Oklahoma Board of Regents Approves Sale of Alcohol at Athletic Events

[tnapucco]

"OU Board of Regents Approves Sale of Alcohol at Athletic Events"

Those rich fuckers want to be able to have a nice scotchy scotch scotch while they watch the game from the Santee.

Jimmy G making his buddies happy and you know one of them is gonna make bank from this. He's a businessman, what did you expect?

 

[THUNDER]

UW does the whole sell it in stadium only for specific (high dollar) sections thing and it's just dumb. It doesn't solve the problem at our facility.

For years it wasn't sold or controlled at all. What happened? Either people got WAY over drunk in tailgating to attempt to ride that buzz through until half time, and/or they smuggled in hard booze and mixed it in large soda drinks. I can't tell you how many times people were taken out or puked down stairs, but it was super common. And you had half full stadiums going into the 3rd quarter as so many headed back out to their tailgates at half time and didn't make it back in until half way into the 3rd, if they made it back at all.

So they added a beer garden outside of the stadium on a practice field visible from the stands. That fixed things right? Wrong. Most didn't change what they did because that one small place to get overpriced beer and stand in long lines STILL kept the stadium half full in the 3rd. The lines were visible from the stand well into the second half.

After the stadium remodel they added limited sales to key money areas like the 50y, club level, and an outdoor cafe deck. While general fans can go to a couple of those areas, again the lines are way too long to really attract enough to be a solution. Still half full stands going into the second half.

Before last season they decided the fix was to stop sales of beer at the end of the half to encourage people to be back in their seats. Yep, you guessed it, it drove them back out to their tailgates and that made it worse again as the parking lots are a long way from the stadium.

Just sell the damned beer in all/most of your food stands and be done with it. ffs it's not that hard. AND it will help reduce over intoxication as fewer will feel the need to get AS wasted before games knowing they have no more access to alcohol during the game. If the vendors are doing their jobs they can easily identify those that really shouldn't have more.

FWIW, there are quite a few games I went to that I have no memory at all of going into the stadium or anything that happened in the first half. I was way too lazy though to go out at half and drink more. I was NEVER not in my seat for the second half kick off. I wouldn't have came in that drunk if I had other options.

Fuckin amatuers........

 

[Wishbone]

Fuckin amatuers........

 

[Scapegoat]

Finally

 

[tnapucco]

I'll never understand the clamor for overpriced alcohol.

 

[Innermind]