Memorial Stadium, the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, is set to sell alcohol at Nebraska games in 2025 per the agenda for the Nebraska Board of Regents meeting that will take place in October.
Nebraska is currently the last school in the Big Ten to not sell alcohol after the Michigan Wolverines and the Wisconsin Badgers announced their plans to sell alcohol at their respective stadiums.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers’ decision to sell alcohol has caused mixed reactions
As the last school in the Big Ten to allow alcohol sales at their stadium, the decision to do just that caught many college football fans off guard. A good portion of fans outside of Nebraska were shocked that the Huskers managed to maintain a sellout streak for 400 games without the sale of alcohol.
Many Nebraska fans rejoiced as the sale of alcohol was something for which many had been pushing for years. Other Nebraska fans expressed their concern with the potential rambunctiousness that could come with alcohol sales.
Other Nebraska sports will be selling alcohol as well, as mentioned by new athletic director Ted Dannen in an On3 article when he brought up the issue back in May.
“There will be a point in time in which I’m sure that we will go to the board and ask for that consideration,” Dannen said in May, via Husker Online’s Sean Callahan. “Certainly not this year. When I was at the meeting where the board approved it for baseball, there was talk about a more comprehensive look at alcohol. We sell alcohol at all of the facilities that we do not own, in which Nebraska plays athletics. Not at the ones that we do own.
“The other comprehensive look will be for those events that are coming in, as we talk about how do we utilize the stadium and monetize the stadium beyond the seven Saturdays or whatever per year, alcohol will have to be sold in order for those events to take place. They won’t come if you don’t. I think there’ll be a broader analysis, not specific to football that needs to take place.”
Some college football fans joked that the Huskers will need the alcohol sales in Memorial Stadium considering their 7-26 record in one-score games since 2019.
not a fan of alcohol at games at all
— Andrew (@osufb29) September 27, 2024
Good. Their fans surely need it!
— B (@GoBucks5240) September 27, 2024
They weren’t selling alcohol at any point during the 400 straight sellouts?? Oh my!!!
— Mitch Stevenson (@mitxhsteven) September 27, 2024
Nebraska finally gets good at football and NOW fans get to buy alcohol to not remember the game??
— Garage Gameday Sports (@GamedayGarage) September 27, 2024
You gotta be drunk to go see that team play 😂
— Jim Mammina (@jmammina) September 27, 2024
I’m sorry, that wasn’t allowed already? Is this America?
— Joey Smith 🇺🇸 (@joe_b_smitty) September 27, 2024
Behind the times
— Robert McVol (@vol_equalizer) September 27, 2024
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