Bring back the beer barrel?

Bring back the beer barrel?

  • Yes

    Votes: 447 94.5%

  • No

    Votes: 26 5.5%
  • Total voters
    473
#26
#26
JRich said:
You have to look at the number of incidents regarding underage drinking, or even alcohol related incidents by college students in general, at both schools, before and after the retirement in 1998. My guess is that there has been no significant change. Banning the barrel was purely reactionary, and given the circumstances it was probably the right thing to do for that year, but it should have been re-instated the next. The thought that a trophy, that started as a representation of celebrating a victory, would influence college kids to drink or not to drink or that if you support the trophy you support underage drinking or driving while intoxicated is nothing more than gas lighting. If you believe this, then you should support banning champagne and all references to popping bottles.
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Marketing/PR departments were concerned about "Optics" as usual. Was gonna be a tough defense when the photos of the winner hoisting the BEER barrel emerged on the column next to the story about football player deaths from alcohol. It's 100% based in AD CYA issues. That's all. Nobody want's to be the one in the news who suggests bringing it back for the 1st time.
 
#27
#27
livefaith said:
I guess this is the definition of "NOT too soon". The memory of the dead football player(s) from DUI has faded now.
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Please don't misunderstand, I don't think the memory has faded, especially for teammates, family and friends. I am simply suggesting that the trophy's retirement was a simplistic response that, at least to me, had no logical link to discouraging drinking and driving either then or now.
 
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#28
#28
Well, I'm a terrible Vol fan. I didn't even know it went away. But yes, absolutely bring it back.
 
#29
#29
Just kick their ass. No one needs a trophy for beating kentucky, :)
 
#32
#32
Bring it back. Yes its sad Kentucky players died from drinking and driving. But you know what they didn't get the beer from that barrel. The overreacting back then was stupid.
 
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#33
#33
Nothing to do with my personal views on the subject, but objectively I think the cigars for Alabama are a decent comparison since the legal age for tobacco is also 21 now. I know the impairment is different, but as someone else mentioned, is the fact that the trophy is a beer barrel going to induce anyone to drink and drive or drink underage that was already not going down that path?

I would say the cigars have more people smoking that otherwise don't smoke then the beer barrel would have drinking that otherwise would not be.
 
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#35
#35
OrangeBeachVol said:
I agree with this or maybe the Whiskey/Bourbon Barrel. Since moonshine is still illegal that name may not fly but is appropriate.
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Not Anymore! You can buy Moonshine at the Liquor stores now. My Daddy was way before his time----lol

livefaith said:
I guess this is the definition of "NOT too soon". The memory of the dead football player(s) from DUI has faded now.
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OK Then. And it was caused by the Beer Barrel!! Right! Tell you what ; do a search on the # of DUI Deaths Before and after the Beer Barrel Trophy. I'll wait.

05_never_again said:
It was taken away purely because of the timing of the drunk driving accident involving the Kentucky player. That is obviously sad, but getting rid of the trophy exchange was a feel-good, virtue signal, "let's do something in response to this sad event even if it doesn't actually do anything" move.

As @Lurker said the trophy was a longstanding tradition and if you think having a "Beer Barrel" as a trophy is some kind of approval or glorification of drinking and driving, then you need help.
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The Panty Crowd that implemented the ban needs plenty of help.
 
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#38
#38
YankeeVol said:
I wasn't really calling out your post, just more stating the fact.

Though I don't think the Ruggs thing has any weight regardless to the issue of the barrel.

Unfortunately people die every day from drunk driving. Why don't we just ban cars too. It'll help with emissions too!
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RUGGS is a Knucklehead! Out at 3:30 Driving at over 100mph and Drunk as hell. Hope he gets 10 years. (But we KNOW it will be "Reduced Sentence") .What is an Innocent Life worth? AND UT has some stains in that department too. Little, Stallworth. I feel the same re them. Knuckleheads.

05_never_again said:
They already have a Bourbon Barrel with Indiana, which was also retired after the DUI death of the Kentucky player.

Indiana–Kentucky football rivalry - Wikipedia
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So ridiculous. There is NO Connection! The only remedy the PC crowd should clamor for is NO ALCOHOL period. A trophy means nothing.
 
#44
#44
cardvolfan said:
I don’t know, but I do know what he says is always loud and bold. Another tweet he made talked about all he’s hearing is “crickets.” It might be that those crickets have voiced concerns over some unimaginable pain in their own lives. I don’t have a clue what is right, though.
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I didn't understand this.
 
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#45
#45
Any sensitivity I had for the beer barrel thing - which was not much - evaporated the day they decided to sell beer at the games. And the truth is that the barrel never should have been retired. Out of respect, they could have marked the barrel for that year, or even set it aside - for that year. THAT YEAR. But retiring it because some kids made poor decisions was, and is, simple-minded and childish. By that flawed logic, there's a lot more things that ought to be collecting dust under the stadium.

Also, I'm just putting this out there - I hope we've been updating the barrel this whole time. That would be epic. I know we haven't. But it would be epic if we had.
 
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#49
#49
Lurker said:
Please don't misunderstand, I don't think the memory has faded, especially for teammates, family and friends. I am simply suggesting that the trophy's retirement was a simplistic response that, at least to me, had no logical link to discouraging drinking and driving either then or now.
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Sounds like the plot of Footloose.
 
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