View Full Version : No Beer at Rice Eccles?!?!
Knave
13 Jul 2004, 07:06 PM
I heard a rumor that they don't allow any beer at Rice Eccles! :eek:
Is this true?
How can you be a soccer fan if you can't have any beer?!?
Nevermind the articificial turf - THIS may be the real reason to build a new soccer specific stadium in Salt Lake City.
jasoncox
13 Jul 2004, 07:09 PM
I heard a rumor that they don't allow any beer at Rice Eccles! :eek:
Is this true?
The University of Utah has rules prohibiting alcohol on campus.
fidlerre
13 Jul 2004, 07:34 PM
The University of Utah has rules prohibiting alcohol on campus.
just like most stadiums located on university property...
ohio stadium at THE ohio state university doesn't sell alocohol either.
Blitzz Boy
13 Jul 2004, 07:37 PM
Loyal U of U Man Wade Bills has the full story on U of U booze. Wade, are you lurking here?
You are allowed to have it in the parking lots before the game and if you are very enterprising, you may be able to smuggle some in.
Also, like I mentioned in a previous post, Visiting Supporters Of Sea Level Clubs + Real Beer, Not Our 4% Grocery Store Crap + 4500 Feet Of Elevation + 95 Degree Heat At Kickoff For An ESPN Game = Not A Good Combination
Atouk
13 Jul 2004, 07:46 PM
just like most stadiums located on university property...
ohio stadium at THE ohio state university doesn't sell alocohol either.There are no beer sales at the University of Richmond stadium generally, and during Richmond Kickers games, but they had a "beer garden" setup that took an armband to get into for the US/New Zealand friendly there last year. Any chance of a similar exception for the SLC MLS club?
NattyBo
13 Jul 2004, 08:09 PM
If you cant get drinks in the stadium, I bet you can still tailgate.
cnoc
13 Jul 2004, 08:21 PM
Official Beer of SLC (http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-20/polygamy-porter.html)
Wade Bills
14 Jul 2004, 12:48 PM
Hell, it seems I'm always here lately. Amazed at the amount of traffic in this section. Looks like a lot of people that haven't been to the Blitzz or Salt Ratz are going to come out to see the MLS.
As I noted earlier, STATE law forbids beer at Rice-Eccles, but it IS allowed in the parking lots. People that smuggle beverages into the stadium tend to bring in something stronger than beer. (A bottle of whiskey for example is a lot smaller than the beer containing the same amount of alcohol.) If history is any example, there is less than zero chance of the Utah State Legislature changing the rules for the MLS. Those wanting to buy a beer in the stadium will have to wait until the new SSS. (Beer will most certainly be allowed there the same as at professional venues for basketball, baseball, & hockey).
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14 Jul 2004, 05:28 PM
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14 Jul 2004, 05:32 PM
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cosmojado
14 Jul 2004, 06:28 PM
just call LARS the Beer Barons then
rokstedy
15 Jul 2004, 02:00 AM
As I noted earlier, STATE law forbids beer at Rice-Eccles, but it IS allowed in the parking lots.
Meaning tailgate, something we can't do at the HDC! Bring it!
jack921
16 Jul 2004, 10:41 PM
Looking forward to drinking some St Provo Girl at a tailgater.
Rockey J Squirrel
17 Jul 2004, 11:14 PM
Who is going consume it? 50 % of the people at utah soccer games are under 21. At least half of the adults are LDS who do not drink. That puts us at 25% available at least half that group should be designated drivers who should not. The rules in Utah stadiums say no beer after the seventh inning or middle of the second half. So prudnet drinkers might get 1 or 2 drinks. Utahs tough Dram Shop law means the opperators of the staduim must be vigilant to to prevent drunkedness and can bear some responsility in drunk driving injury suits. Other than the Sting games at the old ball park and 2 Blitzz games at Franklin-Covey the only beer soccer has been at the E-Center with the Freezz indoor. Beer sales were dead and barely paid the cost of the concession and labor.
WHY WASTE THE INDUSTRIAL SOLVENT, FUEL VALUE AND CARBONATION BY-PRODUCTS OF NATURES PROTEIN CONCENTRATION PROCESS BY DRINKING IT?
kpaulson
18 Jul 2004, 12:43 AM
WHY WASTE THE INDUSTRIAL SOLVENT, FUEL VALUE AND CARBONATION BY-PRODUCTS OF NATURES PROTEIN CONCENTRATION PROCESS BY DRINKING IT?
I agree completely. No beer is a good thing. What we really need at the stadium is hard liquor.
LotharDSM
18 Jul 2004, 01:16 AM
That puts us at 25% at least half that group should be designated drivers who should not.
No... that means there are 75% of the crowd available to get the 25% home... exxxxxxcellent... Actually, how can they pedal everyone home unless they have a Schwinn-sidecar or multiple seats or a big F'n basket between the handlebars?
The rules in Utah stadiums say no beer after the seventh inning or middle of the second half. So prudnet drinkers might get 1 or 2 drinks
Ha ha hahhhhhhhhhhhhh, until the middle of the 2nd half, that's easily... uh... 3 beers by the 67th-1/2 minute for the prudent, maybe a dozen for the not-so-prudent.
WHY WASTE THE INDUSTRIAL SOLVENT, FUEL VALUE AND CARBONATION BY-PRODUCTS OF NATURES PROTEIN CONCENTRATION PROCESS BY DRINKING IT?
Yeast is God's child/creation too, let it procreate in barley sugars and be bottled or kegged by God's wishes for merriment.
Did Jesus change water into wine or wine into water mah friend?
You're right, this set up screams HARD ALCOHOL!!!
Just funnin', from a kid brought up the RLDS way (Mormon lite)
jshecket
18 Jul 2004, 06:36 PM
What about Jell-O shots? Wouldn't that be popular in Utah?
Atouk
18 Jul 2004, 08:49 PM
That puts us at 25% available at least half that group should be designated drivers who should not.Or that 25% could let some of the other 75% drive them home.
Blitzz Boy
18 Jul 2004, 11:36 PM
Remember that little trade show/ski race we had back in Feb. 2002?
-The Dutch were allowed to set up Heineken House and the Germans & Austrians also had "hospitality houses" where they were allowed to serve real beer.
-Some country was using a faculty house on the U of U campus, and serving alcohol. (France?)
-The Brewpubs were pouring your beer into a plastic cup & letting you walk the streets with it so they could turn their tables faster.
With Dave Checketts at "forward" and guys like Jon Huntsman & Spencer Eccles "on the back line", maybe there will be a Revelation that Rice Eccles can serve beer. It will be watered-down, overpriced Budweiser; of course.
But Money Talks. Or in this case Money Reveals Prophecy, the prophecy being that beer sales will help the Salt Lake Rockchucks make money.
It probably won't happen, but I won't be surprised if it does.
REStad
18 Jul 2004, 11:54 PM
Now if only there were such a thing as watered down Bud...I love that myth, it always makes me laugh :)
Remember that little trade show/ski race we had back in Feb. 2002?
-The Dutch were allowed to set up Heineken House and the Germans & Austrians also had "hospitality houses" where they were allowed to serve real beer.
-Some country was using a faculty house on the U of U campus, and serving alcohol. (France?)
-The Brewpubs were pouring your beer into a plastic cup & letting you walk the streets with it so they could turn their tables faster.
With Dave Checketts at "forward" and guys like Jon Huntsman & Spencer Eccles "on the back line", maybe there will be a Revelation that Rice Eccles can serve beer. It will be watered-down, overpriced Budweiser; of course.
But Money Talks. Or in this case Money Reveals Prophecy, the prophecy being that beer sales will help the Salt Lake Rockchucks make money.
It probably won't happen, but I won't be surprised if it does.