As reported in USA Today....I always thought that drinking was the only way to watch the Bengals! (not that I'm condoning drink driving).


The NFL will try to crack down on binge drinking by fans at games during the 2009 season.

Following up on the Fan Code of Conduct it implemented last season, the league office is making recommendations to teams about maximum serving sizes for beer, wine and spirits sold at games and about the number of alcoholic drinks a customer can purchase at one time.

The league also is recommending that its 32 teams and 31 stadiums limit tailgating to 3 hours before games and attempt to better monitor and enforce rules against excessive drinking in stadium parking lots.

The NFL would like teams to limit customers to no more than two 20-ounce beers, two 6-ounce servings of wine or two 1-ounce servings of liquor per transaction, Milt Ahlerich, the league's senior vice president of security, told USA TODAY on Thursday. More than 17 million fans attended regular-season games in 2008.

"You don't have to buy two (beers). If you want to buy one, you can buy one. But you can't buy four is our recommendation," Ahlerich said.

Some teams sold 24- and 28-ounce beers last season, said Jeffrey Miller, the NFL's director of strategic security programs. Others allowed fans to buy an armful of beers at once. Under the new recommendations, some teams may opt to sell one 24-ounce beer per transaction rather than two 20-ounce cups.

To promote responsible drinking, the league also will have the message "Fans don't let fans drive drunk" printed on nearly every beer cup this season.

Teams also will try to sign up a combined total of 200,000 designated-driver fans this season vs. 140,000 last season. Fans who sign up receive free soft drinks and a chance to win Super Bowl tickets.

To help with security in parking lots, some teams might post signs displaying text-message lines fans can contact to report abusive tailgaters, Miller said.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell recently suspended Donte' Stallworth for the 2009 season after the Cleveland Browns wide receiver pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian in Florida while driving under the influence.

= less beer for the same money

"Well, it ain't braggin' if it's true
Yes sir, yes sir
It ain't braggin' if it's true
Muhammad Ali said that
Back when he was a young man
Back when he was Cassius Clay
Before he fought too many fights
And left his brain inside the ring"

"The league also is recommending that its 32 teams and 31 stadiums limit tailgating to 3 hours before games and attempt to better monitor and enforce rules against excessive drinking in stadium parking lots."

They will just go to bars around the stadium or worse, drink at their homes and drive down to the stadium...stupid NFL!

"Falc, just because I respond, please dont take it to mean that I give a sh!t about you. I respond because you are the type of person that needs to be told what a whack job you are or else you will go on thinking your behavior is normal and accepted. "

I think its only fair the NFL should lead by example and quit taking beer advertising revenue.

They will never stop taking beer ad revenue. Too profitable. Way too profitable.

No doubt the league is going by the official definition of "binge drinking" which isn't how most people commonly think of it.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33340.html

Is stadium drunkenness a growing problem, I wonder? Or drunk driving after games? Crime rates of all kinds have generally been going down in recent years. Maybe they should leave well enough alone.

I'll bet Mikey's pissed about this one. That potentially takes away from his concession revenues. Like he cares about his Bungle Fans driving home drunk? The only thing he cares about--ONCE AGAIN--is him and Katie (still with the colassal cucumber up the anooooooooos) counting their precious preciousessssssssssssssssssssssss.





"So he got fired? Big deal. It's happened to the best of us. So he got kicked out of his house by his 400 lb'ed wife?!?!? That's probably better for him anyways."-OldSchooler on ChrisMBHater's absence