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LSU fans, it’s time to celebrate.
The school announced on Thursday that beer and wine will be sold in the public seating areas of Tiger Stadium for the upcoming season.
LSU now becomes the second SEC school to announce the sale of alcohol to the general seating area of its stadium, joining Texas A&M.
Until this offseason, the sale of alcohol to the general seating area of SEC stadiums was prohibited. During the latest SEC spring meetings, the league announced it would allow each school to individually decide if alcohol sales would be permitted at their stadiums.
Here are the guidelines the SEC has adopted when it comes to alcohol sales for any league school that allows the sale to the general seating area:
- Alcoholic beverages are to be sold and dispensed only at designated stationary locations
- Alcoholic beverages may not be sold by vendors within the seating areas
- Identification check is required at every point of sale to prevent sales to minors
- Alcoholic beverage sales are limited to beer and wine only (no hard liquor or mixed drinks may be sold in public seating areas)
- Limits must be established on the number of drinks purchased at one time by an individual
- Alcohol must be dispensed into cups
- Safe server training and additional training for staff to handle high risk situations is required
- Designated stop times for sale and/or distribution of alcohol must be enforced as follows:
o Football (end of 3rd quarter);
o Basketball (Men’s—Second half 12-minute TV timeout; Women’s—End of 3rd quarter);
o Baseball (end of the top of 7th inning);
o Softball (end of the top of the 5th inning); and
o Other Sports (At a designated time, no later than when 75% of the event’s regulation length competition is scheduled to be completed).
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
