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Complaints Of Public Drunkenness Lead To Ban

Jun 1, 2005 5:36 pm US/Pacific


LOS ANGELES (AP) Alcohol will no longer be served at Southern California football games this fall at the Los Angeles Coliseum, officials said Wednesday.

The university and the Coliseum Commission agreed to end alcohol sales on game days starting with the Sept. 17 opener against Arkansas.

USC President Steven Sample said he has received dozens of letters from irate Trojan fans who said they can't enjoy the game because of public drunkenness.

"Longtime attendees at our games have witnessed an escalation in the rude behavior of fans, rudeness that is almost always exacerbated by alcohol consumption," Sample wrote in a letter to season ticket holders.

"I recognize that this new policy represents a big change from what we're accustomed to, but most of if not all of our peers have made this change, and we can too."

USC was the last Pac-10 Conference team to allow alcohol sales at its football games.

Sample added that anyone who is found at future games to have alcohol, be intoxicated or displays unruly behavior will be ejected from the stadium and will lose the privilege of buying tickets to other games.

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http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/bask...ack=1&cset=true

SC RHINO

wait wait wait so we can't even be drunk from tailgating beforehand???

jyeung528

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that's bullshit. no one can stay drunk at the game after tailgaiting...u'll sober up since the game is like 3-4 hours long. no more half time recharges.

The Raptor

We always drink for hours tailgating, stop before kickoff, and drive home sober.

Nicotunes

"or displays unruly behavior"

Really? What if the person is sober??

"OK, everyone, in your seats with your hands folded in your lap."

watermain

It's unfortunate that it has come to this, but you are going to see this happen more and more. The fans in the stands of most sporting events have become more unruly within the last several years. This may have more to do with the environment that the particular fans have been raised in, but there is no doubt that the issue is multiplied with the consumption of alcohol.

Most fans are not interested in having a drink or two, they feel they have to get drunk. Drunk in itself is not a bad thing, but it seems that most drunks at sporting events have the compulsion to share their thoughts with every one within a 50-foot radius. And it seems that many of their thoughts are about the officials' parents, how well they can see, how much the opponent can inhale (ie suck), etc. Of course all is said with language that would make a trucker blush. They seem oblivious to the fact that children may be near them. In fact at a sporting event last year, I witnessed the parent of some children shouting things I would never want my children to hear. And this was to a baseball player from an opposing team that was doing nothing more than warming up near us. The children thought it was great. This is their role model showing them how to act. Imagine how these kids will act in 10 years. Like father, like son.

Look what is happening in baseball, fans are actually getting in fights with players! Why have things changed so radically over the last 40 years? Remember when men wore hats and suits to sporting events?

I don't know if banning alcohol will fix the problem, but you have to start somewhere.

B.C.

Who buys booze at the games anyways, 10.00 for a beer? TAILGATING!!!!!!!!!

SC RHINO

eh u forget they can get away with $10 for a reason... it's USC ALUMS *hint hint*

jyeung528

well, i guess i have seen some pretty unruly conduct at games...girls gouging another guys' eyes out etc etc.