Ohio State raised more than $1 million in its first year of stadium beer sales. (And look at some of these other numbers.)
I really don’t see how McGarity can ignore that kind of revenue stream forever.
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I expect a letter from The J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics announcing a fund raising project to pay Georgia Crown to provide alcohol sales at Stegeman.
If we do start having alcohol sales the Tennessee, Vandy and Tech games demonstrate the need to have the taps flowing at the end of the games.
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Sure, beer at Sanford sounds like a good idea, but do we really want that much extra liquid sloshing around in the rest rooms?
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Good point.
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Maybe this is the means to the end of 3 home game seasons and also the nooners. Seems to me that if you want to make money selling beer you need more home games and 3:30 start times.
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Thinking adgm would go the other way and deem that if they want beer then they better get ready for “It’s Saturday morning in Athens”. But the chance that UGA actually sells alcohol at a school sporting event is zero.
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With the incompetent buffoons operating the concessions at Sanford, beer sales will be lucky to generate $100,000 in a season. Buying a coke takes the best part of a quarter. Imagine the time it will take to buy a beer when the semi retarded concession staff has to do the basic math to check an ID.
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“Retard” appears to be a big part of your vocabulary here. Mind finding another way to call folks incompetent?
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Thank you.
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+1000
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You understand that Georgia law requires that people who serve alcohol have to be over age 21? The Hilsman Middle School glee club team will not be working the alcohol kiosks.
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Point taken, but I believe the law is 18 for serving and 16 for just selling in stores. At least it was when I used to serve beer at the Masters when I was in high school.
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Some of the worst are well over the legal age to serve alcohol, which is 18. The concession staff’s incompetence is not an age related issue. I can honestly say I cannot remember ever going anywhere with worse service in concession sales than Sanford stadium. It almost appears the staff undergoes some sort of training in order to be as ineffective, inefficient and incompetent as is humanly possible.
Most games, I prefer to sit and be thirsty rather than spend a half hour standing in line to get a drink.
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I assure you most college concessions are just as bad as they use local high school groups (bands and whatnot) that keep a portion of sales for fundraising.
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Do they not have vendors roaming the aisles anymore?
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Not for quite some time now.
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Where do you sit? They have them in our section selling drinks and cotton candy.
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331, none in sight up there. Where do you sit?
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I hate those idiotic cotton candy sellers…. hoisting that pole up in the air completely blocking your view of the field.
Who buys cotton candy anyway except at the directional games when you take little kids.
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18 to serve…for sure.
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Can see McGoofys selling point, we can improve the concession and pigpen restrooms of the commoners, while knowing in the back of his mind that Leeburns luxury box need more comfortable seating.
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If adgm can create “beer zones” whereby UGA actually leases space to a third party entity to operate and sell the beer then then that is probably being explored. An accompanying state law indemnifying UGA from any liability would be required and I am sure is being explored. Perhaps the Senator could offer his thoughts on this and get back to us in say … ninety days.
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They already allow alcohol in the boxes, so I doubt there’s much exploring to do.
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Do they sell it in the boxes? I thought it was allowed but it had to be brought in by a caterer or the box holder. I’m sure all tickets have a hold harmless/indemnification agreement on them.
If they did hire a third party vendor, they could require said vendor to have liquor liability insurance and name the UGAAA as additional insured. I don’t think the liability issue is what is holding up the beer sales.
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Exactly. It’s one thing to allow it or even give it away but to actually want to make a profit on it and then have some kid get killed in a car accident would drive the trial lawyers crazy.
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There are schools all over the country now selling beer at football games. Don’t make it sound like UGA would be some kind of trailblazer.
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Not only colleges, think of the major and minor league sports teams selling alcohol. The liability objection is a total non starter. In Athens, it may have something to do with the stadium being on campus, I don’t know.
Of course, it could be the admin doesn’t want to upset the bible thumpers too.
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It’s probably some combination of the money, the liability and the fact that UGA has spent the last thirty years trying to get over the reputation as a party school.
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GA Southern does it this way, or at least they did LAST year…
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Serious question, with Lord Leeburn calling the shots, how do we NOT have alcohol for sale at the stadium?
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They’ve been stuck on the naming rights for “Bud Lite Sanford Stadium” for years.
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LOL, was that a Seinfeld reference in the header? “These pretzels are making me thirsty!”
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Didn’t they just hire the beer garden guy? How long will it take them to turn the Sanford Bridge into the Sanford Tunnel?
The top of the tunnel becomes a “beer garden” and the only place you can purchase beer in the lower bowl.
No beer kiosks in the upper deck but they will have them at club level.
Reverse side of the big screen has another big screen so you can watch the game. Outer ring of the top the tunnel has the beer kiosks and food. Put a bunch of tables and benches in the middle so you can watch the game. You have to buy an extra ticket to get into the beer garden. Opens 30 mins before kickoff and last call is at the beginning of 4th quarter.
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It will take a while for McGarity to get the fans to donate enough to pay for all that work.
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Besides, we’re kicking off at noon. Plenty of time to sober up before heading home.
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