Luck: Sorry, but no water bottles after all!
The Houston Dynamo water-bottle fiasco came up previously on the podcast and on the main blog.
Rich Connelly of the Houston Press writes that Oliver Luck has had to backtrack because of Aramark's contract with UH, and that fans will not be allowed to bring water bottles to any future games:
We don't really want to keep writing about the bottled-water situation at Houston Dynamo games, but duty compels us.
As their season opened at the non-air-conditioned Robertson Stadium on the University of Houston campus, the team announced that fans would be free to bring in a bottle or two of water to fight the heat.
Which made it a bit disconcerting when security guards started confiscating bottles at the entrance gates once the season began.
Team president Oliver Luck told us at that time the water-taking was all a mistake, and that word had not been properly relayed to the security staff to let the bottles in. So we reported that, and assumed Dynamo fans, such as they are, could now lead happy, soccer-filled, hydrated lives.
But now it appears the mistake was Luck's. He called us after our item appeared to say that he had had further discussions with Aramark, the concessionaire for UH, and that the water ban is back and permanent.
"It's a contract thing, and they have the contract for the stadium, and they don't want water bottles being taken in," he says.
With their attendance hitting 20,000 regularly, the Dynamo are already one of the city's more popular sports attractions. You have to think the team is going to want an upgrade from Dave Maggard's stadium operation sooner than later.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/14/06 10:53 PM | Technorati | Comments (1)
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