empire stadium

stadium beer

stupid bc place signed a five year exclusive deal with budweiser
maybe its time to not drink at football games??

in the meantime however, at empire stadium they have those crazy quick bottom filling beer thingies
you know the ones, surely you’ve seen the youtube videos…
i too have video, but don’t know how to embed it here… must research that

anyway, there are two budweiser stands at empire, one outside of each end zone
where you can get a 24oz budweiser poured for you from the bottom in seconds flat
there’s a magnet in the bottom of the glass to keep the beer in the darned cup

but as bridget demonstrates, it is not fool-proof

if you push on the bottom of your cup, beer will fall out

i was very excited to get my bottom-filled beer

novelty is fun
however, i discovered how quickly that novelty wears off when you now have a $12 24oz budweiser to drink
blech!

happy hallowe’en!

i’ll be spending my hallowe’en afternoon at empire stadium
enjoying the last bc lions’ home game of 2010
and the last game in the outdoor stadium

i’ve enjoyed the stadium
i’ll admit to being quite apprehensive at first about sitting outside in vancouver weather
but it has been mostly very enjoyable
good choice to be all nostalgic this year while bc place is under destruction/construction/obstruction

but the beer
you just knew i was gonna have to bitch about the beer!
what’s with horribly insipid beer at outrageously inflated prices?
blech!

next year, in the newly improved bc place, i would very much like to see some craft beer
even a return to russell’s horrid bc lions lager would be an improvement over the bud and bud light lime!
but what if we got good beer?
c’mon howe sound, c’mon r & b, c’mon dead frog, c’mon storm
someone get the contract for the stadium and give us good beer for our overpriced enjoyment!!

beer fact of the day

Craft Beer Locator Beer Fact of the Day:

Wiki estimates 1,500 gallons of beer is consumed during a major league baseball game. Multiple that by 2,430 games each year and you’ve poured 3,645,000 gallons of beer. This does not count playoffs or World Series or beer consumption at home from fans watching the game on TV.

i wonder how much gets poured at bc lions games… hopefully more this week than last when they add more taps at empire stadium to feed the thirsty football masses!!

empire stadium – the tradition continues
that’s the motto for the newly resurrected football stadium

i very much enjoyed the first lions game to be played outdoors since 1982, even if the leos did fall to edmonton in the dying seconds of the game – bah! its only exhibition!

the outdoor stadium is only about half the size of BC Place, but that just meant that it was full for a pre-season game, and my seats are half the distance from the field at Empire than they are at BC Place – that’s a big plus! i shouldn’t suffer too much if i forget my darned glasses this season!

the minuses: its gonna be wet and cold sitting outside! my seats are not covered by the roof, so it might get miserable later in the season.

most tragically, the only beer on offer is budweiser. never my favourite beer, i did go through a period of drinking it regularly when we had two players on our softball team allergic to wheat, making rice-based bud the beer everyone could drink. however, after hearing of anheuser busch’s evil ways, i stopped drinking their products. but the watery crap is all they have available at the new stadium. boo. and $7 a glass, to add insult to injury.

still, i had to drink something (football without beer? are you crazy?) so i made do. right up until my spare beer kept, i thought safely, under my seat got knocked over by the zealous foot stomping on the temporary seating scaffolding. that stuff jumps when too many feet get a-stompin’. beer down!

guess it just wasn’t my beer day.

seriously thinking about smuggling in a flask next game… and definitely gonna let the lions know that i want better beer at the new stadium. never hurts to ask.

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