Beer at Athletic Venues

[KimoSC]

Originally posted by gorcajun


LIABILITY exposure.

You hit on reason #1 here. The schools are exposed to being sued if something happens and it can be argued that the alcohol bought in the stadium contributed.

But what are the alternatives? Fans pound a few extras before going in to tide them over, or sneak their own supply in (maybe some more easily concealable hard liquor). It's not that there's a net reduction in the number of drunks, it's just that the school can't be blamed for what they do.

[RedBug58]

How many times have the Saints been sued for selling beer in the dome?

[1stTake]

This is all about making money for UL and if in the process fans get a little more roudy at games it's all good. Here is how you do both.
[1] Get rid of Quintess Catering, UL can make more money without them.
[2] Most ball parks where I have bought beer have a vendor who brings the beer to your seat, this won't work at UL. The only way beer sales would work is if they only sell beer at beer consession stands, and they stamp your hand when you buy a beer. With a permanent marker stamp on the left hand limit sales to only two small beers per customer or one large beer per customer that gets a double stamp.

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CHRISTIAN STUEBEN, VERNIS' ATTORNEY: Well, Mr. Lanzaro testified in prison at his deposition that the day of the incident, he had gone to Giants Stadium early for his own tailgate party and he consumed three cans of beer at the tailgate party.

He then walked into the stadium. At the time, stadium policy was that only two beers per customer were served. He always had two beers. He was drunk by half time. He purchased marijuana there in addition to purchasing alcohol there. He said at half time 30 or 40 men, young men were smoking marijuana. He was so drunk he wanted to smoke it, too. The second person he asked sold it to him.

Then he went to a beer concessionaire, duped the seller of the beer 10 bucks and instead of getting two beers, he got six, so he would have enough beer to drink after the cutoff time.

O'BRIEN: When I look at the list of the people, though, who are named as defendants in the suit -- Toyota, Enterprise Rental Cars, Aramark, the NFL, the Giants, the New Jersey Sports Authority, the list goes on and on and on.

Why do you think they have some kind of culpability when, at the end of the day, it was the driver who chose to drink, drank too much and was the one who caused this accident?

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