This is the age old argument that goes with gambling and lottery tickets as well. Always sold as a way to increase revenue for schools or some needy group like sisters of the poor. Never turns out that way. The ill affects far out weigh the positives. I don't see the need to drink a over priced beverage at a game to enjoy it (game) although some do. I also don't need these people maneuvering the parking lot after a few too many and a beat down by Creighton to really get their attention span shortened. I don't have a personal understanding for the "need" but then I don't buy lottery tickets either.
I don't see the coorelation between lottery tickets and beer sales. One is sold as education revenue and the other is sold for pure profit to the company that runs the concessions, with no promise of community reinvestment.
Do you purchase anything at the concession stand, because last time I checked everything in there is marked up about 500% or more. So the over-priced isn't really a valid concern.
So what it boils down to Is just more sanctimonious bullish!| from the holy roller community. For 99.9% of those in attendance, it isn't a need at all, it is a desire or a want.
If we all spent a little less time worrying about how others spend their money and lived their lives, the world would be a friendlier place.
Do you purchase anything at the concession stand, because last time I checked everything in there is marked up about 500% or more. So the over-priced isn't really a valid concern.
So what it boils down to Is just more sanctimonious bullish!| from the holy roller community. For 99.9% of those in attendance, it isn't a need at all, it is a desire or a want.
If we all spent a little less time worrying about how others spend their money and lived their lives, the world would be a friendlier place.
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Ahh yes. The only way someone who wants to have a drink can enjoy the game, is by drinking. Also, the parking lot will be full of nothing but drunks after games.
How could I have missed that?
Curious, anyone know why beer sales are stopped toward the latter part of various professional sporting events -- might it be that ownership would prefer most patrons of the event leave the parking lot sober. ??
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Don't the concessions stands close before the end of the game? Or do they serve pizza and hot dogs even after the game? I have never noticed.
Yep. What about those fans that are all hopped up on Mountain Dew. Can't stand that especially in the parking lot after games.
I am not sure but I don't think so. But I thought that one stadium was looking at doing just that.
I have always considered this little more than a PR move. If someone is loaded by the 7th inning of a baseball game or the 4th quarter of a football game, he would have to have bionic kidneys to get sober by the time the game is over. At the MLB games that I attend, the cutoff of beer sales just sends a couple thousand fans to the nearby bars a little bit earlier. I like it for that reason, but many of those people are still going to get behind the wheel.
I'm a not drinker but I don't have any issue with beer being sold at sporting events. People who want to be drunk will get drunk, whether or not you let the other fans have a beer or two at the game.
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