Beer at the game?

I understand that University of Minnesota regents sometimes like to believe that they are above the law. That may be because sometimes they constitutionally are.

Today they agreed to ban sale of alcoholic beverages at all of their sporting events. This follows the legislature’s bipartisan requirement that they, if they provided for the selling of beer in luxury seats at the new South Dakota Bank Stadium that they be required to sell to all legal aged people in the stadium.

But the staff and regents seem to be sniveling a little. It seems a little funny since beer sales are available stadium-wide where they play now. But they seem to think that in order to have a first-class football program that they need to sell beer to bigwigs.

They point out that most Big Ten football programs make such sales available.

Three Big Ten universities do not sell beer in their stadia. They are Penn State, Michigan and Ohio State.

Strange.