re: Should Alcohol sales be allowed at SEC football games?

Just give it time. When Anheuser-Busch and Miller start lining Slive's pockets, something might change.

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Will be the day I never bring my kids to a game again! It's bad enough now.

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I assume you dont allow you or your kids to go to tailgates before games either.

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Many families tailgate without alcohol. Maybe you just didn't notice them as they are usually not the groups making a spectacle of themselves.

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Yes I notice this, but people tailgating next to them are drinking beer and mixed drinks. I think this is no different than sitting next to someone at a game who has been drinking. Or eating at a restaurant next to someone who is drinking or smoking.

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I think whether or not there would be much of a difference would depend on how strict schools are with their student sections and alcohol already.

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So you are saying sell it in other parts of the stadium but not allow it in the student section? I can see that, but then what about the students who are of legal drinking age?

If I am enrolled at a school, am 21, and want a beer I have to leave the student section, go somewhere else in the stadium and buy/drink my beer? That is a bit inconvenient, and my seat will be gone when I get back. If, on the other hand, you allow sales to students of age in the student section, what keeps them from going and buying a beer and bringing it back to someone under age? You'll never have enough security to monitor everyone.

I honestly think that a ban makes the best sense from the school standpoint, because you open yourself up to tons of legal issues if you allow it, and your insurance rate may go up exponentially as well.

One final thing. At every restaraunt I have been to, any member of the waitstaff has to have taken an alcohol awareness course and be of a certain age in order to sell/handle alcohol. I would assume the same is true of those people who sell it at sporting events. How many of the vendors would be willing to go through the licensing training in order to sell at the games?

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I would like it personally, but I don't know if I would like other people having access to it.

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If they allowed it there would probably be incidents like hitting people with cowbells and bags of urine

Another point is that with most stadiums being on campus, you need to take into consideration the alcohol policy of that campus.

Ole Miss for example, i dont know where the football staduim is as far a county lines are concerned, but if you use the same theory as the grove, then they could sell hard liquor and no beer. baseball stadium could sell beer. THAT would be a nightmare hahahaha

my opinion, just keep doing what you do. i'll continue to stick my flask in my dress every football game and have an ice chest at the baseball games.

They sell it at the Georgia Dome for the Chick-fil-A kickoff games, so LSU fans can look forward to that. But yea, eventually they'll sale beer inside SEC stadiums. There's too much money to be made not to.