The players have resisted rules that sharply curtail fighting because such measures would cost certain players their jobs, and because they largely contend that fighters police the game and prevent greater mayhem from breaking out.
San Francisco police had beefed up their resources in order to prevent the mayhem that ensued after the Giants won the World Series last October.
There were plenty of cameras in the ground in 2001, but there wasn't a broadcaster on earth who could have prevented the mayhem.
However, the city has actively discouraged college students from visiting the area since the mid-1980s, pastrictstrict laws aimed at preventing the mayhem that regularly occurred each year.
Finally, for the court in Skoien, the constitutional test was not historical in nature, but rather was whether the statute at issue is "substantially related" to its objective of "preventing armed mayhem".
But the manner in which a law designed to prevent the wholesale mayhem of Castlemorton can now be used to foreclose a birthday party should serve as a stark warning to those currently considering a raft of other illiberal legislation, from the coroners and justice bill to the various ID card proposals.
The front of the cell has a panel of punch-plate steel pierced by a network of half-inch circles, almost like bullet holes, that permit conversation but prevent the kind of mayhem possible when prisoners can get their hands through the bars.
If armed, they could prevent terrorists from committing mayhem in the rest of the aircraft.
But the mayhem failed to prevent the pact from being formally introduced, a step closer to bringing it to a full parliamentary vote.
