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Penn State bans game-time tailgate parties
Washington Times ^
| 8-30-06
| UPI
Posted on 08/31/2006 10:58:35 AM PDT by JZelle
When the Penn State home football games kick off this season, tailgaters in the stadium parking lot get kicked out. A new rule at Beaver Stadium says there will be no tailgate parties during a game this year, an effort to increase safety and curb underage drinking, the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News says. While pre-game and post-game festivities are not affected, Penn State says there will be beefed up police security to make sure the new rule is followed, the newspaper said. Penn State was named "the Ultimate Tailgating Venue" in a 2005 Sports Illustrated.com poll.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: alcohol; football; ncaa; pennstate; psu; tailgating
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Guess they did't like being No.1 in that poll.
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posted on
08/31/2006 10:58:37 AM PDT
by
JZelle
To: JZelle
That's an idiotic policy.
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posted on
08/31/2006 10:59:42 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: JZelle
Penn State was named "the Ultimate Tailgating Venue" in a 2005 Sports Illustrated.com poll.
don't you love how the anti-liquor Nazis used this poll as an excuse to crack down and ban fun?
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:00:27 AM PDT
by
jackieaxe
(Democrats are mired in a culture of screwing English speaking, taxpaying, law abiding citizens!)
To: JZelle
Well, I still have the fond memories. The tailgate parties were awesome.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:00:59 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: JZelle
Tailgating and football are one.
This move could increase safety risks IMO.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:01:27 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: ncountylee
I have been to some tailgates so good I dont remember them...or the game for that matter!
To: JZelle
WOW..in 4 yrs, I think I spent more time at the tailgate than watching the game in the stadium.
PSU tailgates are legendary....
To: JZelle
They tried this about ten years ago at Rutgers.
The policy lasted a year. Alumni who have cops on horses busting up their tailgates because they haven't gone inside the stadium fast enough tend send angry letters instead of donations to the Athletic Department.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:02:12 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: JZelle
The pussification of America continues.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:02:25 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: JZelle
That's okay, the bars are better come gametime anyway. This policy will last about as long as it takes to bust one very big donor.
Incidentally, I'll be there on Saturday, although given the forecast I might need a canoe to get to the stadium.
To: ContemptofCourt
PSU tailgates are legendary.... At the University of Michigan, we'd look forward to the Penn State game. Your tailgating fans were friendly, knowledgeable, could hold their liquor, and were not afraid to start early in the morning.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:05:33 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: JZelle
They better not try this at LSU. A crazy cajun mob would go after them.
To: JZelle
Sure, let them drink first and THEN drive to the stadium to see the game. Wasn't the whole idea behind tailgate parties to drive, then party and drink>
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:06:54 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Tom Gallagher - the anti-Crist [FL Governor, 2006 primary])
To: 1rudeboy
Yes....years of practice tend to do that.
Those noon-time games were killers, though...basically just drink through the night events.
Always wanted to make it up to UM for a PSU-UM game...still on my list of things to do....
To: JZelle
Wow! That is huge. Tailgating is an institution there. I know folks who go without ever intending to get into the game, if they could get tickets, but with a grill and TV and cooler, rooting for the Lions from the parking areas regardless of weather.
To: fortunecookie
I've never seen more TV's at a tailgate than at PSU home games....very true....
To: ContemptofCourt
I saw a lot of similarity with the University of Wisconsin fans. Although at the time, they had no choice but to drink, because their team sucked.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:11:23 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: half-cajun
"They better not try this at LSU. A crazy cajun mob would go after them."They'd be puttin' some o' dat fresh police horse inta dat gumbo pot, ah tey you rot cheer, Jooost-onnnn!
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:12:26 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: JZelle
I guess they don't take the "pursuit of happiness" thing too seriously.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:14:29 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: 1rudeboy
The pussification of America continues. This is downright communism.
Note to self to send them a letter stating I will not give another dime (I'm a grad of the grad program) until they reverse this unamerican policy. Of course I've never sent them money anyway, despite the monthly begging letters.
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posted on
08/31/2006 11:18:59 AM PDT
by
OldCorps
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