NFL - Reduce tailgating time - New England Patriots Forums

kmac14 · 08-23-2009, 09:31 AM

From USA Today:

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NFL targeting binge drinking among fans in new season
By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY

The NFL will try to crack down on binge drinking by fans at games during the 2009 season.

Following up on the Fan Code of Conduct it implemented last season, the league office is making recommendations to teams about maximum serving sizes for beer, wine and spirits sold at games and about the number of alcoholic drinks a customer can purchase at one time.

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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/footb...er-sales_N.htm

***Deus Irae*** · 08-23-2009, 10:00 AM

***ALP*** · 08-23-2009, 10:11 AM

LOL

soon alcoholic beverages will be illegal at public sport functions

u heard it here first

Bertil · 08-23-2009, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ALP

LOL

soon alcoholic beverages will be illegal at public sport functions

u heard it here first

I'm afraid you're absolutely right. Another intrusion by Big Brother into our lives...and this coming from a non-drinker.

CampPen33 · 08-23-2009, 10:39 AM

I literally can not drink with the medication I am on, and this pisses me off so freaking much. I hate any kind of big brother type scenarios, and I am a Marine... lol used to people telling me what to do...

xmarkd400x · 08-23-2009, 10:46 AM

I have wondered to myself in the past, "How could prohibition have ever happened? That's just silly".

Well... now I'm seeing the seeds of it. This whole use of the word "binge drinking" annoys me. Anyone who drinks enough to be drunk is "binge drinking" and the negative connotation makes it a bad thing. Guess what? I'm an adult. I can choose to be drunk.

***KontradictioN*** · 08-23-2009, 10:52 AM

Heil, mein Führer Goodell!

All this means to me is that, before I start tailgating, I start drinking hard liquor either at the house or a bar, THEN I go and tailgate and switch up to beer. There's really no way that the NFL can control how drunk a fan gets outside of the stadium so this is a really ridiculous notion. Baddell is just trying to be a control freak.

***Gwedd*** · 08-23-2009, 11:06 AM

Rediculous. What has happened to the concept of "personal responsibility?"

Government at all levels seems determined to protect us from ourselves, to make certain that everyone can claim to be some form of "victim" in order to escape being responsible for their own choices, their own actions.

DynastyDriven · 08-23-2009, 11:07 AM

So you buy a bigger cooler to fit more beer in to have before the game and you sneak a few nips in, whats the big deal? I'd rather do that anyways then buy the watered down $8.50 beers

***PatsFanJess*** · 08-23-2009, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Gwedd

Rediculous. What has happened to the concept of "personal responsibility?"

Government at all levels seems determined to protect us from ourselves, to make certain that everyone can claim to be some form of "victim" in order to escape being responsible for their own choices, their own actions.

Personal responsibility? Huh? What's that?

This is insane. Jolly Roger shouldn't be trying to control the customers. What's next? Noise control?