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110%er [3878]
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Dont understand the disdain over alcohol sales
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Apr 2, 2025, 10:50 AM
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At Clemson sporting events. I see people drinking liquor at 9 am on game days. It’s been going on my entire life. People get drunk before the game, leave at halftime and come back drunk. Nothing is going to change. Drinking a few beers is better than walking back to the tailgate to hammer shots.
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Re: Dont understand the disdain over alcohol sales
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Apr 2, 2025, 10:58 AM
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The reason for the disdain is old people don't like change so their first response is to push back against said change.
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All-In [11024]
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Or it could be that some of the old timers are worried about the change
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:01 AM
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in the atmosphere in the valley. Sometimes the young whipper snappers make changes and worry about the consequences after they happen.
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National Champion [7903]
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The Greatest Generation would laugh at ya'll for being scared of beer sales***
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:03 AM
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National Champion [7903]
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we're here to make men men again***
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:04 AM
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Playmaker [388]
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Re: we're here to make men men again***
Apr 2, 2025, 2:54 PM
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There ya go
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Playmaker [388]
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All-In [11024]
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Athletic Dir [1137]
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Re: I'm not really scared. I don't think it will change much and here's why.
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Apr 2, 2025, 12:15 PM
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Only a matter of time before re-entry after a pit-stop at the tailgate is no longer allowed. Just wait.
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Heisman Winner [78185]
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Re: I'm not really scared. I don't think it will change much and here's why.
Apr 2, 2025, 12:38 PM
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Surprising it has lasted this long. Figure 9/11 or the pandemic would have stopped it
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Tiger Titan [50651]
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Yes, because we all know that alcohol consumed outside the stadium
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Apr 2, 2025, 3:14 PM
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only affects the human body in the parking lot, and stops exerting its effects when people are inside the stadium.
Whereas alcohol consumed in the stadium makes people act completely crazy, to the point that women and children cannot be anywhere near them for fear of being exposed to harm or danger.
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Game Changer [1649]
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All-TigerNet [5854]
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The abuse, of which there is bound to be some, will more....
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:46 AM
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likely to be in the student section than anywhere else. I am not planning to sit over there anytime soon.
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1st Rounder [629]
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Yeah I anticipate a frenzy in the student sections at least
Apr 2, 2025, 4:11 PM
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In the beginning
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Oculus Spirit [41805]
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a lot of Clemson fans are prudes and think we have a "Family Atmosphere"
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:00 AM
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unrivaled by any fanbase in the entire universe.
And hypocritical religious-types. Nothing changes.
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National Champion [7903]
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some men live in fear***
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:07 AM
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Dynasty Maker [3435]
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But nobody is spilling beer on you at the tailgate. I can see fights breaking
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:10 AM
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out in the stands when someone is carrying 2 cups back to his seat and dumps one or both on someone's head.
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Gridiron Giant [15417]
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Re: But nobody is spilling beer on you at the tailgate. I can see fights breaking
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:44 AM
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If we are worried about cups of beer getting dumped on someones head by someone going to their seat guess we better cancel soda in the plastic Clemson cups too.
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Ring of Honor [21076]
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Re: But nobody is spilling beer on you at the tailgate. I can see fights breaking
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Apr 2, 2025, 12:16 PM
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I’d imagine the odds of someone drunk spilling beer are greater than soda being spilled by sober people. Of course accidents happen with both beverages.
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Re: But nobody is spilling beer on you at the tailgate. I can see fights breaking
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Apr 2, 2025, 12:33 PM
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I was at the ACCCG vs SMU. The SMU fans in front of my wife, 14yr old daughter and myself were very drunk and obnoxious. It was the Clemson fan behind us spilling the beer on us. He also threw a beer at the SMU fans.
I'm not old (45) and I'm not a Christian either. So not sure which stereotype I fit in for some posters but it's a different atmosphere when alcohol is involved. Period.
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Athletic Dir [1187]
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I'm just curious what the net take will be and will it go towards Football/NIL
Apr 2, 2025, 11:12 AM
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How much will the bottom line be. There will be cost involved, one of which should be additional security to handle those that can't be responsible. For all the majors already doing this the financial impact must be worth it.
Really, most events I go to, you don't see too many problems.
Hope it only has positive impacts on our University.
Go Tigers!
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Our red-headed step children to the southeast...
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:29 AM
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generated in excess of $6 million in alcohol sales in 2023. That includes all athletic venues.
They suck at pretty much everything but Lady Strap-On Hoops, so the consensus seems to be you need to liquored-up just to watch.
Clemson's decision to start selling alcohol is 100% totally, completely, and entirely revenue driven.
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Rival Killer [2887]
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Im not sure you meant Lady Strap On Hoops the way I interpreted it
Apr 2, 2025, 2:51 PM
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But I will forever think of that description and laugh until the day I die.
Thank you
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TigerNet Elite [69753]
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How did you think I meant it?***
Apr 2, 2025, 4:03 PM
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Athletic Dir [1121]
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Re: Dont understand the disdain over alcohol sales
Apr 2, 2025, 11:19 AM
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"If only I'd had a drink", should be said by no one. Liquid courage always makes things so much better.
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CU Guru [1592]
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Re: Dont understand the disdain over alcohol sales
Apr 2, 2025, 11:21 AM
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I personally don't think it's a big deal, though I'm glad I'm not a student because walking over mini bottles on the hill is much easier than stepping over the piles of beer cans that I know will be there this fall
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Re: Dont understand the disdain over alcohol sales
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:28 AM
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I’m old school. I liked blue laws. However, it’s time. We’re one of the last THREE power four schools NOT selling alcohol. It’s not going to change anything except revenue. If they weren’t spilling beers down your back it would be soft drinks. If you haven’t had a soft drink on you at DV then I argue you’ve never been.
Making generalizations about religious people is about as smart as labeling all southerners rednecks. It’s a tired illogical argument that wouldn’t withstand any debate in a logical format. Yes, there are religious hypocrites just as there are yankee rednecks.
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CU Medallion [18795]
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The jerks that sit behind me are drunk upon arrival and spill EVERYTHING
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:40 AM
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that they have in their hands. They certainly don't need more alcohol.
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Re: The jerks that sit behind me are drunk upon arrival and spill EVERYTHING
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Apr 2, 2025, 11:43 AM
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maybe he will have one more at the stadium and get so plastered that they have to escort him out at end of first qtr and you will be free of the problem...
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Re: The jerks that sit behind me are drunk upon arrival and spill EVERYTHING
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Apr 2, 2025, 2:42 PM
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There may be less drunks in the Valley by allowing them to buy a beer “in stadium” rather than getting liquer’ed up before games and slamming shots at halftime in the parking lots .. because it’s new or different, doesn’t make it a bad thing. NIL and “Portal pay/play” requires more revenue …
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Tiger Titan [50651]
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Many people are nostalgic and want things to stay the way they have always been.
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Apr 2, 2025, 3:11 PM
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Even if that isn’t necessarily the best or most practical way of doing things today.
A lot of people have an idyllic view of Clemson sporting events. They are their happy place, a place where any and everyone can go for a time of fun and fellowship. Since many people bond with family and friends at Clemson games, their concern is that adding alcohol to games will harm those events and prevent those memories from continuing to happen.
I don’t think any of that is going to be negatively impacted by alcohol sales at these sporting events, but that seems to be their fear.
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TigerNet Elite [69753]
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Alcohol consumption in Death Valley is nothing new...
Apr 2, 2025, 4:05 PM
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It has been happening for decades. The only difference is now Clemson will generating revenue from it.
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