OT: Map of college stadiums that sell alcohol
FYI. I came across this earlier today and found it interesting. Personally, I was very pleased to see that not a single Michigan school was on this map. I know others may disagree, but I like that the school doesn't enable the fans to get themselves into an inebriated frenzy while at a school function (a family oriented tradition for most). I live in Ohio at the moment and often see billboards for domestic beer (Coors?) with the OSU logo. True mark of an institute of higher education.
Link: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/2018/04/19/map-college-f…
I bet you're a real treat at parties lol
Damn straight.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
Ooo I am a happy family man that doesn't need to spend Saturday afternoon drinking. I love my kids
Pft
Some of us are not so lucky.
I really enjoyed my beer at Maryland during one of our first away games there. (Hurricane)
The hurricanee game was too freaking cold and wet to enjoy a beer and the concession lines, although only about 4 people deep took the entire halftime to be waited on. Maryland has the worst service staff I have come across at B1G stadiums. They couldn't make change and there wasn't enough staff to help the guy at the register who had to do everything himself (and he wasn't very capable to begin with).
April 20th, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
Did Ohio pass a state law requiring beer sales at all college football stadiums? It dominates that map.
I thought Dooley's gave us Dime Beer Night.
so people get blazed ahead of time
Yeah, but then they have 3.5 hours of gametime to sober up.
Let’s not be hypocrites here...pregaming, tailgating, getting shit faced, BEER, is a HUGE part of Michigan football for the fans. Don’t act like we’re better than someone just because the stadium doesn’t sell beer.
Speak for yourself man (lady?) - some people go with the kids to have a good, clean time and just want to watch college students engage in bloodsport just like anyone else. Natural high.
April 19th, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
It's a fact. Take a walk through the AAGO or pioneer about an hour before kickoff and tell me that alcohol isn't a major part of the game day experience for the average fan. Simply because your game day experience isn't like mine, doesn't make either right nor wrong.
It sure is a huge part of game day. This is why I don't mind at all that the Stadium doesn't sell beer. I need the 3 1/2 - 4 hour game to sober up from the tailgate.
And if a walk down AAGO or Pioneer isn't enough, take a stroll down State St. between South U and Yost
April 19th, 2018 at 11:47 PM ^
You know you can do that regardless of whether the stadium sells alcohol or not right? At the prices they sell drinks at, not many people are going to get more wasted than they already were anyway.
I don't know if I could have gotten through the 2013 and 2014 seasons without booze
Like the natural high of jumping on your soap box to tell the Neanderthals with a beer at college games you're better than them? I'm sure you find a way to do that 7 days a week.
Just saying that if you want to buy a (~$10) beer while watching a game, maybe a public school isn't the most appropriate place to do it.
I know this because I consumed a couple while watching the Michigan/Nebraska Bowl game a few years back. I was drinking responsibly, until Michigan gave up an 11 point lead in the 4th quarter.
PITCH THE BALL TO BREASTON!!! DAMMIT!!!
April 20th, 2018 at 10:17 AM ^
SQUANDERED!
So disappointing to look back at. I care less about the loss nowadays to having missed out on a historic play.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
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I certainly hope for the rutgers fan they do allow it. Anything to make the beatdowns more palatable for him.
April 20th, 2018 at 12:38 AM ^
That's what he has the hottub for.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
Good point
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Good point
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Good point
If you can afford to get hammered at $10 a beer be my guest.
I like getting my drink on as much as the next guy, but having three young kids who I've taken to Michigan games, I'm glad they don't serve beer in the stadium. I remember going to a Michigan-Purdue Game at Purdue with my Purdue alum grandfather when I was 10. I hadn't been around drunk people before and I was scared of the Michigan fans. My grandfather said the Michigan fans were the worst when it came to alcohol.
April 19th, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
Your Purdue alum grandfather can be excused for not having met any Ohio State fans.
April 19th, 2018 at 10:01 PM ^
great, a bunch of inbred cooler-stool-champions who make raider fans look like seminary students. i bet they throw batteries at kindergarten kids once they get the properly lubricated.
April 19th, 2018 at 10:34 PM ^
I go every even-numbered year, for our game. And I very often go, socially, to a non-Michigan game there, in odd-numbered years. (Bye weeks and all.)
I was there for Rick Leach’s demolition of them in 1976 when I was an undergrad, and I’ve been to about 25 games there since then, including 1 or 2 games a year in each of the last six years. I’ve feen to three of their spring games.
I have seen Ohio Stadium before and after their change in their alcohol policy. I oppose alcohol sales in Michigan Stadium, and so I’d love to be able to say that alcohol sales in Ohio Stadium turned it into a hellscape. But it hasn’t. In my view, the general behavior of fans in Ohio Stadium is that they are far more intense, and no worse behaved, than the general crowds at Michigan Stadium. Their premium seats are actually more expensive, when you include all necessary donations, than equivalent seats in Michigan Stadium. (They are all pretty expensive.). I have not personally seen any noticeable bump in drunken rowdiness at Ohio Stadium; I am not sure if there is any quantitative evidence of more bad behavior. I’d be surprised if there were any.
What I have seen, is as interesting as it is anecdotal. It is this; it seems to me that fans of a certain stripe (pun intended) will get to their seats a bit earlier when there are alcohol sales. This is admittedly a subjective thing in my part. And again I say that I don’t want to see alcohol sales in Michigan Stadium. But if it ever comes to that, I suppose I might hope that with all of the fake id’s in a town like Ann Arbor, it might finally get Michigan students to games by kickoff.
April 19th, 2018 at 10:52 PM ^
allegedly they started it in 2016. they sold over $1MM of beer in 7 home games. that's about $150K/beer for every game. have been to lots of games with bad fans in pro stadiums, raiders being exhibit 1, and can tell you that unruly fans get worse with alcohol added. ohio has bad fans. if they sold beer at sparty games i can easily see brawls breaking out, and probably not just with us michigan fans.
April 19th, 2018 at 11:05 PM ^
...Hotel on campus during a home game vs. Indiana while visiting for the architecture department. It was like spring break in Panama City, only everyone was a red faced fifty year old/overweight white dude.
April 19th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
That's the word I would use for their fans. I've attended The Game 7 times, 3 of which were in Columbus and I can say for sure that they have some intensely passionate fans. I don't see that as a negative.
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NFL fans are qualitatively different. It's a different game; a different demographic altogether. But I will need to be careful, because the atmosphere of NFL games makes me want to never go. I am so turned off by the NFL that I don't even have a knowledge base anymore. I'll just have to trust what you say about NFL games and their fans.
I don't want the NFL to be a model of anything, for college football.
April 19th, 2018 at 11:14 PM ^
*except the ones who end up at Michigan such as Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard, Jim Harbaugh, Jake Butt, Bo, etc. The list goes on and on. But the rest - yeah they're for sure inbred idiots.
we actually don't mind some buckeyes here, as long as they aren't passive-aggressive types like you are being. try being yourself, a buckeye, but in a gracious way. you will enjoy yourself more here and not (usually) be called out.
as to your post, the difference with the ones you named is what? that's right, they all went to michigan. i won't elaborate on the why, but suffice it to say they are legends and winners precisely because they came to our school.
inbred, obnoxious, classless, moronic cooler-poopers. Not Ohioans in general.
I've said it before on this pages. And the reaction then is what you are getting now.
I never understood it; the blog-presumption that we could say that everybody in Ohio was a brain-damged loser... except for [long, long list].
Updating the list of non-cooler-pooping Ohioans (after Branch Rickey, Bo Schembechler, Gary Moeller, Jerry Hanlon, Jack Harbaugh, Benny Freidman, Bob Chappuis, Jim Mandich, Rob Lytle and Gary Grant), we'd have Caris Levert and Trey Burke, as well as current Ohioans Zavier Simpson, Jon Teske, Jaaron Simmons, Shea Patterson, Noah Furbush, James Hudson, Tyree Kinnel, Will Hart, Brad Robbins, Camaron Cheeseman, Nolan Ulizio, Jake McCurry, Adam Shibley, and of course Greg Robinson (not that Greg Robinson who is from California).
The post clearly said people from Ohio State, not from the State of Ohio.
April 19th, 2018 at 10:02 PM ^
http://miamistudent.net/in-its-first-season-the-sale-of-beer-is-profita…
https://www.google.com/amp/www.mlive.com/articles/17061732/report_emu_l…
I know the one article is dated but I went to two EMU b-ball games this year and they were selling beer.