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Alcohol to be available at UT sporting events soon?

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“We talk about it constantly,” Dodds told The Daily Texan. “If we ever did it, we’d probably start with baseball. There’s something about it that doesn’t quite feel right, but there’s people telling me that it might be safer to serve it than not serve it. It’s an issue. I guarantee you we talk about it at almost every other staff meeting.”

Texas considering selling alcohol at football, basketball and baseball games | The Daily Texan

http://dailytexanonline.com/news/2013/03/06/texas-considering-selling-alcohol-at-football-basketball-and-baseball-games
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Anyone who can watch a Barnes basketball game sober is a better man than I.
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Jeff Howe said...
“We talk about it constantly,” Dodds told The Daily Texan. “If we ever did it, we’d probably start with baseball. There’s something about it that doesn’t quite feel right, but there’s people telling me that it might be safer to serve it than not serve it. It’s an issue. I guarantee you we talk about it at almost every other staff meeting.”

Jeff I think you hit on a subject that will be very popular with this group!
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GPie said...
Anyone who can watch a Barnes basketball game sober is a better man than I.

I think you can just as easliy apply this to the football games these days.
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GPie said...
Anyone who can watch a Barnes basketball game sober is a better man than I.

Yes those 14 trips to the NCAA are sure boring................what a stupid post!
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Jeff Howe said...
“We talk about it constantly,” Dodds told The Daily Texan. “If we ever did it, we’d probably start with baseball. There’s something about it that doesn’t quite feel right, but there’s people telling me that it might be safer to serve it than not serve it. It’s an issue. I guarantee you we talk about it at almost every other staff meeting.”

"Hey, Frank! It's the bottom of another fifth!"
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can you imagine the money that would be involved. we'd shoot up another $10 million a year
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I was reading earlier that one school, maybe Louisville (can't remember), is selling dollar beers at their spring game.
Interesting tactic to get people in.
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Alcohol during the games may help to deal with Manny's def...maybe being drunk helps to better understand some of the calls he makes
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Blake Munroe said...
I was reading earlier that one school, maybe Louisville (can't remember), is selling dollar beers at their spring game.
Interesting tactic to get people in.

They also sell beer at their basketball games. Almost every year they are in the top 2 or 3 in revenue........
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mcb0703 said...
Alcohol during the games may help to deal with Manny's def...maybe being drunk helps to better understand some of the calls he makes

I've done that at home for every game. It does tend to ease the pain a little more.
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I bet our crowds would get louder.
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Beer at the Disch would be welcomed.......
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Blake Munroe said...
I was reading earlier that one school, maybe Louisville (can't remember), is selling dollar beers at their spring game.
Interesting tactic to get people in.

Yep, it was Louisville. Here's the article:

Louisville Will Sell $1 Beers At Spring Game - Card Chronicle

The 2013 Cardinal football season might be the most anticipated in the history of the program, so its going to begin with the only thing Louisvillians might love more than U of L sports: dollar beers.
www.cardchronicle.com
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People always sneak in flasks or those single serve liquor drinks as it is. The school might as well make money off of alcohol since people are drinking in the stadium anyway.
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austinr said...
Jeff I think you hit on a subject that will be very popular with this group!

Hoist 'em!
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I think it's a great idea because the additional revenue would allow Bellmont Hall to remove all of the Jumbotron advertising and cease all of the cheap promotional stunts (field goal contests, Taco Bell dot races, etc.) that detract from the experience of attending a Texas game. Maybe we could return to listening to the Longhorn Band and hearing updates on scores from around the country.
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Of course beer will be sold at games soon.
Why don't we do it now? Morality and conviction.
Why should we do it? MONEY
So which one of those reasons is shrinking in American culture?
Exactly. Beer will be sold.
As I always say, we may not be in hell yet, but we are definitely in the handbasket.
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detly wepun said...
I think it's a great idea because the additional revenue would allow Bellmont Hall to remove all of the Jumbotron advertising and cease all of the cheap promotional stunts

Nope. Beer sales will just be more. Nothing will get removed. Mo money, mo money, mo money. Why shave any off?
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