I’ve attended quite a few sporting events in California. I’ve never seen beer being sold by vendors in the stands. You have to go out to the concourse to buy it.
Tonight, while watching the San Diego/Denver game, I thought I noticed vendors selling plastic beer bottles. Has this changed? Is this a law in California?
As long as I have walked on this planet (since 1965) there have not been roving beer vendors at sporting events in California. You always have to walk up and buy it. The theory is that they don’t want the beer passed down the aisle where a minor could start swigging it.
In stadiums where there are nice seats with waiter service, they will bring the beer to you because they can put it in your hands.
If the Chargers were selling beer in the stands with roving vendors, that would be a big change. I’ll poke around.
The thought of a Chargers-Raiders with beer vendors walking around seems frightening.
I can’t speak for football games, nut I have attended games at Petco Park in San Diego, and there were indeed vendors walking around selling beer. They sold everything from hot dogs to beer to cracker jacks.
I have seen it, but only in my youth.
From my trip to PETCO Park, I did not see anyone selling beer in the stands.
This is what the Padres website says about the matter:
From looking into articles about this further, the restrictions on selling beer in the stands at California stadiums is not a law, but rather a policy that all stadiums have adopted at the VERY strong urging of the California Highway Patrol. The CHP feels that it is easier to control sales of alcoholic beverages this way and it in turn would reduce drunk driving.