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Tennessee football: Beer stolen from Neyland Stadium, Vols home field

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 11: General view of Neyland Stadium prior to a game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Chattanooga Mocs on October 11, 2014 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee won the game 45-10. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 11: General view of Neyland Stadium prior to a game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Chattanooga Mocs on October 11, 2014 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee won the game 45-10. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images) /
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Two people were charged with breaking into the Tennessee football Volunteer’s home stadium, Shields-Watkins Field, and stealing alcohol.

It has only been one season since Tennessee football was allowed to start selling alcohol at its home games, and already there have been shenanigans. Two people were arrested after beer was stolen from Neyland Stadium shortly after midnight Monday.

According to WVLT-TV, security footage captured five people crawling under a hole in the fence near a stadium gate. Police responded to the incident, and when they arrived, two people carrying multiple cases of beer were still inside.

Rachel Barber, 19, and Spencer Ngumuya, 20, were taken into custody and are facing felony burglary charges, according to WATE. Both of them admitted to having stolen beer from the concession stand inside, and police said it was $624 worth of alcohol.

After a heavy weekend of news events, including a major recruiting pickup from Alabama and two players taken in the NFL Draft, this seems like an odd way to end the weekend for Tennessee football. Heck, with the coronavirus outbreak keeping the whole nation quarantined, you’d think five people would already be breaking the law by doing this break-in together.

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UT’s first game selling alcohol was last year against the BYU Cougars, and that ended up being an overtime loss that dropped the Vols to 0-2 on the year. Perhaps there was a curse involved with them choosing their game against a school owned by the LDS Church as their first game to sell alcohol. Maybe there will be more incidents like what happened Monday morning as a result.

One thing that is clear, however, is that there are much more effective ways of obtaining alcohol than stealing it from Neyland Stadium. It was a long process for the SEC to start allowing alcohol sales last year, so this is probably not something any program in the league wants to deal with.

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What is alcohol even doing in there to begin with at this moment? After all, there are no scheduled events there, and Tennessee football’s season doesn’t start until September, provided there is a season at all this year. It just seems odd to have the alcohol already stocked up. Either way, the fact that this happened not even a year into the stadium selling alcohol is pretty interesting.

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