OT: Ohio Stadium to sell beer.
For a good preview of what this will look like... Check out the Dollop podcast's breakdown of Cleveland's Ten-Cent Beer Night in 1974.
http://thedollop.libsyn.com/ten-cent-beer-night
In other words, the odds for war-like conditions: High.
In interviews years later, Tim Russert would admit to being at this game as he was a law student in Cleveland at the time and his quote was something to the effect of going there with $2 in his pocket and "You do the math".
The accounts from that game that you can find on the Internet are incredible and frightening at the same time.
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You mean they don't already??? The shit show will just increase exponentially!
There are going to need more coolers!
Gotta call you out on the broad generalization.
it's only 10,000 alumni and 74,000 truck drivers what could possibly go wrong....
is just trying to monetize the already drunken nature of their fans. Really it will just allow "fans" to keep their buzz on during the game.
but yeah, oh holy god what have they done is about right.
Yeah, the dangerous ones are already drunk.
Well I usually try to avoid spending any money in Ohio, but if I'm at The Game I will have to buy a beer.
I don't see a problem with this whatsoever.
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Now all Ohio State fans can poop in their coolers since they won't need them to keep their beverages cool anymore! Easy access to beer in the stadium will free coolers of their designed purposes of carrying ice and beverages.
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A lot of times the thought process behind this is its easier to control intoxicated fans if the stadium sells beer. Because fans are less inclined to get hammered before the game if they know they can buy beer in the stadium. Factor that it with likely high prices ($7-8 a beer) and probably long lines or waits (because of the 105,000 people) it makes sense. Also, extra revenue for the university.
the game..." Whose fans? Theirs or everyone else's? I say it won't make a difference with Ohio fans. They'll just get more hammered unfortunately. On the bright side, maybe a lot more of them will pass out and not be able to cheer anymore.
Are we acting like their fans get drunk and ours don't now? It's college football, people are getting drunk everywhere.
I'd say fans in general are less likely. I'd say fans are less likely to chug an extra beer 2 minutes before they leave for the stadium if they know they can buy beer in the stadium. And a lot of times they'll cut off sales at half (If I'm wrong sorry) so fans can sober up before they leave.
If a guy buys a 16-ounce beer at halftime, the 90 or so minutes of real time that the rest of the game takes is not likely going to meaningfully sober him up. For one thing, he may not even finish the beer until late in the game.
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So who's going to be actually watching the game if all of their fans will be standing in beer lines?
There goes home field advantage.
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Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllo caseload
after the band scripts the Ohio so the crowd can sober up.
Or the first time someone tries to heave a beer can into the bell of the sousaphone after they dot the i.
You ever notice how they always open the beers before they give them to you at sporting events? It's to make them less effective as projectiles.
actually think not selling beer increasing the amount of super drunk people. People know that the tailgate is the end of their drinking so they get housed before they go into the stadium. When you get to drink in the stadium you can pace yourself a little more and going up and down steps to get beers kind of forces you to space things out. I don't think this is all bad and think more places should do it.
People are so cheap though. No one likes stadium prices for anything.
but I bet most will pay it once they stop and think about the alternative. The typical drunk trip to a college football game where beer is not sold inside the stadium consists of being wasted at the beginning of the game, trying unsucesfully to smuggle alcohol into the stadium, going to the bathroom 10 times in the first half, and a horrible come down in the 3rd quarter. I think people will pay to avoid that.
They'll keep on drinking before the game. Tailgating is ingrained in the culture. The change will be that they'll also drink during the game. I have been to enough professional sporting events to witness this.
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truck drivers!
+1 for the classic Ufer line.
Looks like Harbaugh has already driven them to drink.
We knew this day would come.
MSU, you're on the clock.
trying to form a united front with "What-gers"
I don't think it's acceptable to refer to pbr as "beer"
PBR is a fine pilsner that deserves to be put above most beers
The school bought the Holiday Inn on Lane just to get rid of the hineygate, and yet they think this is a good idea?
The fan base is deplorable even when 100,000 of them are forced to sober up for 3 hours.