05-12-2023, 02:18 PM
(05-12-2023, 10:32 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I remember the Bengals playing (and beating) the Ricky Williams-led Dolphins in a Sunday Night Primetime game. Oktoberfest was still going on that day so the crowd was very well "lubricated". I remember thinking that was the craziest crowd game I have ever seen for the Bengals.
Oh, the crowd'll be bonkers with Oktoberfest going on for 3 hours before kickoff plus tailgating. I'm more concerned about the people/cars and trying to get anywhere before and after the game. If Oktoberfest Zinzinnati draws over 500k over 4 days as is reported, you're talking basically 2 full PBS's worth of people and cars a day on average, plus a then full PBS on Sunday. Then you take into account the road closures? That's going to be crazy.
Even if there's an unrealistically large overlap between OFZ attendees and Bengals game attendees, and also accounting for the attendance at OFZ being cumulative throughout the day, not all there at once, there'll still be an enormous volume of added automobiles and people over what is already present on gameday. That's...ambitious, both in logistics for foot and car traffic, but also in general crowd control. Especially considering what the mean BAC of the people in that crowd will surely be.
It'll be one wild home opener that's for sure. I was already planning on going to Oktoberfest, now Sunday becomes an Oktoberfest-Bengals-Oktoberfest sandwich? Football, beer, and a seemingly infinite variety of soft pretzels?! Fine by me!
