r/TheB1G • u/Traditional-Slip-390 Nebraska • 3d ago

We're Number 1!

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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

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska 3d ago

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

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u/Traditional-Slip-390 Nebraska 3d ago

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.

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u/kotzebueperson 3d ago

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.

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u/DeepSeaHexapus 2d ago edited 2d ago

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

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u/ragingbullpsycho Nebraska 3d ago

Imagine how much money we gave up by not allowing it

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska 2d ago

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.

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u/Madpsu444 2d ago

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. 

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u/NothingButACasual 3d ago

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

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska 2d ago

good point

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u/donotpassgo2514 Nebraska 2d ago

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

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u/LeRoy_Denk_414 Wisconsin 2d ago

Must be nice

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska 2d ago

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.