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June 2, 2005

Beer banned from USC home games

University of Southern California president Steven Sample has announced that the possession or sale of alcohol will no longer be allowed at home football games at the L.A. Coliseum. The Trojans were the only conference school still allowing beer sales at home games and one of few nationally. UCLA doesn't allow sales at home games in the Rose Bowl but they are allowed during the bowl game.

Sample cited the example of bad behavior by intoxicated fans of the Raiders when the NFl team played in the Coliseum as what the school is trying to avoid. He also said they wanted the games to be as family-friendly as possible.

(Via Robert Tagorda at Outside the Beltway.)

Orson Swindle (at BoiFromTroy) has more.

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Comments:

  1. Matt said:

    posted on June 3, 2005 4:38 PM — 68.89.199.162 — link — abuse?



    Hopefully this is a first step to beer being banned at all college sporting events.
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  2. Jeff said:

    posted on June 4, 2005 6:25 PM — 24.197.126.228 — link — abuse?



    The NCAA really needs to take action Matt. Since there are so many regular season venues selling beer now. I can only think of one remaining (I'm sure there are a couple of more) and it's the Orange Bowl. Bowl games will have beer sales and the NCAA won't be able to do anything about it unless they tie that into the certification process, otherwise they have no control over bowls.

  3. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on June 5, 2005 8:08 AM — link — abuse?



    Jeff- Are you saying beer should or shouldn't be banned? I'm confused. I don't have a problem with selling beer at the games, if it's *sold* responsibly (ie don't sell four Solo cups to a guy that's falling down drunk.)

  4. Jeff said:

    posted on June 5, 2005 9:28 AM — 24.197.126.228 — link — abuse?



    Kevin,
    I was being sarcastic about Matt's impersonation of Carrie Nation in the first comment.

  5. Casey said:

    posted on June 8, 2005 12:54 PM — 65.116.67.1 — link — abuse?



    I don't understand the statement that beer is only sold at USC. I know from many years of experiance that thought they don't sell beer actually in Autzen Stadium (Oregon) that they sell it in the Moshofsky Center, which is in the same complex. You can usually tell when halftime is close without looking at the clock by noticing most people of age getting out of thier seats and walking 100 yards to the 2 million dollar beer garden.

  6. Jeff said:

    posted on June 8, 2005 9:31 PM — 24.197.126.228 — link — abuse?



    Casey, it's referring to inside the stadium - exactly as it says. The OSU situation is mentioned on the original article if you go to the link.

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