Stadium Food Prices

[gustobassman]

Just when i thought i was done reeling from the horrible performance the Chargers put on last night, i forgot i took this pic... Good thing for tailgating, i only endured 1 16 oz $9.00 beer. gotta love the $6.00 pretzel...

[pedroims]

Yeah , prices at stadium are crazy, Mexico are way better, 2 USD per beer ( beer has have similar prices at store in both countries)

[capnjim]

Its the same here for hockey games...Is the bottomless soda good for life? Can I hang out for days drinking soda??

[AnchorHoy]

Just another data point that confirms rabid sports fans are dumber than a fencepost

You'd pay less for a beer at a strip joint

[sandmangeck]

And they cut you off late in the game. BOO

[hdracer]

Originally Posted by AnchorHoy

Just another data point that confirms rabid sports fans are dumber than a fencepost

You'd pay less for a beer at a strip joint

+1
and at the strip club you get to see two hot chicks slapping each others butts and not two ugly sweaty guys doing it.

[ADbassman]

It's a captive audience. They can charge whatever the hell they want.

[UnsungZeros]

Originally Posted by ADbassman

It's a captive audience. They can charge whatever the hell they want.

Yep. They're a localized monopoly. Sporting events, concerts, amusement parks, movie theaters etc. where you can't re-enter or bring outside food/drink can set much higher prices than outside. Without competition the only thing holding down the price is your willingness to pay.

[gustobassman]

Originally Posted by sandmangeck

And they cut you off late in the game. BOO

Actually since it was Chargers V Raiders they cut off beer sales at HALFTIME.


And somebody still got stabbed in the parking lot...

[elgecko]

Originally Posted by AnchorHoy

Just another data point that confirms rabid sports fans are dumber than a fencepost

You'd pay less for a beer at a strip joint

It's not just sporting events. I've paid that kind of beer money at more than one concert.

[fhm555]

I'm still confused by the whole non alcoholic beer thing.

Have been since I first encountered it in a strip club were you could get in at 18 but could only get "near beer" unless you were 21. I was only 18 so I tried one and it was not even near any beer I'd ever had and cost twice as much as a soft drink.

Why bother?

[Mike N]

Originally Posted by fhm555

I'm still confused by the whole non alcoholic beer thing.



Why bother?

I feel the same with light beer.

[sandmangeck]

Originally Posted by Mike N

I feel the same with light beer.

+1

[MatticusMania]

+1 on the light beer and non-alcoholic beer thing. I dont get it. I know this one guy who used to drink n/a beer during his sober trips, where his doctor told him if he kept drinking he was going to die. He said he drank n/a beer cuz he liked the taste. A few weeks later he was back to drinking bud light all the time.

[Mike N]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

+1 on the light beer and non-alcoholic beer thing. I dont get it. I know this one guy who used to drink n/a beer during his sober trips, where his doctor told him if he kept drinking he was going to die. He said he drank n/a beer cuz he liked the taste. A few weeks later he was back to drinking bud light all the time.

So he went from n/a to bottled water........ same difference, imo.

[XtreO]

It's good for controlling how drunk you get. Say you drink 10 pints at a vorspiel, then go out and buy 4 pints at a nightclub, that's 14 units over say 7 hours. If you buy a lightbeer as the first at the club, the likelyhood of you still dancing or socialising the last hour of the club's hours increase dramatically. Some people also drink non-alcoholic for the taste when they have to drive.

[MatticusMania]

Actually, drinking "light" beer and moving on to something heavier, like real beer, is a sure fire way to wake up with a hangover.

[XtreO]

I've found those sentences of inherited wisdom telling that going from low % to high % in a rhyme even shitfaced people can remember, are largely bullocks. How hungover I get seem more to be related to total alcohol intake and how long that took, and whether there is red wine involved (which I learned not to involve, at any rate)

To keep it on-track, I dislike airports for the same reason as gusto thinks stadium prices are horrible.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by XtreO

I've found those sentences of inherited wisdom telling that going from low % to high % in a rhyme even shitfaced people can remember, are largely bullocks. How hungover I get seem more to be related to total alcohol intake and how long that took, and whether there is red wine involved (which I learned not to involve, at any rate)

To keep it on-track, I dislike airports for the same reason as gusto thinks stadium prices are horrible.

Its actually not the low % to high % that causes the problem, as much as it is mixing various yeasts (top fermenting vs. bottom fermenting), IME. Perhaps it also has to do with the ingredients, where a lot of "light beers" use adjuncts not commonly found in craft brewed beer.

[Pilgrim]

As one cop said to me last weekend at a college game, "I prefer to have beer sales inside the stadium. Then we have some control over it, and anyone who can afford to get drunk on $8 beers is making more money than I am."

I agree. You're there for the game. Yes, food is too expensive but peanuts and a beer won't break the bank. If you're there to get drunk, I don't want you anywhere in the stadium.