🏈 Alcohol Sales at CFB games

[cjaytch]

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Something that crossed my mind this morning.

I ran across a report (on basketball forum) about how Louisville has roughly twice the amount of revenue in basketball as Kentucky. One of the points the article brings up is some credit the difference to alcohol sales.

Circling back around to this thread...

We live in the middle of the Bible belt. We have a lot of people whomaintain the stance they don't believe in drinking alcohol—despite the fact they do in their own circles—and would likely have a stance against the sell of beer at football games.

I makes me wonder if that would have an affect on donations to the athletic department.

Good points. To demonstrate the "Bible Belt" mindset of silliness:
There is a BBQ/bar joint near my house. Its been there probably 60 years. It has always sold alcohol. Everyone, even the non-drinker folks love the BBQ. They actually installed a take-out entrance in the back of the building (im assuming decades ago) so that good church people can come in and buy their BBQ and not have to be in the "bar" area where all the heathens eat. Other variations of the story say that its so the church folks wont be seen entering the bar. I've never confirmed this is true but its what everyone around here says is the story behind the weird back entrance to this place.

Whatever the University decides is fine with me because it wont affect me one way or the other. They don't allow alcohol now and the stadium has a bunch of drunk jerks so I don't see how much would change if they did allow it.

 

[planomateo]

Good points. To demonstrate the "Bible Belt" mindset of silliness:
There is a BBQ/bar joint near my house. Its been there probably 60 years. It has always sold alcohol. Everyone, even the non-drinker folks love the BBQ. They actually installed a take-out entrance in the back of the building (im assuming decades ago) so that good church people can come in and buy their BBQ and not have to be in the "bar" area where all the heathens eat. Other variations of the story say that its so the church folks wont be seen entering the bar. I've never confirmed this is true but its what everyone around here says is the story behind the weird back entrance to this place.

Whatever the University decides is fine with me because it wont affect me one way or the other. They don't allow alcohol now and the stadium has a bunch of drunk jerks so I don't see how much would change if they did allow it.

[MENTION=12209]TerryP[/MENTION], do you know if this is a University or Conference decision? I've read some things that indicate its an SEC decision.

 

[bama alum]

Whatever the University decides is fine with me because it wont affect me one way or the other. They don't allow alcohol now and the stadium has a bunch of drunk jerks so I don't see how much would change if they did allow it.

This ^^^. The only difference to me is the revenue buying alcohol at the stadium will bring. This past season, the Pelham Civic Center decided to start selling beer at the Bama hockey games ($3/beer). I haven't seen the numbers, but the city of Pelham probably made a decent amount of money on this (roughly...1,500 people/game).

 

[riz]

If someone would pay to name it the "Pat Dye Liquor Stand" I'm all for it.

 

[cjaytch]

If someone would pay to name it the "Pat Dye Liquor Stand" I'm all for it.

You win this thread....