Liquor store near stadium for "alcohol free" Vikings-Bears game stocks up on flasks, airline bottles

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Liquor Store Stocks Up for Booze-Free Vikings Game

12/18/2010 12:40 AM PST by TMZ Staff

The Minnesota Vikings' Monday Night Football game is supposed to be dry -- as in booze-free -- but we've learned a stadium-adjacent liquor store is stocking up to help fans smuggle their hooch.



Value Liquors -- which is right next to TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis -- tells TMZ they're preparing for huge business since officials nixed alcohol sales in the college stadium for the matchup with the Chicago Bears.

We're told the store ordered 50 cases of flasks, and over 4,000 airplane-size bottles of liquor. Hmmm ... wonder what fans are gonna do with those?

Peeps at the stadium say flasks and alcohol are strictly prohibited ... but fans tend to forget the rules when it's 20 degrees and snowing.

http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/18/minnesota-vikings-alcohol-no-booze-liquor-tcf-bank-stadium-monday-night-football-chicago-bears/

[Lucian]

1. I'm so grateful for sites such as TMZ to keep us informed...

on real, relevant news.

:sarcasm:

:eyes:

[applegrove]

2. I remember going to watch a football game with friends in university. We went to the stadium

of the college next door that was 'dry'. We had little flasks of booze that could fit into our mitts. We got patted down but nobody patted down our ski-mitts.

[Initech]

3. Wait let me get this straight.

Freezing cold weather. One decent team and one shitty team. Free admission. But no alcohol? Um fuck that!

[Hayabusa]

4. I work at a college football stadium

and I absolutely hate those ****ing things. There's no reason for them save to escape the scrutiny of security while smuggling them in somewhere. No reason.

[kath]

5. Curious - why is the game supposed to be "dry" in the first place?

[Angry Dragon]

6. It is on the UofM campus and they made it a dry stadium

[ChoralScholar]

7. This is why we Razorback fans invented the hog hat

The perfect size for smuggling a bottle of liquor into the stadium.

You can bet this guy used it a time or two: