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Buffaloed by drunken fans at CU bowl game
by DP Opinion on January 1, 2008
I spent an interesting evening at the Independence Bowl with my family, including my 11-year-old daughter. My grown daughter, a recent graduate, bought tickets from CU so we could sit among the faithful to enjoy the game. Bad idea, as it turns out.
The stadium in Shreveport, La., was awash with beer, never the best medium for CU fans, we have learned. Around us was a collection of young, gold-clad fans totally drunk and determined at all costs to get more drunk.
So here are a few questions:
Should the CU ticket office warn families that they should sit elsewhere, away from students? Should family tickets come with disclaimers, warnings, ear plugs? Is this, as one student shouted at me, a free speech issue?
Or perhaps should CU take some responsibility for its fans, refuse tickets to the drunken louts, monitor their behavior better at home games, and refuse to play games in stadiums where you could apparently buy six-packs no matter what your state of consciousness?
LINK
by DP Opinion on January 1, 2008
I spent an interesting evening at the Independence Bowl with my family, including my 11-year-old daughter. My grown daughter, a recent graduate, bought tickets from CU so we could sit among the faithful to enjoy the game. Bad idea, as it turns out.
The stadium in Shreveport, La., was awash with beer, never the best medium for CU fans, we have learned. Around us was a collection of young, gold-clad fans totally drunk and determined at all costs to get more drunk.
So here are a few questions:
Should the CU ticket office warn families that they should sit elsewhere, away from students? Should family tickets come with disclaimers, warnings, ear plugs? Is this, as one student shouted at me, a free speech issue?
Or perhaps should CU take some responsibility for its fans, refuse tickets to the drunken louts, monitor their behavior better at home games, and refuse to play games in stadiums where you could apparently buy six-packs no matter what your state of consciousness?
LINK
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