The NFL needs to really, REALLY crack down on this.
Throw out every drunk icehole and ensure that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent.
It will only take a few guys whose lives are completely upended with actual jail time which would likely end up in job and house loss for these idiots to freaking get it that public intoxication that leads to violence isn't freaking acceptable.
I grew up with alcoholism (not the violent kind, thank the Lord), but I take a pretty dim view of public intoxication, tho I tend to just ignore it.
However, when people get violent while drunk, my first instinct is to say "bury them under the jail"
I get that's an overreaction, but it is what it is.
Honestly, a LOT of it could be fixed by preventing drunk people from entering the stadium.
Have the cops at the entrances and as people are coming in, let the cops handle it. Treat it like a sobriety check point. If they think you're drunk, they pull you out. You can refuse the breathalyzer, but you ain't getting in. If you blow over the legal limit, you're arrested for public intoxication.
Honestly, I already can't afford to attend regularly, but I wouldn't go even if I could to MOST venues.
Turns out that one of my bucket list items is something pretty common... to take a road trip from Baltimore to Boston and watch a game at each ball park from beginning to end.
I would NEVER do that with football. And that's a shame because as I get older, I can see the attraction of driving around the country seeing football at various venues... Like watching EVERY Ram game one season (I still have this unreasonable dream that the wife and I will be semi-full time RVers as we love being on the road meeting new people). That would seem on the surface to be insanely fun.
In reality, tho, it would probably be less than fun as some opposing fans in their house would be truly miserable to be around.
And that's unfortunate.