Super Bowl Sniper Nest

http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks- ... super-bowl

We're actively trying to figure out where these photos came from and for what purpose they were taken. They've started to circulate on Facebook, and we found them posted on a 4chan board, though it's impossible to tell where they originated. But the details are right: the IMPD patch, the end zone design, the giant Roman numerals on the glass of Lucas Oil Stadium. So we're labeling them "plausible" and will update when we can trace them back a little further.

Second Article- They are real. But interesting how they actually got out.

http://deadspin.com/5883525/those-super ... s-are-real

Another website says there are snipers at all pro football games and even big college games.

I think it would be a nightmare scenario for a sniper. Suppose someone goes nuts and starts shooting up the crowd. You have to take the bad guy out without shooting at any innocents at extreme angles. (I have a hard time compensating when I have to shoot at something very high above me or below me.)

Most recreational shooters have the same difficulty Fred, so don't feel too badly. The reality is that any round fired at an angle will not be in the air for the same duration as one fired along a horizontal plane of the same distance, regardless of whether the angle is up or down relative to the shooting position, so the physical distance to the target measured along the hypotenuse of the imaginary triangle that is formed is not the correct distance with regards to determining holdover, the leg of the triangle that represents the flat distance between shooter and target is what determines the variability from the rifle's zero.

Let's presume you are shooting either up or down at a 45* angle at a target which is ranged to be 400 yards distant. The figure that you would use to determine your aim point would be 283 yards, not 400 yards, because the bullet will only be in flight for the same period of time that it would be if the target were 283 yards away from you if it were on the same level as you were.

Professional snipers are well acquainted with this. They also have the benefit of an established nest from which they are working and the ability to determine well beforehand both the physical distance to any potential target as well as the compute the actual adjustments that would come into play to account for the high post that they were occupying during the game. Given that the event occurred indoors, wind drift would be minimal as would the changes that would be necessary due to temperature and humidity. If forced to make a shot under the controlled environmental circumstances they found themselves in during the course of the game, it would actually be less difficult to accurately place the shot inside of the stadium than it would be to make a similar shot in the hills of Afghanistan.

Super Bowl Sniper? I don't think you would want to put that on your resume.
Like PS said, they show up much before the game and essentially boresight and have cheat sheets made up to know just how to set a high angle shot, but I still think it would be a nightmare trying to take out the bad guy when people are panicking all around the shooter.

Think they spend more time watching the crowd or the football game?

Paintball sniper.