Alcohol Sales have been approved for attendees of Nebraska’s Volleyball match hosted in Memorial Stadium on August 30th.
Thursday, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved a motion to permit sale and consumption of alcohol for the sporting event.
Nebraska will face UNO on Tom Osborne Field. Following the game will be a concert from country music artist Scotty McCreery.
An expressed aspiration of the event is to become the highest attended female sporting event in United States history, needing to beat out the attendance of 90,185 for the 1999 World Cup final between USA and China.
Over 80,000 tickets have been sold for the match so far.
Offered as reasoning to support the serving of alcohol on Volleyball Day was the 2021 Garth Brooks concert hosted at Memorial Stadium, where alcohol was sold.
Regent Jim Scheer opposed the authorization of alcohol sales, saying, “My concern with this particular one is we’ve sold 80,000 tickets. Some of the folks maybe perceived it to be a more family type event that would not be serving alcohol. My preference in the future would be to pass these type of resolutions before those items go up for sale.”
Regent Rob Schaffer supported the motion, “We’ve ran the trials here… this last year at basketball. No incidents. We did it a year ago last summer with Garth Brooks in the stadium with many, several thousand people there. I’m a strong believer that we should treat adults as adults and if they make a bad decision. There’s consequences for those.”
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