The comment is pure assumption.
Multiple scenarios exist where this is not criminal.
1. The game could be a local or free to watch game and the venue is simply at capacity or some other factors make it so that it isn’t practical or those three simply do not want to watch from the stands.
2. It is, or has been, common that event staff or volunteers and often family or friends be allowed to watch events from non public areas of the venue. This could simply be three such people who are not permitted or possessing ticketed seats but have authorization to watch the event from this area.
3. It is not actually illegal to watch an event without tickets. It is again- common- when air shows, races, golf games, concerts, etc. are conducted where the event is visible from public or private non event venue property, watching the event if it is in your view is perfectly legal.
If you own a condo and the balcony overlooks the stadium you can legally watch as much as you want so long as…
.. the stadium hasn’t covered the roof for example.
It is generally illegal to trespass on the property of a venue in order to watch an event without paying. So if the fence and/or land immediately across the fence belongs to the stadium then it COULD be illegal to watch from that spot, but generally since the areas of a venue before the ticket gates are open to the public, you’d need to be told to leave that area or the venue, or need signage etc. making clear the area was off limits, for it to be illegal. If you step into an area owned by the venue but open to the public without barriers etc. to access, you have not yet committed a crime generally. When they ask you to leave it has not become a crime. When it is made clear the owner doesn’t want you there and you disregard their wishes it generally becomes a crime unless an area is already not open to the public. Unless a fence keeps you away from the fence, the fence itself is open to the public basically.
Multiple scenarios exist where this is not criminal.
1. The game could be a local or free to watch game and the venue is simply at capacity or some other factors make it so that it isn’t practical or those three simply do not want to watch from the stands.
2. It is, or has been, common that event staff or volunteers and often family or friends be allowed to watch events from non public areas of the venue. This could simply be three such people who are not permitted or possessing ticketed seats but have authorization to watch the event from this area.
3. It is not actually illegal to watch an event without tickets. It is again- common- when air shows, races, golf games, concerts, etc. are conducted where the event is visible from public or private non event venue property, watching the event if it is in your view is perfectly legal.
If you own a condo and the balcony overlooks the stadium you can legally watch as much as you want so long as…
It is generally illegal to trespass on the property of a venue in order to watch an event without paying. So if the fence and/or land immediately across the fence belongs to the stadium then it COULD be illegal to watch from that spot, but generally since the areas of a venue before the ticket gates are open to the public, you’d need to be told to leave that area or the venue, or need signage etc. making clear the area was off limits, for it to be illegal. If you step into an area owned by the venue but open to the public without barriers etc. to access, you have not yet committed a crime generally. When they ask you to leave it has not become a crime. When it is made clear the owner doesn’t want you there and you disregard their wishes it generally becomes a crime unless an area is already not open to the public. Unless a fence keeps you away from the fence, the fence itself is open to the public basically.