Beer sales at Memorial Stadium?
Crazy Joe Davola
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
My point is that current students who go to bars or block for football games typically spend less than $10 for their entire day. No one is interested in spending $10 on a ticket on top of $7 for a beer. At that point, you're not deterring kids from spending money to drink, you're just encouraging them to do so elsewhere.
Also, regarding enforcement of underage drinking: Why would students knowingly go to an area that would be enforced instead of going to bars? At bars, the police come in and maybe give a handful of tickets and 98% of underage students get off scot-free.
None of that says what you inferred. The only way students start going to games is when the team starts winning, beer sales or not.
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This entire post proved my point. Sell beer. It's not about getting students to the game. That has nothing to do with beer sales.
blackdog
- Champaign
The types of people who go to NFL vs college games is very different. Also the atmosphere is totally different between the two.
With today's technology, read cell phones, fans will police themselves. This isn't the 90's anymore. ( Not directed at you just hit reply on your post).
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IlliniFanHere
- New York
Doesn't Minnesota already allow beer sales at football games?
hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
i think i speak for the students when i say that most would gladly spend $7 on a beer if it meant avoiding the mid-3rd quarter hangover
Correct. Started out as only beer being allowed in the luxury areas. Then in 2012 they rolled out a massive "beer garden" at the open end of the stadium that allowed beer sales through halftime. That was the only location in the stadium where the "common" fan could buy alcohol (coincidentally it was also the end of the stadium furthest from the students).
Then starting in 2014, to coincide with the Vikings taking up a temporary residence at TCF Bank Stadium, alcohol sales were permanently incorporated into all concourse concession stands.
CaliIllini
- Boston, MA
I was at the game, and as a fan, I appreciated the option. I didn't see the fighting or abuse others have talked about. It was also about 10 degrees, so that might have put some of that on ice.
I also was at the Bears game in the same stadium, and I didn't notice any measurable difference from the Illini game in terms of family friendliness. Again, it was a 10 degree high.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Not being a boring Puritan and wanting the crowd/atmosphere to be the best it can be at MS every weekend, I naturally support this.
RHITIllini
- Chicago, IL
Been to a game lately? Most of those ushers would have zero shot at breaking up a fight. They'd have to hire totally different event staff and/or bump up security.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
There won't be this mass epidemic of fights from letting people drink.
Jesus. Christ.
RHIT isn't saying there fights galore; just that you'll have to hire security thus taking away from the profits that alcohol make.
If you don't pack the house every single game, adding alcohol doesn't make sense.
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icengineer
- Southern Illinois
The profit margin on alcohol will more then offset the cost of added security. Zero doubt about that in my mind. When the door is opened, ala Minnesota, OSU, etc... it's just a matter of time before it's conference wide.
They will have to up insurance incase anything happens, and is selling alcohol really worth 6-8 games a year? If they had other major events, then it's worth it but right now it's not IMO.
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Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
This is a big factor in my mind. Even in my younger days, the availability of alcohol at the game wasn't a deciding factor of whether or not to go. The fact that the O&B was on the field was the deciding factor. That's just me though.
It isn't like this would be the first time that a bunch of college kids were around alcohol. And there is plenty of police around. Having beer at the games is fine. College games are already soaked in alcohol around the stadiums and people enter the stadium drunk already and sneak in alcohol whenever they can.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
You guys are acting like allowing adults to get beer is this bad thing that we have to weigh against the extra money, LOL.
This is seriously a no-brainer.
This is seriously a no-brainer.
Alcohol isn't a bad thing, but it's not as big of a money maker as people think.
If you host other major events, it's a no-brainer; if just football, it's not a no-brainer.
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First year was a negative for Minnesota. http://m.startribune.com/first-year-of-tcf-bank-beer-sales-lost-money-for-u/199077011/
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