Texas will not sell beer at football games in 2014

Texas fans hoping to imbibe at Longhorns games this season are out of luck.

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After considering the sale of beer and wine at DKR Memorial Stadium this season, the university has decided to put those plans on hold, at least for this season.

“Not going there,” Francisco Cigarroam, a university chancellor, told the American-Statesman after a Board of Regents meeting. “I mean, we’re not going to do it this year.

“(UT President) Bill Powers and I agreed that we really needed more of an experience of selling beer and wine at our basketball games, baseball and track and field.”

Texas sold alcohol at one men’s and one women’s basketball game last year in addition to baseball games, but the sample size wasn’t enough for the school to move forward with selling it at football games where 101,851 people fill the stadium every Saturday the Longhorns are playing at home.

That is a far cry from the amount of fans flocking to a baseball or basketball game. Further, the passion of Texas football fans is second to none so you can understand the school’s trepidation into diving head first into alcohol sales without a bigger sample size to see if any adverse side effects occur at the other events.

Developing a security plan will be important if the school decides to sell beer and wine in the future, but for the time being, Texas isn’t shutting the door on potential sales in the future, so fans will have to continue to get their drink on in the parking lot before the games and sneak in flasks like the rest of the fans across the country.

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