Things unfortunately can get ugly from time to time in the stands of an NFL game. An example of that appears to have happened at Sunday's game between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Fan Deepinder Mayell wrote about his experience at the game in a commentary for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, saying that he was a victim of hate speech at the game.

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It was my first Minnesota Vikings game and my first NFL game," Mayell wrote. "I am not new to football, though. As an undergrad at Boston College, I went to many Eagles games, and I played junior varsity football. I knew what to expect on the field. I was excited, and, as I found my seat, I thought about bringing my family to a game in the new stadium. What I didn’t expect was for a man to push aside other people and point his finger in my face, demanding to know if I was a refugee. He needed to make sure I wasn’t a refugee, he said. There was anger in his face and vehemence in his accusation. I was stunned. He didn’t know anything about me. We were complete strangers. But somewhere in his mind, all he saw was a terrorist, based on nothing more than the color of my skin. He was white, and I wasn’t. He didn’t see anything else.

Mayell, an attorney and the director of the Refugee and Immigrant Program at the Advocates for Human Rights, went on to say that the no fans surrounding the incident appeared interested in helping him and that stadium security didn't escort the man from the stadium. Click here for Mayell's full commentary.

Per KOMO News in Seattle, the Vikings have reached out to Mayell and the incident is being investigated by team security.

"It was clear that I would not be bringing my family to a Vikings game," Mayell wrote.