Georgia rolling out beer sales for baseball and softball home games. "A variety of domestic, import, craft and premium beer," will be sold starting with baseball season opener next Friday and during SEC play for softball. Alcohol sales started at basketball games this season.
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) February 11, 2022
Sanford Stadium fans, it’s getting closer.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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Will this make the Chick-fil-A grab and go lines much shorter?
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So, the Leebern Family figured out a way to ensure they get their pay day, and now the rest of us plebes get to enjoy a beer at the game if we want?
Yay, I guess?
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Nope. Dos XX will be the ‘official beer’. Shitty beer for the win!
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I mean, it’s better than Bud Light, Miller Lite, or Coors Light, so I’m not gonna complain about sipping a cold or even cool Dos XX while I’m watching the players finish warm-ups.
Still, you have to imagine, this being Athens, that Tropicalia and Classic City Lager will be available.
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You would hope that with 6 local breweries and another dozen good Georgia ones with UGA alum owning/brewing or otherwise affiliated that they could find at least 1. But probably not. Creature Comforts doesn’t have the marketing budget of Bud and Miller. Just like all things college football, it always comes down to 1 thing.
Look at what is currently offered in the Coliseum. That’s what’ll be in Sanford.
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Add a Duvel or La Chouffe to the selection and I will migrate back to the land of the free and home of the brave.
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😘👌 Nailed it.
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I feel like you need to be drunk to watch uga play basketball.
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Heroin’s probably more effective in that regard.
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Heroin or alcohol. The amount needed to adequately numb you enough to make UGA MBB tolerable would be fatal.
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Looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
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Watching a baseball game at Foley with a cold beer in your hand – I mean, come on. It’s perfect.
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Absolutely. Makes you wonder what took ’em so long to allow it.
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Lot of big money and big power fancy themselves morally superior. Gotta cater to those folk. Can’t just one day say “you know what? We were wrong to carry the prohibition torch for 100 years too long and today all that changes, top to bottom.” Got to be a slow change propped up with little “valid” reasons we here and there. A few people saving face is far more important than the rest of us getting to live our lives as though it is in fact the year 2022.
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Shame its gotta be like that. Same deal x10 for Cannabis these days in southern states. Heck, it’s legal in some capacity in more states now than illegal, but the south’s gonna hold out and resist change. Anyone remember that time long ago when a war was fought over another “institution” that the south resisted changing? Kinda makes you wonder sometimes..
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Heck I did it the majority of games from 2001-2004. I just happened to be sitting in an area that was kind of considered no-man’s land at the time.
Long live Kudzu Hill.
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From 1980 until 1984 you could watch baseball games from the sidewalk on Rutherford St along the third base line with a cooler. On nice days, the grass hill behind the third base bleachers would be covered with students who would walk up to the low fence and get a beer from a friend on the outside. The MADD moms hadn’t taken over Athens back then.
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Throw in some freshly boiled peanuts…GO DAWGS!
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Right field kudzu hill from 1980-1983. Cold beers and trash-talking the opposing team. Plus got to watch Jeff Pyburn and Buck Belue.
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Seeing as I danced on the diamond in the early 80’s I resemble those remarks!
All of you guys that drank and raised hell down third base, and especially on kudzu hill, have given this ‘ol Dawg the greatest memories ever! I remember some togas up on kudzu with several kegs…Lawdy Lawdy Lawdy🐾🐶
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I understand WHY it is coming, and I understand why there are folks that want it, but for me, the day it hits Sanford will be a dark day. I realize it gets brought in, and i realize all the stuff… to me, its just something that makes the college game special. Not sold IN stadium….sitting there in MY section which is very behaved and Loud too with my girls of 11 and 7… i just like no beer…… i admit as i head into my 23rd year of season tixs, im surprised it has took this long. (and glad)
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I have had liquor spilled on me by the seats behind me at least a couple of times. People definitely sneak it in already.
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Beer and liquor have been sold in stadium since before you had season tix. Just not to “your kind.”
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When I was 12-14, I served as my brothers’ “mule,” carrying their bourbon in for them. (My mother was horrified; Daddy just smiled.) In those days (mid 1970s), there was plenty of illicit bourbon flowing through the stands at Sanford Stadium, but it was rare that it led to truly obnoxious behavior, ie, horrific language and fights. These days, that seems to be par for the course without alcohol being sold in Sanford. I’m certainly not against alcohol in general, but I have to wonder how it will affect the behavior of some of more colorful fans. While not at a home game, the folks sitting behind us in Indy were an embarrassment to anyone wearing red and black and only got worse as the game went on and they continued to drink. I truly felt sorry for the folks next to me who brought their kids to the game.
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Unfortunately, rules have to be made with the lowest common denominator of humans in mind and the lowest common denominator today is extremely low. Go to an NFL game and get a preview of crowd behavior when alcohol is sold at a football game. You won’t like what you see.
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What year was it that some drunk asshole threw a half gallon bottle from the upper deck down to the lower deck as the game ended? Hit some poor female student on the head and caused a fairly serious injury. The school cracked down pretty hard on bringing liquor in after that.
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I remember when that happened. Want to say it was mid to late 1980s.
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That’s what I was thinking. The years are starting to blur together.
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You do realize “our betters” have been able to buy beer and liquor for decades, right? 🙄
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Kirby Stouts
Crean Sours
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I wish i could say this is a good thing. Pushes me closer to the HDTV experience.
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It’s a slippery slope. They let beer into Sanford Stadium and the next thing you know we’ll have people wanting to marry animals and inanimate objects.
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Love that comment!
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I quit drinking in 1992 and it took a year for me to be able to hack going through the tailgate’s and all that. They say people will not be as drunk if they are able to have a few pops in the stadium. We’ll see.
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I think the opposite will be true. The really drunk people that come into the stadium will keep drinking. As a rule; people don’t buy beer for the taste, they buy it for the effect.
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You’re drinking the wrong beer.
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If you want to stand in line to buy a beer and miss half the game, good on you.
I bought one before the Fech game this year. It was the perfect time for it, but I would not have stood in line.
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That would be my plan, mainly because I love to sit in my seats and watch warm-ups finishing-up and then the Redcoats do their thing. Being able to enjoy a cold beer during the time, especially in hot-as-fork September, would be nice.
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They sell it in the agriculturist (there’s cult in that word) Kyle Field in greater Bryan, Tejas. Over 100,000 agriculturists there with beer sales. No lines, no problems (maybe because they’re culturists?).
P.S. There is no such thing as a 12th. man (or person) anymore since they had to forfeit their bowl game since they couldn’t find 85 football players in a campus with 70,000 students!!
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In the Aggies defense, they always claimed to be the 12th man, but never claimed 13th through 85th!
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Beer here! Get your Cold beer here!
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I miss the guy behind home plate @ Fulton County, he was the best with his pitches to purchase. My favorite still to this day:
“Don’t be afraid,
I’m not the boogie man,
But you can get a whole lotta boogie,
Right here in this can. . .cold beeeeeeeerrrr”
Still makes me LOL.
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There’re going to need about a thousand more urinals. Once you “break the seal”, watch out! That’s the best reason to continue drinking the hard stuff.
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