A brand new Canadian Football League season has kicked off and hope abounds for the CFL’s beleaguered Toronto Argonauts, who are once again playing in the great outdoors at the swank BMO Field rather than the sterile Rogers Centre.
And did you hear the news? Tailgating has come to Toronto! Wow! Tailgate parties! In Canada! In Toronto! Wow!
Not so fast, fan-boy.
Only in Canada would we have a tailgate party that prohibits attendees from bringing their own alcoholic refreshments.
You can, of course, purchase a marked-up cup of beer from a stadium vendor but you just can’t do the BYOB tailgate thingy.
How is it that a football fan in Buffalo or Cleveland or Pittsburgh can bring a case of beer to a tailgate party but we can’t?
It comes down to paternalistic liquor bureaucrats who treat taxpaying adults like infants even though we’re the ones funding their salaries and gold-plated benefits.
Most provinces have state-sanctioned liquor monopolies that justify their existence via a murky concept known as “social responsibility.”
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This country is one weird place. Murder someone and do 5 years at the club. Drink a beer at a tailgate and the cops will be all over you. Have a cold one on the beach and pay a $280.00 fine. The real reason for these rules is that they just want to be able to legally rip you off. Public drunkenness or driving while impaired is one thing, but for these young folks to have some fun at a football game should be well within the lines.
All this and I dont even go to tailgate parties.
OSKEE WEE WEE!
Oh how unfortunate , my heart goes out to you for your loss. ;-)
How much does it cost to watch TO battle it out all year for the CFL cellar position? In any other real football town free beer would be needed to entice shell shocked football fans back into the stadium to witness a string of hopeless massacres.
It is more likely that after getting hammered, the union bureaucrat will phone in sick to collect his day’s pay.
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Canada is such a socialist shit hole – but you can get stoned off your ass and go to your unionized job and get paid for it.
And Brexit demonstrated what happens when the tax paying adults get tired of being treated like trash by those who are parasites of the tax payer.
If I were living Toronto there must be a nearby park our something like it, that’s where I’s have my tailgate party And to hell with everyone.