though the weapon is on hand should it be needed to eliminate quick threats. "We have been fortunate that we’ve never had an attack on a sporting venue in the United States, but if we sit back and assume that never will occur here, then that will open up the possibility of it occurring here,” said Mark Lang, mission training specialist. The nest is so well hidden that most spectators will never notice it's there.
