The University of Minnesota’s new football stadium is officially dry — as are all other sports venues on campus. The university’s Board of Regents today approved a proposal to ban all alcohol sales at the university’s new football stadium, a prohibition that will be extended to all other sports arenas on campus. Le sigh. via Strib
You Can’t Drink Here
Jun 24 2009 — 2:13pm
13 Reader Comments
3:19 pm
Lame outcome, and if I were a U student, I’d be irritated over Bruininks’ unwillingness to treat me as an adult.
3:22 pm
Most college undergraduate students are under 21… Thus, they are used to not being treated as adults.
3:33 pm
Well, then the University is failing them.
3:46 pm
Great opportunity for Gopher flasks, eh?
3:58 pm
This is actually a tricky issue. Since most of the undergraduates are not old enough to drink, and since they are a majority of the student fans, it seems reasonable to not have drinking in the stadium. This eliminates lots of problems with underage drinking and fake ids, etc.
On the other hand, there are still plenty of people in the stands who are legally able to drink and would like to partake.
I am completely on the side that if you have alcohol for some you have alcohol for all. There should be no discrimination with respect to where you can afford to purchase a seat.
So, I guess I am saying that I am ok with this decision. Let them sneak the booze in like everyone else.
9:24 pm
The easiest way to sneak in beer is through binge drinking.
10:50 pm
Ed FTW!
Shoot up oranges with vodka. Marinate watermelon chunks in rum. Everybody’ll think you’re eatin’ healthy and that you’re likin’ it cuz you got this biiig smile on your face. Ski-U-Mah!
9:45 am
This is another classic example of how in the U.S. we never bother to actually live in the real world. Yes, let’s not only convince ourselves that football has any damn thing to do with academics, but let’s also convince ourselves it’s perfectly entertaining with no chemical assistance. Anyone who actually cares about the outcome of these things – I call them ‘morons’ – watch at home anyways. Anyone attending a sporting event is there for the camaraderie, spectacle, and idiocy – three of the many things that booze makes possible. It’s one thing when a perpetually broke academic institution spends my money on a two hundred million-dollar monument to ten overgrown troglodytes who can throw a ball but not pass Intermediate Sewing. Not letting me drink in that monument is over the line.
12:40 pm
You never played any school sports, did you Jeff. Debate team?
12:54 pm
Lost his girlfriend to a jock.
1:17 pm
Speaking of Nerds vs. Jocks…
1:19 pm
Anyone attending a sporting event is there for the camaraderie, spectacle, and idiocy – three of the many things that booze makes possible.
I’ve enjoyed all three without the need of alcohol, so booze is not a requirement.
Didn’t they teach you that in school?
2:12 pm
I went from a three season athlete to a three season nerd soon after joining the debate team.