You'll love it here in England, Tasku, you can take your beer to your seat with you!Tasku wrote:The thing in Finland is that because of the laws regarding where you can drink your beer, you can't take it with you to your seat, which means I have to drink my beer quickly within the 18 minutes of intermission, so that I don't miss the game!
Of course you could stay at the bar and watch the game on the telly, as there's live broadcast there, but that's not what I paid for!
So, the law, that requires alcohol only to be served at the bars, makes me more drunk every time, because I have to gulp my beer so quickly. If I could take it with me to my seat, I'd be drinking calmly and in an orderly fashion.
Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes everewhere else. In Germany you can do that too. We just have some ridicilous alcohol laws here. This being the result of one of them. It's not the teams who want us sitting at the bar, it's them!MontySteelers wrote:You'll love it here in England, Tasku, you can take your beer to your seat with you!Tasku wrote:The thing in Finland is that because of the laws regarding where you can drink your beer, you can't take it with you to your seat, which means I have to drink my beer quickly within the 18 minutes of intermission, so that I don't miss the game!
Of course you could stay at the bar and watch the game on the telly, as there's live broadcast there, but that's not what I paid for!
So, the law, that requires alcohol only to be served at the bars, makes me more drunk every time, because I have to gulp my beer so quickly. If I could take it with me to my seat, I'd be drinking calmly and in an orderly fashion.
I was umming and ahhing over whether to go or not for a while, but just decided to go for it in the end. I might not get another chance for a long time! Although saying that, if New York make the Stanley Cup final, then I'll be there at the end of May for a couple of nights.....archibalduk wrote:I'm insanely jealous!
Ha, it has been even worse in Slovenia, where they banned the alcohol within (i'm not sure exatly how much) 40m radius around the sports venue. Nowdays you can get beer in the arena, but as you said, it's a fight each intermission, if it's a crowded gameTasku wrote:The thing in Finland is that because of the laws regarding where you can drink your beer, you can't take it with you to your seat, which means I have to drink my beer quickly within the 18 minutes of intermission, so that I don't miss the game!
You have to pick the right second to start from the stands (on average it's about one minute prior to the closure of the period), then you have to pick the strategic position in the bar, to get noticed by the girl behind the bar, then you have to beat some other guys yelling at her, finally when you get your beer, you have to fight back from the bar to the open area, where you can pour your beer in your throut in the remaining 4 minutes before the next period starts. 
In this case I'd say it's better to form an orderly line, rather than getting served at the table.Icos wrote:Ha, it has been even worse in Slovenia, where they banned the alcohol within (i'm not sure exatly how much) 40m radius around the sports venue. Nowdays you can get beer in the arena, but as you said, it's a fight each intermission, if it's a crowded gameTasku wrote:The thing in Finland is that because of the laws regarding where you can drink your beer, you can't take it with you to your seat, which means I have to drink my beer quickly within the 18 minutes of intermission, so that I don't miss the game!
jackknife77 wrote:I traveled to Buffalo to see the Sabres crushed by Ducks and the Bills crushed by the KC Chiefs.. not a good weekend for Buffalo..
Will try to get to a Giants game whilst I'm there too