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Season ticket holder, James Young says the night started out great as he and a friend took in the Flames-Flyers matchup March 19.

Young brought his Flames flag, rolled up, on a collapsible pole, ready to wave it when his team scored. Something he had done once before.

"I had an extender so I put it up, I waved it a few times, you know, everyone was cheering. As soon as you wave it a few times, you put it back down, you roll it back up, you sit down, and it's all before they drop the puck."

But after a second goal in the third period, Young says an usher told him not to wave the fully extended flag - measuring about six to eight feet.

Young says he agreed. He asked if he could still wave it, in a collapsed form — about three to four feet in length. He was told yes.

Young says after a third goal by the Flames, the head usher came by. Again Young says they talked and agreed he could wave it, if it was not fully extended.

But then Young says things changed after the fourth goal.

This time security asked for the flag. Young refused to hand it over. Young asked if there had been a complaint to which he was told, no, it's just Saddledome policy.

Security then escorted him out to the top of the stairwell. And after refusing to hand over his flag again, Young says three security guards pushed him to the ground.

They then pried the pole away from Young, but not before tearing a tendon in his finger, a ligament in his thumb, ripping his pants, cuffing him, and breaking his collapsible pole.

"It was surreal, it was, it was ludicrous, over a flag. Sure they have the policy, but you go to any game in the Saddledome, whether it's the Flames, Hitmen, the Roughknecks, all owned by the same company, you will see flags every game," said Young.

Calgary police then stepped in but Young says he wasn't arrested or charged with anything.