Comments on: Should sporting events serve alcohol?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:03:56 +0000

Yes. Alcoholic beverages should, and are aloud to be sold at major sporting events because the atmosphere is more exciting, people become more happier or excited if they drink. Yeh, understandable they get into fights, but as it says earlier.. if people want to fight, they will, even with out being intoxicated. just remember, everyone drinks alochol in their life, and they do it once, theyll do it again, everyone enjoys it.. including all of you im guessing? so dont try take away something that is apart of sporting tradition.

By: Adlknarknad

Adlknarknad — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:12:28 +0000

They should only get one drink. After that they get a stamp so that they cant have any more. They can make it last if they want to.

By: 120294

120294 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:11:22 +0000

i totally agree with you. because after the game when they drive home they will be a threat to all the others at the game

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:56:37 +0000

Yea. It shouldn't be served at all in sporting events. However, we will never see this happen since most of the time, the cities own the stadiums that the teams play in and get money from the vendors. That's pretty much why the NFL has so much pull with the government.

By: Sal

Sal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:09:14 +0000

Yeah, they should be able to have alcohol if they want, why not?

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:20:18 +0000

I agree, its up to the stadium owners, the vendors, and the organizations involved (teams, fans).

The other assumption is that people who drink, drink until they are drunk.

By: papadawg

papadawg — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:22 +0000

Since I am a recovering alcoholic, I shall not try and force my opinion on anyone here about this.

For other reasons than the booze, I have not attended a sporting event other than my children's high school games.

Wether you do or not is your freedom to choose.

That is my not-so-humble opinion.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:16:11 +0000

Up to the stadium owners, the vendors, and the organisations involved (teams, fans).

If fans want disorderly or disreputable conduct policed, there are security personnel (including usually some cops) at the stadium. The problem with the assumption for this question is that drunken people are not always disorderly and that disorderly people are not always drunk. Penalize the actual behavior you are seeking to amend. Not something which already has a higher marginal cost (consider the cost of beer at the game relative to at the pregame tailgate or even at a postgame bar/restaurant).

There are also ways the stadium can set up a family friendly atmosphere or set aside sections of the arena to be so labeled and enforce more stringent policies therein or have a relative guarantee of less unfortunate behavior. Approaching this from a purely punitive arrangement, namely denying alcohol on the assumption that it is the alcohol and not the specific people consuming it that are the problem, is probably not that productive.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:00 +0000

No, because I go to a lot of sporting events and the ones who get alcohol ruin the game for the rest of us and get into fights. Then, after the game is over, they take a nice ride home.