Beer Snake Now Extinct
from The Winnipeg Blue Bombers
The Winnipeg Football Club takes a lot of pride in attempting to provide our fans with an enjoyable and memorable game day experience. After three home games thus far in 2010, we believe our fans have taken notice of the fresh ideas we have implemented as they enter our facility, and of course we will continue to strive to provide entertaining and competitive professional football to our loyal following.
Unfortunately, the Winnipeg Football Club continues to face new challenges with respect to unruly and/or disorderly behavior in the stadium facility during the course of game day. Specifically, this behavior relates to the “beer snake” concept. Regretfully, we witnessed the beer cups being thrown at the conclusion of our home game of July 9th which resulted in several minor injuries to our fans as well as many emails and communications to our office voicing concern and displeasure from our fans.
Management of the Winnipeg Football Club treats any issues concerning the safety and well being of our fans very seriously and as a result and effective immediately; club management will now implement a “zero tolerance” policy. We are committed to providing a safe, comfortable and enjoyable experience and we remind our fans of the policies we currently have in place;
1. Excessive drinking and/or unruly/illegal behavior will result in ejection and or prosecution of the offender.
2. Fans using obscene or abusive language/gestures or engaging in any anti-social behavior found offensive to others will face ejection from the stadium.
3. Smoking is permitted in designated areas only. Our event staff will be happy to direct you.
4. Fans throwing objects into the stands or onto the field will immediately be evicted from the stadium and their ticket privileges may be revoked.
5. Failing to follow instruction of stadium personnel with result in immediate ejection.
6. FANS ENTERING THE FIELD OF PLAY WILL BE ARRESTED. For the safety of our players, fans are not allowed to enter the field. While football is a sport that requires a lot of teamwork, so does spectating. All fans must work together to make the gameday experience an enjoyable one!
Any guests that choose not to respect the above Code of Conduct Program will be removed from the stadium and will face further disciplinary action which may result in their suspension from attending future Blue Bomber football games.
“We respect the fan base of the Winnipeg Football Club and trust that our fans will understand and respect our desire to provide our fans with the best game day experience possible”, said Bomber President Jim Bell.
