Do parents drink at your tween’s sporting events?

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Anonymous wrote:I have two teen athletes and I have never noticed a single person drinking! You guys are telling me I’ve just been completely clueless?

No, just depends on the sport and location. Mine are in college now. Hockey, yes, lots of drinking. Soccer? None that I ever saw.

Sport, location and, in my experience, how well the parents know each other. I wouldn’t drink alone at a sporting event but if one of the moms I’m friendly with is coming I might have a cheeky drink with her.

People who have drinking problems do this.

Have a drink with their friends?

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Anonymous wrote:I have two teen athletes and I have never noticed a single person drinking! You guys are telling me I’ve just been completely clueless?

No, just depends on the sport and location. Mine are in college now. Hockey, yes, lots of drinking. Soccer? None that I ever saw.

Sport, location and, in my experience, how well the parents know each other. I wouldn’t drink alone at a sporting event but if one of the moms I’m friendly with is coming I might have a cheeky drink with her.

People who have drinking problems do this.

Have a drink with their friends? AT THEIR KIDS' SPORTING EVENTS. YES.

[Anonymous]

JFC this board is so ridiculous.

Normal - wine / cider / seltzer at an afternoon game
Not normal - getting bombed / hard alcohol / 9 am drinking

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Anonymous wrote:I have two teen athletes and I have never noticed a single person drinking! You guys are telling me I’ve just been completely clueless?

No, just depends on the sport and location. Mine are in college now. Hockey, yes, lots of drinking. Soccer? None that I ever saw.

Sport, location and, in my experience, how well the parents know each other. I wouldn’t drink alone at a sporting event but if one of the moms I’m friendly with is coming I might have a cheeky drink with her.

People who have drinking problems do this.

Have a drink with their friends? AT THEIR KIDS' SPORTING EVENTS. YES.

You’re just wrong.

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The problem is the driving part.

That’s the only problem you see????

Yes. I'm French. People drink at lunch during work meetings in France. Parents are not afraid of drinking in front of their kids. I don't drink alcohol, because it does nothing for me, but I don't see a problem with others drinking alcohol, as long as it's not too much. As I said, functional impairment starts well before a driver "feels" impaired, so that's really the ONLY problem. A life and death one!

Well la-de-da. I grew up in a Polish-American household. We visit relatives in Europe. We had a bar in the basement. Family owned, managed and worked in bars. We were allowed to drink with parents. Spirits were made in jars. I do not have a problem drinking per se, but if you are having to put your alcohol (wine, beer, moonshine) in a brow paper bag or disguise in anyway at public parks/fields without an alcohol permit or private fields that ban, it is a problem. Your team may even have a clause in their insurance or field permits about alcohol consumption. Given this BS, it should have come as no surprise so many travel parents were the biggest mask refusers during even the height of the pandemic worries.

Again I ask, what fields permit alcohol consumption during youth sports games?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. A game is a couple of hours, you can’t last through that without a drink at a children’s event?

Or if you have a series of games, you should be hydrating because you will be outside for a long time and driving frequently.

That’s what I was thinking. I can imagine having some parents / players over after a game or tournament- but not being able to make it 2-3 hours without alcohol? That shocks me. I sure as heck wouldn’t be carpooling with those parents.

Do they think it’s cute or funny? It makes me think they are alcoholics.

Where do you get that people "can't make it" 2-3 hours? without alcohol? That's a massive and unsupported inference.

The teetotalers on this board always do that. If you want to drink it must be because you're an out of control drunk. If you have one beer at a kids athletic event you're clearly an alcoholic guilty of child endangerment.

That's why no one offers anyone in this thread a thermos of sangria.

I’m not a tea-toter. But I think you do have a problem if you can’t follow simple rules about not drinking. Almost every single one of these clubs and leagues have a rule that parents and spectators should not be drinking during the game. And almost all the venues that are hosting these games also have a No alcohol policy.
It’s a stunning example parents are sitting for their children. The rules don’t apply to them. Having a few drinks where it’s not allowed is not a big deal. Drinking and driving is not a big deal.

Thank you. I especially love the posters who say no one is drunk and their driving isn't affected.

I like the posters that are two stupid to realize that if mom and dad go to the game one can drink as much as they want and the other can drive.

Two stupid. LOL.

Yes — the two moms having a cheeky drink at the 6yo’s soccer game.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. A game is a couple of hours, you can’t last through that without a drink at a children’s event?

Or if you have a series of games, you should be hydrating because you will be outside for a long time and driving frequently.

That’s what I was thinking. I can imagine having some parents / players over after a game or tournament- but not being able to make it 2-3 hours without alcohol? That shocks me. I sure as heck wouldn’t be carpooling with those parents.

Do they think it’s cute or funny? It makes me think they are alcoholics.

Where do you get that people "can't make it" 2-3 hours? without alcohol? That's a massive and unsupported inference.

The teetotalers on this board always do that. If you want to drink it must be because you're an out of control drunk. If you have one beer at a kids athletic event you're clearly an alcoholic guilty of child endangerment.

That's why no one offers anyone in this thread a thermos of sangria.

I’m not a tea-toter. But I think you do have a problem if you can’t follow simple rules about not drinking. Almost every single one of these clubs and leagues have a rule that parents and spectators should not be drinking during the game. And almost all the venues that are hosting these games also have a No alcohol policy.
It’s a stunning example parents are sitting for their children. The rules don’t apply to them. Having a few drinks where it’s not allowed is not a big deal. Drinking and driving is not a big deal.

Thank you. I especially love the posters who say no one is drunk and their driving isn't affected.

I like the posters that are twostupid to realize that if mom and dad go to the game one can drink as much as they want and the other can drive.

Such a bummer when you are chomping at the bit to pounce on someone for making a homophonic error, but you screw up the formatting and make yourself look like the real idiot.

LOL.

Better luck next time loser!

Smoked him! Bravo.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. A game is a couple of hours, you can’t last through that without a drink at a children’s event?

Or if you have a series of games, you should be hydrating because you will be outside for a long time and driving frequently.

That’s what I was thinking. I can imagine having some parents / players over after a game or tournament- but not being able to make it 2-3 hours without alcohol? That shocks me. I sure as heck wouldn’t be carpooling with those parents.

Do they think it’s cute or funny? It makes me think they are alcoholics.

Where do you get that people "can't make it" 2-3 hours? without alcohol? That's a massive and unsupported inference.

The teetotalers on this board always do that. If you want to drink it must be because you're an out of control drunk. If you have one beer at a kids athletic event you're clearly an alcoholic guilty of child endangerment.

That's why no one offers anyone in this thread a thermos of sangria.

I’m not a tea-toter. But I think you do have a problem if you can’t follow simple rules about not drinking. Almost every single one of these clubs and leagues have a rule that parents and spectators should not be drinking during the game. And almost all the venues that are hosting these games also have a No alcohol policy.
It’s a stunning example parents are sitting for their children. The rules don’t apply to them. Having a few drinks where it’s not allowed is not a big deal. Drinking and driving is not a big deal.

Thank you. I especially love the posters who say no one is drunk and their driving isn't affected.

I like the posters that are twostupid to realize that if mom and dad go to the game one can drink as much as they want and the other can drive.

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Anonymous wrote:I do. It’s in my water bottle.

Same. Thermos has beer in it. Even to Disney world.

This is just gross.

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Anonymous wrote:I have two teen athletes and I have never noticed a single person drinking! You guys are telling me I’ve just been completely clueless?

No, just depends on the sport and location. Mine are in college now. Hockey, yes, lots of drinking. Soccer? None that I ever saw.

Sport, location and, in my experience, how well the parents know each other. I wouldn’t drink alone at a sporting event but if one of the moms I’m friendly with is coming I might have a cheeky drink with her.

Now that’s weird.

Having a drink with a friend instead of alone?

Drinking with a friend at home, party, bar? No. Filling up tumbler with a friend heading to watch your kids game? Yes, very weird.

What can I say, I had a hard seltzer with a friend at a soccer game. I guess I’ll just have to let my freak flag fly

Pp is the weird one. You’re totally normal.

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No drinking, but we get pretty high sometimes.

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Yes, sometimes. Baseball/softball- sometimes parents will bring a cooler in the trunk to local games, or fill their yeti with something on a weekend night. It is not technically allowed and is discreet. I have never seen anyone tipsy- not once. Occasionally at travel tournaments alcohol is served at the venue. Some parents partake, but again have never seen anyone visibly tipsy. There are some parents who get a bit drunk at the hotel at tournaments however. I do not drink at any of these things. DH will occasionally have a beer or two with the other dads.

I’ve also seen alcohol served at local summer swim meets (often held at local country club pools). Again, I’ve never seen anyone tipsy. I’ve had a drink a time or two.

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I have seen it at summer afternoon swim practices while moms are hanging at the pool.I have not seen it at soccer practices/games.

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What percentage of parents drinking at youth sports are also anti-vaxxers / anti-maskers?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, sometimes. Baseball/softball- sometimes parents will bring a cooler in the trunk to local games, or fill their yeti with something on a weekend night. It is not technically allowed and is discreet. I have never seen anyone tipsy- not once. Occasionally at travel tournaments alcohol is served at the venue. Some parents partake, but again have never seen anyone visibly tipsy. There are some parents who get a bit drunk at the hotel at tournaments however. I do not drink at any of these things. DH will occasionally have a beer or two with the other dads.

I’ve also seen alcohol served at local summer swim meets (often held at local country club pools). Again, I’ve never seen anyone tipsy. I’ve had a drink a time or two.

This has been my experience as well.