This wouldn’t have happened at a Raiders game. Raiders fans are the self-reliant, do-it-yourself types. The Raiders fans would not have needed the beer vendor’s assistance. They simply would have assaulted the opposing team’s fans themselves!

Can any of you picture me on a cold December day selling cokes and Hot Chocolate in the North End zone while in shirt sleeves and sweating up a storm? Been there and done that. Damn, it was a Packer-Viking game and the Vikes won.

Time to get Da Bears on Sunday.

1. You are instructed to go along with things in the stands. We were told to IGNORE “Toll Sips”, and this was back in the 70s before the “Men of the Square Table”.

2. the people vending in the stands are always offered tips to do outrageous things. I was once offered $75 to trip then Governor Pat Lucey and send him flying down the concrete stairs. Lucey was a Democrat and a drinking buddy of Teddy’s. He was made Ambassador to Mexico near the end of Carter’s term.

I never accepted such tips, nor went along with any pranks. I liked my job and know nothing good comes from participating in the pranks.

Would I have fired Anderson? No. But I’d put him and the ushers working the section on probation with termination if such a thing EVER happened again.

Now, with each coaching change, the vendors even get changed. I remember everyone getting fired when Forrest Gregg took over. And again after Gregg was fired.

I wish people had been fired after someone screwed up and scheduled another event at Lambeau Field when the 2005 Hot Rod Power Tour was scheduled for the stadium and parking lot. It was a fiasco reported in Hot Rod magazine, and I’m still embarassed about it today, and I had nothing to do with it.