http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...907335398.html
An article about how sports teams' flights are secured.
And the next-to-last paragraph again exposes the joke that is TSA policy.
And while they may be subject to the same rules in theory, the team flights are also not quite held to the same standards in practice, one traveling secretary said, noting that players often bring liquids through security, and are not normally told to turn off their cellphones or other electronic devices.
If players are deemed a possible risk and must be screened like any other passenger, how are they allowed to bring through the one thing that regular passengers are adamantly warned is a threat to aviation, namely liquids? You either let the players through with no screening, or you consider them a possible threat just like every other passenger, and you hold them to the same exact screening standards.
Regarding pre-9/11/01 security for teams --
"The theory was they all know each other. This is the L.A. Lakers or the New York Yankees, they're not going to hijack their own airplane, they don't need to go through screening," Wernecke said. "Then 9/11 happened."
If only Bill Wernecke and his common sense were in charge of the TSA.