LegendaryNumber5
C-A-P-S
All sports do this. MLB stops at the end of the 7th inning, NFL stops at the end of the 3rd qtr. Sucks losing your buzz in extra innings or OT.
Alcohol Stops Being Served in Playoff Overtime?
- Thread starter Mav3rick07
- Start date
2nd intermission is last call.
that's why you bring your own stash. harder now that going to a hockey game is like going through an airport, at least in NY area.
that's why you bring your own stash. harder now that going to a hockey game is like going through an airport, at least in NY area.
Paris in Flames
Registered User
- Feb 4, 2009
- 15,903
- 7,937
Well, if you've had 3 beers and go to grab another 2 but they're cut off you're stuck at 2 and potentially staying in the safe range to drive.
But at the end of the day it all comes down to the league/arena, etc protecting themselves legally.
"Well we stopped serving in the 2nd intermission so..."
mitchmagic
Registered User
I don't know if I would be able to watch an overtime game without a beer in my hand. Too nervewracking.
Harvey Birdman
…Need some law books, with pictures this time…
That's pretty standard across the board with sports. Baseball its around the 6th or 7th inning they stop serving generally. I've been to a few arena's where they serve to the 10 min mark of the 3rd, others they stop at the start of the 3rd. A lot of football stadiums stop at the start of the 4th quarter or at some mark shortly into the 4th quarter.Is this a league wide thing ?
I remember in 2011 I was at game two of the Stanley Cup Finals in Vancouver and they stopped serving alcohol at the beginning of overtime . Thankfully it ended just minutes into the first overtime before I could sober up.
I've noticed lately that in overtime games in the playoffs none of the fans seem to be holding alcoholic beverages .
It's just generally common for sports venues to stop at some point at or shortly after the start of the last portion of the event.
Sheppy
Registered User
Which is why you load up after the 2nd period... go mortgage a few beers, go to your seat, slap them down and go back and get another two.
COHawk
Registered User
- Sep 16, 2015
- 2,144
- 1,124
Sleepy
rEf jOsE
- Apr 7, 2009
- 3,839
- 530
Bars can be liable if they liquor people up and immediately send them home. If people pass out at the end of the game, that's a lot of time to get them a cab and get them home, whereas if they pass out in the 3rd arena staff can take care of it before the game ends.
Also, less post-game fights, vandalism etc.
I mean, it sucks for you and me, but for every 10 of us there's 4 assholes who will ruin it for everyone.
Ya, but some people might have had no drinks until the 3rd, but when the team is clearly going to lose they suddenly decide to drink with the pain and anger.
It's smart to Stop serving after the 2nd intermission. The rule won't help "drunk by the 2nd period guy". But there's a zillion different other scenarios that it does make better.
madinsomniac
Registered User
I mean maybe im just old, but I remember a lot of the stuff that led to this... it mostly originated in other sports... the worse was the Browns fans reigning down glass beer bottles on the field after a bad ref call one season... that led to the rules that you cant have glass bottles and every beer must be opened at the vendor and IIRC was when the early cutoff stuff started in a lot of stadiums... other sports started adopting it as drunken incidents dropped in the sports that did it...
I'm pretty sure Bell MTS Place keeps serving beer / liquor until the 10 minute mark of the third. Don't take it as gospel though - I rarely drink at Jets games and I never drink while at a playoff game. I want to be as clear headed as possible for important games. That and the $10 per beer price tag.
m.
m.
Butch 19
Go cart Mozart
Is this a league wide thing ?
I remember in 2011 I was at game two of the Stanley Cup Finals in Vancouver and they stopped serving alcohol at the beginning of overtime . Thankfully it ended just minutes into the first overtime before I could sober up.
I've noticed lately that in overtime games in the playoffs none of the fans seem to be holding alcoholic beverages .
srsly?
Cleatus
Registered User
Not particularly hard to smuggle a mickey or two into NHL games... Cheap rum and cokes all game long!
I was at the Caps/Rangers triple OT playoff game and they started selling again. I had stopped drinkin in the third period, sobered up, and then started drinking again in OT1 intermission IIRC - which I might not lol.
JustaFinnishGuy
Joonas Donskoi avi but not a SEA fan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
..Wait isn't that DUI? In Finland you could get away drinking one beer/long drink can and that's pushing it to some women and it's definitely over when you drink a 2nd beverage.
Monkey D Luffy
KFC
TheAngryHank
Expert
- May 28, 2008
- 17,988
- 6,930
So full beers don't get thrown on the ice at the end of the game.
It is DUI, hard for us southern Finns to understand. Common up north and in the countryside, though.
America is the promised country of DUI it seems, though. And mysteriously it’s responsibility of the bar when nobody should drive even after 1 drink. I think Uber will change the culture by making a taxi actually available.
Muston Atthews
Bunch of Bangerz
Junior hockey they keep serving through the 3rd period and overtime in the playoffs if the game is close
Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
no, but if you're a drink away from being too drunk to drive, the fact that they won't sell you another drink certainly helps.
Paris in Flames
Registered User
- Feb 4, 2009
- 15,903
- 7,937
Admittedly I just picked a random number but over...2 periods which is what...1.5 hours? I know some people who could pass a breathalyzer at that point.
