Alcohol at Tournament

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw a boys team yesterday (U14) where the parents were basically having their own portable bar on the sidelines. They had a cooler and were making mixed drinks next to the field. Is this normal or allowed? I don't want to cast judgment without knowing if this is commonplace elsewhere. Does this happen? And, should it happen?

How else would a day of soccer be tolerable?

[Anonymous]

Great. Drunken dads and moms are soccer tournaments.

If under control amounts, bless you and enjoy yourselves. But please, we don’t need drunken abusive behaviors/languages from parents toward kids, coaches and referees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great. Drunken dads and moms are soccer tournaments.

If under control amounts, bless you and enjoy yourselves. But please, we don’t need drunken abusive behaviors/languages from parents toward kids, coaches and referees.

The parents drinking margaritas and hanging out aren’t the ones getting rowdy- it’s the ones two feet from the sideline invested in every second of the game

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've also camped at over 50 state and national parks where alcohol is not permitted. But I have drank at everyone. Some of those rules are there to both discourage obnoxious drinking and to have as a set rule to boot out a person if they do become obnoxious. I feel that is the same for most tournaments, they all say no drinking, but I have seen low key drinking/ tailgating at all of them. -But I have never seen open consumption right at the sideline of a game.

Got news for you...IF you do get caught, this is a felony. The one place you do not want to do a misdemeanor crime is on federal land. You are upping the ante big time. Not worth it.

At least in MD state parks, it's a Natural Resources Citation, and not a felony, of $55. That's for having alcohol outside of designated areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I experienced this in my son’s little league team. A small contingent of moms would bring mimosas or hard seltzers and pour then into thermoses. They also made Jell-O shots for the playoff games. They always offered to all the other parents, but most would decline.

These same parents also generally promoted an unhealthy relationship with alcohol as normal to their kids— frequent gatherings with other families where most parents got tipsy/drunk and the kids fended for themselves all evening, being hungover and then continuing to drink the next day, etc.

As far as I could tell, none of the other teams were doing this.

We had an alcoholic mom on one of my kid's little league teams. I didnt realize it until the season was nearly over. She was constantly joking about bringing drinks to our games and then convinced several parents to meet for drinks before practice. It continued several more times and eventually one of the dads was disgustingly falling down drunk at a practice. His wife had to come get him. I really liked the woman initially but saw how manipulative she was. She was surprisingly effective at convincing fairly rational adults to drink to the point of embarrassment. They didn't just sip wine. The parents were drunk.

I think it's gross and disgusting and the rules about no alcohol need to be enforced. I never noticed anyone else drinking at a game again for all the years my kids were in ll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. Drunken dads and moms are soccer tournaments.

If under control amounts, bless you and enjoy yourselves. But please, we don’t need drunken abusive behaviors/languages from parents toward kids, coaches and referees.

The parents drinking margaritas and hanging out aren’t the ones getting rowdy- it’s the ones two feet from the sideline invested in every second of the game

We’re still relatively new to travel soccer (year 2) and have not done the drinking at a game or tournament thing yet. Not sure if I ever will… depends on whether there’s driving involved and the parent crowd I guess. But if I did I feel like it would make me less involved in the game, not more. Which would probably be a good thing! I get nervous watching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've also camped at over 50 state and national parks where alcohol is not permitted. But I have drank at everyone. Some of those rules are there to both discourage obnoxious drinking and to have as a set rule to boot out a person if they do become obnoxious. I feel that is the same for most tournaments, they all say no drinking, but I have seen low key drinking/ tailgating at all of them. -But I have never seen open consumption right at the sideline of a game.

We camp at different National Parks and none of them have said no alcohol at the camp sites. Heck, we backpacked with margaritas one time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I experienced this in my son’s little league team. A small contingent of moms would bring mimosas or hard seltzers and pour then into thermoses. They also made Jell-O shots for the playoff games. They always offered to all the other parents, but most would decline.

These same parents also generally promoted an unhealthy relationship with alcohol as normal to their kids— frequent gatherings with other families where most parents got tipsy/drunk and the kids fended for themselves all evening, being hungover and then continuing to drink the next day, etc.

As far as I could tell, none of the other teams were doing this.

We had an alcoholic mom on one of my kid's little league teams. I didnt realize it until the season was nearly over. She was constantly joking about bringing drinks to our games and then convinced several parents to meet for drinks before practice. It continued several more times and eventually one of the dads was disgustingly falling down drunk at a practice. His wife had to come get him. I really liked the woman initially but saw how manipulative she was. She was surprisingly effective at convincing fairly rational adults to drink to the point of embarrassment. They didn't just sip wine. The parents were drunk.

I think it's gross and disgusting and the rules about no alcohol need to be enforced. I never noticed anyone else drinking at a game again for all the years my kids were in ll.

Then you weren’t paying attention. This goes on everywhere but it’s usually more discreet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I experienced this in my son’s little league team. A small contingent of moms would bring mimosas or hard seltzers and pour then into thermoses. They also made Jell-O shots for the playoff games. They always offered to all the other parents, but most would decline.

These same parents also generally promoted an unhealthy relationship with alcohol as normal to their kids— frequent gatherings with other families where most parents got tipsy/drunk and the kids fended for themselves all evening, being hungover and then continuing to drink the next day, etc.

As far as I could tell, none of the other teams were doing this.

We had an alcoholic mom on one of my kid's little league teams. I didnt realize it until the season was nearly over. She was constantly joking about bringing drinks to our games and then convinced several parents to meet for drinks before practice. It continued several more times and eventually one of the dads was disgustingly falling down drunk at a practice. His wife had to come get him. I really liked the woman initially but saw how manipulative she was. She was surprisingly effective at convincing fairly rational adults to drink to the point of embarrassment. They didn't just sip wine. The parents were drunk.

I think it's gross and disgusting and the rules about no alcohol need to be enforced. I never noticed anyone else drinking at a game again for all the years my kids were in ll.

We had a couple of parents like this already on our U10 team last year.... kids did fend for themselves. Kids complained that their parents were drunk all the time, kids were angry quite often. Parents were manipulative. Parents visibly drunk picking kids up at practice. Such a hot mess. Social drinking at tailgates is one thing, but constant drinking during the weeknights and often after the games can be a turnoff and problematic.

[Anonymous]

I love me some adult beverages, but that’s really tacky.

Not a fan of sports parents who make it their social life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've also camped at over 50 state and national parks where alcohol is not permitted. But I have drank at everyone. Some of those rules are there to both discourage obnoxious drinking and to have as a set rule to boot out a person if they do become obnoxious. I feel that is the same for most tournaments, they all say no drinking, but I have seen low key drinking/ tailgating at all of them. -But I have never seen open consumption right at the sideline of a game.

Same here... I've only seen park rangers kick people out only if they were obnoxious and openly consuming while warranting complaints. I'd assume similar would be true for tournaments. Its not issue, unless people draw attention to themselves or get complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've also camped at over 50 state and national parks where alcohol is not permitted. But I have drank at everyone. Some of those rules are there to both discourage obnoxious drinking and to have as a set rule to boot out a person if they do become obnoxious. I feel that is the same for most tournaments, they all say no drinking, but I have seen low key drinking/ tailgating at all of them. -But I have never seen open consumption right at the sideline of a game.

Got news for you...IF you do get caught, this is a felony. The one place you do not want to do a misdemeanor crime is on federal land. You are upping the ante big time. Not worth it.

You don't get out much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Veteran parent move. The games are boring and the day is long

Who is driving the kids home?

[Anonymous]

There's a mom on my kid's U15 team who does this occasionally and very discreetly. But I can't imagine anyone drinking alcohol yesterday - it was SO hot in the stands!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is normal at every tournament I’ve been to. It’s literally on the sign up genius for people to bring adult beverages, mixers and ice.

Man, sign me up for that team!! LOL