The Price Of A Beer At NFL Games

[dales]

Bay Area (as usual) is getting hosed.

[rubato]

Anyone going to an NFL game is volunteering to be ripped off.



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[Big RR]

That or refraining from drinking a beer for the 3 or so hours you are in the stadium. It's kind of like the overpriced movie popcorn and candy; you don't have to buy or eat it.

[Guinevere]

I don't think that chart can be correct. There is nothing you can buy in the Meadowlands (Jets/Giants Stadium) for $5.00, and certainly not 12 ounces of beer.

It's also wrong for the Pats (Gillette Stadium) -- I had a 16 ounce Bud Light the other week and paid $9.00 for it.

[MajGenl.Meade]

We need it cheap at whatever-they-call-Municipal-Stadium-these-days

[rubato]

I don't think that chart can be correct. There is nothing you can buy in the Meadowlands (Jets/Giants Stadium) for $5.00, and certainly not 12 ounces of beer.

It's also wrong for the Pats (Gillette Stadium) -- I had a 16 ounce Bud Light the other week and paid $9.00 for it.

You didn't actually drink it did you? Bud Light? Poor dear, you must have been desperate. But I can't tell for what. Water?


I love the big horses as much as the next person but, there are limits!



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[Guinevere]

Only about 2/3 of it, then my better sense took over

And yes, I was thirsty, and it seemed a better deal than a $7.00 soda, or $7.00 bottle of water that had been sitting in warm plastic for the last months. It was at least from a tap . . . .

[Joe Guy]

Maybe this thought is for another thread, but what do you think of cutting off the beer at football games after half time? It's being talked about around here because at each of the two 49er games there were fights that were apparently alcohol fueled.

Which makes me wonder how many people depend on drinking lots of beer as part of the overall football game experience at the stadium.

Would people just get as drunk as possible before the game and/or sneak in alcohol?

When asked about the restriction more than one person responded, 'Why ruin it for everybody just because of a few?'

If not being able to buy beer at the stadium would ruin the football game for you, you might want to think about the real reason you are going to a game.

It must be to get drunk, of course....

[Big RR]

I didn't notice the Meadowlands listed Guin, but last time I went, domestic beers were $9.00, craft and imports higher.

[rubato]

Baseball is still a bargain, relatively.




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[MajGenl.Meade]

Look at Cleveland again.... cheap beer to keep us sedated

[Big RR]

Meade--you reminded me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night

Imagine, 10 cent beers--what could possibly go wrong?

[Long Run]

Maybe this thought is for another thread, but what do you think of cutting off the beer at football games after half time? It's being talked about around here because at each of the two 49er games there were fights that were apparently alcohol fueled.

This has been a problem for years in the NFL, especially certain cities like S.F. (now S.C.), Oakland, etc. Parents don't want to bring their kids because of the drunken and obnoxious behavior. Lots of colleges cut off alcohol at half-time (if they allow it in the stadium at all). Of course, paying a bunch of money for a ticket to get drunk at a tailgate (and stay drunk by buying $10 beers) is not unique to NFL games; I pretty much have given up on outdoor concerts for the same reason, that and the crappy sound quality.

[Guinevere]

I didn't notice the Meadowlands listed Guin, but last time I went, domestic beers were $9.00, craft and imports higher.

It listed them by teams, not stadium names.

[Guinevere]

Maybe this thought is for another thread, but what do you think of cutting off the beer at football games after half time? It's being talked about around here because at each of the two 49er games there were fights that were apparently alcohol fueled.

Which makes me wonder how many people depend on drinking lots of beer as part of the overall football game experience at the stadium.

Would people just get as drunk as possible before the game and/or sneak in alcohol?

When asked about the restriction more than one person responded, 'Why ruin it for everybody just because of a few?'

If not being able to buy beer at the stadium would ruin the football game for you, you might want to think about the real reason you are going to a game.

It must be to get drunk, of course....

Beer service ends at the 7th inning in Fenway. I thought that was a MLB rule - supposed to give fans time to sober up and reduce drunk driving (or really, post-game shenanigans). The NFL could do something similar by ending service after the third quarter or halftime. But we all know the NFL's judgment is seriously flawed.

[Big RR]

I do think a number of stadiums end beer after the third quarter; last time I went to a Jets game they did (and as I recall the same was true of the Ravens in Baltimore).

[MajGenl.Meade]

The price of beer at Cleveland stadiums is suffering

[oldr_n_wsr]

No longer a concern of mine. I pray that it stays that way.
But even when I was drinking, I did not pay staium prices. We used to sneak in "Jet Juice" aka vodka with green something or other. That was back when you didn't get strip searched before entering. Now it is hard to sneak anything in. But I am sure there are some who know the tricks.
I remember the guys in the Dog Pound in Cleveland (I think it was the Browns) finally getting busted smuggling in a keg in the dog house. That's ingenuity.

[Guinevere]

Pretty impossible these days. NFL policy = small bags (with specific size requirements) and NO containers of any kind. The only small bags allowed must be CLEAR. You can't hide much of anything any more. Also attendees must go though a metal detector and they do hand wanding and screening.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Pretty impossible these days. NFL policy = small bags (with specific size requirements) and NO containers of any kind. The only small bags allowed must be CLEAR. You can't hide much of anything any more. Also attendees must go though a metal detector and they do hand wanding and screening.

I always had a thought that all the security was really driven by the arena vendors.