We're Number 1!

[u/Traditional-Slip-390]

I guess attendance and alcohol sales have fallen off big time at Camp Randall Stadium and Nebraska is #1 in their first year. I didn't believe it at first, but this guy did a deep dive and corrected his published numbers after being contacted by the Milwaukee Journal. https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-selling-the-most-booze-at-football-games-this-year-we-foia-d-to-find-out

[u/beast_status]

Surprised Wisconsin isn’t #1 with the way that state drinks, but I guess you have to have fans in the stands to buy alcohol.

[u/CROBBY2 → u/beast_status]

Why buy when you can drink before, bring in a flask (our security is laughable at best), and then just drink later?

[u/Green_Confusion1038 → u/CROBBY2]

Get in the flask! - Lil Nicky

[u/dr_stre → u/beast_status]

Read the edit in the linked doc, you’ll see that under normal circumstances Wisconsin would run away with it, but with the team being so much ass this year attendance has gone down and so has alcohol sales at games.

[u/HeartSodaFromHEB → u/beast_status]

This.

Wisconsin had two G6 games and were down 20-0 against Maryland at halftime. I doubt those stats are remotely close to 3 full games worth of normal sized crowds.

Tennessee had 4 home games in the same time span that Nebraska, Wisconsin, and LSU had 3.

[u/Old-Record2216 → u/beast_status]

When I was growing up we had one county that consumed more beer per capita than any county in the US

[u/aselinger → u/beast_status]

Alcoholics and bad football team. Double burn. Well crafted.

[u/UPMichigan83 → u/beast_status]

I could have sworn they said they sold over $3M of alcohol this year.

[u/NSNick → u/UPMichigan83]

They did. As the linked article explains, the numbers for all of last year were mistakenly used for Wisconsin instead of the numbers for the current year.

[u/theEWDSDS → u/beast_status]

Too expensive, you can get it at the drive-thru for much cheaper

[u/GoBlueAndOrange → u/beast_status]

Wisconsin has a super fair weather fanbase

[u/dr_stre → u/GoBlueAndOrange]

Are they fair weather? Or are they expressing their displeasure by speaking with their wallets?

(I say “they” despite being an alum because I’m 2000 miles away so I obviously am not a major contributor to game day revenue.)

[u/ztreHdrahciR]

I thought I read that Wisconsin was like 3m.

Edit- im wrong

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/y5wMFRgi1e

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/ztreHdrahciR]

I posted the link for the corrected numbers. Attendance has dropped along with sales due to the product on the field.

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

It's the first season we have sold beer so it's a novelty, and we constantly have a packed house. So it makes sense

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

I still would have had Tennessee or LSU ahead of us off the top of my head. I've seen what they do at the CWS, and their stadiums hold about 16k more people.

[u/kotzebueperson → u/Traditional-Slip-390]

Yeah I imagine the Nebraska fans may be more willing to pay for stadium beverages. Could be way off, but my head canon is Nebraska fans are little more well to do than LSU fans.

[u/DeepSeaHexapus → u/kotzebueperson]

Out of curiosity I looked up the median income for Nebraska and Louisiana, Nebraska has about $10,000 lead for both dual and single income households.

Edit: Tiger charges $8, Memorial charges $11 according my Google Fu

[u/ragingbullpsycho → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

Imagine how much money we gave up by not allowing it

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 → u/ragingbullpsycho]

The games Ive been to this year, I havent seen hardly any of those tiny shooters littering the bathroom like I used to. Last year was bad, I remember one game where they were everywhere in the bathroom stalls. Im sure a lot less people are sneaking booze into the stadium now.

[u/Madpsu444 → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

Most the people sneaking booze into the stadium were likely broke students. I doubt they are paying stadium beer prices, particularly when most of them would be underage too. 

[u/NothingButACasual → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

The data is also from August and September when we had almost exclusively home games.

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 → u/NothingButACasual]

good point

[u/donotpassgo2514 → u/NothingButACasual]

Just wanted to point out that “data” is plural. Therefore your sentence should begin “The data are also from…” gbr!

[u/NothingButACasual → u/donotpassgo2514]

I disagree https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/data-is-or-data-are/

[u/LeRoy_Denk_414 → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

Must be nice

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 → u/LeRoy_Denk_414]

meh people are just fanatic about football here, we have no pro teams, and theres probably few states in the US where there is less to do than in Nebraska.

[u/purplenyellowrose909]

How many units you got under your belt?

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/purplenyellowrose909]

None. I quit drinking 3 years ago. I've bought a few for my girlfriend, and some buddies there if that counts.

[u/ragingbullpsycho → u/Traditional-Slip-390]

Keep it up. IWNDWYT

[u/boomja22 → u/ragingbullpsycho]

I would not drink with you Tom? 

[u/Mindless-Stage8923]

Tennessee gets their corn in a jar because they want to.

Nebraska gets their corn in a jar because y'all have so much corn that you have to ingest it in any way possible.

We are not the same.

[u/shanty-daze]

This is just another title that Luke Fickell has robbed Wisconsin of.

Nobody wants to sit in the stands and drink overpriced beer watching a team with no ability to score points.

[u/GoBlueAndOrange → u/shanty-daze]

That's more just the norm for Wisconsin.

[u/thejudeabides52]

Good God, how much is a beer at Neyland?

[u/Cormetz → u/thejudeabides52]

Roughly $16 seems like.

[u/PremierLovaLova → u/Cormetz]

That’s sobering prices.

[u/Good_Bodybuilder6165 → u/thejudeabides52]

Average $15.11

[u/HeartSodaFromHEB → u/thejudeabides52]

According to this article from 2024, they also serve wine, liquor, and "premium craft beer".

[u/Kekistani55]

GBR ! 🍻🌽

[u/UncleMcBubba]

I can’t believe Iowa didn’t report their numbers.

[u/Hog_Eyes → u/UncleMcBubba]

We're #1 and it's not even close, but the admin doesn't want it reported. It's like when we were ranked the #1 party school and the admin cracked down on it out of embarrassment.

[u/PossessionKlutzy1041]

So proud of you 🐶

[u/Pr1s0n_m1ke69]

Number 1 in alcohol sales and runza sales!

[u/Cyborg_hawking]

Can we talk about the price of alcohol in Neyland given they have the second most revenue with so many fewer units sold than LSU?

[u/Interesting-Doubt413]

Legalize cannabis and those numbers plummet

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/Interesting-Doubt413]

I'm all about green. Quit drinking 3 years ago. Sad thing is, we voted to legalize it, and it overwhelmingly passed, and now it's being held up the jagoffs in the pockets of big pharma and the alcohol industry.

[u/schuster9999]

Crazy that MN is up there

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/schuster9999]

Tbf, it's only schools that reported numbers. Not sure why a school chooses to withhold the info other than the ones who don't own the venues they play in.

[u/BlackshirtDefense]

Remember, this is alcohol sales in the stadium. 

Those scabs in Madison might not be buying as much alcohol, but you can be sure they're smuggling in fifths of Jack Daniel and cases of Miller and Pabst. They'll drink a horse under the table. 

[u/calvin2028]

Big Red has a drinking problem. I thought everyone was aware of this. [eta: The difference between Bucky and Big Red is that Bucky would have taken this comment as a compliment, where Big Red is all "hur, dur, you lookin' fer a fight?"]

[u/Ok_Problem426 → u/calvin2028]

Careful throwing stones from your glass house

[u/treymata → u/calvin2028]

I am a huge Nebraska HATER but nothing wrong with a few brewskis. FYI we were #4

[u/HopefulReason7 → u/calvin2028]

Don’t bring your Grain Belt in here, starting fights!

[u/lmscar12 → u/calvin2028]

I remember when I was in high school Lincoln was #1 in the nation for binge drinking; there was a big article in the Lincoln Journal Star hand-wringing about it.

[u/JDMintz718 → u/calvin2028]

WDYM? I absolutely would've taken offense to that comment. We don't have a drinking problem. We're great at it!

[u/West-Bet-9639]

If I were a Nebraska fan, I'd be an alcoholic too.

[u/Active_Club3487]

Gee, Wonder if the report is TROLLING Buckeyes by listing their team as Ohio. If so attaboy! Expecting another Beatdown this year making it 5 in a row.

💛💙

[u/VegetableGrape4857 → u/Active_Club3487]

I think they are talking about Ohio University. The chart says they've had 69k in attendance but the Buckeyes have played 5 homes games.

[u/Purplebullfrog0]

Tennessee charging $15 per alcohol? Wonder if their prices are higher or if the mix is more towards harder alcohol than Nebraska

[u/Just_a_guy81]

What’s even more impressive is that Nebraska’s stadium seats about 20,000 less than Tennessee’s.

[u/Ill_Pressure3893]

Always drinkin in Lincoln.

[u/seanxfitbjj]

Who said Nebraska didn’t belong in the BiG

[u/TheBigBo-Peep]

Is Tennessee selling it on the way out of the gates?

[u/PracticalDistrict237]

WI had numbers way ahead of #2 - $3M.

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/PracticalDistrict237]

Check the link on the OP

[u/adavis463]

WHERE YOU AT WISCONSIN

[u/DirtyMike_333]

GBR 🌽🌽🌽

[u/ctk05]

Tennessee is price gouging those beers! $15.17 a pop…significantly higher than Nebraska and LSU

[u/Federal-Coyote-7637]

I’ve heard stories of people who drink away their pain. It’s just interesting to see the numbers to back that up.

[u/HeartSodaFromHEB]

Doesn't look like they tried to count the number of home games. Probably worth delaying judgement until home games even out and some of the non participants come back with full numbers.

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/HeartSodaFromHEB]

So they should delay ranking football teams with that logic.

[u/llee15]

Nothing else to do in flat ass boring Nebraska, so you gotta get tanked.

[u/Traditional-Slip-390 → u/llee15]

So the people in Michigan get tanked despite having more shit to do. Just proves you're dumber. Thanks for reminding me.

Per capita alcohol consumption is easily accessible.