Should SMU Sell Beer at Games?
Our friends over at the Morning News are reporting that SMU officials are planning to sell beer at football and basketball games, pending approval from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The story says University Park officials have already signed off on the concept. (It wasn’t so long ago that Mayor Dick Davis and SMU president Gerald Turner were against the loosening of alcohol-sales restrictions.) What do you think?
I think it is a good idea and that the Dick Davis and Gerald Turner are two of the biggest hypocrites around these days. If this goes through it’s only a matter of time before there are strip clubs and dicey liquor stores on the Boulevard….
I could live without it…as well as the strips clubs and liquor stores.
Politicians and SMU Presidents are hypocrites? Do tell.
Grasping at straws. The kids will drink their 2 beer limit then head to Greenville Av where they can watch some real football on tv. About the only thing that will bring students to an SMU football game is if you offered them beer AND strippers. Since Dick Davis already equates the two in his mind, I’m sure he’d be ready to further compromise his principals and approve that too.
Looking forward to the postcard that is sure to arrive likening the Boulevard to the Vegas Strip.
The hypocrisy. It burns.
I am just sort of stunned how Mayor Davis and Dr. Turner could be such hippocratic phonies. I was strongly in favor of easing the UP alcohol laws. They were totally against it. Suddenly they are for it. I love it, but what suddenly made them turn? Are they Obama like and will never explain their switch??
@joeat, Avid, XT et al:
Sweet, sweet money. Is there anything it can’t do?
The sad part of this is that Davis and Turner will never have to explain their switch. Total power is beautiful, it really is. The only thing Davis can do to screw this up is to somehow get on the outs with the community league, who are basically all just like him, so no danger in that. Very Stepford like around here.
Clarification on “signing off on the concept”
The City’s involvement with an application is administrative only. The Community Development Department must determine if a site is the required distance from churches and schools. The City Council is not involved.
@Steve Mace- Dude, quit blowing up my BS Meter! Nobody’s talking about the City Council here but you. We’re talking about Tricky Dicky Davis and his silence on this issue is deafening. Hey Dicky, time to trip on down to Kinkos and make up some more trifold, full color brochures with strippers on them! We gotta protect the kids from beer!
@Steve Mace, Are you saying that the City Council was not involved in the previous alcohol regulations issue that both Davis and Turner were vehemently against?