I may say that this is the best headline in Tennessee Volunteers football history:
Both of Tennessee’s top-selling alcohol games were a loss to Oklahoma ($844k) and Georgia ($828k). I’d have to think much of the sales in the Georgia game were celebratory in nature, since Tennessee was handing it to us a good bit in the first quarter, but may have quickly turned to sorrow as soon as Georgia came back. If only they had opened up sales after the missed kick, it might have set a record for most alcohol sales anywhere for anything of all time.
Anyway, for today’s Roundtable, which causes you to hit the libations more – a great win, or a devastating loss? Personally, a bad loss is sobering and somber, so I don’t head for the bottle, but a great win – like the Rose Bowl or the National Championship game…whoa buddy, watch out.
So which way do you go in times of triumph and times of sorrow? Bonus…what’s your potent potable of choice when you do?
Discuss.
Easily more on the celebratory for me. Or, nerves to be calmed if it is a big game. I typically stick with beer during the game and before the game, but it has to be from Georgia for superstitious reasons. Classic City Lager usually.
Bourbon to celebrate afterwards.
Are the hillbillies still butt chugging under the bleachers in losses or is that more of a celebratory thing?
Its called boofin now. Also, yes.
RR and I enjoyed JWB while texting during the games, but the last time I overindulged was with Bourbon and Coke Zero after the SEC Championship. So good, but I felt sooo bad the next day or two.
I used to drink a lot throughout any particular game, especially during one of our most hated rivals (read: almost every game). Today, I don’t take a sip until I know we’ve got the game well-in-hand. And if it’s a late game, I don’t touch a drop because I value a good night’s sleep over a bad morning hangover. I reckon I’m getting old…
Sipping beer du jour when things going great…..brown liquor when things going south/in doubt. End of Ohio St. classic sorta fuzzy….had to recheck highlights early next AM to make sure I wasn’t dreaming…!
“ Jack Daniel’s if you please, knock me to my knees”. Overtime Rose Bowl! Cannot take many like that with the miles on this old Bulldog body( or what’s left). I like for all to be over by at least 3rd qtr. But my saying is “ ain’t nothing easy”!
I’m old. I sip a straight rye over a large ice cube. Bulleit or Knob Creek mostly. Two or three drinks over the course of an afternoon and evening of watching football is my max. A hangover isn’t something I wish to experience at my age.
It’s usually a few IPA’s to get oiled up before a game. After that it all depends on how we do, where I am at, and if there other good games on. I left the despair after a loss thing behind a long time ago. Now I just shrug. Winning two titles cured me.
If I’m watching at home, I don’t drink much at all during the game until the game is well in hand, whether win or lose. I love all college football, so we usually watch several games in my man cave after, and if we won, I have to watch myself or I might have a bad Sunday!
If at the game, I will drink some before, and a lot after if it’s an early game and we win. If we lose, I still drink but no more or less.
Losing hurts worse than winning feels good. Drinking heavily is a celebration of great success. A bad loss puts the lid back on the bottle. Time to move on not make it worse.
From the looks of the commenters here, a good many of us have learned that drinking away your sorrows leads to a myriad of worse outcomes.
I am not a “drown my sorrows” drinker. I learned how to distill because I want to create the intersection of happiness, celebration, fellowship, food, family, friends, culture, etc.
If I am going to be in the building or watching a game away from home, I will have a libation or two pregame. If I am watching at home it will depend on the kickoff time. Noon to 1 o’clock window? Nothing. Mid-afternoon window? Perhaps a beer (Classic City Lager or Guinness). Evening game? I might have a beer but more likely to have a gin cocktail.
Post-game victory? It will depend on the time at the end of the game, the weather, my physical location. and what is on the menu. It could be something with gin like martini w/a twist, gin & soda w/blood orange, or a Corpse Reviver. It could be a highly rated Malbec, Bordeaux or a Cab. It could be a brown-town kind of night – Irish with a Guinness on the side, bourbon, scotch, or japanese whisky neat.
I drink when we win. Lately, if I only drank when we lost I’d be a borderline Quaker…
Them Dawgs is Hell, Don’t They…
We take a good luck pull before each kickoff. There was a Tullamore Dew trailer outside the stadium in Jacksonville last year, and we took more than one pull. Even got t shirts.
I am usually fairly consistent, win or lose. I watch the games sober and only have a beer or two after it is over. That 8 overtime win last year over tech though… I started celebrating with bourbon and overpoured my last glass. Took me most of Sunday to get back to normal.
Damn Y’all, some of us are getting old! I found GTP on the Dawgbone in 2009. The “drink of choice” conversations have certainly changed a bit and I’m feeling a little nostalgic so tonight I will have a small glass of “Isle of Skye” 30-year-old scotch, neat, and raise a toast to some DGD’s no longer with us.
Here’s to The Senator, Got Sr., RangerRuss, Aunt Mel, and the rest.
To your health, all. Sláinte!