New Alcohol Policy for Spirits

[Maxman]

• Alcohol Policy for Spirits: Due to a recent change in NJ State Law, mixed spirits drinks will now be sold and permitted throughout the entire Stadium, including in your seats. Alcohol cutoff times remain the same.

[Maxman]

Just got that in an email from the Jets. Have fun not getting up anymore you drunk bastards.

[sourceworx]

Just now, Maxman said:

• Alcohol Policy for Spirits: Due to a recent change in NJ State Law, mixed spirits drinks will now be sold and permitted throughout the entire Stadium, including in your seats. Alcohol cutoff times remain the same.

That's going to end well.

[Matt39]

 

[Cornfed]

This is a magnificent/terrible idea.  One clarifying question - when they say "including in your seats" does that mean they will sell us liquor in our seats?  Similar to the way beer is sold at baseball games?  Or just that we can bring drinks to our seats?

Either way, magnificent/terrible idea! 

[JoeC36]

4 minutes ago, Maxman said:

• Alcohol Policy for Spirits: Due to a recent change in NJ State Law, mixed spirits drinks will now be sold and permitted throughout the entire Stadium, including in your seats. Alcohol cutoff times remain the same.

Does this mean you'll be mixing alcohol in with your Fanta from now on?

[RutgersJetFan]

100% chance Woody actually says spirits.

[Beerfish]

This thread title is misleading..

 

[Cornfed]

 

 

[nyjunc]

just what we need, more drunks at the games

[CaliforniaJet]

Team probably knows its going to be a long season. 

[SAR I]

45 minutes ago, nyjunc said:

just what we need, more drunks at the games

PSL's = INVESTMENT GOLD

SAR I

[RutgersJetFan]

27 minutes ago, SAR I said:

PSL's = INVESTMENT GOLD

SAR I

^ also says spirits.

[Flushing Roots]

I hope they have JWB.

I always thought of beer as mouthwash.

[Larz]

I hope they serve them in something that you can't throw more than 20 feet, lol

[jetscrazey]

what could possibly go wrong?  especially night games...oof

[Green DNA]

....and to think the Jets actually pay somebody to make decisions like this.  The drunken douchebag factor will increase exponentially. Next year they will announce that they have banned the sale of "spirits".   

[Dcat]

24 minutes ago, jetscrazey said:

what could possibly go wrong?  especially night games...oof

For night games,  you get a free painter's hat and Bic lighter for every 3 drinks. 

[SayNoToDMC]

Nice! Now we just gotta get to work on those archaic cocaine regulations

[faba]

The price will be so expensive only fools would buy the drinks

[jetscrazey]

9 minutes ago, SayNoToDMC said:

Nice! Now we just gotta get to work on those archaic cocaine regulations

New proposed rule: Fans can snort coke as long as Jets pass rushers can too

[JOJOTOWNSELL]

could lead to more of this.....

 

side note, i don't condone harassing women but the moment this article came out was the moment the Jets brass went "full corporate mode."  The halftime spirals were legendary.......it was an event within an event....good times

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/sports/football/20fans.html?_r=0

 

At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps at Gate D. Three deep in some areas, they whistled and jumped up and down. Then they began an obscenity-laced chant, demanding that the few women in the gathering expose their breasts.

 

When one woman appeared to be on the verge of obliging, the hooting and hollering intensified. But then she walked away, and plastic beer bottles and spit went flying. Boos swept through the crowd of unsatisfied men.

 

Marco Hoffner, an 18-year-old from Lacey Township, N.J., was expecting to see more. Not from the Jets — they pulled off a big upset over the Steelers. He wanted more from the alternative halftime show that, according to many fans, has been a staple at Jets home games for years.

 

“Very disappointed, because we’re used to seeing a lot,” Hoffner said.

The mood of previous Gate D crowds — captured on video clips posted on YouTube — sometimes bordered on hostile, not unlike the spirit of infamously aggressive European soccer hooligans. One clip online shows a woman being groped by a man standing next to her.

 

Sunday’s scene played out for about 20 minutes, and at least one woman granted the men’s request, setting off a roar as if the former star running back Curtis Martin had just scored a touchdown. Martin was actually nearby, being honored on the field in the official halftime show, which had a far less intense audience.

Throughout halftime, about 10 security guards in yellow jackets stood near the bottom of the circular, multilevel ramp, located beyond the stadium’s concourse of concession stands and restrooms. One of the guards was smoking a cigarette; many fans do the same during halftime on the giant ramps, which are located at each corner of the stadium. Another guard later said they were not permitted to do anything about the chants at Gate D because of free speech laws. Yet when a reporter tried to interview two security guards after halftime, he was detained in a holding room, threatened with arrest and asked to hand over his tape recorder.

 

The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which provides security at Giants Stadium for Jets and Giants games, is aware of the raucous and raunchy halftime show. Patrick C. Aramini, the authority’s vice president for security, parking and traffic for the Meadowlands Sports Complex, said men and women could be expelled and even turned over to the New Jersey State Police to be arrested for their participation — although he said he did not know if anyone was cited Sunday. He added that other measures, like blocking access to the ramps, were being considered.

 

“The problem is, you got to watch four or five hundred people sometimes in the one particular spiral,” Aramini said.

 

“What do we do, arrest everybody that starts chanting?”

Such fan behavior is not uncommon at other sporting events in the United States, like Nascar races and the infield at the Kentucky Derby. There was even an infamous undressing in the National Football League’s marquee event: during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, a “wardrobe malfunction” exposed Janet Jackson’s right breast before a worldwide televised audience.

 

But the Gate D tradition at Giants Stadium apparently is unique to Jets games; the Gate D ramps are comparatively empty at Giants games. Perhaps forlorn Jets fans, who have rarely had a winning team to support, are seeking alternative entertainment on game days.

 

“This is the game,” said Patrick Scofield, a 20-year-old from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who has attended several Jets games the last two seasons.

 

Denisse Rivera, a 23-year-old from the Bronx, was on a first date Sunday. When she arrived at the crowd at Gate D, several men pointed at her, signaling men at all levels to chant in her direction. After a brief moment of hesitation, she flashed them. Then she took a bow.

 

“I don’t care,” Rivera said when told that video clips of previous incidents, taken on cellphones, ended up online. “I love my body and I like what I have, so let everybody share it.”

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Two security guards soon approached Rivera. The guards warned her about indecent exposure laws, she said, and let her go.

 

Jets officials declined to be interviewed about the halftime tradition at their home games. In a statement, the team said: “We expect our fans to comply with all rules at the stadium, and the vast majority do. For those who don’t, we expect and encourage N.J.S.E.A. security to take appropriate action.”

 

Greg Aiello, an N.F.L. spokesman, said, “I would defer any comment to law enforcement and the people on the stadium authority there that are in charge of fan-conduct issues.”

 

The State Police staffs every Jets home game. But Sgt. Stephen Jones, a spokesman, said the State Police did not make an attempt to prevent fans from congregating in Giants Stadium. But he said that there were incidents of fans throwing money into the center of the spiral ramps. Those fans then threw objects at children picking up the money. Access to the center of the ramps is now blocked off by a chain-link fence.

 

“Our emphasis is certainly not general security,” Jones said. “Something like you’re describing, the stairwell behavior, is a matter that the security would handle. Now if they come up with something where somebody needs to be arrested, the troops will go out there and effect that arrest.”

Some parents are not pleased with the halftime activities away from the field.

Randall Lazzaro, a 40-year-old from New Jersey, attended Sunday’s game with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 9. He was at the base of Gate D shortly before halftime and said that cursing at games was probably the main reason parents did not want to take their kids to games.

 

When Lazzaro was told what was about to happen on the ramps at Gate D, he said, “That’s a disgusting practice and the police have to get involved, put a stop to it.”

[BaumerJet]

JoJo, I remember that time and what you didn't explain in reference to those days was this fact...

TICKET HOLDERS AT HALF TIME WOULD PAY THE WOMEN TO TAKE THEIR CLOTHES OFF!

Most of the time they were Scores dancers that were in the ring at gate D.

It had gone on for almost 2-years before the NJSEA cracked down on it. Plus, the only reason they did so was the fact that at a previous home game, a woman who just been returning from the stadium club and had her top & bra torn off!

News of it got to reporters of the Bergen Record and a policy got changed.

Especially, when we got a new owner the very next year.

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[BP]

What the hell is a mixed spirit drink? I used to sneak in a bottle of Bacardi in the old stadium with my brother back in the day inside a hollowed out Italian bread. We had the top notched out so it stayed in the bread at all times.

[Big Blocker]

An above average number of killjoys on this thread.

[Cornfed]

11 hours ago, BP said:

What the hell is a mixed spirit drink? I used to sneak in a bottle of Bacardi in the old stadium with my brother back in the day inside a hollowed out Italian bread. We had the top notched out so it stayed in the bread at all times.

Bacardi in bread - brilliant!

Regarding mixed spirits, my current favorite is a few fingers of whiskey mixed with a little bit of oxygen as it goes from bottle into my glass.  I recommend.

[The Crusher]

Short poor the drinks and charge twice as much as beer.  Yes they are the dumb ones.  I would be interested to know if they would just poor a shot.  

[De-Jet-Erate/Duane]

11 hours ago, BP said:

What the hell is a mixed spirit drink? I used to sneak in a bottle of Bacardi in the old stadium with my brother back in the day inside a hollowed out Italian bread. We had the top notched out so it stayed in the bread at all times.

  Remember that time Tyson smuggled a zip lock bag full of Anisette into the stadium and the bag either unzipped or was torn open and he had that huge wet spot on his pants and smelled like black licorice. Plus it was like 5 degrees out and his junk was soaked in booze and his pants started to freeze.

[nj meadowlands]

15 minutes ago, The Crusher said:

Short poor the drinks and charge twice as much as beer.  Yes they are the dumb ones.  I would be interested to know if they would just poor a shot.  

no chance

[The Crusher]

6 minutes ago, nj meadowlands said:

no chance

That was my guess.  Then it's brilliant for the Jets.  

[BigRy56]

I can't wait to fight with and throw up on my fellow Jet fans!

[Freemanm]

20 hours ago, Maxman said:

Just got that in an email from the Jets. Have fun not getting up anymore you drunk bastards.

Hey, we're Jets fans, we need the booze

[BP]

4 hours ago, De-Jet-Erate/Duane said:

  Remember that time Tyson smuggled a zip lock bag full of Anisette into the stadium and the bag either unzipped or was torn open and he had that huge wet spot on his pants and smelled like black licorice. Plus it was like 5 degrees out and his junk was soaked in booze and his pants started to freeze.

That was the last game ever at giants stadium against the bengals win and you're in Sunday it was like 2 degrees out and me and you snuck in two plastic flasks under our skull caps while we were being wanded by security lol. Tyson and somebody else tried sneaking zambuca In in a ziplock it broke and leaked out and it turned black upon impact on the denim and he looked like he sh*t himself!

 

great time that night!! And you blew the roof off snoring at Vinnys that night!!

[JoeC36]

45 minutes ago, BP said:

That was the last game ever at giants stadium against the bengals win and you're in Sunday it was like 2 degrees out and me and you snuck in two plastic flasks under our skull caps while we were being wanded by security lol. Tyson and somebody else tried sneaking zambuca In in a ziplock it broke and leaked out and it turned black upon impact on the denim and he looked like he sh*t himself!

 

great time that night!! And you blew the roof off snoring at Vinnys that night!!

oh the game where @124 and I went to 5H five hours before kick off and waited with Aaron for everyone only to have you show up an hour before the game? That was a fun game. 

[De-Jet-Erate/Duane]

17 minutes ago, JoeC36 said:

oh the game where @124 and I went to 5H five hours before kick off and waited with Aaron for everyone only to have you show up an hour before the game? That was a fun game. 

Yes that is the night. Man was it cold! At least Tyson smelled good for the game.