NFL - Reduce tailgating time

[Kontradiction]

Prior to the smoking ban in restaurants, there were vending machines in restaurants - did you not have this in your locale?

I was way younger when they were banned, but I do remember seeing vending machines here and there in restaurants. They were more popular in bars. But if you think that eliminating cigarettes hurts or doesn't hurt a bar or a restaurant just as much as eliminating beer does, then I don't know what to tell you. You'd just simply be wrong.

 

[Reckedtrek]

Heh. You can tell who the old men are in here. Guess what? ...

Am I the only one who finds it pretty funny that a guy describes himself as an old man, an old school football type of guy, has "I can has cheezburger?" in his signature... I know it's directed at Wrecks, but still... "I can has"?

No offense meant- back to beer talk.

 

[Tunescribe]

If they banned alcohol sales at games I'd be happy. No more ***holes getting up every 20 minutes to buy beer or take a leak or spill it on your shoes as they stumble to their seat. I've never understood why it's such a priority for some people to get loaded at games. How can you really understand what's happening on the field when you're drunk?

 

[Patjew]

I was way younger when they were banned, but I do remember seeing vending machines here and there in restaurants. They were more popular in bars. But if you think that eliminating cigarettes hurts or doesn't hurt a bar or a restaurant just as much as eliminating beer does, then I don't know what to tell you. You'd just simply be wrong.

Banning smoking in bars actually has hurt some bars' business quite a bit.

Banning beer would be a little worse, though.

 

[BradfordPatsFan]

If they banned alcohol sales at games I'd be happy. No more ***holes getting up every 20 minutes to buy beer or take a leak or spill it on your shoes as they stumble to their seat. I've never understood why it's such a priority for some people to get loaded at games. How can you really understand what's happening on the field when you're drunk?

Well said. People have no sense of others around them. It doesn't matter where I am at, college game, NFL, NBA, MLB, any stadium where beer is served, I miss parts of the game so these people can get up and get another drink and then return, staggering all over themselves and blocking others view of the game. I have no problem with people drinking at a game. I have a problem with people who impact those around them because of it.

 

[Kontradiction]

old man

You take that back! I'm 23.

 

[patchick]

So "Big Brother" is here and your "rights" are being trampled on if a sports stadium only lets you drink 40 oz. of beer before getting up to buy more?

Let me just salute your iron bladders, guys.

 

[Kontradiction]

So "Big Brother" is here and your "rights" are being trampled on if a sports stadium only lets you drink 40 oz. of beer before getting up to buy more?

Let me just salute your iron bladders, guys.

Meh, I was never the one who brought up "Big Brother" or "rights". I personally don't care that much. I just think that Goodell is a control freak. Maybe I miss Tagliabue a little bit...

 

[Reckedtrek]

You take that back! I'm 23.

Even better! Fits in with your account name.

Just messin' with ya.

 

[Rob0729]

I still don't get how people are up in arms that the league SUGGESTED to their owners how to prevent the rampant alcohol problems in the league. These suggestions are almost word for word for the current policy the Pats use when dealing with alcohol sales and tailgating. Yet, people think the league is going to turn games into dry stadiums with 10 minutes of tailgating and that Goodell is some sort of Nazi because of it.

Even if these suggestions become rules, it won't affect the Patriots fans other than losing a half an hour of tailgating. These suggestions are aimed towards other stadiums where drunk and unruly fans are more of problem. Not the Patriots who have already done their own work to clean up the stadium for game days to make the gameday experience more family friendly.

 

[upstater1]

Heh. You can tell who the old men are in here. Guess what? Being loud and obnoxious and hooting and hollering is part of professional and college sports. If you have a problem with the guy who is doing it, either grow a set and tell him to STFU or alert the nearest security guard/cop and tell him to watch out for the "guy in 56C". These so called "drunkards" paid for their ticket as well and, last I checked, the consumption of alcohol is legal and it's the person's right to know when he or she has exceeded the limit. If the person can't tell when that has happened then he or she should be escorted out of the game (she shouldn't be allowed to leave until she flashes the crowd though). Worried that the person is going to drive drunk? That's what better judgment is for. If better judgment does not exist then that's why cops chose the career field that they are currently in.

Prohibition is a broken system. If the NFL honestly tries to enforce this, it's going to blow up in their faces big time as people are just going to drink more to ensure that they can keep their buzz throughout the game. As a side effect of that, alcohol sales will surely go down at the stadiums.

Sounds good. Hey, Mr. Security Guard (aged 72) can you please escort rows 12, 15, 16, 19 out of my section? It's filled with 25-30 year old guys pouring beer on each other, fighting, swearing, threatening other people.

I've been to Gillette Stadium twice a year for the last 5 years. Bills Stadium twice a year as well, every year I catch Jets-Pats, I've seen games in Philly and Cleveland recently. I really don't think Patriot fans have any clue about the sort of behavior in other stadiums. The Foxboro crowd I saw was totally well behaved and I was there for big big games. Last December in Buffalo, the guys behind me whipped it out and started pissing on the empty seats in front of them. At the end of the row was a Dad, son and daughter. After that display they left. Meanwhile the rest of the section cheered these guys on.

 

[Patjew]

Sounds good. Hey, Mr. Security Guard (aged 72) can you please escort rows 12, 15, 16, 19 out of my section? It's filled with 25-30 year old guys pouring beer on each other, fighting, swearing, threatening other people.

I've been to Gillette Stadium twice a year for the last 5 years. Bills Stadium twice a year as well, every year I catch Jets-Pats, I've seen games in Philly and Cleveland recently. I really don't think Patriot fans have any clue about the sort of behavior in other stadiums. The Foxboro crowd I saw was totally well behaved and I was there for big big games. Last December in Buffalo, the guys behind me whipped it out and started pissing on the empty seats in front of them. At the end of the row was a Dad, son and daughter. After that display they left. Meanwhile the rest of the section cheered these guys on.

Sounds like an Iggy Pop concert.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Sounds good. Hey, Mr. Security Guard (aged 72) can you please escort rows 12, 15, 16, 19 out of my section? It's filled with 25-30 year old guys pouring beer on each other, fighting, swearing, threatening other people.

I've been to Gillette Stadium twice a year for the last 5 years. Bills Stadium twice a year as well, every year I catch Jets-Pats, I've seen games in Philly and Cleveland recently. I really don't think Patriot fans have any clue about the sort of behavior in other stadiums. The Foxboro crowd I saw was totally well behaved and I was there for big big games. Last December in Buffalo, the guys behind me whipped it out and started pissing on the empty seats in front of them. At the end of the row was a Dad, son and daughter. After that display they left. Meanwhile the rest of the section cheered these guys on.

Now THAT'S wicked pissah!

Seriously, I for one appreciate Kraft's efforts making the stadium family friendly and football viewing friendly at the expense of besotted maroons. And yes, I have had a beer before the game.

 

[Deus Irae]

Nothing says "Football!" like a bunch of families sipping white wine spritzers and chatting about the day's Wall Street Journal.

If these hooligans want to drink and act all rowdy, they should attend a more violent and classless sport. I'm sure the chess goons would be happy to have them. Raucous cheering, swearing and being riveted to the game is for golf, damn it, not a cerebral experience like football!

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Nothing says "Football!" like a bunch of families sipping white wine spritzers and chatting about the day's Wall Street Journal.

If these hooligans want to drink and act all rowdy, they should attend a more violent and classless sport. I'm sure the chess goons would be happy to have them. Raucous cheering, swearing and being riveted to the game is for golf, damn it, not a cerebral experience like football!

Muffy and I do so enjoy the chablis and finger sandwiches in our red seats when we rough it and leave the box. Even away from the field sometimes raucous crowd noise can disturb discussion of our Fidelity portfolios and plans for the social register activities. I must speak to Myra about background checks for the riff-raff.

 

[Jackson 2]

LOL

soon alcoholic beverages will be illegal at public sport functions



u heard it here first

Sporting events will be illegal before drinking at them is.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

the problem to me is that this would be 100% a non-issue were it not for the behavior of a few fans who are a very small percentage of the whole. the more that fans self-police by discouraging idiots from ruining it for everyone else, the fewer calls we'd have for mommy-regulations at NFL venues. and the idea that the "quantity" of alcohol consumed is the sole or main driver of bad behavior is flawed; some people become fools after one drink, others not at all after many (comatose, maybe).

i don't care how much someone drinks at or before a game as long as they don't create problems for other fans (especially families) and they don't get behind the wheel after the game.

 

[Synovia]

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

This is it. People do stupid sh*t while tailgating, so they're taking away tailgating. Can't behave? They won't let you party anymore.

 

[Synovia]

the more that fans self-police by discouraging idiots from ruining it for everyone else,

How do you propose fans 'self police'.

 

[Pujo]

How do you propose fans 'self police'.

"Ok buddy, I think I've had enough here, why don't I go sit down so that I don't have to throw myself out of here."

And if I resisted then I would execute a takedown on myself.